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Well, here’s one for the record books! I’m on a podcast! Thanks to the warm, bright and brilliant Eric Kozlik of Modern Bar Cart, I spent a lovely afternoon chatting about all things cocktails, vintage barware, swizzle sticks, publishing, Tales of the Cocktail, history, literature, poetry, Queen Elizabeth II and of course, The Architecture of …

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   Friday night, while I went to off to bed with a good book, “The Architecture of The Shots” went home with the stars!  Cheers to Reese Witherspoon, the inimitable, talented & feisty honoree of the 29th American Cinematheque Award.  Well done!

Once, while carrying my t-square & drafting portfolio on the 151 bus as we rambled our way along Michigan Avenue towards my graduate school classrooms, daydreaming, I noticed a familiar face out of the window. Dodging traffic, clutching her camel hair coat closed against the windy city, and clutching a manilla envelope, Oprah Winfrey, the newly …

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