Something You Should Eat: Pistachio cookies from Heaven
Apr. 27, 2010
Sale of North Shore recalls magazine's better days
Apr. 27, 2010Robservations on the media beat:
- Journalism jobs were scarce in 1978 -- especially after the Chicago Daily News folded, putting scores of seasoned writers and editors out of work. So the startup of a slick new magazine catering to the North Shore elite later that year came as welcome news to us Medill grads just hitting the job market. While I didn't accept the offer from founding publisher Asher Birnbaum to work for North Shore magazine, I've been a faithful subscriber and reader ever since. Birnbaum, who'd made a fortune selling his first magazine, Tennis, to The New York Times Company, wound up selling North Shore to the parent company of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1997. Monday's news that Sun-Times Media had sold North Shore for an undisclosed price to Susan Noyes' MakeItBetter.net reminded me of how much better the magazine used to be -- before it was stripped of the resources, staff and commitment to compete in the big leagues editorially. The latest issue took about two minutes to peruse.
- This weekend's celebration of Dick Biondi's 50th‚ anniversary on the air in Chicago just got 50,000 watts bigger: The live special from 7 p.m. to midnight Sunday will air not only on Citadel Broadcasting oldies WLS-FM (94.7), where Biondi still holds forth every weeknight, but also on news/talk sister station WLS-AM (890). Biondi was among the stars who launched the Top 40 format on WLS-AM on May 2, 1960.
Ducasse & Robuchon: Dinner with the dyamic duo
Apr. 26, 2010
Alain Ducasse (left) and Joël Robuchon sharing the spotlight (photo by Steve Dolinsky)
Well this certainly doesn't happen very often. Two of the culinary world's greatest palates and minds shared expediting duties at Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester in London last night, cooking dinner for me (and my 25 colleagues from around the world), as part of our annual meeting at the "World's 50 Best Restaurants" event here. To put it in sports terms, it would be like Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax pitching the same game, with Ryan taking the first few innings, then handing it over to Koufax, then Ryan closing things out.
4/29 at 4:29pm: Ready for the most important mission yet?
Apr. 26, 2010I wonder how big we can make this...
If you have any thoughts on how to really spread the word, spill them now in comment section please...
Thanks everyone,
ATM!
amy
Polaroid Mission Accomplished! (and news about slight change)
Apr. 26, 2010From now on, we are going to be posting mission results on Mondays, instead of Fridays. We've noticed (because we can track this sort of thing) that many of you aren't hanging around here on Fridays, and so that sure seems like a not-wise (and rather anti-climatic) time to be posting our beloved mission results. We work hard on these things!
So on Monday's (like you're seeing today) we will have two distinct‚ and separate posts:
1. The results of the prior week's mission.
2. The announcement of the brand new mission.
Sound good?
So without any further ado, here is the slide show our very own Justin Kaufmann put together of your Polaroid requests and‚ accompanying photo results.
Under construction: New Rush hospital building catches the eye
Apr. 26, 2010
(photo by Lee Bey)
The 14-story hospital building going up on the Rush University Medical Center campus won't be completed until next year--but I like it already.
A curvy building in a right-angled city, the 806,000 sq ft building on the southwest corner of Ashland and Congress Parkway--quite visible from traffic-clogged Eisenhower Expressway--stands out a bit. Perkins & Will designed the combination bedtower and surgical center, which looks like the architectural love child between the Watergate Hotel and old Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Medical Center campus.
John Williams enjoying 'best of both worlds' -- for now
Apr. 26, 2010Every weekday, John Williams hosts a four-hour talk show from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WGN-AM (720), walks 20 yards down the hall to a different studio at Tribune Tower, and, with just an eight-minute break in between, hosts another two-hour talk show from 1 to 3 p.m. on WCCO-AM in Minneapolis.‚ Both shows stream live online.
John Williams
While it may not be as physically demanding as the Dallas-to-Chicago-to-Dallas daily commute that Tom Joyner pulled off during his eight years as America's "fly jock, it's got to be every bit as challenging mentally and logistically.‚ Williams, 50, has been doing the six-hour, two-city, back-to-back shifts since April 13, and by all accounts, he's managed to pull it off amazingly well.