4 January 2014: Art Garden in the Snow

This isn't my favorite of the art installations they've done in the sculpture
garden next to B1E Gallery on Glenwood Ave., but at least it adds some
much-needed dazzle to an otherwise cold and colorless day.

18 December 2012, Day 196

The word on the street is that Rahm is the Grinch.

Occupy Toyland!

23 July 2012, Day 48, Pt. 1

Today's picture is located about six feet away from yesterday's. I hope, dear reader, that you will pardon my failure to wander far afield for the past couple of days, but the weather is a bit too sweltery for me to garner the enthusiasm required for a field trip. Plus, there is always something worth looking at in Rogers Park. 

The sewing machine horse in the sculpture garden is another of my favorite things. I like to imagine taking him for a run along the lakefront, leaving behind us a trail of fashionable handmade apparel. I'm not certain why he is eating a whale as i thought horses were vegetarian, but possibly that's because most of them have never had the opportunity to taste whale meat.

22 July 2012, Day 47

This is one of my favorite elements in the sculpture garden adjacent to Andy DelaRosa's B1E Gallery at 6902 N. Glenwood Ave. Whenever i walk past, i pause and look at it for a few moments. Usually i see the paint stirrers that surround the central figure as a kind of sunburst from which she radiates a serene calmness, but today i see them as the sharp edges of the world that can't quite reach her through her protective layer of fog. It's an overcast morning, humid and airless, and i seem to have a little bit of a melatonin hangover. Like the figure in the sculpture, i feel wrapped in a cloud that not even pointy sticks can penetrate.  

11 July 2012, Day 36

Today, i'm going to go easy on the commentary and just leave you with a random collection of images observed on Glenwood Ave. and Clark St. in Rogers Park this afternoon. 

These first two pictures were taken outside the B1E Gallery and its neighboring sculpture garden on Glenwood between Farwell and Morse.

The remaining pictures were taken on Clark Street. I've arranged them in order from south to north.

Old-school "do not enter" sign at Lunt & Clark.

I like the name of this storefront church at 7058 N. Clark St: Garden of Life Ministries Intl., aka Church of Fire

The next two pictures tell a sad story. They were taken at the empty space that once was home to the Adelphi/North Shore Theater. The theater, which was built in 1917, was the go-to spot for Bollywood films in the 1990s; unfortunately, it was sold in 2002 and demolished in 2006 by a developer who subsequently went broke, leaving this dismal sight behind. The theater was still operating when i first moved to Rogers Park, and i always planned on going to a movie there some night. But i procrastinated and procrastinated, until one day i walked past and the theater was no longer open. 

If you've got a million or two burning a hole in your pocket, the property will go up for auction in early August.  

A forlorn sight at Clark & Estes

The larger view of the lot at Clark & Estes

East side of Clark between Estes & Touhy

Produce truck, parked on the west side of Clark near Chase

Fire station at 7340 N. Clark