The Food Issue

I’m rather excited to announce that the Food section of the New City Reader is hot off the presses! IMAGE: Front page of the Food issue of the New City Reader. The New City Reader is a pop-up “newspaper of public space,” published as a sixteen-page...

Art Meat City

Just a quick note to say that Foodprint Denver, the third event in the Foodprint Project series that Sarah Rich and I co-curate, takes place today! We’ll be at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., conducting a back-to-back series of...

Foodprinting: Denver & L.A.

IMAGE: Cilantro harvested in Watts, photo part of a set taken by D C Anstett. A couple of quick Foodprint Project announcements: first of all, if you’re in Los Angeles this Thursday, October 28, I’ll be participating in an evening of conversation entitled...

Cake Criminals

IMAGE: Cake, reformatted by Danklhampel, image via Strange Harvest. In the first decade of the twentieth century, Austrian architect Adolf Loos boldly proclaimed, “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.”...

Landgrab!

Over at the Glass House Conversations website, BLDGBLOG’s Geoff Manaugh has posed an interesting question, inviting speculation on the opportunities and pitfalls that might emerge as twenty-first century cities flex their geopolitical muscles in an increasingly...