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The Rolling Stones Rock the United Center in Chicago on May 28, 2013

[contact-form][contact-field label=’Name’ type=’name’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Website’ type=’url’/][contact-field label=’Comment’ type=’textarea’ required=’1’/][/contact-form] Chicago, IL – The Rolling Stones played the first of 3 shows in Chicago’s United Center on Tuesday May 28th, 2013. Despite the power outage to 21,000 Chicago residents caused by severe weather in the Chicago area, the Stones had plenty of power: […]

NATO Protests End with a Whimper, Not A Bang!

I’ve just spent the last four days following protesters through the streets of Chicago. My feet, despite wearing my good walking shoes, are like bloody stumps. The problem was the inability to use the ell or buses, because you could not carry a bag that was bigger than 14” or deeper than 4”. Since I […]

Terrence Malick’s New Film, “The Tree of Life” Wins at Cannes…(but will they get it in the Heartland?)

“The Tree of Life” is Director/Writer Terrence Malick’s fifth film and recently won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It is playing in large cities. Fox Searchlight, as “Hollywood Reporter” Todd McCarthy has noted, “will have its work cut out for it in luring a wider public.” McCarthy called “The Tree of Life” […]

Dale Chihuly Glass Artwork on Display Near Nashville on Cheekwood Estate Until Oct. 31, 2010

Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington, from which he graduated in 1965. After graduation, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country at the University of Wisconsin, a program founded by Harvey K. Littleton. He continued his studies […]

Slumdog Millionaire Trumps the Others as “Rocky” Throwback at the Oscars

I’ve finally seen “The Reader,” and it is a wonderful film. It will not win the Best Picture award, in all likelihood, but it is a wonderfully layered film that treats many topics, has many messages, and delivers those messages with layer upon layer of meaning. The lead performance by Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz […]

Huddled Together for Warmth in Oklahoma City

Well, we’re in Oklahoma City and…so far….so good. The trip from Midway on Southwest was uneventful, although we were among the last to get on the plane, so we did not get to sit together. I sat next to a very courtly gentleman in a nice suit jacket, with white hair, who let me sit […]

Former Republican Senator Jim Leach Will Speak to DNC on August 25th

It was just announced that former Republican Senator from Iowa James “Jim” Leach, now serving as the interim Director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard is to speak at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado on opening night (Monday, August 25, 2008). Trotting out this […]

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