The Windy Citizen

...business models" I have no idea. Finally, Brad Flora is the entrepreneur behind Chicago's local Digg-flavored headline-voting site, the Windy Citizen. Flora's grant is to "upgrade software...to enable the site to expand and better integrate...

In this article: Chicago, EveryBlock, Windy Citizen, Revenue, and Msnbc.com

...Chicago offering "help with something this weekend" to any Chicagoans in need of an extra pair of hands for tasks small or large, the Windy Citizen reported Tuesday. His only request to those asking for help was that they "pay it...

In this article: Pittsburgh, Chicago, Windy Citizen, April Fool's Day, and YouTube

This week, former Chicago Sun-Times TV columnist Robert Feder (@feder) managed to stick his foot in his mouth while sticking his tongue in his cheek. The usually scrappy Feder slapped down ChicagoNow's new WGN-AM Radio weekly show from the...

In this article: WGN, Chicago Public Radio, Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Vocalo.org, and Twitter

This morning, we stumbled upon what appears to be the first New York-centric news aggregation Web site that leaves homepage curation up to readers. Taking a cue from social news sites like Digg and Reddit, NYC.is lets users share...

In this article: New York City, Outside.in, Brooklyn, E mail, Popular front, Political science, Reddit, and Grist.org

Vivian Vahlberg Vs. The Usual Suspects: Why the "Community News Matters" Grantee List Is No Surprise Black Friday's worst shoppers, Thanksgiving recipes, Smoking in Chicago bars Vivian Vahlberg Vs. The Usual Suspects: Why the "Community...

In this article: Chicago, The Usual Suspects, Twitter, Facebook, and Revenue

Dentist Meets the Mob in Gang Comedy "The Whole Nine Yards," co-starring Matthew Perry and Bruce Willis, is a fitfully amusing "family" farce in the vein of 1999's "Analyze This." The gangland comedy genre has been worked over more than a...

In this article: Matthew Perry, Jonathan Lynn, Bruce Willis, Rosanna Arquette, My Cousin Vinny, The Whole Nine Yards, Montreal, and Kevin Pollak

BY Chris DannenTue Mar 31, 2009 at 10:47 AM Tuscon, Denver and Seattle have all recently lost their printed newspapers. One, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has moved to an all-online model, cutting its staff of 136 to down to just 20. It...

In this article: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Huffington Post, Walter Lippmann, New York, Seattle, Brooklyn, Democracy, and Pizza

Cook County prosecutors are demanding personal documents such as e-mails and grades from Northwestern University students who work on the Medill Innocence Project. The group is trying to prove the innocence of convicted murderer Anthony...

In this article: Cook County, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, and Chicago Tribune

Even if the Chicago police car is broken down, I'm not sure it makes sense to pick that particular handicapped parking spot to pull into. The photo is courtesy of this wacky website called FAILocracy, after I saw it posted on Windy...

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A Chicago bar has installed a timely work of art celebrating the human form: a nude portrait of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin posing with a gun (a phallic symbol!) Two questions: Why? And, um... wanna see? A semi-NSFW...

In this article: Sarah Palin and Chicago