Whit McLeod Furniture
It’s difficult to categorize a piece of furniture that’s modern in design, vintage in composition, utilizes recycled materials and looks appropriate both inside and out. Nonetheless, I want one of these and I’ll just have to figure out the details later…
Bridge Towers | The Watchful Eyes
At either end of the 38 bridges that span the Chicago River are these beautiful bridge towers. While many have been decommissioned, the towers remain landmarks to a city that still relies heavily on the functioning of the bridge and waterway systems. The towers have certainly served a valuable service over the many years by [...]
Transformers 3: The Attack of Chicago
Living in New York, I often come across movies being shot in the City’s streets. Most are nothing worth mentioning (like Sex and the City), but some like Will Smith’s I Am Legend, was very cool to stumble upon. Prop grass “growing” along Fifth Avenue and debris strewn along sidewalks to create the look of [...]
Marketing the Classics
Penguin Classics is doing some thinking. The novels referred to as “Classics” have more than earned the respect and love that people hold for them. But after such a very long time being out there in the world, how does a publisher get them re-noticed? Well, in the case of the newly released Penguin Classics [...]






