Yesterday’s Journal has a write-up on the latest malady to plague Florida’s craptastic housing stock: It’s not just cheap and empty, but it also smells.
Home builder Lennar Corp. is suing two Chinese manufacturers of drywall, claiming the wallboard is defective and is causing electrical problems and emitting rotten odors in dozens of homes across Florida.
Lennar, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Slums'
Oooh, Oooh, That Smell
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Business
Tags:Slums·Wall Street Journal
Close Encounters
January 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The wife checks in from Dunkin’ Donuts — where, she reports, Spare Change Guy is blocking doorways and flicking cigarette butts at women and paying for his coffee in nickels and pennies.
I will counter with this dude, whom I shared a Green Line car with this morning. And this is how it went…
Tags:Dunkin' Donuts·MBTA·Slums
OBEY Does Boston
October 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
Shepard Fairey was in town last week prepping for his upcoming ICA exhibition. And he was kind enough to paint up the side of the Dig’s South End offices while he was here.
After the jump, a couple hastily-snapped cell phone pictures of the Giant’s posse touching up their work. Good looking stuff.
Tags:OBEY·Slums·Vandalism·Weekly Dig
Urban Renewal Nearly Brings Timothy Leary to the Comm. Ave. Mall
March 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Historicalness
And hello there to you. Not a whole lot of activity on these here internets lately. I know. A light blogging regimen is the sign of a guy with a bunch of work that actually pays.
But who needs rent money when you’ve got totally subversive and unprofessional government memos? That’s what we’ve got here. By [...]
All the Attendant Evils of a Bad Slum
February 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Historicalness
I spent most of yesterday in the BPL, dodging sleepy homeless people and researching a BoMag piece on Boylston Street’s weird place in the city’s architectural bureaucracy. Half of it is part of the Back Bay Architectural District, and subject to a litany of design and zoning structures; half isn’t. Unsightly newspaper boxes are banned [...]
Tags:Architecture·Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Slums·Urban Renewal
