Wendy’s Night VFW Post 177 MacDonald-Linn has a fundraiser between 5 and 8 p.m.. on the last Wednesday of each month at the Wendy’s Restaurant at 79th Street and Harlem Avenue in Bridgeview. Proceeds benefit the VFW National Home for Children, located in Michigan. Participants simply order food (drive-through or sit-in) from Wendy’s during this time period, and Wendy’s donates a percent of its …
See the rest here:
Charity Briefs
Artists and the people who make their living off of them love to eat sushi. The reasons why are intuitive enough: it comes in pretty colors, it keeps them slender, and it doesn’t slosh around in their stomachs afterward so they can go to parties after dinner and not feel gross. Don’t expect to catch the biggest fish among these pescaterians dining at Blue Ribbon or Nobu, though: They have their …
Continue here:
In the Raw: Where the Art World Eats Its Sushi
Downtown Keokuk had its very own Chinatown if only for one evening. The 10th annual Summer Fun and Fundraiser, sponsored by Main Street Keokuk, Inc., observed the Year of the Tiger on Saturday.
See the original post:
MSKI fundraiser with Chinese flair entertains more than 200 Saturday
Events listing for Thur, June 17
Read the rest of the post here:
What’s on: Thur’s picks
Russ Andris sets off in midtown with his New Balance cross-trainers snugly tied and a Nikon camera slung over his shoulder to do something few in Sacramento do: He records every mural he can find.
Read more:
Retiree chronicles public art in Sacramento
A Misty Gamble sculpture at the Sherry Leedy gallery. KANSAS CITY is known for its barbecue, bebop and easy-does-it Midwestern charm.
Read more:
36 Hours in Kansas City, Mo.
You have a unique personality a style and tone that makes you, you. Similarly, your company has a personality of its own. Is it coming through in yo…
Continue here: Does Your Brand Speak Volumes?
On the once-dreary Independence Square, Cindy McClain seldom stops. Thats her against the old-brick backdrop, clutching a white iPhone and moving from place to place. From the dining rooms of Ophelias to the Uptown Boutique and south to Gilbert, Whitney & Co., with its gleaming kitchenware and specialty groceries, if not many people.
Read more:
Couple who own 16 shops bringing back Independence Square
The Capitol, the Arboretum, the lakes, the Badgers – these and other major attractions help make Madison one of the country’s best places to live. But our smaller attractions help, too. Here, Isthmus writers fan out into their neighborhoods to find some of the lesser-known treasures – the restaurants, parks, shops, public art, historical sites, vistas and oddities you might not know about unless …
Read more:
Neighborhood secrets
When a city’s momentum is relentlessly upward, it’s the things at the marginsoutcasts and dormant mythologies, secrets and barely conscious desiresthat get pushed below ground. Hubert’s Museum was one of those things, a continuous theater of the grotesque and the uncanny stirring beneath 42nd Street. When it shut its doors at 234 West 42nd Street in 1965, it was the last of the midtown dime …
Read the rest here:
The Disappeared Building