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		<title>The Eat at Joe&#8217;s Riots</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/01/05/the-eat-at-joes-riots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special dispensation was granted last Friday by the City Council to Ontario-based Sports Restaurant chain “Shoeless Joe’s” to establish a franchise within city limits, making it the first local eatery since the 1931 passing of a restrictive city ordinance to be allowed to use the name “Joe” in its advertising and logo. Why “Joe,” you might ask? Why not restrictions on the names “Andy” or “Bud” (no great favor to local diners “Andy’s Five and Dime” and “Bud’s Burgers”), or “Anna” (likewise for “ABC: Anna’s Bagels and Coffee”)? Well, simply put – no one ever died because of a restaurant named after an Andy, a Bud or an Anna. Throughout the 1920’s, the city experienced a financial boom, with the urban area increasing in both size and global financial prominence, and the populace increasingly moving towards suburbs away from the business centers where they plugged away for a weekly paycheck. Along with this roiling bubble of prosperity came a boom in local restaurateurs, cafes and delis and bistros popping up along the avenues of the business district to feed a hungry population of number-crunchers, secretaries and executives alike, all of whom were far removed from their own personal iceboxes until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amandour Prison&#8217;s Final Inmate</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/26/amandour-prisons-final-inmate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980 the only remaining state correctional facility within the city limits &#8211; Amandour Prison &#8211; closed its heavy iron door for last time. The order to shut down the facility, once home to as many as 494 inmates, actually occurred in 1951. While it is not surprising for the wheels of justice – or the wheels of bureaucracy – to grind slowly, in this case neither the State Department of Corrections nor any combination of city government officials was responsible the long delay. If any person held the key (so to speak) to the 37-year gap between decision and action, it is former Judge Marvin Kristolich. But the ultimate determining factor in the long, slow decline, and eventual demise of Amandour Prison was the remarkable constitution of its final inmate, John Stuart Powell. Powell was the principal suspect in the sensational murder of Charles Kerry O’Keefe, Commissioner of Police, in August 1949. In the summer of 1950, with the still-unsolved case becoming an ongoing embarrassment for the police department, interim Police Chief Donald Connolly announced the apprehension of a suspect connected to the homicide by a barely credible trail of conjecture and circumstantial evidence. That suspect turned out to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: End of Year Closeout Special</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/12/21/friday-facts-end-of-year-closeout-special/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: With Christmas Day and New Year’s Day both falling on a Tuesday this season, please note that all city services will be open and functioning on Monday, Dec.24 and Monday, Dec. 31, with the exception of the Mayor’s Office, which will be closed at 2pm on Friday, Dec. 21, and reopen Wednesday, Jan. 2, so that Mayor Wilders can attend the Urban Environmentalism Awareness Conference in Aruba. :: Founder&#8217;s Pier will once again host &#8220;A Taste of Nog&#8221; Sunday, Dec. 23. Fans of the festive holiday drink can purchase tickets to sample some of the finest nogs the city has to offer. Favorites from last year included Traditional Egg Nog (The Legacy Diner), Quail Egg Nog (Le Cafe Brulee), Root Beer Nog (Felix&#8217;s Frankfurters), and the Triple Bourbon Nog (Grinning Kinsky&#8217;s). Tickets are 5 for $7.50 for non-alcoholic nogs, and 5 for $17.50 for adult nogs (Limit 10). :: St. Albert’s Cathedral on Algonquin Avenue issued a public correction to an item published in their most recent newsletter. The choir concert featuring Handel’s “Messiah” will take place Sunday, Dec. 23 rather than the listed date of Tuesday, Jan. 8. Also, the Parents without Partners ‘Elvis Night’ dance will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Burning leaves, weeping sausage</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/02/friday-facts-burning-leaves-weeping-sausage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: The city is home to no less than seven junior and community colleges, one of which (Sparrow Valley Community College, on Cedar Ave and S.Sparrow Valley Dr.) boasts a Zagat-rated three-star cafeteria. :: The large outdoor clock above the main entrance