Tag: Chicago

July 4, 2014 /

Good Night by Carl Sandburg (from Smoke and Steel, 1920) Many ways to say good night. Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes. They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit. Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue and…

February 27, 2014 /

Click below to see just how it’s done! Oscars: The Fascinating, Manic Process Behind How the Statuettes Are Made.

January 24, 2013 /

This goes out to my blogging friends in Chicago, where today and everyday this week it’s been below zero… Howell Conant for LIFE Magazine, November 11th, 1966

January 24, 2013 /

The building was designed by Louis Sullivan – Frank Lloyd Wright was one of his employees. Howard Conant for LIFE Magazine, November 11th, 1966 Alumni from this famous theater include Alan Arkin, Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bonnie Hunt, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey…

January 24, 2013 /

Chicago, the incubator of the modern skyscraper… I don’t know how to describe its style… Maybe cutting edge leavened by Midwestern practicality??? Howard Conant for LIFE Magazine, November 11th, 1966