Even though I profess to hate it, it was through myspace this week that I first learned (secondhand, of course) of the long-awaited engagement of two old friends, and then two days later, the sudden and unexpected death of a high school classmate. I don’t know how I would’ve heard anything without the strange excuse [...]
My 7th grade geography teacher Mr. Cafazzo– he of the constant smoke-reekage and none-too-critically examined belief in conspiracy theories, theories he would liberally share– once held the entire class’ attention for the full period by telling us the ‘Real Stories’ that informed the nursery rhymes we recited as kids. You know, the whole ‘Ring Around [...]
The Fiery Furnaces @ Empty Bottle
It’s live music season again.
Yesterday - Dios, The Fiery Furnaces
Sunday - The Wrens @ Belmont Arts and Music Festival
Tuesday - Grant Park Orchestra - Copland, Barber, Bernstein
Thursday - Bela Fleck & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
NB: I have one extra (free!) ticket to Thursday’s Bela Fleck show, front [...]
The 6-mile ride home from work flew by so quickly and it was so beautiful outside I simply rode past my house and kept going and going and going. I haven’t been so excited to ride my bike since I was 10 years old.
In other news, after patently denying their existence for nearly two [...]
There is one way in which I’ve utterly failed to assimilate as a Chicagoan—I honestly just don’t give a crap about baseball. None whatsoever. I don’t care if the Cubs win or lose, if the Sox win or lose, which team is better, which groups’ supporters are better, it couldn’t matter less to me. I [...]
