Archive for January 2006
On Rock
The conversation begins innocently enough.
I was listening to sports radio the other day—as I do—and they meandered into the topic of misunderstood lyrics. Mick Jagger being the undisputed king of them, of course, brought up the lyric in “Sympathy for the Devil”.
Jagger? Moreso than Michael Stipe?
Jagger. Jagger was mumbling and howling words while Michael Stipe […]On Culture & Creativity
In the end of 2005 three announcements were made in Chicago that concerned the closing of three Chicago cultural icons on State Street: Marshall Field’s, Trader Vic’s and the Berghoff. Marshall Field’s ownership has changed twice in the last two years as the department store giant struggled. The killing blow came with the September announcement: […]
