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The Weekly Bookmark
March 03, 1996 - Vol 2, No. 12
http://www.webcom.com/weekly/weekend.html
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Table of Contents
On My End - Note from the Editor
Cultural and Countercultural Chicago - Part 2 of 2
Supporters of the Weekly Bookmark
Out There - Places to Visit
Weekly Bookmark Information
Meet The Staff - Contact Info
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On My End
Matt Alberts weekly@webcom.com
The Weekly Bookmark is a bit late this week due to major system
failures. I lost the home machine Wednesday morning and finally
have it up and running today. So, as I promised, I am sending
out the Weekend Edition with Marian Hank's article on Chicago
(part 2). I will also be sending out another issue tomorrow
evening to make up for the time lost.
Enjoy this issue of the Weekly Bookmark!
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Cultural and Countercultural Chicago
Marian Hank justhank@mcs.com
NOTE: To view the pages noted in this article, you must jump to
http://www.webcom.com/weekly/weekend.html
Downtown you'll find Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theatre and uptown
you'll find the Green Mill Jazz Club. Spend an evening at the Lyric
Opera or hear definitive Chicago blues on Halsted Street. Chicago
museums house some of the most respected collections in the world
and avant-garde art, music and fashion are so commonplace in Wicker
Park that they are almost mainstream.
By Day
Living in Chicago is like living in a 3-D picture book for
great architecture. If you live here or come to visit virtually
or physically, please be sure to stop at the Chicago
Architectural Foundation site, which will help you appreciate
the scope of the city's architectural heritage. Please also
stop at the Chicago Historical Society where "you can see the
city's history unfold in all its glorious dimensions. Chicago's
high culture and its everyday life. Our groundbreaking
architecture and our brawny politics. The industries that made
the city what it is -- from railroads, meat packing, and steel
. . . to tootsie rolls, bicycles, and lava lamps." I mean how
can I help but love living in a city responsible for both
skyscrapers and some of the world's grooviest sixties
memorabilia.
For me, one of life's great pleasures is taking a trip to the
library or a museum. The Chicago Public Library is featured on
the web and other local collections are featured on the Chica
go Area Libraries searchable page. A personal favorite as a
museum and as a website is the Field Museum of Natural History.
Be sure to take the Virtual Tour of some of their fine exhibits
while you are there. If you're a lover of the stars, then
you'll enjoy the Adler Planetarium The Chelsey Bonestell pages
feature a virtual tour of his paintings from the 1940s and 50s-
"a time during which far reaching astronomers dreamed of
voyaging through space to distant moons and planets."
The Museum of Science and Industry Web offers information about
a number of exhibits, including Coleen Moore's Fairy Castle (a
childhood favorite of mine) and the Artifacts from Our
Curator's Closets page is worth a peek. While we're touring the
science and natural history museums, a quick stop at the
Chicago Academy of Sciences homepage is in order.
One of our more unique offerings is the Museum of Broadcast
Communications. The Television Exhibit Gallery has some
incredible quick time movies that you can download and other
sections of the web are beginning to archive some of the
incredible audio-visual resources that are in the museums
collections. This site is growing into a rare treat for
audiophiles and early television fanatics.
I've lost myself for hours in the collections at the famous Art
Institute of Chicago which houses some very well known
including A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. The Oriental Institute
Museum is a true Chicago treasure and the Smart Museum of Art
has a very detailed web site. Try the Randolph Street Gallery
and the Museum of Contemporary Art if your tastes run toward
modern art.
And By Night
If you're not to worn out from all that museum hopping, you may
want to explore some of the the great performance venues
Chicago has to offer. The city is blessed with a wealth of
local talent so one is never at a loss for somewhere to go for
a night on the town.
This is a great place for theatre and you'll find the most
information compiled at the Chicago Theatre Homepage which
includes a page of links to Chicago theatre companies that have
found homes on the web. Following the links on that page will
give you a wonderful sampling of the diverse offerings of
Chicago area theatres. If you like stand-up or improvisation,
then a stop at the Chicago Comedy Web is also in order.
