April 28, 2004

Return of the King

The Tribune reports that Julie Taymor's musical adaptation of "The Lion King" will be coming back to Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre in June 2005. The same company that started its tour in Chicago last year will be doing the play, probably with much of the same cast in place.

- jma | 28.04.04 ~ Theatre/Dance

Chicago Women in Trades

If you're tired of working in the pink collar ghetto and want to work with heavy tools and machinery, then the Chicago Women In Trades might be just what you're looking for. They've got four meetings in May for women who might be interested in changing careers. If you think you wouldn't be using your brain if you had a construction job, this list of learned skills will prove you wrong.

- | 28.04.04 ~ Resources

Seen the Bean?

There's a new sculpture going up at Millennium Park downtown. It's a 20 foot by 30 foot by 60 foot mirrored oval shape that's sure to be a real eye-catcher when it's unveiled. The sculptor has not officially named the sculpture yet, so it's just being referred to as The Bean. You can see a picture of it here (not an actual image, since the sculpture's still being assembled) and you can follow the building of the sculpture over at usequities.com. Well, you WOULD be able to follow it, except that they're building the sculpture under a tent. (The webcam goes inside the tent on May 1st.)

- jma | 28.04.04 ~ Arts/Architecture

Ballpark Food

Sure, Wrigley Field is beautiful and historic and "US Cellular Field at Comiskey Park" is big and corporate. But The Cell still has one thing going for it: better food.

- ah | 28.04.04 ~ Eating/Drinking

Library Lookup

As commented in our Ask the Librarian column, our friend in yours, Ian Olsen-Clark has improved and created a bookmarklet (?) that will allow one to access the Chicago Public Library's system. It's amazingly nifty. Here's an endorsement and further explanation of what you can do with it.

- nh | 28.04.04 ~ Books/Authors

More Proof Racism is Dumb

John Kass reports today that in the wake of the conviction of white supremist Matthew Hale on charges of putting out a hit on a federal judge, several racist websites posted the address and phone number for Tony Evola, the prosecution's key witness. Problem is, they're not bright enough to check their information, so they got the wrong Evola. Now an innocent family is getting harrassing phone calls, and the police and FBI are involved.

- ah | 28.04.04 ~ In the News

The Walking Dude

Many of you may know The Walking Dude. I actually call him "70's Italian Loverman". Someone has made a really well-done and humorous short clip of The Walking Dude, A Dudementary. Does anyone personally know The Walking Dude?

- nh | 28.04.04 ~ People/Sightings

More cameras to be installed at intersections

More bad news for Chicago motorists who like to run red lights: the Sun-Times reports that the city has been so pleased with the trial installation of security cameras watching accident-prone intersections that they're planning to install more cameras at 10 additional intersections. Over the last 6 months, the cameras have identified over 15,000 vehicles running red lights at various intersections in the city, generating nearly $1.4 million in potential revenues (assuming the ticketed motorists pay the fines). The new intersections will be chosen by mid-summer, and camera installation is expected to be completed by year's end.

- jma | 28.04.04 ~ Transportation

Ice Cream, Ice Cream!

Yikes! We missed Ben and Jerry's Free Ice Cream day yesterday but do not fret! There is still free ice cream to be had. Baskin-Robbins has its Free Scoop Night tonight from 6pm-10pm. You can be like me last year: my friend and I hit three Baskin-Robbins in a row on the way someplace! It was perfect. Of course, we went back to one of them two hours later...

- nh | 28.04.04 ~ Eating/Drinking

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