Urban Place

Me and friends are going to chicago and i want to know of some rap and r&b night clubs and decent malls. Like what area should we go to, to have a good time someone please help

See a list of nightclubs here: http://www.centerstagechicago.com/dance/clubs/styles/soul-RB.html . However, I recommend The Funky Buddha Lounge (http://www.funkybuddha.com ) and Exedus II (http://www.exeduslounge.com/ ).

Other top clubs that will have a mixture of music (you’d have to check the calendar for which day features what type of music): Crobar (http://www.crobar.com ), Vision (http://www.visionnightclub.com ), Ohm
(http://ohmnightlife.com/ ).

A really good source for R&B shows and events comes from the city’s urban-contemporary radio stations. WGCI (http://wgci.zipscene.com/events/ and http://wgci.zipscene.com/events/browse/station ), Power 92 (http://www.power92chicago.com/pages/3839264.php ), Soul 106.3 (http://soul1063radio.com/pages/3037351.php ), and V-103 (http://v103.zipscene.com/events ).

Chicagoland has a lot of shopping areas. Besides along State Street & Wabash in the Loop, there is the Magnificent Mile malls (including Water Tower Place, North Bridge Mall, and Chicago Place Mall) and Ford City (http://www.shopfordcity.com ). In suburbia, there’s Woodfield Mall (http://www.shopwoodfield.com in Schaumburg, IL, along with other shopping complexes) and Oak Brook Mall (http://www.oakbrookcenter.com in Oak Brook, along with other shopping complexes). Beyond malls, there are flea markets, re-sale shops, and stretches of shops in various areas. Plenty of places to spend your money. Some nice stretches to visit…
* Magnificent Mile (http://www.themagnificentmile.com )
* Belmont & Clark street has a variety of eclectic shops [Clark #22 bus to Belmont or Red (Howard)/Brown (Kimball) line to Belmont]
* Brown Line L train to the Armitage stop, then walk east to Halsted Street. Walk north & south on Halsted (between Armitage and Webster). Some good stops to make in this area are LUSH (http://www.lush.com ), 1154 Lill Studio (http://www.1154lill.com/home/ ) for making a purse, Aroma Workshop (http://aromaworkshop.com ) for making perfume/lotions/oils, and Swirlz (http://www.swirlzcupcakes.com ).
* Wicker Park/Bucktown – artsy/hipster area, but has some yuppie influences in terms of stores. There are some cool independent places to check out.

This site gives great overviews of Chicago and its shopping areas: http://seemoreshopping.com/home/ .

I recommend that you sign up for e-mail newsletters so that you can get some alerts about great places to eat and play in Chicago: MyUrbanEvents (http://myurbanevents.com/ ), UrbanDaddy (http://www.urbandaddy.com/home/chi ), Goldstar (http://www.goldstar.com/events/browse/60603 ), FlavorPill (http://flavorpill.com/chicago ), Centerstage’s CRUMB newsletter (http://www.centerstagechicago.com/lists/index.cfm?action=register ), ABC’s Hungry Hound (http://abclocal.go.com/wls/channel?section=resources/lifestyle_community/food/restaurants&id=5770526 – no newsletter), TimeOut Chicago (http://chicago.timeout.com/ ), Metromix (http://chicago.metromix.com/ ), Check Please (http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,5 ), 190 North (http://www.190north.com/ ), Chicago Reader (http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Home ), and CitySearch (http://chicago.citysearch.com/ ).

i do photography and my main target is abandoned places (asylums,buildings,cemeteries,ect.)

Where ya from….where you looking to explore?

Feel free to email me through my profile to get some info/sources

Do most baseball players come from cities or rural places?

mostly rural places if you talking american players because most kids in rural areas like baseball beter and they have more room to play. also most of the players in the majors grew up in small towns. hispanic baseball players grow up poor and play with a broom stick and bottle cap (acording to my dad who grew up in Venezuela). I am 15 and live in Chicago which is very much urban and i feel as if im one of the only kids who likes baseball. most urban kids like basketball.

Probably the best-known effect of urban areas on heat islands is the so-called "microclimate" created in city centres. Even though city centres receive up to 30 per cent less solar radiation than rural areas—because the large amounts of dust and pollution in the air not only reflect radiation themselves, but also provide nuclei around which water condenses and clouds form—they are on average 1° to 8° C (1.8° to 14.4° F) warmer. Buildings store and generate heat more efficiently than soil, rocks, or vegetation. The heat they emit combines with the heat generated by the people living and working in the city, by city traffic, by industry, and by the heating of the interiors of buildings to raise temperatures. Most importantly, heat loss at night, when buildings give out most of the heat stored during the day, is reduced because the dust and clouds act like a blanket to keep it in. Higher average temperatures mean that city centres experience less snow and fewer frosts than either their suburbs or the surrounding rural area. The higher levels of cloud cover and of dust pollutants in the atmosphere mean that city centres also have higher rainfall levels and more fogs than adjacent rural areas.

i already know about swell, lulus, zizebeh, and forever 21, do you have any more suggestions. . .

alloy
delia’s
zumiez
charlotte russe
journeys
wet seal
american eagle
hollister
abercrombie
pacsun

If you want to do a bit of traveling, head over to the Olympic Mountains on the other side of the Hood Canal bridge. Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend- they all have beautiful scenery.

Close to Tacoma/ Seattle, I’d suggest Gasworks Park. You can get some really neat pictures of the backside of downtown Seattle there. Or hop a ferry to Bremerton or Bainbridge Island. Both have good opportunities for nature and urban pictures.

If you want to do a bit of traveling, head over to the Olympic Mountains on the other side of the Hood Canal bridge. Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend- they all have beautiful scenery.

Close to Tacoma/ Seattle, I’d suggest Gasworks Park. You can get some really neat pictures of the backside of downtown Seattle there. Or hop a ferry to Bremerton or Bainbridge Island. Both have good opportunities for nature and urban pictures.

I need a place where they know how to do fades and stuff. Not a "Supercuts" type place but an urban barbershop in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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You might have better luck in Miami but that is too far.

Go to http://www.urbancurators.com
A group of RISD students calling themselves the Urban Curators have spent the last month finding and highlighting art in the most unlikely places in urban Providence. Passersby will noticed gilded, museum style frames on sides of deteriorating buildings, crumbling walls, on fences and on doors.
"By accenting the places that are often ignored or disregarded by passersby, we hope to compel people to reconsider their prior conceptions of beauty and worth," said one urban curator. Their goal is to engage the public in recognizing the aesthetic value of the decaying urban environment and to celebrate overlooked spaces and objects within the City.
They encourage people to get involved by framing something in their own environment and posting it to the website. Essentially, they want everyone to become an urban curator.
More information can be found on the urban curators’ website, http://urbancurators.com. Video & map also.

I saw the article about this in metropolis magazine!

I am about to go for a vacation in New York City, and am looking to shop at places that carry urban and skate clothes. Something like Urban Outfitters, but local? It can be anything, give me areas to look for and even certain stores.

Thanks!

Look at East Village small shops and also check "Century 21 department store" downtown Manhattan on Broadway and Dey street for great urban clothes and great prices.