World’s Strangest

Three friends have emailed me links to this in the past 24 hours, each with a note that says something like “ZOMG! You like old photos, so you have to check this out!” I finally did, and they were right — it’s pretty awesome. It’s a project by photographer Irina Werning, who writes: I love old [...]

The show must go on, even though the actors don’t get paid, and even though the audience is there for only a few seconds each week. A group of performers in Chicago stage a skit on a rooftop for the commuters on the the Brown Line of the El, between Armitage and Sedgwick. Turns out, every [...]