Whoa. Impulse shopping to the extreme.

...Christmas (at 8 years old) is catching up to me, and I'm going crazy. Wanna see it? here it is!! http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?storeName=storefronts&landing=rts_desktop&category=rts_desktop&subcat1=&catLevel=1&mc=&product_code=NY542AA%23ABA&tab=overview&pageLink=true&bvLoadCart=1&omniData= I'm going to donate my current computer to work. My AmeriCorps person is ...

Oprah's show leaving Chicago is going to destroy the city.

...to sell the city to businesses looking to relocate and those wondering why they should stay. Along with the upscale condominiums and pricey restaurants that replaced the rundown apartments, abandoned warehouses and vacant storefronts, it's a sentiment that helps explain just how nervous people in Chicago are about Winfrey's announcement that next season, the 25th, will be the last for "The Oprah ...

... on a project regarding Pittsburgh's public art. I know about the wonderful murals funded by Sprout. And Yesterday I drove through Carrick and saw a lot of art painted on the windows of closed-down storefronts, funded by the neighborhood development foundation. I'm curious to know what your favorite public art is and I'm also looking to hear about public art in some out-of-the-way spaces. Is ...

An American Catastrophe

... little traffic, minimal commercial activity, hardly any pedestrians. What you’ll see are endless acres of urban ruin, block after block and mile after mile of empty and rotting office buildings, storefronts, hotels, apartment buildings and private homes. It’s a scene of devastation and disintegration that stuns the mind, a major American city that still is home to 900,0000 people but which ...

Zombies!

... put it on my list of things to do. Right below eat, sleep, and survive. Lee drove down main street and I kept my eyes peeled for any sign of movement. Many of the glass storefronts along the street were smashed through, I could only assume it happened in the hoarding rushes that occurred just after the epidemic started. When everyone in Washington was so busy pointing fingers at each other they...

EVENT

...has gotten him down at all! His step is still strong, and nothing in his demeanor suggests that anything at all is wrong. Glancing up to the snow swirling in the sky, Yuri grins and stretches out his left arm before dropping his gaze to scan the storefronts. Yeah, it was so totally worth it. ] [ oops, were you being reckless again, yuri? feel free to badger/bother/yell at him all ya want. ]

[LINK] "Danforth's decline: Drugs, prostitutes now in the open"

...a wine list at lunch and a Starbucks for the ride home. Three subway stops east, at Coxwell, the streetscape has changed. Trendy eateries are replaced with fast-food restaurants. Parking lots and sterile storefronts hopscotch one another down the Danforth drag. And the further you go, the more it slides. The kitsch of Greektown dries up at Jones Ave. Pass Donlands. An auto shop. A fried chicken...

The Truly Prosperous

... the east first confronted Coessens Park, a joyful recreational area with ball fields and tennis courts and the annual home of Santa Claus and his reindeer in a wintery fairyland. All of those empty storefronts on East Main Street used to house thriving businesses in an unbroken line of commerce that extended all the way to "downtown."  Carmel's Diner and DiCaprio's Diner stood side by side and ...

Sights and Sounds

... all day last Tuesday just walking around the West Village, my old neighborhood. Everything is the same yet everything is different. So many shops are gone. The truly weird part was seeing how many storefronts are now simply boarded up and empty. Seeing the recession even there was somewhat eye-opening. How I wish I could live in Manhattan again, in the Village in particular. Not in the cards at ...

Your Sunday night news from Detroit (11/15)

... plaza, eating and chatting beside a fountain and a Civil War-era statue. A row of historic storefronts beckons shoppers. On the roof of the Lafayette Building at the corner, two trees stand, as if...Dawn," lured here by generous incentives from the state of Michigan. Most of the renovated Merchants Row storefronts have yet to find tenants. The rooftop trees, growing wild 14 stories up, are real but ...