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Getting artsy in Arizona Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 11:41PMArizona is a place where you can follow your artistic urges even if all you have is a few hours, a few days or, best of all, a few weeks to spend there.
Hoveround Launches New Mission Critical Website on the iAPPS Product Suite Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 7:00AMWOBURN, Mass. -- Bridgeline Digital, Inc. , a developer of award-winning web experience management software and interactive technology solutions, announced today it has launched the redesigned website for the Hoveround Corporation , the largest direct-to-consumer power wheelchair manufacturer in the United States.
MoMA Exhibition Examines the Work of Architects and Their Ideas on Urban Renewal in the U.S. Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 5:13AMLouis I. Kahn. Traffic Study, project Philadelphia. 1952. Ink, graphite, and cut-and-pasted papers on paper, 24 1/2 x 42 3/4" (62.2 x 108.6 cm). Image courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art.
Shannon Nichol puts her mark Gates Foundation landscape Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 9:11PMThe 12-acre Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation landscape across from Seattle Center includes masses of native plants and 150 big-leaf maples. Raised up in sleek, dark concrete planters, integrated with ornamentals, and anchoring a vast reflective pond, native ground covers, rushes and perennials have never looked so stylish and city-appropriate.
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 5:24PMRelease Time: For Immediate Release WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts: Michael A. Hammer, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of State Charles McConnell, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Department of Energy The President also announced his intent to appoint the following ...
Obama to name Rosemary Joyce to cultural property committee Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 5:24PMPresident Obama announced Friday (July 8) his intent to appoint UC Berkeley anthropologist Rosemary Joyce to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee.
Building Blocks – Thresher Square Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 2:39PMThe orange brick building, situated between the Guthrie Theater and the Metrodome, is actually a combination of two structures of different heights that were built four years apart.
SilkRoad Announces Appointment of Chief Marketing Officer Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 5:20AMLeadership Expansion to Support Continued Market Growth Including New Offices in Japan and France (PRWeb July 07, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8624994.htm
New York's public art is a breath of fresh air Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 10:01AMNew exhibitions increasingly are moving to outdoor spaces, giving visitors a carefully curated museum experience but without the walls. Few sculptures by Sol LeWitt actually resemble skyscrapers. But by installing 27 works by the artist in City Hall Park, in view of the lower Manhattan skyline, the Public Art Fund has put LeWitt's art into a playful and powerful dialogue with the city's ...
Business news: Healthcare Foundation receives grant Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 12:03AMCOURTS
Clayco Uses Textura's Construction Payment Management Solution to Maintain a Consistent Process Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 9:00AMClayco Inc., one of the largest design/build construction firms in the country, announced that they are able to maintain a consistent billing process by using TexturaâConstruction Payment Management system on all projects across their entire portfolio. Â Clayco serves clients in a wide variety of industries through six core business units: Corporate, Industrial, Residential, Institutional ...
Bowmanstown-Parryville Lions present scholarships, Melvin Jones award Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 4:15PMELSA KERSCHNER/TIMES NEWS Tyler Merkel and Derek Ahner from the Carbon County Technical Institute receive scholarships from the Lions. On the left is President Jean Smith and on the right is Larry Engle who made the presentations.
Kresge Foundation names 12 artists to 2011 fellowship program Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 7:25PMThe Kresge Foundation announced its 2011 Kresge Artist Fellowships Tuesday, which went to 12 Detroit-area visual artists. The prestigious awards, first launched in 2009, come with $25,000 apiece — no strings attached.
Interview with Ratzo Harris: Bass Lines and the Bottom Line Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 4:55PMStraight-ahead, Ratzo Harris' bass thrums, creating musical architecture. What he does with that instrument is an exaltation.
Colleges plan strategy to change student attitudes about staying in Michigan Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 6:26AMMolding minds no longer enough.
How do I love culture? Let me count the ways Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 9:10AMThe big news in poetry circles is this weekend’s opening of the Poetry Foundation’s new home in Chicago. It's just one of three public spaces in the U.S. built exclusively for the advancement of poetry.
6 Quirky Tech Naming Conventions Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 4:04PMThe codenames for your favorite tech projects while they were in development are unique to each company.
Final Cut Express, Server going away as Apple improves Final Cut Pro X Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 2:07PMApple has discontinued the "prosumer" Final Cut Express and its high-end Final Cut Server products in the process of its release of Final Cut Pro X earlier this week. And, to the surprise of no one, the complete restructuring of Apple's direction for its video editing software aimed at professionals has been met with loud criticism. But Apple plans to quickly improve Final Cut Pro X over time ...
