Titlow Lodge Opening this weekend!
This weekend Metro Parks is celebrating the centennial of Titlow Lodge and also it's grand re-opening. Things start Saturday around 11 am and go until 3, with tours, low tide walks, and complimentary chowder from Steamers. More here at Metro Parks site. Hope to see you there!
Three movies
Midnight in Paris, Super 8, and The Hangover Part II Midnight in Paris is a Woody Allen comedy. It's his best movie since Match Point, and his best comedy since the mid-90s. Owen Wilson is great, and the supporting cast is too. This was a summer charmer. Super 8 was good. It's exciting, it's funny, it's touching, and the kid actors are really great. This was a fun movie. It's directed by JJ Abrams, and produced by Spielberg, and it's definitely got flavors of both of them. It's not 100%–there's some stuff that doesn't quite work, but a lot that Read more…
Pictures from our week in New York City
I've fallen in love with the iPhone app Instagram, which is where I shared a lot of these pictures over the last week (and gave them that vintage look). So my apologies for not getting them on here. Here's what we saw. These first two are from the Highline, a long park that goes along Manhattan from about 14th to 30th streets. This part is on the new part that opened while we were there. This was our first breakfast spot, The Paris Commune. Loved their frontage. This is outside Schiller's, a French bistro on the Lower East Side. This Read more…
A week in the Big Apple!
This week was a real surprise. In March, I was in DC for a parks conference for two days. Mary and I decided that it was going to be a rare opportunity to get back to New York. We hadn't been in about three years, and there just didn't seem to be any opportunities to come for a few more either. So we came and spent a somewhat cold two days walking the city, seeing art movies, and getting our last fix in. Until. Until we got the opportunity to cat-sit for a week in an apartment two blocks south of Read more…
St. Louis City Museum
Mary and I spent the long weekend with her family in St. Louis. And on Saturday we went to the most bizarre place in the world–the St. Louis City Museum. It's basically a giant playground made from things taken from inside the city limits of St. Louis. Not only a playground for little kids though. This sign is pretty clear. This is on the roof of the 11 story building. This is also on the roof. This is looking down on the 10-story spiraling slide from the roof. It's dizzying. I'm not sure how well you can tell what this Read more…
3 Stories About Paying for News
The New York Times I was intrigued when The New York Times started their paywall. I thought the price was high, but I figured "well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." It's been almost two full months since they launched it and the thing is–I've never triggered it. I am a diligent consumer of news, including of The New York Times. I thought. Mostly I read their stories via Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader. And I read it on a variety of different browsers. Not only an iPhone or iPad browser, but the browser inside the Reeder Read more…
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