of the City Hall Annex was accidentally set to Standard Time last weekend. On Monday morning approximately 12 employees and visitors were seen waiting outside the building one hour before official opening time. :: Amount of leaves a City resident is allowed to burn per week (by volume): 7 cubic feet :: Distance from freestanding structures (doghouses and meat-smoking lodges excepted, starting in 1989) burning City leaf piles must be: 25 feet :: Times City Code stipulates a resident must wave arms and &#8220;clearly and directly&#8221; state &#8220;I am burning leaves&#8221; before setting leaves aflame, to notify any deaf or blind children who might be playing nearby: 5 :: Times a resident of one of the city&#8217;s six unincorporated areas must &#8220;thoroughly and purposefully&#8221; probe leaf piles with a lawn implement to ensure no children or squirrels have burrowed into the leaf piles before burning: 1 :: An elaborate new storefront window display was unveiled for the struggling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shrouded City</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/05/07/the-shrouded-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 13:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television dramatist Stirling Silliphant famously wrote that “there are eight million stories in the naked city.” Local author Burton Becker is out to prove that our city has a few million stories of its own, even if they are a bit more conservatively dressed. Becker has just published his fourth novel, Same Time Last Year, a detective story that takes place in a fictional city that local residents will find somewhat familiar. Becker has set each of his four published works in the urban milieu he understands best, a working class neighborhood not unlike the industrial district on the city’s south side. But you won’t find any references to existing local businesses, streets, or colorful characters in Becker’s literary world. He is careful to avoid mention of any actual landmarks or living persons. “I want people to recognize to what I am referring,” says Becker, “but I don’t want people in other cities or towns to feel that the story doesn’t apply to their own neighborhood.” Thus Whittingers Park becomes “Whitmann Park,” Mabel Tripp Gardens is transformed to “Fern Falls Arbor,” and the town’s real estate tycoon is “Howard Marlowe” instead of local icon Hugo Chandler. “It’s a delicate balance,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!: Monsieur LeSteak</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/04/04/what-a-character-monsieur-lesteak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. Remember Charlie the Tuna, the seemingly suicidal spokes-fish for canned fish titan Starkist? Of course you do, who could forget his apparently misguided yet earnest attempts to qualify for a life (or the end thereof) inside a small, tin can? Remember Monsieur LeSteak, the similarly suicidal cut of ribeye who was spokes-mascot for the Sagebrush Saddle chain of buffet-style steakhouses for brief period between 1970 and 1971? Probably not. This might be because – despite sharing the similar motivations of seeking a fatal end inside the consumer’s digestive tract – Monsieur LeSteak didn’t know where to stop. The brainchild (or is that brain-steak?) of now-defunct local advertising juggernauts Brooks-DeAnza, the nearly forgotten mascot and spokes-steak for the Sagebrush Saddle chain of buffet-style steakhouses, Monsieur LeSteak held a brief stint in office, running a mere eight months between 1970 and 1971. At first, the amusingly animated ribeye – bedecked with a chef’s hat and a French accent so thick it could be served as a side with butter and bacon bits – contented itself with singing the praises of the Sagebrush Saddle’s enormous all-you-can-eat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Character!: The Spaghetti Giant</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/28/what-a-character-the-spaghetti-giant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. What stands twenty-five feet tall, wears a toga with a garland of grape leaves and was a fixture of the city’s “Restaurant Row” for thirty-five years? If you said “The Spaghetti Giant,” then are you ever correct! Between 1949 and 1984, the Family Italiano restaurant at the corner of Finnegan Curve and Finnegan Row was not only famous for its inexpensive, family-style buffet dinners and heaping plates of its trademark spaghetti and lasagna dishes, but for the titanic plaster mascot which stood proudly in the center of its parking lot. Literally tens of thousands of area children have squealed in delight from the gates of their parents’ station wagons as they’ve pulled into the parking lot, seeing the beaming face of the Giant looking protectively