Results tagged “newmexico”

Is Illinois heading towards legalized medical marijuana? State Senator John Cullerton (pretty website!) hopes so. He's sponsoring a bill that the Senate Public Health Committee approved 6-4 yesterday. A similar measure failed in the Senate last year, but try, try again.

Reuters calls Alaska for Obama.

With the race for the Democratic nomination showdown just days away, and polls showing Obama closing in on Clinton in key Super Duper Tuesday states, the Obama campaign made a huge ad buy during the Super Bowl in the Super Tuesday states, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Washington, (but, alas, not Illinois)

Here’s the premise: Take 40 kids aged 8 to 15. Throw them into a ghost town in New Mexico sans parents, without iPods, minus Lunchables, and let them go at it. Build your own city! Form a government! Be bold and prosper, you say! What’s that a recipe for? Some (OK, many) say child endangerment and labor violations; CBS says buzz. And if buzz translates into viewers, well, CBS, you’ve got it made with “Kid...

A relative newcomer to Chicago's art gallery scene, 40000 (119 N. Peoria) has received a great deal of buzz since its start in 2005. After living and working in New Mexico and Austin TX, gallery owner/curator Britton Bertran set down roots in Chicago after receiving a Master's in Arts Administration from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002. Bertran made the leap to full-time gallery owner after several years of working in...

This ain’t your ordinary brown sack lunch. When your Reuben comes with butter-sherry sautéed onions and the sloppy Joe hails from New Mexico with jalapeños and chilies, you know you’re not going to have just an ordinary sandwich at this charming lunch spot in Logan Square. Maybe that’s because the head chef and owner, Malaika Marion, who trained at CHIC (Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago) and Le Cordon Bleu, has racked in time at...

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their fair city and that an Apple Store was opening up. They were less happy that new rules have been established limiting underage shows and that their Governor is spending...

Another Friday, another edition of "Friday Food Buffet." This week, Valentine's Day is around the corner, and the theme of love is in the air, along with fixed price dinners for couples. So sit back, enjoy the cheesecake we left out for you, and have a nice weekend. "It's also a dessert topping and a furniture polish": Green tea may be good for you, but it isn't a "superfood" yet and won't help you make...

Here we are, less than two years away from the next contest for the White House. This time next year, hopefuls, shoo-ins, and also-rans will be in a mad dash around the country, having pancakes in New Hampshire, talking milk prices and manufacturing in Iowa, and hoping to make it to Super Tuesday. On the Democratic side of the coin, more than a few people have already thrown their hats into the ring, and some...

Yesterday we had an article on so-called "gifties" who lost what was undoubtedly a rigged t-shirt contest in 8th grade. Their response was an oh-so-clever statement on the injustice of losing a t-shirt contest, they made t-shirts. We may have found the answer to what happened to this group of "gifties" over the next four years. The Quality Counts 2007 study by Education Week indicates the weakness in our education system is, in large part, due to a lack of connection from one level of grade school to the next. We aren't quite sure why a study is needed to identify this, it is pretty common knowledge that every kid everywhere is scared shitless when they enter the 6th and 9th grades. But, the study shows us a lot of valuable data about our own state, which I must say is ranked a not so shabby 12th.

Some time before Chicagoist was a Chicagoan, we were a resident of the great American Southwest. We grew up in the wonderful state of New Mexico, and we absorbed much of the local culture: cowboys, chilis, and lowriders.

Anyone who's seen The Neo-Futurists’ weekly show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind knows the purveyors of this evening of rapid-fire entertainment regularly rely on the audience for seriocomic inspiration. We've seen these performers take up a collection for a poor college kid, treat random ticket holders to ice cream treats, start an impromptu dance party, and enlist the entire room in silent protest against the invasion of Iraq. The Neos also produce...

In a letter to Blago's office, state Comptroller Dan Hynes' office has refused to pay for $2.5 million worth of flu vaccine that Blago ordered from Europe in October. Blago ordered the vaccine due to fears of a national shortage. Without FDA approval, Blago ordered nearly 700,000 doses from a number of companies overseas and had commitments from New York City to buy 200,000 doses, Cleveland to buy 4,500 and New Mexico to buy 150,000...