by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 2, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Maryland, USA On the heals of the shooting of Trayvon Martin in the US, Hassan Giordano of the Baltimore Independent Examiner reminds us of a similar shooting in Baltimore October 2008: Now in Baltimore City, this comes as no surprise to the residents of a town known...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 5, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Illinois, USA The Washington Times Communities (WT’s attempt at social journalism – whatever that is) is celebrating the 175th birthday of the US city of Chicago: Today is Chicago’s 175th Birthday. The Windy City, the City of Big Shoulders, Beirut by the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Feb 5, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
New York City, USA Thanks to Olivia Alabaster and Lauren Hamra for the link to this New York post: It may look like a scene out of downtown Beirut, but it’s actually lower Manhattan. Shortly after dropping off a vendor and his junk goods on Canal Street, this van...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 30, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Illinois, USA An abandoned school in LaSalle, Illinois is being demolished after being described by the city’s Fourth Ward Alderman as Beirut-like: The La Salle City Council is seeking roughly $172,000 in grant funding to tear down the old Matthiessen School...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 30, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Kansas, USA A construction site that has seen extended delays is nothing more than concrete barricades and weeds, which according to restaurateur, Jimmy Frantze, looks like the Lebanese capital: “I’m tired of looking at a building that looks like Beirut after the last...