Philanthropist Penny Pritzker talks new role at Chicago Public Schools Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 11:43AMChicago’s school board meets on Wednesday. One of the new members on that board is Chicago entrepreneur and philanthropist Penny Pritzker . She’s a billionaire who’s making a mark on Chicago’s schools. The executive director of the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation is now the top education official in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s cabinet and helped define Emanuel’s education agenda. Penny Pritzker...
ADDING and REPLACING 47th Annual DIA Meeting Exhibitor Profiles J through Z Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 10:09AMPlease note addition of OmniComm profile to release dated June 20, 2011.
New Regulatory Information Management Applications Added to ViewPoint Quantum Platform Advance Octagon's Regulatory ... Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 10:56AMWAYNE, Pa. -- Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. announced today that it is previewing two novel additions to its Quantum Regulatory Information Management platform at the DIA 2011 47th Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Immigrant Museum breaks ground on 30-acre park Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 12:10PMElk Horn - The Danish Immigrant Museum has unveiled plans for a new outdoor area, which will further celebrate Danish heritage. The new area will be named the Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Park, honoring the life and work of a Danish emigrant and famous landscape architect.
Progress Software and Activ Financial Introduce New Market Data Adapter for Apama Capital Markets Foundation Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 8:15AMAdapter Provides Scalable, Low Latency Algorithmic and High Frequency Capability for Global Trading; Brazilian-Based Kadima First Company to Use New Activ Adapter
TiVo tips quad-tuner Premiere Q plus non-DVR Preview STB Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 5:09PMTiVo Inc. announced a new version of its Linux-based DVR/IP set-top box (STB) called the TiVo Premiere Q -- said to enable recording four streams at once while simultaneously transmitting three HD streams to other devices via a LAN. The company also announced its first non-DVR STB, the TiVo Preview, which can be used as a thin client multi-room extension for other TiVo devices.
Zodiac Interactive Showcases Breakthroughs at The Cable Show in Chicago Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 10:14AMHICKSVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zodiac Showcases Breakthroughs to PowerUp AMS at Cable Show CableNet Pavillion in Chicago
Tours offer unique views of Chicago Sunday, June 12, 2011 @ 5:30AMI’m on the “L,” Chicago’s elevated train, rumbling past building after building, 20 feet off the ground, when a little voice in my left ear says, “OK, just before we turn the corner, be on the lookout for the third shell medallion from the end, and tell me what you see.”
Career Almanac Saturday, June 11, 2011 @ 11:35PMCraig Barker was promoted to project manager at Tyler 2 Construction.
Darius Guppy: Growth - it ain't happening Saturday, June 11, 2011 @ 6:25PMFor reasons I will outline below, the measures which have been advanced to deal with the current financial meltdown, measures that include swathing cuts in public services on the part of our Government, and Basel 3 on the part of the international banking community, are bound to fail.
Changing Skyline: A small-scale vision of Philadelphia's future Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 4:18AMIn 1960, Philadelphia peered into a crystal ball and tried to divine how the city would look 25 years in the future. The exercise in clairvoyance produced the city's first Comprehensive Plan, an amazing, 375-page document that showed the rough outlines of what would become Penn Center, Market East Station, and the revitalized Society Hill neighborhood.
Sporting KC’s most dedicated fans have own section in new stadium Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 11:31PMLivestrong Sporting Park, Kansas City’s new $200 million house of soccer that opens tonight, gives favored treatment to the drum-banging, bell-ringing, dancing superfans of Sporting Kansas City who have inhabited the Cauldron.
Chicagoing Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 5:38PMARTTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: 111 S. Michigan Ave. (312) 443-3600. Altered and Adorned on display through July 10, Caricatures from the World’s Columbian Exposition on display through July 1. Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life on display through July 10. Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design on display through July 20. GAHLBERG GALLERY: McAninch Arts Center at College ...
Extra Extra Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 5:26PMRod Blagojevich has left the witness stand. And his hair was perfect. [ more › ]
Immigrant Museum breaks ground on 30-acre park Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 3:43PMElk Horn - The Danish Immigrant Museum has unveiled plans for a new outdoor area, which will further celebrate Danish heritage. The new area will be named the Jens Jensen Prairie Landscape Park, honoring the life and work of a Danish emigrant and famous landscape architect.
Arcus design a bold statement? Architect's vision for justice center clashes with neighborhood homes, residents say Sunday, June 5, 2011 @ 1:06PMConflicts that can occur between owners' rights to, within municipal regulations, do what they want with their property and their neighbors' less-than-enthusiastic support isn't a new issue in the Kalamazoo community.
Chicago tours offer unique views Sunday, June 5, 2011 @ 3:19AMI'm on the "L," Chicago's elevated train, rumbling past building after building, 20 feet off the ground, when a little voice in my left ear says, "OK, just before we turn the corner, be on the lookout for the third shell medallion from the end, and tell me what you see.
