This photo of Sir Ian McKellan is circa 1967, by photographer Ken Duncan, and found whilst browsing the incredible digital collection of the New York Public Library.

One of my favorite lunch places in Uptown, Urbano Paninoteca, is closed. My co-worker, Alana and I stopped by today and there's an eviction notice on the front door about locks being changed, etc. *cry* We ate next door at the Uptown Grill, and asked our waiter what went down - he said they shut down last week, possibly due to being behind on payments.

Josh could have written this for Tburns.

Just found this awesome flickr group of Dallas Urban History, via The Dallas Observer's blog, Unfair Park (a great one to add to your feed reader if you're a Dallasite, btw). In the image above, I love how Cityplace was originally intended to be a dual tower structure, sandwiching Central Expressway with a skywalk between them! The history that's written with many of these photos is also fascinating ...

Fifty years before An Inconvenient Truth, there was The Unchained Goddess. via

I've added a few new blogs to the feed lately and thought some of you might like them, too. My apologies if you've been reading any of these for years and I'm late to the party: Neatorama: I think I saw this once a while back, but it's a fun smattering of all things random from the internet. Today I checked out a pretty cool series of wine glasses ...

From Geneen Roth's blog: I have learned that... when things fall apart on a personal level—when I am at the edge of what I think I can tolerate–it is almost always a harbinger of unimaginable expansion and ultimate benevolence if I am willing to be with the pain of it... If I am willing to pay close attention and keep breathing quietly, rather than spiraling into fear and ...