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‘Missed Connections’ street art marks the sites of love affairs that never happened
I Wish I Said Hello takes the private moments of missed connections and puts them back in the public spaces where they occurred.
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Museum’s indoor mini-golf course lets you putt your way through a miniature city
The National Building Museum may not be D.C.’s star attraction, but even if you don’t love it, it loves you. You can tell, because the museum is giving sweltering District residents a nice, cool place to play indoor mini-golf this summer. And because it’s the National Building Museum, this is no plaster-clown-head putt-putt course — […]
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Mother Nature has evil plans for your weekend
Seriously. For most of America, tomorrow is going to be miserable. Read our tips on not dying.
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Street artist turns Chicago into a Monopoly board
Socially conscious graffiti is nice and all, but we prefer it when street artists have a sense of humor. So this work by artist (or art collective) Bored is right up our alley (ha) — it uses 3D sculpture to turn the streets of Chicago into a Monopoly board.
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San Diego set off all its fireworks at once, and HOLY CRAP IT LOOKED AMAZING
Check out photos and videos of San Diego accidentally setting off 20 minutes worth of fireworks simultaneously.
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Ultimate green car drops your carbon footprint to zero, by killing you
The Onion shares a really innovative green breakthrough: The Prius Solution kills you with a spike as soon as you get in.
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Artist turns abandoned home into human-sized dollhouse
Abandoned buildings tend to make a community feel sketchy, whether it’s an urban area or the town of Sinclair, Manitoba, Canada. So when artist Heather Benning found this dilapidated farmhouse in 2005, she set to work turning it into a 1 to 1 scale dollhouse.
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The suburbs are still winning
We reported last week that many large American cities are growing at a faster rate than their suburbs. But a closer look at the numbers is not so encouraging.
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Congress passes terrible transportation bill, hits the road
Final transportation bill is a major letdown for advocates of transit, bikes, and other car alternatives.
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Cities outpace the ‘burbs for the first time in almost a century
Between-year census numbers suggest that many of our largest cities are growing more quickly than the shriveling suburbs. But it’s not just because cities are awesome.