On the agenda: Doyle and Debbie do the Royal George … Dee Dee Bridgewater brings down the house … Blizzard ’67 reminds us what real cold feels like … plus, Jodi Kantor on The Obamas and what crime novelist Charlie Newton is doing this weekend Read more
Momentum is gathering behind the idea of converting large numbers of empty foreclosed homes into rentals. The Tribune reported last week that Chicago is selling entire condo buildings to apartment developers. And Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, wrote that large-scale foreclosure-to-rental programs would help heal the housing sector—a concept that is reportedly central to a plan being developed by the Obama administration... Read more
Morlen Sinoway Atelier just got a new pouf that looks like a bean bag chair sporting a fabulous sweater... Read more