I apologize for the longing these blue skies and sunny streets might stir in your winter bones, but there's a little adventure I've been meaning to share, and somehow it…
February 2014 Why? Because it's beautiful? No. Why? In architecture school, the why was always waiting around the bend in the critique. We learned to think analytically, artistically and technically. We learned to…
November 2013 Recently, on a blistery South Side Sunday, my friend and I attempted to try a new brunch nook, but a harsh reality confronted us. A note on the…
October 2013 Within the confines of twitter brevity, Square Cafe describes itself as such, "There are omelet people; there are pancake people. The choice defines you. Both will find something to…
September 2013 It's important for city dwellers to evaluate their stomping grounds anew, but it's also important for the makers, movers and shakers to change and grow over time. I…
September 2013 Do you think Parisians push the Eiffel Tower to their periphery? Do they take it for granted? When traveling, time limits act as deadlines and incentivize bursts of…
September 2013 If Fräulein Maria had raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens and warm, woolen mittens all at once, I imagine her sentiment would have matched my excitement for the Pittsburgh Urbanist's Low…
August 2013 Mondays at Bar Marco are known as No Menu Mondays. The rather vague definition of No Menu Mondays: Every Monday from 5pm- 11pm, Bar Marco teams with local…