Posted by Wanda Schmöckel | August 3, 2011 | Architecture, Uncategorized
Adding to the annals of proposed redesigns scheduled to be put forth for “public consultation” is this proposed redesign of the 13th Ave Safeway (sorry the picture is so small). The current building, as is plainly evident to...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | August 2, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
1 OH PLEASE. THEY STILL HAVE NO IDEA The FBI is saying they think they’ve found the guy who hi-jacked a plane and absconded with $200,000 in 1971. What I want to know is who cares anymore? (via Hamilton Spectator/New York Times)...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | July 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
1. I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW INSECT OVERLORDS: Businesses in Beijing are being told (not asked) to install surveillance software to spy on their customers. (via Guardian) 2. MICHELE BACHMANN MAKES PEOPLE WANT TO KILL THEMSELVES:...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | July 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
1. EDITOR’S CHOICE: A spunky Chihuahua fought off two armed robbers when they tried to hold up the dog’s owner’s smoke shop (do they call them smoke shops in California?). Anyway, they got it on video! (via Winnipeg Free Press)...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | July 5, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
SHIFTING BLAME: A Dutch court has ruled that the Dutch state is responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men after they were forced out a UN safe-zone in Srebrenica in 1995. (via BBC) EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN MARK ZUCKERBERG:...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
MORE PROOF THAT SOME CALGARIANS HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY. Some family from Calgary has booked a space flight that will cost $200,000 per ticket. (via Vancouver Sun) THAT WAS CLOSE: The Earth was buzzed by a teensy asteroid on Monday...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 24, 2011 | Dooom, Food, R.I.P., Uncategorized
Today is the last day of operations for the 93 year-old Novia Café on 12th Ave. Maybe no one will miss it that much. After all, the Novia of the past decade was a shadow of the original establishment that first opened in 1918....
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 21, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
1 HERE’S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE on the perilous life of the Euro (that’s the currency, not the Louis Vuitton fanny-pack sporting fellow offering to buy you a Campari and soda at O’Hanlons). Why did Germany and France ever think...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
1. FATAH AND HAMAS ARE MEETING IN CAIRO TODAY to choose a leader for the Palestinian unity movement. They’ll need to come to some kind of agreement if they want the United Nations to officially recognize a Palestinian state when...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | June 4, 2011 | News, Politics, Uncategorized
By now, you may have already heard about the plucky young page that was fired yesterday from her post in the House of Parliament, after she mounted this protest against Stephen Harper and the Conservative government. Her press...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | May 31, 2011 | News, Uncategorized
1 IRAN FLIPS GERMANY THE BIRD: A New Dehli-bound plane carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel was forced to circle over Turkey, while Iran mulled over whether or not they felt like letting the plane pass over their airspace. 2...
Read MorePosted by Wanda Schmöckel | May 23, 2011 | Books, News, Uncategorized
The New York Public Library celebrated 100 years today! This past weekend was a flurry of activity at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, which opened on May 23, 1911. There were readings and...
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