Shooting In Charleston, S.C.: By now, news of the horrific shooting attack that killed nine at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., has reached computer, phone and TV screens across the country. Among those who were fatally struck during a Wednesday night prayer session after the shooter unloaded a semi-automatic weapon was the church's pastor, Clementa Pinckney, who was also a democratic state representative. Reporter Linze Rice has been following the coverage of the events as they unfold, including the arrest of suspect Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old man who is seen sporting a jacket referencing support for apartheid in Africa in his Facebook profile picture. The shooting is being investigated by federal authorities as a hate crime.
Hairdryer Juggling: There's something almost irredeemable about hairdriers. The smell, noise, the way the heat feels — nope, do not like. It took a French juggler-slash-magician-slash-artist to find something pleasant about the machine's whirring. Antoine Terrieux has created a series of works for a juggling museum in France that put the machines to use as quasi-perpetual motion machines. The endlessly looping paper airplane is fun, but Sam Cholke's favorite is the string that falls over and over only to rise again.
Fairest Field of Them All?: Now that Wrigley Field's new Budweiser Bleachers are almost finished, Chicago architect expert Edward Keegan assessed whether they've enhanced the historic glory of the Friendly Confines in a recent Crain's Chicago article. Keegan is of the opinion that while the first phase of the renovations was successful, the bleachers are too big and clunky for a baseball field with such "subtle genius." While Wrigleyville beat reporter Ariel Cheung has been keeping an eye on renovations, it was great to see such a detailed look at what the Cubs got right and what they didn't.
Blast from the Past: With an athletic field set to be built in Dunning on what was once part of a long-forgotten Dunning cemetery that holds the remains of Chicago's poorest and sickest residents who died between 1890 and 1912, Northwest Side reporter Heather Cherone was fascinated to read WBEZ's look at what has happened to Chicago cemeteries that have gotten in the way of new developments, much like what is happening in Dunning. Much of Lincoln Park was once a cemetery, with 35,000 people buried near the lakefront before 1886, WBEZ found, until rich Chicagoans decided they would rather have a park there. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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