Mayor Emanuel’s new culture chief knows Chicago Sunday, June 5, 2011 @ 2:23AMMichelle T. Boone, who will assume the position of Chicago’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and Special Events on Monday, is a woman of many talents.In a pinch, you could ask her to oversee the installation of a basic water and sanitation system, or to assist a team of midwives in a remote African village. You also could count on her to engineer a television show, from sound to graphic design ...
Touring Chicago’s architecture by train and boat Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 10:07AMI’m on the “L,” Chicago’s elevated train, rumbling past building after building, 20 feet off the ground, when a little voice in my left ear says, “Okay, just before we turn the corner, be on the lookout for the third shell medallion from the end, and tell me what you see.” I’m on the lookout indeed, and as the train starts to hug the corner around the LeMoyne Building, I watch the lineup of ...
Honoring a Designer Who Gave Computers Their Fonts Thursday, May 26, 2011 @ 8:45AMMatthew Carter created Verdana and Georgia for computers, and Microsoft adopted them.
Cooper-Hewitt Award for a Typeface Designer: Currents Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 6:01PMMatthew Carter created Verdana and Georgia for computers, and Microsoft adopted them.
New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art Breaks Ground on Future Home Wednesday, May 25, 2011 @ 12:46AMA member of the Streb Extreme Action Company breaks through a framed panel of mock glass during ground breaking ceremonies for a new Whitney Museum, in New York, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. The nine-story, metal-clad building, which will include a series of asymmetrical rooftops for outdoor exhibitions facing the High Line and the nearby Hudson River, is designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and ...
FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Wandering Visions: The 2011 Vision Festival Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 10:49AMBy Steve Dalachinsky "a paradise of flowers where peace might build her nest." —Percy Shelly For 16 years the Vision Festival has led a nomadic existence. Wandering from one venue to another, this brave band of Visionaries,which I am proud to be a part of, with the ever present, stalwart and persistent Patricia Nicholson Parker at the helm and a sometimes shifting cast of characters amongst ...
Sprint Unveils Art in the Prow At The Historic Flatiron Building In New York Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 10:11AMToday, Sprint (NYSE: S) is proud to unveil Art in the Prow at the historic Flatiron Building. Art in the Prow will feature artists from New York ...
Public tours in Chicago offered by county library foundation Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 9:44AMThe Solano County Library Foundation is taking sign-ups for the 2011 Literary Tour that includes six days exploring the history of Chicago through its literature, architecture and the arts, organizers announced.Highlights include a tour of the Art Institute of Chicago and
Chicago's architecture a big draw Saturday, May 21, 2011 @ 4:23AMA strict no-talking policy is in place at the Green Mill jazz club. On a Chicago Architectural Foundation tour of a boxy school building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Roehe, our guide relates an anecdote to illustrate the iconic Modernist architect's perfectionism.
BrightStar Partners / BSP Software Awarded United States Patent for Integrated Control Suite Technology Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 7:17AMCHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BSP Software’s Integrated Control Suite technology provides IBM Cognos customers version control, content management, source control, recovery, deployment and compliance reporting.
Grand River to Design and Build New E-commerce Web Site for Model Train Company Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 8:00AMMagento™ Enterprise Edition will deliver exceptional shopping experience for M.B. Klein’s ModelTrainStuff.com
What’s going on today Saturday, May 14, 2011 @ 4:00PM5K run: The Run for Reading 5K run and walk will be held at 7:30 a.m. at River Woods Elementary School, 2607 River Woods Drive , Naperville. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. Visit www.nicaricoliteracyfund.org.Family Fun Walk: A fundraiser for the all-volunteer Naperville relief agency Families Helping Families will begin at 1 p.m. Registration is at noon. Raffles ...
Chay Yew Is the New Artistic Director of Tony-Winning Victory Gardens Theater Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 3:12PMPlaywright and director Chay Yew has been named the new artistic director of the Tony Award-winning Victory Gardens Theater, the Chicago company renowned for its stable of in-house playwrights.
Plan for more cruise ships faces opposition in Charleston Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 8:01PMCHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A clash is brewing in historic Charleston, South Carolina, where some residents and preservationists fear a planned new cruise ship terminal will wreck the city's Colonial-era charm.
In Getty We Trust: World's Richest Arts Org Has New Leader Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 12:48PMWith its $5.3-billion endowment and $250-million annual budget, the J. Paul Getty Trust is considered "the world's wealthiest arts organization," and now it has a new leader, reports the Los Angeles Times . James Cuno, currently the director of the prestigious Art Institue of Chicago, will take over running the Trust in August. [ more › ]