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Alex Kotlowitz and Our Upcoming Blog, 'Off the Grid'
By Esther Kang
Chicagomag.com on Friday will launch a blog called <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Off-the-Grid/August-2011/The-Trauma-of-Violence-and-Our-Broken-Communities/"Off the Grid: Dispatches from Chicago’s Writers-in-Residence. Every so often, we plan to feature a new writer who will post about topics of his or her choosing—anything from personal essays to reported pieces. The only requirement is that the stories be about Chicago and its people. We’re thrilled, then, to introduce our inaugural writer-in-residence, Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and... Read more
Beyond Eclectic at Carl Street Studios
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $549,000
The Property: You’ve heard the term “vanilla box” condos? Condos at the Carl Street Studios are more like tutti-frutti. Converted from a Victorian mansion into a complex of artists’ homes in the 1920s, Carl Street (which is actually on Burton Place) is unlike anything else in the city with its layers of eccentric artistry, unusual materials, and crazy-quilt colors... Read more
Dish Flash: Why Jeff Ruby Is Wrong About Next
By Penny Pollack
Jeff Ruby thinks that the Thai experience at Next is a party, but for Penny Pollack, it was a case of too much information, as servers layered on the historical and cultural information thicker than the curry. Read more