L.A. had its day. N.Y., Seattle, San Francisco, too. Now America’s metaphorical capital has flown east and landed in the lap of Chicago.
Every nightly news broadcast is stuffed with stock footage of the lakefront skyline. The White Sox talk gleefully about a presidential first pitch. Tokyo dreads the rise of the Windy City’s 2016 Olympic [...]

Some people make things with their hands. The rest of us–well, we just buy stuff.
But a recent New York Times piece on crafters delivers one of the more motivated makers I’ve heard about recently: Faythe Levine of Milwaukee, who–as reporter Penelope Green tells it–started with “some sock monkeys and a handstitched felt owl.”
Sock puppets–Homer Simpson’s [...]

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