Disembodied male voice from a building alongside Jeffrey Blvd after the march: "I think that's just about the prettiest march this city and I have ever seen ... And did you see those chicks on bikes? Those were real bikes, man!"
Revision Street: Lisa Gardner, 19
Jun. 28, 2010When I first came I was actually scared. I was scared because of my age and I didn’t think I was actually gonna fit in, which I don’t fit in cause everybody act like kids, but I love school. When I got here, there were kids my age and there was even a couple kids that was 21, so I wasn’t all that nervous and I wasn’t scared no more.
Lisa recently switched schools, and now attends Innovations High School, a project-based media and arts-focused charter school on the South Side that serves less than 200 students between the ages of 16 and 21, most of whom are seeking a diploma after dropping out of a previous school. We are in the cafeteria, a cheerless basement enclosed by hundreds of skinny lockers. Students come in and out, cracking loud jokes, bouncing basketballs.
I came here last year around February. I had gotten pregnant like a fool. [Laughs.] I dropped out and stopped going to school. I was out of school for like half a year, so when my best friend told me about this school, ‘cause her friend was going here, I came and I checked it out and I liked the school.
#26 Let's all make the U.S. soccer team World Cup...cakes!
Jun. 28, 2010Okay, so how many of you have seen this incredibly moving video that was created and posted within a few hours of Wednesday's historic World Cup game?
Amazing, right?
Well, after Saturday's heartbreaking loss to Ghana, I feel like we need to do something here at Mission Amy K.R. to lift our team's spirits, and celebrate how far they made it. I have an idea that's easy, fun, and involves frosting... you with me so far?
"Running Scared" from O'Hare to downtown
Jun. 28, 2010I know: Another movie when I just did "Cooley High" last week.
Spike O'Dell 'heartbroken' over the damage at WGN
Jun. 28, 2010Robservations on the media beat:
- I don't know which took more guts: Spike O'Dell speaking out against WGN-AM (720) -- or Phil Rosenthal posting O'Dell's comments on his Chicago Tribune media blog. But I have to give them both a lot of credit. In response to Friday's firing of Steve Cochran from the Tribune Co.-owned news/talk station, ex-morning star O'Dell wrote on Facebook: "As long as they are making all these changes, I hope they will change the call letters too. It is certainly no longer the station that mid-America knows and trusts." O'Dell, 56, who retired to Nashville, Tenn., after 21 years at WGN in December 2008, told Rosenthal in a follow-up Saturday:
Spike O'Dell
The Lady Gaga comic book
Jun. 28, 2010
If ever there's an artist predestined to inspire a comic book, Lady Gaga is the one.
Publicity Club of Chicago renames award for Jeff Bierig
Jun. 28, 2010
The Publicity Club of Chicago has renamed its annual Branding Award, given out during its prestigious Golden Trumpet Awards each spring, The Jeff Bierig Branding Award. The board voted unanimously Friday to honor Bierig's "professional contributions and achievements," according to Sue Markgraf, president of the group. ‚ It's a fitting tribute to the man who twice served as president of the organization and was the first recipient of the award now named in his honor.
A widely admired and respected public relations professional, a lifelong Chicagoan, a generous teacher and mentor to countless students, and a 22-year cancer surivor, Jeffrey D. Bierig died Wednesday after a battle with leukemia. He was 57.