Wilco, Nick Lowe, and Mavis Staples backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. Thanks to Rachel for pointing this out…so cool!
Archive for the ‘Not DC’ Category
Women of the La Guardia Administration
January 9, 2012
Women of the La Guardia Administration.A reception honoring the women of the La Guardia municipal administration held at the Hotel Brevoort in Greenwich Village, 1937. Wagner and La Guardia Archives.
Book Repair
January 7, 2012
Book repair at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD. Workers drilling books and preparing the covers for recasing, ca. 1935 (WPA Project# 123).
Dullshick Quilt #001
January 5, 2012
With the encouragement of my sister Julie, Rachel and I made a small quilt for our new friend Oskar. Julie helped us pick out and cut fabrics from the cool fabric studio Sewn, where she and her family live in Cincinnati, Ohio. With the pattern and fabrics, it took us most of a Saturday. Don’t look too closely at the needlework, but it was a fun project. Thank you to Nicole for the pictures.
22 seconds in Port-au-Prince
August 14, 2011Rachel returned Thursday from another short work junket to Haiti. She took only a handful of pictures, but came back with this video snippet, which she captured during what she describes as a *long* commute through the crowded streets of Port-au-Prince.
Wikipedia
May 31, 2011In the Washington Post (5/29):
“A Virginia Tech graduate student hit save on her overview of the state workers’ compensation commission one spring day, but before her professor could take a look at it, someone else began deleting entire sections, calling them trivial and promotional.
It wasn’t a teaching assistant on a power trip — it was a Wikipedia editor known only as “Mean as custard.”
“I had worked on it for almost an entire day,” said Amy Pearson, a public administration master’s student. “It was kind of shocking.”
This school year, dozens of professors from across the country gave students an unexpected assignment: Write Wikipedia entries about public policy issues.”
What lazy academic subjects students to the arbitrary authority of a nameless Wikipedia editors?
April 2011
April 18, 2011
Last week, the last of the high rise buildings in Chicago’s famed Cabrini Green public housing project (thank you Meera), demolition under way.
Haiti 2011
April 14, 2011
Rachel is back from a short work trip to Haiti with a bunch of pictures. This one is my favorite. They seem resigned to posing for another group of American bureaucrats.
