Month: April 2009

Bookstores! So Horizontal Books is open in the old Bookstore on W 25th space. And now Michael O’Brien, who used to run the Bookstore on W 25th has opened a new place in Tremont (in the basement of Zion UCC) called Scriptoria.

Legends of Zork is up and running.

Mary Beth Matthews: Max Hayes Blows Glass. About a trip the Art Club took to Mike Zelenka’s Superior Studio to learn how to blow glass themselves. Toxel: Cool juice packaging. With the actual look and feel of fruit. NY Times: Reinventing America’s Cities. One thing that caught my eye: Madrid is covering their four-mile long…

Crain’s: The Beck Center is in trouble. I’m sure there are a lot of institutions like this, somewhat sucessful but with negligible endowments, who are biting their nails right now. Spaghetti Book Club. Cute.