Posts tagged with ‘chicago’
To the people who kept telling me I should try the 147, it would be faster than (or equivalent to) the Red Line.
Nope. Not even close. And now I’m just sitting on this bus in traffic being wrong.
Wrong and late. But with a beautiful view.
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We’re all in this together, apparently: Drivers and pedestrians all stopped and cooperated for a moment just now (without anyone asking them to) so a wedding photographer standing in the road could get a clear shot outside the Chicago Theatre. (Tricia Bobeda via Instagram)
In the hurry of city life, sometimes we’re all quite civil, even if only for a moment.
If WBEZ breaks 30,000 Facebook likes today, we get pizza. Like us? I'd do it for you, guys.
Seriously, I’ll owe you one. (Digital favor, not one pizza.)
Today in history: President Gerald Ford nominated John Paul Stevens, U-High’37, AB’41, to the Supreme Court seat vacated by William O. Douglas in 1975.
Bow ties are cool.
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“But here’s the thing. Never mind us blundering fools, check out the fans. Two hundred and ten of them, with the top-secret episode within their grasp...”
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“In the spring of 1931, a 17-year-old female signed a professional contract with a men’s minor league team in Chattanooga and, in the first inning of...”
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Sarah Polley talks to Terry Gross about how she got to know her her mother — who died when Polley was 11 — while making Stories We Tell:
Having the opportunity to sit with for many hours with most of the people that your mother was close to in her life and get to hear them talk about her ends up forming a much more full picture than the one I had before. At the same time, even though I wasn’t an adult and didn’t get to know the complexity of who she was, I had somebody say to me once, years ago, they were asking me, ‘What was your mother like?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know. She died when I was 11.’ And she said, ‘Well, what did she feel like?’
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