MetaFilter posts tagged with city

Go OKC!

parmanparman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:58:00 -0800

Goodbye Seattle! Hello Oklahoma! Get ready for the NBA's newest team, the Oklahoma City SuperSonics! Whither Seattle basketball? Methinks not.

Carrie Bradshaw knows good sex*

iamkimiam — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:35:46 -0800

It all started with a NYC writer wearing a tutu, getting splashed by a passing bus...
"It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes—that's why you sometimes need really special shoes." a 7-parter on the shoes that made the show... Then there was the necklace–an identity symbol, once lost, then found. The Cosmos, the Tartinis, and who could forget the Absolute Hunk? Click here for the inspiration) Follow Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda; a journey through the labels of love.

Coming Soon: A pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot

Miko — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:28:48 -0800

The [US] National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its 21st annual list of the nation's Most Endangered Historic Places. Among them: Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, (where Linda Brown tried to register for school, resulting in Brown vs. Board of Education); New York City's Lower East Side; California's State Parks; Philadelphia's Boyd Theatre, and several others. The previous 20 years of Most Endangered Historic Places can be found in the Archive. The Trib weighs in on the inclusion of Chicago's Michigan Avenue Streetwall The Inky on Boyd Theater Topeka Capitol-Journal (CapJo?) on Sumner Elementary Times-Picayune on Charity Hospital SF Chronicle on the state's parks Lower East Side Endangered? So what else is new?asks the New York Times

Web 2.oh-no-you-don't

GuyZero — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:21:52 -0800

CityTV to apologize for photos stolen from Flickr. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has issued a ruling that CityTV must make a rare on-air apology for broadcasting pictures taken from Flickr without crediting the photographer.

Skyscrapers or Souks?

Non Prosequitur — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:16:20 -0800

Two visions of the ideal city rise in the Persian Gulf: "Waterfront City will probably be where a lot of Middle Eastern investors will put their money—and where international architectural stars will build their putative landmarks—but if little Masdar develops successfully, it may hold much more important lessons for us all."

Spike Jones, master of the ... uhhh ... what is that he's playing, anyway?

not_on_display — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:53:09 -0800

40's-50's-Fun-Filter: glglglgl-prt-HIC! What soothing melodies do I hear? honk!honk!honk! Is it geese mating? Ibidi? Ibiduh. Ibidih? eauugh! No, it's Spike Jones and his City Slickers! Enjoy some anarcho-zany classics! · Cocktails for Two · Four songs: 1: The Man on the Flying Trapeze | 2: None But the Lonely Heart | 3: My Old Flame | 4: The Glow Worm · Der Führer's Face: recording | live | Donald Duck · The Sabre Dance · All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth · Clink, Clink, Another Drink · Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy! · 12th Street Rag (featuring collapsible trombone, Elvis's bottom half, and stereophonic bicycle pump) · The William Tell Overture (featuring Doodles Weaver) [see also Astro Zombie's previous thread] ...Fietlebauuuuum

The takedowns were for free whores.

griphus — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:17:03 -0800

New York's Governor Eliot Spitzer (Wiki) has been linked to a high-class prostitution ring.

And I thought I was busy

parmanparman — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:04:48 -0800

She works six days a week and has sold her husband - twice.

The Deuce!

nangsta — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:25:11 -0800

Sex, drugs and sleaze! Were the bad old days really the good old days? Native New Yorkers who remember the City in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, speak up! Was the Big Apple better off then or now?

Urban Agriculture...it's in our backyard

StrikeTheViol — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:21:17 -0800

City Farmer is a Vancouver-based organization that's been promoting urban agriculture since 1978. If you dig around their sprawling website, you can find everything from this feel-good news story, to a series of links leading to a nice deep free book. Alternatively, their new blog has cool pictures.