I think I’ve figured out why my 82-yr-old aunt has sat on numerous juries over the years after I heard her say this to me: “I was watching Fox News today and that Max Miller seems like such a nice, young man. And so good-looking too.”

Glen Hansard’s band The Frames opened for The New Pornographers in 2002. Neko Case doesn’t mince words here. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

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You mean the same Jack Osbourne, who proudly went to the UFC Freedom 250 event that took place at the White House, also loves Andrew Tate? Shocking.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

Here is a longer, unedited version of my Chicago Magazine article on the Robert Silhan House, an Art Moderne design inspired by the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair and located in Berwyn. chicagolandarchitecture.substack.com/p/the-robert...

The Robert Silhan House

Chicago Magazine’s website recently disappeared and is now officially under the umbrella of the Chicago Tribune.

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This is how I learned that Tom Hines died. Irving Gill & the Architecture of Reform and Architecture of the Sun: Los Angeles Modernism, 1900-1970 are both on my bookshelf. The latter is around 800 pages, but I read every word. Louis Sullivan & Chicago profoundly influenced the California modernists.

Christine Cipriani@christinecipriani.bsky.social · last wk.

Lovely remembrance of Tom Hines by Paul Makovsky. I spent a lovely afternoon w/Tom in L.A., where he gave me his signature tour of Wilshire Blvd (I drove, he talked) & told me about the time he took Ada Louise Huxtable--at her insistence--to In-N-Out Burger. www.architectmagazine.com/design/the-m...

When my 89-yr-old aunt’s flight is delayed, what’s her response? “Give me a double martini.” 🍸

I’m out in western suburbs taking my mom to the doctor and the hale coming down is pretty bad. Kind of scary how noisy it is. Be careful out there, Chicagoland!

I needed a mental health day, as I think I’m slowly losing my mind. Being a middle-aged woman is one of the most difficult periods of my life, even worse than puberty. Today was perfect. It was cool by the lake with smoke-free blue skies, and the dogs loved it. I highly recommend it!

This was me the other day when my friend showed me the wedding invitation for her fundie Christian relatives who live in Idaho. The bride is only 18.

I’m so sad. I knew it was coming but it’s so jarring to finally see in effect. Oops I guess I should’ve backed up all those articles I wrote for them. Too late now. They’re all behind a paywall. This is the future of the dying internet, folks - info & news will be completely inaccessible.

Rd bacon@doublechinner.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago Magazine had a free and elegant website that I frequented regularly. The awful #ChicagoTribune has converted it to the much less elegant, downright unusable Tribune website and put it behind the paywall. So long, Chicago Magazine. It was nice knowing you.

Chicago’s Streeterville, once an ugly jumble of parking lots, has certainly come a long way in the last 60 yrs. Lake Point Tower looks so lonely. Looking east from the roof of the Equitable Building, ca. 1967. (Hedrich-Blessing Collection)

I wonder if people were this stubborn & narcissistic in the past. It feels like the willingness to listen & learn from others is moot. People just want to live in their own little bubbles & cannot admit a world exists outside them. I know I'm rambling but many of today's problems stem from this imo.

RETVRN NE corner of Fullerton & Halsted, Chicago, 1956 and today

DePaul’s SAC, a brutalist design by C.F. Murphy & Associates completed in 1968. As a student I spent a lot of time hanging out in the conversation pit inside this building. Good times.

The future site of Chicago's Merchandise Mart.

The home & studio of artist Charles Turzak, designed by architect Bruce Goff in 1938, is for sale. The flat-roofed design incorporates features that didn’t appear in residential architecture for another decade, including corner picture windows & overhanging balconies. www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/7...

7059 N Olcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60631 - 4 beds/2 baths

(MRED as Distributed by MLS Grid) For Sale: 4 beds, 2 baths ∙ 2686 sq. ft. ∙ 7059 N Olcott Ave, Chicago, IL 60631 ∙ $775,000 ∙ MLS# 12694971 ∙ "This design, which represents one of the earliest w...

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This is what I look like today, in case anyone was wondering. 🇺🇸

My dog, who “summers” in Lake Geneva with her other owner, surveys the aftermath of the severe storms that went through the area. Thinking of the three kids who drowned today off Big Foot Beach. Just the other day was the anniversary of my father’s drowning. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

This weekend I went to a dog rescue party at the Frank Hibbard Estate in Lake Forest. Originally located on 21 acres, the home, a Mediterranean Revival style design by George Harvey, was built for the founder of what later became True Value Hardware. My dog, who was an owner surrender, enjoyed it!

My latest real estate roundup focuses on Lake View. That historic cottage w/wood clapboard facade and a millwork front porch was built back when the area was home to immigrant farmers who made celery Lake View's most important local crop.

Chicago magazine@chicagomagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Lake View, Chicago's second-largest community area, has a range of real estate options.

Today I found an urbanist Little Free Library in the Chicagoland suburbs. Jane Jacobs and @henrygrabar.bsky.social displayed side by side.

When the BBC presenter asks an artist what she learned from the late David Hockney, her response: “Remember to fuck.” The BBC guy immediately goes into panic mode: “We apologize for the offensive language.”

When un-retired Tom Skilling describes a tornado seen in Grundy & LaSalle Counties as “stunning,” I’d like to think that’s not good for the people living near there.

I once knocked on the door of Louis Sullivan’s Bradley House & a frat brother gave me a tour. Josephine Bradley’s grandfather Richard Crane, nephew of lumberman Martin Ryerson, offered Dankmar Adler a job to sell Crane elevators, which led to his breakup w/Sullivan. onmilwaukee.com/articles/har...

Urban spelunking: Sigma Phi's Louis Sullivan-designed Bradley House

In 1908, businessman Richard T. Crane hired architect Louis Sullivan to design a home for his granddaughter Josephine and her new husband, UW professor Harlold C. Bradley, as a wedding present. The ho...

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Remembering architect Bruce Goff on his birthday, as opposed to that “other” architect who was also born on this day. I’m glad I went to the Goff exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago earlier this year. His artworks alone were fascinating.

chigeek.bsky.social@chigeek.bsky.social · 7mo ago

When you find yourself in Aurora, be sure to pay your respects to Goff.

How ironic that an esteemed historian, who wrote about the American Revolution, was killed right before America's 250th birthday by a selfish driver in a grocery store parking lot. According to an East Providence police FB post, witnesses said the driver was looking at her phone.

Jack Rakove@jrakove.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I just received the terribly distressing news that Gordon Wood was hit by a car and killed yesterday. We were together with other Founding era scholars at the 2nd Judicial Circuit conference last week at Lake George, and he was as usual in fine fettle and as always enjoyable to talk to.

“AI, who dis man?”

Highlight of the Day: A tourist from Burgundy, France, singing "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" to me in broken English. She had the melody down perfectly. And as she finished, she said, "That was Simon...and Garfunkel."

Portrait of Mies van der Rohe, oil on canvas by Hugo Weber, 1961.

It’s official, guys. The McCaskeys have announced that the only way for Da Bears to continue on their journey of completely sucking is to move to NW Indiana and join another pathetic loser, better known as John Kass.