August 19: My boyfriend and I headed out from the Chicago apartment I was subletting from my former roommates for the summer, stopping for a few days in Cleveland to visit my family. My mission: visit the New York State Pavilion in Queens (my favorite building by my favorite architect) and the Space Shuttle Enterprise in Washington, DC. Nick's mission: check out a few Civil War battlefields, get his National Parks passport stamped at a few million places in DC, and visit Harper's Ferry.
My parents don't trust my car, a blue '93 convertible Dodge Shadow, farther than Akron, so we...
Yorkville's legendary Sassafraz restaurant was destroyed by fire today at 11:30 AM.
I feel sorry for all the workers just before Christmas. Imagine all the Christmas / New Years parties that were booked there.