By Jonathan McCarver on April 7, 2010
It’s kind of a dreary day and I wanted to ride my bike to work today but the forecast calls for rain all afternoon. Hopefully I can bring it to work tomorrow but until then I want to share a video that has continued to inspire me since I first saw it a few years [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged bicycle, bike, fitness, fun, health, inspiration, sports
By Leslie on March 17, 2010
Cooper-Young’s Kristan Huntley was on WMC-TV yesterday to discuss the Smallest User program. She talked about the money she has saved on her MLGW bill since fixing a leak in her basement. If you have been reading this blog, you might have already read Kristan’s plea to get her Cooper-Young neighbors more interested in the [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged Blog, CY Community News, smallest user, video
By Jonathan McCarver on March 12, 2010
This post is pretty much just for me. I doubt anyone reading here would know the word parkour to be asking about it but odds are if you work in an office then someone has sent you a video of people doing crazy climbing and stunts. These are often labeled with something like free running, russian climbing, urban climbing, freestyle walking, parkour or crazy indian monkey man . These amazing videos will feature things that nearly no one can do because the people in them are the best in the world.
Posted in Blog | Tagged exercise, fitness, free running, fun, health, parkour
By Kristan on March 4, 2010
I’ll just be forthright and say that I am not happy with the fact that Cooper Young is losing The Smallest User competition. Well, let me clarify. It’s not so much the losing that I have a problem with; it is the fact that it isn’t even a competition thus far. Cooper Young has never failed [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged CY Community News, eco, energy, green, smallest user
By Leslie on March 2, 2010
Yesterday we posted our first two posts in the LampLighter site “Blog” category. Our goal is to keep the blog section updated as often as possible throughout each month while we wait for new content to arrive from the LampLighter newspaper.
Instead of the standard straight reporting one mostly finds in the LampLighter, we’d like for [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged Blog, CY Community News
By Kristan on March 1, 2010
We’re on the cusp of spring weather now and it’s time to start going outside. That makes it even easier to get your needed exercise. It’s not as hard as you think.
Posted in Blog | Tagged Cooper Young, exercise, health, midtown, tips, walking
By Leslie on March 1, 2010
When the news of Dish closing hit the streets, the internets were buzzing with speculation and high hopes of what could possibly fill the newly vacant space at the Cooper & Young intersection. In my head I have always played that game called “If You Could Have Anything in Cooper-Young, What Would It Be?” so [...]
Posted in Blog | Tagged Blog, Business, food
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