Yet another reality show taping. Yawn.
Still, there are those of you out there who might be interested in this: a behind-the-scenes-of-the-fashion-industry reality show. They're coming to Chicago to tape on February 2.
The CW network apparently is launching some sort of show that blends elements of America's Next Top Model and Project Runway. They are looking for stylists, publicity people, and anyone who works in the fashion business side...
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Yet another reality show taping. Yawn.
Still, there are those of you out there who might be interested in this: a behind-the-scenes-of-the-fashion-industry reality show. They're coming to Chicago to tape on February 2.
The CW network apparently is launching some sort of show that blends elements of America's Next Top Model and Project Runway. They are looking for stylists, publicity people, and anyone who works in the fashion business side...
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Yet another reality show taping. Yawn.
Still, there are those of you out there who might be interested in this: a behind-the-scenes-of-the-fashion-industry reality show. They're coming to Chicago to tape on February 2.
The CW network apparently is launching some sort of show that blends elements of America's Next Top Model and Project Runway. They are looking for stylists, publicity people, and anyone who works in the fashion business side...
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Yet another reality show taping. Yawn.
Still, there are those of you out there who might be interested in this: a behind-the-scenes-of-the-fashion-industry reality show. They're coming to Chicago to tape on February 2.
The CW network apparently is launching some sort of show that blends elements of America's Next Top Model and Project Runway. They are looking for stylists, publicity people, and anyone who works in the fashion business side...
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Nothing chirps "top o' the morning to you" like a giant sinkhole on a major North Side street.
Workers today will finish pouring the concrete to fill the giant crater left by the water main break on Montrose and Honore last Tuesday. The sidewalk is expected to open tomorrow and the street on Thursday, according to Chicago Water Department spokesman Tom LaPorte.
We thought we'd share with you some oddly beautiful photos of the mess. Kudos to Flickr users c.hiltz and absenter for capturing the collapsed street in...
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List Price: $2.8 million
Sale Price: $2.66 million
The Property: Come spring’s return of the Cubs to Wrigley Field, pitcher Carlos Zambrano will be calling this 13-room, vaguely Prairie-style house his seasonal home. On January 18th, Zambrano closed on his purchase of the three-year-old house, which has six bedrooms, four full and three partial baths, and two fireplaces. Set in Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood on a block that was, until six years ago, industrial property, the 6,700-square-foot house stands on an extra-wide lot: 37.5 feet (the standard city lot is 25 feet wide). The house was designed by...
Who isn't sick of winter already?
This photo by Matt Maldre (Flickr alias: spudart) stood out among the hundreds of Chicago winter scenes I perused to find a visual representation of my mood while de-thawing from the morning commute. I could have easily shared with you an artsy shot of the frozen river or a beautifully lit skyline shown through winter fog. But this photo said so much more about my current attitude toward winter in Chicago: dark, yucky, and yet still beautiful. Maldre describes it well: "a cast of characters huddling together in the urban coldness."
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I hear there are still a few spaces open to the public for the Hubbard Street-IIT show this weekend at Crown Hall. (For tickets, call 312-850-9744.) It's a noteworthy pairing—and not just because Hubbard Street is the city's leading contemporary company.
Over the past few years writing about culture, I've interviewed a number of dancers and choreographers who talk about the influence of architecture on their art. The first time someone mentioned it—it might have been the Chicago-born (New York-based) choreographer Lar Lubovich—I remember thinking how incongruent it sounded. I mean, a building is a fixed thing; a dancer is anything but...
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List Price: $1.795 million
The Property: You could say that the architect John Crittenden and the builder Dan Cohan are “Stickleys” for detail. That is, they are devotees of Gustav Stickley, the early 20th-century American architect who led the Craftsman movement in residential architecture, a descendant of the Arts & Crafts movement in England.
On a teardown lot in Wilmette, Crittenden and Cohan—whose company is called Round Peg—created a new house that, except for the two-car garage out front, might pass for an original Craftsman, with its abundant use of natural materials, its built-in benches and bookcases, and its reliance on daylight as an essential piece of the residents’...
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