When Nathan, who lives in Portland, gave his friend a pair of Cavalli pumps, her friends were wildly jealous. remember hearing about Chicago Lyric Opera some years ago, ‘Oh, don’t waste your time trying to get tickets – they sell out every performance with subscriptions.’ Take that, Target! Oh, wait. In the U.S.,

On March 28, artists Lauri Apple and Seth Gershberg hosted a participatory performance piece titled Twitter Island at the nonprofit Chicago Art Department gallery. Twitter Island reminds me of Portland Center Stage ’s live-tweeting theater experiment, in that, for the Portland tweeters, the event was a bonding experience.

Her efforts prompted Castor and Pollux, a Portland, Ore. Judith Sol-Dyess was touched by the people she saw who lived at the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, where she works as the Sr. Judith created a simple yet effective website called Project30W named for the buildings address, 30 W Chicago Ave. Director of Information Systems.