Wakeboarding And Scuba Emporium

“Total attendance for the Progressive Insurance Chicago Boat, Sports & RV Show increased 7 percent despite slower days Thursday and Friday because of bad weather, the National Marine Manufacturers Association reported,” Trade Only reports.
“The NMMA said 35,402 people attended the event, which ran Jan. 12-16 at McCormick Place. The show switched its date pattern this year, moving from Wednesday-Sunday to Thursday-Monday to take advantage of the Martin Luther King holiday.”
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Show highlights uploaded to YouTube this week by North Point Digital Productions:
“Segments of the 2012 Chicago Boat Show including the Scuba Emporium’s intro to SCUBA which introduced over 400 to the world of SCUBA. Wakeboard professionals entertained the crowds with their Rail Jam. Many other features – too numerous to show them all – but a great time for all at the boat show.”

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Posted on January 19, 2012

By The Chicago Honey Cooperative

After eight years at our current apiary on Chicago’s West Side, the land has been sold and we must find a new home for the bees. You can help by making a donation in honor of the Chicago Honey Co-op. Read more about our story on our blog.

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Posted on January 17, 2012

By Amanda Paulson

On the CTA Red line underpass at Pratt Avenue in Rogers Park.

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Posted on January 16, 2012

By David Rutter

And what a week it was.
1. Rahm and Michelle, WTF?
If the crux of the parlor game d’jour asks whether First Lady O is a bigger jerk than our mayor, we stand foursquare with the available evidence: Michelle Obama might be strong-willed and focused the way really smart people can be, but we know for sure that the mayor is foul-mouthed bully.

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Posted on January 13, 2012

By Lissa Weinstein

You can reasonably expect to get a smaller option for $2 million or less!

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Posted on January 12, 2012

By Rich Munnich

“Does anyone recall what the seven deadly sins are? Don’t forget to vote March 20, 2012 in Illinois. That phone is a year old and the wire is fraying. I taped it up with electrical tape.”

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Posted on January 11, 2012

Uploaded to YouTube by DJMILDSAUCE84

Nice.

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Posted on January 9, 2012

By David Rutter

1. Carlos Zambrano, WTF?
On most days, a one-way Greyhound bus ticket from Chicago to Miami runs about $180. The Cubs bought the $15 million ticket just to get Carlos Zambrano out of town more expeditiously.
Think of this carefully. They paid $15 million of the last $18 million they owe him to pitch for anyone, anywhere else other than Chicago. That’s one heaping pile of get-out-of-town.
Theo Epstein to Carlos: We hate you. But wait. It gets worse for Z. Not only did the Marlins have to give back only a small stipend to make it seem like a real transaction and one less-than-mediocre (but young) starter, it also means this was the official word of Organized Baseball.
This was the best deal the Cubs could attract, and they couldn’t even get Carlos out of the league where he might come back to bite them.
Apparently general managers everywhere have been watching Zambrano’s self-immolations with similar alarm.

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Posted on January 6, 2012

A New Year’s Eve Nightmare

Fish fucking filet in two parts.
1. Oh my . . .

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Posted on January 3, 2012

By J.J. Tindall

Black and Blue
One black morning
the ordinary returned.
Savings and career
obliterated;
inundated, enervated by
cheap, trite platitudes

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Posted on January 2, 2012