Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: from gangsters to comedians, and practically everyone in between, there’s tons of fun to be had this weekend in Cincinnati.

The New American Dream: Renting: “Home should be a place to build a household and a life, a respite from the heartless world, not a pot of gold.”

Home Is a Four Letter Word: the concept of home in art examined by the excellent SFMOMA blog.

What Should Brooklyn’s Currency Look Like?: the Ithaca Hours currency model is gaining traction in Brooklyn!

The Big Draw of a GPS Run: “they are neo-cartographers, jumbo-size doodlers and bipedal pencils, mapping their track lines across cities, roads and farms, and sharing them online.”

ReBurbia: A Suburban Design Competition: check out the results that rethink McMansions, big box stores, strip malls, parking lots and more.

This Is One Wall Shepard Fairey Wants to Keep Free of Self-Expression: pot, meet kettle.

Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: starting this morning, downtown and way beyond, have a great weekend!

Reincarnated McMansion Project: turning one McMansion into two homes, applying best practice environmentally sustainable design principles.

Bodega Party in a Box: “Love your neighborhood corner store? Yeah, so do we. Show it off in all its splendor — including its fresh produce — by throwing a Bodega Tasting Party.”

Sign of the Times: Johnny’s Big Red Grill closes, and Cornellians all over mourn the demise of its amazing neon sign.

The NYC Reality Freak Show: “In NYC Prep, as in The Real Housewives of New York City, Manhattan is a kind of moral hell, corrupted by money and power and baubles and drinks.”

The Gutter Punks Have Arrived!: heh, the flip side of the above link.

“Bandslam” Shows Us the Effects of Gentrification on the Youth: picking up on both of those themes, Jersey teens sneak into a shuttered CB’s in upcoming film.

Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: tonight’s a big night in Over-the-Rhine, but there’s tons going on all weekend.

Staking a Claim in OTR: kudos to Jessie Cundiff for everything she’s been doing over on Main St.

The Self-Service City: in Seattle and beyond, city life is becoming “shrunken, less personal and meaner on one level, more neighborly on another.”

Common Ground: The Seminar: interesting summer course at Cornell, co-taught by Lebbeus Woods; via Mockitecture. Go Big Red!

Parental Lifelines, Frayed to Breaking: according to the New York Times, there is trouble in Trustafariastan, a.k.a. Williamsburg.

Beyond Hipsters: Williamsburg’s Tough Economic Realities: New York Magazine’s weak rebuttal.

Where Did Your Favorite Sitcoms Take Place?: fascinating map and info — only one sitcom has ever been set in Staten Island, and two in the Bronx.

Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: klezmer, acrobats, rock’n'roll fashion, and hella pansies!

2009 Cincinnati March(itecture) Madness Winner: Union Terminal kicked the Roebling Bridge’s butt in the final showdown!

Village Mob Thwarts Google Street View Car: hee, not a headline from The Onion.

Detroit Cash Keeps Hometown Humming: Detroit is but the latest community to hop on the Ithaca Hours bandwagon.

The 3/50 Project: “saving the brick & mortars our nation is built on” [great idea, though it should really be "saving the brick & mortars on which our nation is built"].

The United Countries of Baseball: now that it’s baseball season again, here’s what the US really looks like.

The Sudden Charm of Public School: “saying you’re interested in sending your kids to public schools used to be a taboo among a certain group of people… Now it’s actually kind of cool and in vogue.”

25 Things

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you and post it. At the end, choose 5 people to be tagged. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

Thanks, Gerard! Thus…

Elsewhere

Visionaries & Voices Holiday Art Sale: tomorrow, both V&V locations are having a one-day art show and sale, and everything is $50 or under. I know, right?

Cincinnati Santacon 2008: also tomorrow, watch out for Santas on cell phones.

Cincinnati Labyrinth Project: oh, my, someone’s been reading Umberto Eco a bit too closely…

Designer Co-op opening in Pleasant Ridge: crafty, homespun goodness finds a home in Pleasant Ridge.

Milwaukee Neighborhoods Could Print Own Money: “2 neighborhoods consider printing own currency for exclusive use in local stores” — the Ithaca HOURs model is catching on.

Taking Over: Vanishing New York muses on townies versus outsiders in his adopted hometown.

‘Several Cities’ Could Have No Daily Paper as Soon as 2010, Credit Rater Says: wow, just wow.

Elsewhere

Cincinnati Unchained: tomorrow, your shopping dollars will help keep Cincinnati the Cincinnatiest.

A Year In The Life Of Lee Fisher, Part 2: Summer In The City: “August 30, 1917. After breakfast went to Coney. Found Joe & Fannie & their first babe, a little girl. Home at 8:30. Went to bed.” Riveting stuff…

Barbara Kruger City University of New York Windows: a video of Kruger’s latest text-filled, timely installation.

Homecomings Amid the Gorges: far above Cayuga’s waters, Ithaca is indeed gorges.

Imagine Coney: the Municipal Art Society just unveiled the concepts from a recent charette to transform Coney Island into the main stage for New York City. Hmm…

Burlington, VT, Is Healthiest City, CDC Says: Ben and Jerry rejoice!

Report: MTA to Slash Jobs, Multiple Subway Lines: holy crap, will there really be no more Z line?!?