Wolf Creek Restaurant & Brewery
“The final nominees this year give true representation for the 2020 business community and deserve to be honored,” stated Ivan Volschenk, Managing Partner at Evolve Business Strategies which manages the Chamber. “It is important for the Chamber to recognize the efforts of businesses during this unprecedented time, we believe this year’s nominees are great examples of what our community stands for.”
This year, attendees have the option to purchase a VIP ticket, which will include a unique three-course dinner and cocktail specially crafted by last year’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Award honoree,
The Old Town Junction. Menu options are available on the Chambers website.
How Institutions Such As IIT Chicago Present Higher Study Options for India
Here the I in IIT stands for Illinois and not India. It is the Illinois Institute of Technology and other institutes that are making it easier for students in India and elsewhere, to obtain higher learning and degrees. Recently, IIT of Illinois has converted their degree courses into ones that are accessible online according to a report in the
Times of India. This is a great option for Indian students.
COVID 19 has brought about sweeping changes
Millions of students stayed away from schools and colleges this academic year and learned a whole new way of learning. Suddenly, those who had never dreamed of distance education looked at it with a great deal of hope. The situation was such that millions woke up to and embraced possibilities that had existed for a while but were never considered seriously. Now however necessity has become the mother of invention; people have found ways to offer quality education
Bob s Burgers Animator Dave Creek Dies Following Skydiving Accident: An Incredible Talent People 1/10/2021
Dave Creek, the lead character designer on
Bob s Burgers, has died.
According to the website Cartoon Brew, which first reported the news, Creek died Thursday following complications from a skydiving incident last weekend. He was 42.
The Fox series issued a statement confirming the news on Friday. We are heartbroken at the tragic passing of Dave Creek, an extraordinary artist who had been with
Bob s Burgers from day one, reads the statement, signed by 20th Television, Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment. He was not just an incredible talent but a beautiful person as well, and our hearts go out to his family, friends and all his colleagues at the show who loved him and are grieving today.
Who said art is only for the 1%?
Artist Tacita Dean at her studio in Berlin, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Dean, a leading British artist now based in Berlin, has always been a market contrarian: The slow-burn films that made her famous are only sold as reels of actual, archaic film. So, over the last nine months, her idea of productive time spent in lockdown included forging the signature of Christian Dotremont, a long-dead Belgian surrealist, on 100 facsimiles of a postcard he once sent. Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times.
by Blake Gopnik
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Somewhere around the fall of 1967, a couple of new-minted Ph.D.s, feeding six kids on an income of something like $9,000, set out to decorate their modest house. They brought home a wall-filling banner by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, which had a dotty seascape cut into its cloth. And a tabletop set of soft drums made of canvas by his colleague-in-pop Claes Oldenburg. Also, a colorful set of abstractions: squares with
arts
Updated 8th January 2021
Credit: Lyle Ashton Harris/Courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York
A trove of old Ektachrome slides shows artists, friends and lovers in the 1980s and 90s
Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
When Lyle Ashton Harris grandfather passed away, he and his brother inherited a vast trove of over 10,000 Ektachrome slides documenting his day-to-day life. Developed in the early 1940s, the film is a brand name from Kodak, and was a new type of color technology when their grandfather adopted it. (Instead of adding color to black-and-white images during processing, as is done with Kodachrome, this film allowed people to take images directly in color.)