Archive for March, 2008
This week’s band: Tautologic
31 March 2008From the band: “Tautologic combines tuneful pop smarts with lush orchestration, cerebral lyrics, an ironic wit, a theatrical streak, and an insatiable appetite for creative experimentation with different styles. The band’s unique line-up - violin, sax, keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, and vocals- sets it apart from its local peers right away. Tautologic’s inventive and challenging […]
Tautologic - The Whistler: Chicago Taxi Fare Finder
27 March 2008Want to know what cab fare will be before you hop in? Check out Taxi Fare Finder. You can put in general points of interest or specific addresses. If you put in the address, make sure you put in the city. I checked a few routes that I know the approximate fare for and it […]
Earth Hour in Chicago
26 March 2008This Saturday, Chicago’s skyline will go dark for an hour, so don’t panic. From 8 to 9pm, the city will turn its lights off for the World Wildlife Federation’s Earth Hour, an international event to “inspire people to take action on climate change”.
Last year over 2 million people and 2,100 businesses in Sydney, Australia, turned […]
Chicago Trivia: Fly, Fly Away
25 March 2008Five years ago this Sunday, construction crews ripped big X’s in the runway at Meigs Field. I remember it well because I had taken my son the previous October for a flight from the airport in a single engine plane. From 1994 until the airport’s unexpected closing, the Tuskegee Airmen and their Young Eagles offered […]
Wendy Larks Foundation Celebration Of Life
24 March 2008In 2001, Wendy Larks died from breast cancer. She was 35.
I met her brother recently and he told me of an upcoming benefit in her honor to raise money for breast cancer research. Since I’m two years older than she was when she passed, and my grandmother’s a breast cancer survivor, I promised to help […]
