Weekend Diversion: Night Of The Ponies
Pedway, First Store Open At Block 37
Around Town
Around Town
Red-Light Cameras Not So Special?
- Mattell will make a collectible Barbie based on locally-based sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha (Barbie Dream Gamekeepers not included).
- For the curious: the man whom the Bishop Ford Freeway is named after.
- Mayor Daley open to the idea of closing half-empty schools.
- Gary, Indiana's "punk fucking rock" potato chip factory.
- 'Tis the season for catching Norovirus.
- Owls are nesting in a South side park.
- The Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup is screening at the Siskel on Sunday.
- The Museum of Science and Industry is closed today, part of a three-day shutdown prepare for their diamond anniversary. But coal mine fans needn't fret: when the museum re-opens tomorrow admission is free the rest of the month.
- Thanks to Governor Press Release's grandstand ploy regarding the RTA bailout, Metra will go ahead and raise fares.
- Attorney Corri Fetman, the divorce attorney with the billboards of questionable taste, poses nude and writes a column for Playboy. She also discloses she's the female model in her ads. Guess that makes her a tart that's good with torts.
Photo courtesy of bridgeport seasoning on flickr.
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Funny, I don't know about the MSI, but many of Chicago's other cultural institutions were SUPPOSED to be free all the time when they were established--that is how the multi-millionaires who set up endowments for them envisioned it. The Art Institute and Field Museum, at least, I am fairly certain, were meant to be free to everyone, all the time.
I don't mind shelling out some bucks to go to the museums, but when it's $20 for a special exhibit, plus, in some cases, admission fees, these museums are no longer easily accessible to the people they were intended to serve. If you have a family of three or four, it is suddenly a cost-prohibitive activity for many people... the exact opposite of the institutions intended purpose.
Where can Peerless chips be bought locally?
The article in the Reader says you can buy Peerless chips at the Strak & Van Til on Elston. I haven't tried their chips, but, oh, how I wish I could get Mrs. Fisher's chips locally. Try 'em if you visit Rockford. But really, don't visit Rockford.
The article in the Reader says you can buy Peerless chips at the Strak & Van Til on Elston. I haven't tried their chips, but, oh, how I wish I could get Mrs. Fisher's chips locally. Try 'em if you visit Rockford. But really, don't visit Rockford.