Among Chicago problems not going away any time soon is parking meters. After the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the deal with Chicago Parking Meters LLC, the city is more stuck than ever with this ball-and-chain parking meter deal. The Chicago Tribune offers a 15 year gallery of Scott Stantis cartoons about the 75 […]
Attending this year’s The Thurber Prize show were Michael Maslin and Liza Donnelly (herself a Thurber Prize finalist), there to announce the creation of a companion award to the original Prize. Thurber’s childhood home is in Columbus Ohio, which I visited today. Restored, it’s a historical site, and a thriving center for writing workshops and […]
I’m with Katy in today’s Adam@Home. We haven’t had actual snow here lately but we’ve only had two days of warm sunshiny weather so far and even the warmish days that might have come close have, instead, featured cold winds. It might as well be March. However, the birds are back, including the cormorants, as […]