December 05, 2003

Blame Him

"One of the dirty little secrets of Chicago’s winter parking ban is that I started it." Scott Jacobs fesses up at The Week Behind.

- ah | 5.12.03 ~ Transportation

Recognizing a Blocker

Folks if you're coming out tonight for the little shindig, we'd love for you to be able to recognize us and therefore some of us will be wearing some stickers with the four stars and GB on them. Be sure to say hello! We'd love to chat, drink, take lots of photos with our little digital cameras and be merry.

- nh | 5.12.03 ~ Gapers

Sticker-free cars stuck with tickets!

The city has finally begun ticketing city-sticker-less cars in parking garages. After five days over 1,000 tickets have been written, and that's after patrolling less than 10 percent of the city-licensed garages. If this rate keeps up, the program is projected to bring in over $6 million for the city next year, and to make thousands of drivers unhappy.

- jma | 5.12.03 ~ Transportation

God Bless Us, Every One

If "Sock-Puppet Showgirls" tickled your tittybone, you might want to check out Harvey Finklestein's latest extravaganza, A Puppet Christmas Carol. Saturdays at 10:30 pm through January 3 at Live Bait Theater, 3914 N. Clark.

- ac | 5.12.03 ~ Theatre/Dance

Facets en Français

Facets Multimedia, the city's best video store for independent and foreign films, kicks off its 7th annual Festival of French Cinema tonight. The Sun-Times has a brief overview of some of the 12 films being shown.

- ah | 5.12.03 ~ Film

Gay Games coming to town?

Chicago is one of two cities likely to host the 2006 Gay Games, the 20-year-old sporting event that has been previously hosted in San Fancisco, Vancouver, New York City, Amsterdam, and Sydney. Chicago and Los Angeles were originally third and fourth in the voting for the next city, but negotiations broke down with the organizers' first choice, Montreal, and second choice Atlanta took itself out of the running.

- jma | 5.12.03 ~ Sports/Recreation

Saving Flowers And What Have You

Despite opposition from Gov. Blagojevich for tax reasons, the state government over-rode his veto to provide the lovely Chicago Botanic Gardens with some much needed funding for repairs. Boo, Guv. Yay, State Gov!

- rc | 5.12.03 ~ Outdoors/Environment

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