Monthly Archives: June 2008

If you grow it, they will come 0

In the literal, if not geographical, center of the city, Beaux Arts facades and dour gray buildings suggest an odd vanity in the otherwise homely Civic Center Plaza. I walked through the plaza back in February and was struck by the lifelessness in the landscape.

Pollarded trees, like tumorous scarecrows, stood guard over the dismal [...]

This Road Will Never End 1

Like Mike Waters (River Phoenix) in My Own Private Idaho, I am a connoisseur of roads. Whether on foot, by bike or on transit, I love to wander through neighborhoods, observing how the character of a city changes from street to street.

I don’t mean to be daft, but the worst part of traveling on [...]