across the rows of patrons’ automobiles (While dozens of area teenagers may remember the homecoming night tradition of sneaking under the Giant’s toga and painting school slogans across his massive inner thighs). The Spaghetti Giant became such an inspired and recognized icon that he quickly found his way – in a much-less colossal illustrated form – onto the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Slaughterhouse, Partridge, Megatron</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/03/23/friday-facts-slaughterhouse-partridge-megatron/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: On Monday, Chief Health Commissioner Rudolph “Guy” Fenimore sent a press release reminding hungry citizens that the city’s three-year long ban on open air barbecue restaurants ends this Saturday. Blowout celebrations are currently planned at Roy’s BBQ, Captain Jack’s Rib Shack, Shiney’s, the Thai Barbecue House (which will be removing its temporary tarpaulin after closing time on Friday evening), and South Street Jimmy’s, among others. :: Think you know which building has the greatest number of floors on the west side? If you said the First National Bank building, think again! It&#8217;s actually the Richards Center at the corner of Willow Avenue and 5th. Despite its stunted appearance the building, a former slaughterhouse, has five sub-basements! :: According to a 2006 poll, more residents of the city are worried about red ant infestations than possible corruption at City Hall. :: Charles Medfield has run Medfield&#8217;s 24-Hour Cheesery continuously for over 60 years. It has been closed only once, during the birth of his third child, Marilyn. :: Animal Planet filmed 3 episodes of the series Animal Cops in the city in the summer of 2006, but the project was canceled and the footage never aired due to the death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Legacy Diner (Maybe)</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/01/16/save-the-legacy-diner-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business is decidedly not booming Friday night at the Legacy. Even in mid-January, a forlorn plastic Christmas tree droops at one end of the establishment&#8217;s chipped, unvarnished wood bar, and a faded paper Santa Claus face stares through an unwashed window out onto an empty stretch of S. Kildare Ave. In the weak glow given off by the Legacy&#8217;s paltry collection of faux-tiffany lamps, three surly longtime regulars mingle uneasily with a handful of young hipsters while Salvatore, the idle short-order cook, lounges near the kitchen door taking drags off a limp cigarette. Improbably enough, this forsaken watering hole is embroiled in the city&#8217;s most controversial land-use fight in decades. Just in case you&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;The Legacy what?&#8221; (and you probably are), here&#8217;s a quick primer on the city&#8217;s most dubiously historical saloon: Opened in 1909 on the bottom floor of the J. J. Cotton Building, the Legacy (then known as the Cotton Canteen) became the ad hoc cafeteria for employees of the Legacy Carriage Company, which ran horse-drawn cabs out of an adjacent garage until the animals were banned from city streets (along with mules and elephants) in 1931. As the rapidly declining livery district gave way to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of (Chinese) Food</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/12/11/photos-of-chinese-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are, if you’ve stood in a Chinese takeout restaurant at any time in the last thirty-eight years or so, staring up at the menu whole deciding what to order, you’ve seen the work of Chroma Specialized Photographic Services, Ltd. (CSPS). They’re the country’s foremost photographers of menu items for Chinese food and happen to be located right here in the city (652 Locane Boulevard). The whole venture began by accident in 1968 when Gordon Nolan, a burgeoning portrait photographer, received a call from a friend who was starting up a takeout place in the Eaveston neighborhood. The budding restauranteur had decided he wanted somewhat professional photos of a few sample dishes hanging above the counter. Nolan set up his studio, the friend brought over ten dishes and a very specialized business was born. That first restaurant has long been closed, but through word of mouth at first, then solely on reputation, Gordon Nolan went from taking photos of families and high school seniors to dishes of Moo Goo Gai Pan. After doing this for about ten restaurants over the course of a year, Nolan decided to make this new sideline his specialty- establishing Asian Cuisine Photographic Concepts and specifically [...]]]></description>
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