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Shoeman Water Project volunteer at the Earth Day booth in Forest Park. The rain has subsided and we are waiting for you to stop by. Come see us!
Supporting the Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, Ed Tudor-Pole.
Actor and musician, Ed Tudor-Pole, although originally performing with a band, Tenpole Tudor, these days Tudor-Pole plays solo.
This evening the songs and the music were entertaining, with a slight country twist.
Nijpels, Hermans en Brok in de keuken.... Voor het tv programma "Lekker ite mei Reitse" van Omrop Fryslân.
Supporting the Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, Ed Tudor-Pole.
Actor and musician, Ed Tudor-Pole, although originally performing with a band, Tenpole Tudor, these days Tudor-Pole plays solo.
This evening the songs and the music were entertaining, with a slight country twist.
Ed Debevic’s rises in the frame as a vertical strip of 1950s fantasy: blue uprights, rounded yellow fins, and red neon letters stacked like a roadside beacon against the darker, ordinary fabric of River North. The photograph resists the easy, frontal postcard view. By standing slightly off-axis and letting the surrounding brick wall, utility wires, and a glowing billboard intrude, it makes the sign feel like a piece of theatrical architecture inserted into the working city. Its Streamline Moderne vocabulary—curves, horizontal bands, chrome-like highlights, and bright primary color—translates the restaurant’s performative interior into a public signal on the street. The narrow vertical composition is especially apt for the sign’s sequence of letters, which pulls the eye upward from the Coca-Cola globe toward the cropped roofline. Evening light leaves the adjacent building nearly black, intensifying the sign’s saturated blue and red. This is not simply a record of a restaurant marker; it is an interpretation of Chicago’s appetite for commercial spectacle, where a modest façade can become a landmark through graphic confidence, illumination, and a bit of deliberate nostalgia.