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On the 4th July, Diageo Ireland is launching a new Budweiser campaign featuring a groundbreaking 60 second TV advertisement titled Lyrics. The ad won’t be shown in the US, but is worth a look as it has some incredible shots of Chicago. It was filmed over 5 days from a train as it tracked around the city in often below freezing temperatures (no surprise there!)
The Hopleaf, my favorite bar, made the NYTimes! I had no idea that the official name is actually “Mary & Louise’s Hopleaf Bar”. Check out the article on microbrews in Chi-Town. Definitely my scene.
Michael & Louise’s Hopleaf Bar in Chicago, Amanda Rivkin for The New York Times
In addition to going green, the Sears Tower now has a glass ledge suspended from the 103rd floor Skydeck. The glass is three layers thick, and each layer is a half-inch thick. The balconies can hold about five tons.
But still, yikes.
[via Huffington Post]
Uptown Update reports that Ellen was near the Wilson red line stop today shooting scenes for her upcoming variety show, “Ellen’s Bigger, Longer & Wider“ for TBS. (An alley near Wilson? They must have needed a “gritty, urban” scene.)
Ellen DeGeneres in Chicago
Olafur Eliasson is Danish-Icelandic artist who uses materials found in nature- light, air, water, moss, and incorporates them into his artwork. His artwork seems to be an experience rather than something you could frame and hang over the mantle. His work is on display May 1 to September 13, 2009 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
The MCA is also holding a symposium called “Art, Science, Spectacle” in September:
Saturday, September 12, 2009, 2 pm | $10 general admission, $8 MCA members, $6 students
This symposium explores how immersive artworks such as those created by Olafur Eliasson play upon the attraction to the spectacular and the fascination with the mechanics of how things work. This afternoon of presentations and discussion features an internationally renowned group of speakers who trace the history of this phenomenon in art and science, and relate it to wide-ranging developments in consumer culture, optics, psychology, philosophy, and technology. Madeleine Grynsztejn, MCA Pritzker Director and curator of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, introduces the program.
Home sweet home: The exhibit shows where Harry Potter and best friend Ron Weasley sleep in the boys dormitory, along with some of their possessions, including their trunks and school robes. By Garrett Hubbard, USA TODAY
Harry Potter: The Exhibition will take you from the Hogwarts Express train platform through the Gryffindor common room, classrooms, the Great Hall, the Forbidden Forest and Hagrid’s hut. The tour includes creatures from the Harry Potter books and movies: life-sized centaurs, Buckbeak the hippogriff, dementors, thestrals and Dobby the house elf.
In Harry Potter: The Exhibition, you’ll encounter Buckbeak in the pumpkin patch outside Hagrid’s hut.
Runs through Sept. 27 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. The exhibit is located in tents on the museum grounds; entry is through the museum lobby.
It’s finally (almost) May, which means lots of farmers markets are starting up in Chicago. Click here for a great brochure listing times and locations (opens a PDF).
The second annual Zombie Pub Crawl will take place in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood on April 25th, and I for one would love to take part.
Zombie Pub Crawl
The 2009 edition promises to be even bigger and better and we hope for even more undead fun. Join us! Or we’ll probably eat you.
