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The holiday season is now in full swing, with lots of shopping opportunities. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust has a shop in The Rookery, a Burnham and Root designed office building with later renovations by Wright. They had an event a few days ago with choir, champagne and sweets, and tours, so how could I pass that up? I used it more ( Read more... )

I was out on the town tonight, and took these photos:


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I don't usually go to the Chicago Botanic Gardens. For one thing, despite its name, it's not actually in Chicago, but in Glencoe, a suburb north of here, which means a fair bit of a drive. For another, despite the fact that "admission is free", they charge $20 to park, and there's no reasonable public transit from the city. However, in one of ( Read more... )

I got home from a concert a short while ago, and now it's lightning-ing and thundering! Guess I made it home just in time. Yes, I skipped the Oscars in favor of Mozart, Hadyn, Beethoven and Schubert.

Fabulous production of Lohengrin at Lyric on Friday night. Five hours just flew by! Emily McGee was Elsa, Johann Botha was Lohengrin (though he ( Read more... )

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For NoNoNoNo 2010

Whatever other issues it may have, Bookcrossing is, ultimately, responsible once again for my meeting some delightful folks. cathepsut (another person who migrated to LJ from BC) and her friend Anne were visiting Chicago, and we met for dinner Thursday evening at Terzo Piano, the restaurant at the Art Institute of Chicago.  It was a gorgeous summer night, ( Read more... )

Still cool(ish) from the rain Friday night/Saturday morning.  There was a street fair ("Celebrate Hyde Park") a few blocks from me, so I went over there early in the afternoon, listened to some music, checked out the various vendors, and had turkey hot links from Pearl's Place (a really good local soul food restaurant).    There were the usual ( Read more... )