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Macy’s Annual Glamorama Fashion Show was held this evening at the Chicago Theater. Attendees were dressed to the nines. Tickets were priced at $100+. Macy’s inherits the annual fashion show tradition from Marshall Field’s, which had previously taken responsibility for organizing and financing the festivities. Last year at this same event, Beyonce Knowles performed for a sold-out audience. I was told by a Macy’s security guard that the Glamorama Fashion Show represents the single largest Chicago promotional event in the department store’s annual calendar.
I met a terrific young photographer named Sarah [pseudonym -ed.] outside the event. She used to work in the Home Department of Marshall Field’s, but she was then laid off from the staff [1] when Macy’s took over. She was kind enough to show me the set of photos she had taken of the after-party decorations that celebrants would see on the seventh-floor of the Macy’s building after the close of the concert.
[1] The only employment option Sarah was given at Macy’s was a position that would have entailed little to no opportunities for advancement and would have paid significantly less than what she was then making at Marshall’s before the turnover. Irregardless, she indicated that she would have stayed on if she were offered the same job at the same wage. She was transitioned out by Macy’s management.
David, August 24th 2007, 10:51 pm
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Kenneth Stringer claims to be the first to invent the “Tin Man” persona.
I met Gillian and Meghan on a Red Line train last Monday, coming home from
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Reema helped me find my way to Clybourn. After seeing my Funkadesi shirt she asked, “Are you a member of the band?” Her little sister knows the lead singer’s sister, and she was pleasantly surprised to learn that Funkadesi attracted such a large audience the night before
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This weekly blog, titled “Greeting, Stranger”, will document and distribute the stories of the people we meet on public transit and in public spaces. In the last week, have you spoken with a friendly and thought-provoking stranger on a bus, train, subway or airplane? Think “This American Life” with less selection bias.
Check back every Sunday night for new stories. The tales you read will be as fair and balanced as the writers and editors can make them. Just keep in mind that the impressions we form of the friendly strangers we meet are subjective by nature. Quotations are not exact, but they are in spirit.
If you feel inspired to learn more about the stranger sitting next to you on the subway, please, by all means, feel free to register as a contributor and tell us about your experience. The more off-the-wall and spontaneous your story is, the better. We’re particularly interested in stories that cross the racial, political and socioeconomic divide — stories that, in their retelling, foster an enhanced sense of humanity, purpose, and unity.
My first day of work at Inforte is tomorrow (7/1). I am already back in Chicago, working from a computer lab at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library. I left my iBook at home to limit the distractions of the net. I am going to post one more profile of an amazing person I met on my trip — a man named Robert Rodriguez. The rest will have to wait for now. No matter… the personalities of those I met are timeless, and can only improve with age.
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