Bistro Bordeaux
"Allons enfants de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivĩ!"
Friday Foodie Forecast: Chicago Bastille Day Dining
Jul. 9, 2010
#28 Announcing the world's first (?) "Text Book"
Jul. 9, 2010
I was speaking at a conference in D.C. last week and threw out this idea to the audience of teachers and librarians:
What if I were to give you my cell number, right here, right now? And then asked you to text me one piece of life advice.
And then I'd assemble it into a small but mighty "Text Book."
Who's game?
Hands went up and then I watched as several hundred people took down my cell number.
gaztro-wagon offers yummy sandwiches, just not mobile yet
Jul. 9, 2010
So far, just a bricks-and-mortar; truck is still to come (photo: Steve Dolinsky)
I wish I wasn't so hungry last night. If I had just taken a minute to put down my sandwich and grab a photo of what I was eating, you would have a better appreciation for how good my sandwiches were. You see, I was faced with one of those perplexing problems: what do I get when so many things on the menu sound so good. But I couldn't stop chowing on my food, and by the time I realized I hadn't taken any photos, it was too late.
Nightclubbing: F*cked Up, Sweet Apple, and more
Jul. 9, 2010
Back to you, Oprah: Recalling a reluctant anchorwoman
Jul. 9, 2010Editor's note: Robert Feder is off until July 13. While he's away, we're running "The Best of Feder. The following post originally appeared on Jan. 13, 2010:
Oprah Winfrey, 1984
It's a forgotten chapter in Chicago television history. But if things had worked out differently, we might have been saluting Oprah Winfrey on her 25th‚ year as a local news anchor last year instead of gearing up for the end of her talk show career here.
City Life: The four fedoras
Jul. 8, 2010
It’s been a few weeks now, there’s a truck that parks on my street with four fedoras arrayed on the dashboard, two folded together, one on top of the other almost obscuring it. The light dances off the windshield and gives the treasures inside a sparkly shine: the dashboard as vitrine.
