Ad for an Ampico player piano reading "In Chicago's select homes—they call it the human piano"
Billy Joel warned us about this guy
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Ad for an Ampico player piano reading "In Chicago's select homes—they call it the human piano"
Billy Joel warned us about this guy
The Grammarly news reminds me that "get feedback from these famous writers!" is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
Of course, the famous writers Mitford talked to in 1970 were actually getting compensated for the dubious use of their names.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Wow. I don’t get why she didn’t just give the jury Friday off entirely?
Aren’t there a lot of courts that normally take a day off from trials so the judges can do other judicial things that day?
Really depends on the city but in New Orleans I agree.
Atlanta exurbs also have a disproportionate share of people who’d rather be *further* into the country but need to be near Atlanta to make a living.
Different from East Coast metros where exurbs were settled by city dwellers who live as close in as they could buy a house that met their standards.
I wanted to learn more about the collage artist Mary Lum, and was surprised to find her included in Grokepedia, which helpfully informs me that she was born in 1951 in St. Cloud, MN, and died in 1815 at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.
new: chicago’s 2026 budget opened the door to video gambling in the city’s bars and restaurants—but don’t expect to find a slot machine at your local dive anytime soon.
via @smelendez.bsky.social
This is hands down worth 5-minutes of your time right now. What a beautiful column. So thoughtful, reflective, raw and real.
A Letter To My Son by @deecherrywriter.bsky.social
antigravitymagazine.com/column/raisi...
The New York Daily News ran basically this same article under the headline "Love Came By Mail—Or Maybe It Didn't" back in 1936 www.newspapers.com/image/420444...
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...
This has been going on for a century. When serial killer Harry Powers seduced wealthy widows via lonelyhearts newsletters in the 1920s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_P... people wrote editorials and songs about how the women should have been home with their kids and ladies should be more careful
did you see any armadillos?
World war II magazine at the woodland conservancy in Belle Chasse
Damn, I can't believe it's almost 10 years since the last "first cat cafe in New Orleans" opened
www.nola.com/entertainmen...
www.nola.com/entertainmen...
it feels like a small thing in context of all of the other things but it is a piece of the larger authoritarian project that there are fewer places to publish essays now and the carefully edited essay as a public form for thinking and responding and criticizing and analyzing is in trouble, i think
WFMU playing the "Born in Flames" theme and giving away the Criterion edition blu-ray for a pledge gift is so adorably on brand
Yeah, I've seen it online for decades. A quick Google Groups search found an example from 1994, and from the context it doesn't appear it was considered novel at the time.
Author Night Mystery and Noir Four authors read a selection of mystery, noir, and crime fiction with a New Orleans twist Featuring readings by Tom Andes, Danny Cherry jr., Ariadne Blayde, and Jon Hebert. Wed March 25th 530 pm to 630pm Nora Navra Library 1902 Saint Bernard Ave. NOLA Public Library
I'll be taking part in mystery and noir night for New Orleans Public Library on 3/25!
I'll be reading from my novel, The Pike boys, and slinging some signed copies.
I'll be alongside Tom Andes ( @tomandes.bsky.social),Ariadne Blayde, and Jon Hebert!
Location: Nora Navra branch
time: 5:30!
Adults should be seen and not heard
I donated to this once and now they send me invitations to Tulane alumni crawfish boils and volunteer events wherever I am, despite never taking a single credit hour. 10/10 would recommend.
More than 49,000 “video gaming terminals” are operational in Illinois, what the state calls the largest network of its kind in the world. It’s a helpful revenue source for many bars and restaurants, but some say it’s a poor deal for municipalities and people at risk for problem gambling.
I wrote about the digital slot machines that have quietly spread across Illinois—even getting some towns to license gas stations for on-premises drinking so people can gamble—and appear poised to launch in Chicago chicagoreader.com/news/feature...
Feels like New Orleans would have the best local politics news coverage in the country if Shia LaBeouf started doing public comment at City Council meetings.
Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.
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hello people of the internet. just an occasional reminder that i am an editor with a (very meager) budget to pay you to write stories for me. rates are generally $200-$500.
if you live in chicago and have an idea for a news story, pitch me!
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A KFC coloring book depicting a family eating KFC at the dining room table. Dad is in a suit, baby is sucking on a chicken bone.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social is this a practical men’s garment for eating KFC?
Ghost Dog (1999)
