Speaking of exhibits in Chicago, you should stop by Millenium Park (just behind the bean) and check out the Museum of Modern Ice, featuring a fascinating display of cut ice titled Paintings Below Zero by Gordon Halloran. Check out some of the work:
More pictures at the event blog.
I’d love to go see the Festival of Maps exhibits in Chicago. Events are scheduled through January 2009!
Excerpt from this Chicago Tribute article about the festival:
If you want to know how to get from Canal and Washington Streets to 5th and Jefferson Streets in Huron, Ill., the only map around to consult was drawn in 1836 by a young surveyor named Abraham Lincoln.
His plat map of a town that was never built will be available for reference starting Nov. 2 at the Field Museum as part of the city’s “Festival of Maps,” billed as the biggest show of rare and important maps ever assembled. Thousands of maps—among the rarest, most important and beautiful ever created—are to be featured in coming months at 30 institutions.
The unusual collaboration of so many cultural organizations around a single topic was the brainchild of the Field Museum, the Newberry Library and private collectors who for years had dreamed of launching an exhibition of history’s “100 most important maps,” said Chicago industrialist Barry MacLean, a map collector.
More on the festival in another Tribute article here.
What do you call a soft drink?
The south predominantly says Coke; the northeast, California & Arizona use Soda and the rest of the northern US call it Pop.
There are some irregularities where Soda is used around St. Louis & eastern Wisconsin.
It is common to use Coke as the generic term in other countries, such as India.
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