Chicago is a city that holds many musical delights for both
those that love to sit in Grant Park and listen to the
orchestra and those whose cultural taste runs more for towards
catching a good band while enjoying a brew. Speaking of which,
let's visit two wonderful websites that truly performs a useful
service, The Chicago Shows List. Here you will find a pretty
comprehensive listing of local bands --mostly rock-- playing at
local venues (sorted by date and location.) If you prefer
classical music, then the Chicago Concert Search is the spot
you'll want to visit.
There is no argument that Chicago is one of the best places in
the world to hear top artists. The Blues in Chicago pages will
help you find the best blues around and Big John's Jazz
Happenings covers all the clubs and artists playing jazz around
town.
I haven't covered everything Chicago has to offer, but I hope
that this tour has given you a taste of the wonderful diversity
of this city. We'll have to leave the gangster era and the
grand political structure of Chicago for another article
sometime. For now, it is Friday Night here in Chicago, and for
some strange reason I feel very inspired to go out and
experience some of the things I've been exploring in a less
virtual manner.
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Out There
Art and Literature
Archaeology Magazine
Archaeology Magazine's web site includes the covers,
contents, newsbriefs, and abstracts of current and recent
back issues, plus a page of links to the best archaeology
pages on the web. We hope soon to launch an online
edition with its own feature stories and the hottest
archaeological news, updated daily.
URL: http://www.he.net/~archaeol/
Submitted By: Andrew Slayman, Archaeology Magazine
Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing!
This web site offers step by step instruction on how to
create and write dramatic stories. A number of essays on
the site are used by teachers or screenwriting courses,
including Charles Deemer, webmaster of the screenwriters
home page.
URL: http://www.teleport.com/~bjscript/index.htm
Submitted By: Bill Johnson
Computers
Lawrence Goetz's Shareware
Shareware for MS Windows I've made, plus my favorite
places to go on the internet.
URL: http://pages.prodigy.com/NY/NYC/goetz/goetz.html
Submitted By: Lawrence Goetz
Education
Socorro ISD
These are the web pages for the Socorro Independent
School Disrtict El Paso, Texas.
URL: http://socorro.k12.tx.us
Submitted By: John Tomas
Entertainment
The Official I HATE Tommy Hillfiger Page
All about why I hATe Tommy clothing......!
URL: http://hamh213.smsu.edu/~brad/hatehill
Submitted By: brad damico
Government
Lamar Watch
Lamar Watch, updated daily by The Knoxville
News-Sentinel, covers the presidential campaign of
Tennessee's Lamar Alexander. Includes stories and
editorial cartoons from The Knoxville News-Sentinel, wire
stories, related links and more.
URL: http://www.knoxnews.com/lamar.html
Submitted By: Jack Lail
Internet
CTWebOpp: Let Us SHOCK Your Web Site!!
Come and see an example of Macromedia's SHOCKWAVE
animation in action at our web site, and imagine your web
site getting SHOCKED too!! Get in on the cutting edge of
web technology! We have the expertise to plan, design and
create a new or improved web site for you.
URL: http://www.webcom.com/webopp/welcome.html
Submitted By: Karen Dealy
all4one Search Machine
See Simultaneous Results from Yahoo, Lycos, Webcrawler
and Alta Vista, side by side in 4 Netscape 'Frames'. A
completely UNIQUE way to search the web.
URL: http://easypage.com/all4one/
Submitted By: John E. Haag
Recreation
WomenSports
WomenSports is a one-stop site for information about
female athletes and issues that affect them. We cover
such sports as basketball, tennis, golf, and events such
as the Olympics.
URL: http://www.womensports.com
Submitted By: Thalia L. Hooker
ThE SkATe PaGe
A page all about agressive in-line skating. Has pictures,
product reviews, and other tidbits!
URL: http://hamh213.smsu.edu/~brad/skate
Submitted By: Brad Damico
Regional
South Florida Search Directory
A new search Directory for South Florida
URL: http://www.wwbcity.com/sfs.htm
Submitted By: Carl Neusch
World Wide Business City
A regional site offering pages and classifieds .. fully
searchable.
URL: http://www.wwbcity.com
Submitted By: Christina Dalton
Society and Culture
The Truth Of Jesus Christ
This site is for those seeking the truth regarding Jesus
Christ based on the Scriptures.
URL: http://www.tripod.com/~Jesusfreak
Submitted By: Abelardo Jon Arias
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Writers
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