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By The Art Institute Of Chicago
In support of architect David Adjaye’s first comprehensive museum survey, curator Zoë Ryan describes how a life-sized pavilion, large-scale models, full-scale fragments, and a vast array of media combine to create the perfect museum experience of David Adjaye’s architecture. (September 19 – January 3, 2016)
Posted on September 28, 2015
By Jane Harper
Three or four times a year, the schedule for the following week is released and, with no warning, we see that one morning an hour-and-a-half before the shop opens we are all scheduled for a “staff meeting.” I find the nomenclature somewhat amusing because, aside from the two owners, the staff consists of me, a guy who works two days a week at the most, and an older man who is well past retirement age and has already announced when he’ll be retiring in 2016. Staff meetings almost always occur on my day off, which means I have to drag my ass out of bed way too early to attend a meeting that is almost always exactly the same, and while I appreciate being paid for it, it doesn’t set a great tone for the remainder of the day.
Staff meetings usually cover a few main topics: Store standards, which we all know by heart, but apparently need reminders on from time to time; the outlook as we pass from one season to the next; and, my least favorite part, work attire.
Let me remind you I work in a dog supply store. It’s a boutique, yes, but it’s still a dog supply store. Pets are welcome, which means I do a lot of squatting down to scratch ears and I often come home covered in fur and drool.
Posted on September 24, 2015
Talk About Labor: 5-Foot-9, 157 Pounds
Ziggy and Bahatika’s first.
Posted on September 23, 2015
By Steve Rhodes
“Inside one of the busiest concourses at O’Hare International Airport, the recorded announcement cautioning travelers that ‘the moving walkway is now ending” means what it says,” the Tribune reports.
“United Airlines has started to remove all eight moving walkway belts in Concourse C of Terminal 1 at O’Hare. The airline says the equipment, originally installed more than 20 years ago as a convenience for tired, bag-toting passengers, now just gets in the way.”
United Airlines, you are just the worst.
Posted on September 22, 2015
By The Art Institute Of Chicago
“Curator Madhuvanti Ghose discusses the first U.S. presentation of the art and aesthetics of the Pushtimarg sect of Hinduism, an exhibition featuring over 100 paintings and pichvais celebrating Shrinathji, a form of Krishna. On view through January 3, 2016.”
Posted on September 21, 2015
By The U.S. Navy Office Of Community Outreach
PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 9, 2015) – Quartermaster Seaman Maribel Torres, a native of Chicago, raises the foxtrot flag on the signal bridge of aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).
Washington is operating in Southern California waters, preparing to deploy around South America as a part of Southern Seas 2015.
Posted on September 16, 2015
By J.J. Tindall
Spur
“There are two kinds of spurs
In this world, my friend:
Those that come in through the door
And those that come in
Through the window.”
He was a Rat,
But he had some skills,
So we partnered up
To do some business.
Posted on September 13, 2015
By Helene Smith
Scene one, take one, booth one.
(ENLARGE FOR PROPER VIEWING)
Posted on September 11, 2015
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