New City Review

Our dear friend Lauren still has a show going on at the Swimming Pool Space through the 17th and it was recently reviewed in New City.  You can find the article here.  My favorite line from the review is this, which is absolutely adorable:

"Some paintings are the work of an incredibly delicate touch,

such as "White Guy,"  an oil on wood, of people for 

whom she might feel nothing but love"       

If you haven't been able to check out any of Lauren's work, you should.  You're in for quite the treat.  And if you happen to know Lauren, you should have her paint you sometime.  It's fun, I promise!

What a weekend!

... I'm still recovering! Friday evening was Lauren's art show (bravo lady, esp. the animation).

Saturday was the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival. Our awesome and talented friends, Sexfist, played early on in the day.


Later, we returned for some Béla Fleck.


He performed some fantastic Christmas-themed music, (with the help of some Siberian throat singers) and it was fun to play "spot-the-tune".


Hope you all had a lovely w.end too!

A Badger Birthday Redux

We spent last Sunday celebrating the birth of Badger. Mo and yours truly found a carrot cake recipe (so good, even though there's not a grain of sugar in it), and Lauren helped us turn it into a work of cake-art!

It looks like we melted a Simpson...



Fire! Singing! Hope you had a good one, DB :-)

Lar Lar

We really do have an amazing group of friends who are creative and talented, not to mention good-looking! 

I really wanted to showcase some of Lauren's work on here and to let you all in on her talent.  Head on over to her website and admire those awesome paintings and animations. 

Tonight we are heading up to the Swimming Pool Project Space to check out some of her new work.  You should pay a visit too.  The exhibit runs through January 17th, 2010.