Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Tidbit of the Day: Oh yeah…new job
Forgot to tell you: I started working at Marketing News, a marketing-related publication, last month. Right now I’m working on a piece about early adopters. (That means you, Tim.) Stay tuned for that.
In the meantime, here’s a link to the MN blog, for which I’m a regular contributor. They have about 2,500 Feedburner subscribers (hint, […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Fishy Business: Chicago’s sushi boom is marked by Kamehachi’s 40th anniversary (UR Chicago Magazine)
By Daniel B. Honigman
Chicago has long been known as a meat-and-potatoes town—the kind of city where business deals are done over a steak and a handshake.
But in the city of broad shoulders, dishes like ebi, unagi and sashimi have become as familiar as filet mignon, tartare and sauce Béarnaise to gourmands, entrepreneurs, hipsters and […]
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: 2016 Olympic bid cities announced
And then there were seven.
Chicago officially has some stiff competition for the 2016 Olympics. Baku, Doha, Madrid, Prague, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are also in the running with the Windy City.
Now what happens? The first phase, known as the Candidature Acceptance Procedure, will feature a review by the International Olympic Committee of each […]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: USOC submits Chicago 2016 application to IOC
The United States Olympic Committee formally submitted its bid for the 2016 Olympics to the International Olympic Committee last week.
Chicago 2016 committee members submitted their letter of intent to USOC President Peter Ueberroth and Chief Executive Officer Jim Scherr, who in turn submitted it to IOC President Jacques Rogge.
“The USOC has given us an […]
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Tidbit of the Day: Life is good!
I never thought I’d share a page with Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, authors of Game of Shadows.
Check it out here.
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Fugitive fundraiser Hsu ‘freaked out’ on train, witness says (San Francisco Chronicle)
John Coté, Matt Bigelow, Daniel B. Honigman, Special to The Chronicle
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu was behaving erratically as he fled the Bay Area on Amtrak’s California Zephyr, at one point stripping off his shirt and shoes, before paramedics were called to take him off the train in western Colorado, passengers said […]
