Archive for September, 2007
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, [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]
I never thought I’d share a page with Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, authors of Game of Shadows. Check it out here. [ READ MORE ]
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 [ READ MORE ]