Category: Today’s Report

NY Times: Whose Father Was He? Another fabulous Errol Morris investigation of a famous photograph. This time he tries to find out the truth about a picture clutched in the hand of an unknown Gettysburg soldier.

FalconCam! There’s a webcam that keeps track of the pair of Peregrine Falcons that nest on the Terminal Tower. Cool! I had no idea that falcon’s eggs were purple like plums. I thought they were speckled. Or is she just collecting plums? Hmmm… Posnanski: Debuts. Joe writes about Roger Clemens’ first game in the majors,…

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.

Ruhlman: Lemon Squares: Boxed Mixes?! Michael (and his mom and son) show how buying a boxed lemon square mix is like throwing your money away. This is kind of funny because my daughter just had a sleepover and one of the activities she did with the girls was cooking stuff. We’d picked up a lemon…

Really Bad Cleveland Accent: Horizontal Books. After stopping at the bank for the kids’ monthly “learn how to save money” trip, Ned noticed that Horizontal was open. He made me promise that we would stop in there soon. I’m interested as well, but I’m not much of a book buyer. I don’t re-read books and…

Cleveland Foodie: A Perfect Saturday Morning. Michelle heads to West 4th for breakfast at the new Erie Island Coffee. And she also stops by the still-not-completed Greenhouse Tavern. Both sound great. Lately it seems like all new restaurants are opening on W. 4th. I remember just a couple of years ago we went down to…

Rob Pitingolo: Olympics Fallout. In a post ostensibly about Chicago, Rob links to several articles that show how hard and how fast bad things can start piling up after the Olympics leave town. It’s pretty clear that most places that host simply don’t need a lot of the infrastructure that had been built to support…