Politico, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, not to mention the Huffington Post and New York magazine. In all of these publications, Daley is portrayed as overly corporate, hierarchical, averse to the down-and-dirty of politics..." /> Politico, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, not to mention the Huffington Post and New York magazine. In all of these publications, Daley is portrayed as overly corporate, hierarchical, averse to the down-and-dirty of politics..." /> Politico, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, not to mention the Huffington Post and New York magazine. In all of these publications, Daley is portrayed as overly corporate, hierarchical, averse to the down-and-dirty of politics..." />
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Year: 2011

Bill Daley: A Better Banker than Chief of Staff?

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It hasn’t been a great few days for President Obama’s Chief of Staff Bill Daley. He has been sliced, diced, dismissed, dissed in Politico, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, not to mention the Huffington Post and New York magazine. In all of these publications, Daley is portrayed as overly corporate, hierarchical, averse to the down-and-dirty of politics…

‘Chicago Spaces: Inspiring Interiors’ Published by Agate

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Edited by Gina Bazer Attention, Chicago design lovers: We have a book for your coffee table! The editors of Chicago Home + Garden have created Chicago Spaces: Inspiring Interiors (Agate, $45), a compilation of the best projects we’ve featured in our magazine over the past five years. Included are both complete homes and individual rooms—page … Read more

Plain & Fancy Cabinet Showroom Opens in Merchandise Mart

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Edited by Gina Bazer Plain & Fancy, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of kitchen cabinets, is getting fancier, opening a not-so-plain 2,000-square-foot showroom (the only one of its kind in the country) at LuxeHome in the Merchandise Mart. A collaboration with its Chicago distributor, Dandamudi’s, the space will officially be called Plain & Fancy by Dandamudi’s and … Read more

Farmhouse in River North: Sort of Like the Chaser’s Own Homestead but with More Booze

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I knew I’d feel right at home in a bar called Farmhouse since I grew up in a house on a farm myself. Yes, my family’s farmhouse was in the middle of a field with a frog pond off to the side, while Farmhouse, the “Midwestern craft tavern,” is on Chicago Avenue with an L stop off to the side, but there had to be similarities, right?…

Poetry Foundation Stages ‘Meet Mr. Yeats’

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In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama played by one company, all of whom could ride in one taxicab and carry their stage property on the roof…”