Year: 2009
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606 W. Stratford Place
UPDATE: Released 7/15/09 UPDATE: New images of the property + research details Here’s a set of images I took of the property on July 16, 2009. The wide, flat-front building sticks out, for sure. According to the record for the property in the City of Chicago Historic Resources Survey, construction began on the building on…
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NYC Weekend Street & Bridge Closures > Friday, June 27, 2009 to Sunday, June 29, 2009
Flush from yesterday's obit extravaganza, let's get back to some pure info-goodness. ManhattanEast 15th Street between 2nd Avenue and 3rd Avenue: This street will be closed Saturday and/or Sunday from 8am to 6pm to facilitate crane operation.
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Danger and Opportunity in Transparency
Here in June 2009, the word “transparency” has some real legs. It’s tossed around so often that I’d have to say it is in the running for word of the year. The problem is that it may up being a lot of storm, signifying nothing. Just might end up like 1993’s information superhighway that life…
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An Appreciation of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is dead in Los Angeles at age 50. He was an odd, tortured man who was often accused of having inappropriate relationships with children. It is very likely that he was a criminal who got away with some of the worst crimes our culture has to offer. I have not come to bury…
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On The Same Day: From the Anus to the Heart in Los Angeles
“On the Same Day” is a series of poems I write for people whose obituaries appear on the same day in the New York Times.