Remember the Embers?

2012

  I wonder how many hours of my life I have spent on this corner waiting to cross the street. At least I don’t have to look at the old billboard in the photo above. I wonder what it said? It seems to me that the Chipotle was an Embers Restaurant just a moment ago. [...]

Fasika

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  In college I worked a part time job on the corner of Cedar and Riverside Avenues above an Ethiopian Restaurant called Odaa. Saturday mornings while I worked upstairs, the restaurant made berbere, a spicy condiment of spices and chilis that accompanies Ethiopian food. It was an old building and ventilation was poor. At first [...]