Congratulations to D Jason Crowder, Michael, and Jeff for correctly identifying Tuesday’s sidewalk photo as Grinstead Drive at Cave Hill Cemetery in the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood. As usual, here’s a new photo ready for guesses in the comments. Have a happy Thanksgiving!
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Local News
- A detailed look at Wayside’s move to operate their Broadway hotel (LEO)
- Strange Victorian mannequins spotted on Hillcrest Avenue (Unusual KY)
- Upscale veterinary clinic opens in J-town on Taylorsville Rd. (Official Site via tipster)
- Inadequate containment area for geothermal project spills slurry into creek (C-J)
- We added a few tipster photos of The Blind Pig’s new facade in Butchertown (B-S)
- Mount Washington looking to spruce up its downtown (C-J)
Transportation
- San Antonio is testing WiFi on buses to increase ridership (H-Chron via P-zen)
- Assessing the psychology and sociology of the subway (Slate)
- Distracted drivers cause 25% of crashes across country (Fox 41)
- Local trans. projects to be ‘held hostage’ by stalled Ohio River Bridges (N & T)
- Study shows link between aggression and exposure to gas fumes (TreeHugger)
- Reworked Shelbyville Rd./Gene Snyder interchange to include bike/ped path (C-J)
- Deal to buy Saab falls through; could cause GM to end car line (C-J)
- ‘Pathways of desire’ redefine getting around in abandoned Detroit (Boing Boing)
Everything Else
- Local food: Would you ever raise your own chickens in the city? (GOOD)
- On the ‘green economy’ and its community support network (Russell blog)
- New technology created to harness the power of slow moving rivers (Boing Boing)
- More on Vancouver’s big box mixed use project, The Rise (G & M via Twitter)
- Installation graphically shows you tomorrow’s weather today (info aesthetics)
- Observations of the urbanism and architecture of Barcelona (Urbanophile)
- Aerial views of a vast abandoned suburb in the deserts of California (BldgBlog)
- Flickr photos of the day here and here.
this is on 6th street, right in front of St. Louis Bertrand.
Justin beat me to it. Damn. I'll correct him just a (technical) bit. That wall is in front of the Dominican Brothers house just north of St. Louis Bertrand.