Friday Snippets 2.27.09
Artwork: designslinger]
Anyone reading this within the greater Los Angeles area, get yourself downtown on
Saturday and tour the landmark Palace Theatre for free!
Wanna buy a Mies? Yes, that Mies. Edward Lifson posted on Hello Beautiful that he has
an apartment for sale in the iconic, historic and groundbreaking Mies van der Rohe building at 860 Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. Moving anyone?
Sears Tower in silver, when I saw that header, I couldn't believe what I was reading.
Turns out of course, that this isn't quite the case says Blair Kamen at the Tribune.
After watching the fashionistas walk down the Oscar Red Carpet, here's a slide show/
behind-the-scenes look at London's Fashion week from Wallpaper*
Las Vegas is closing their art museum and Baghdad is reopening a little less than half of
theirs.
We posted a few weeks ago about the changes coming to Chicago's Lathrop Homes public
housing complex. Chi-town Daily News reports that Lathrop residents to decide their future.
And lastly, this link really has nothing to do with design, but it is an answer to one question
I've had for the last 13 years; why can't we get good Italian beef sandwiches in LA? The best Italian beef I've ever had was not in New York but in Chicago, and Cecil Adams tells us why in his Straight Dope column.
Have a great weekend.
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