Congratulations are in order for Norah Jones. She won every Grammy she was nominated for. That comes out to a grand total of eight Grammys–five for herself and the other three for one of her songwriters and for her engineers. It’s notable that Blue Note signed her for her first album. The label the owns [...]
Two suits have been filed by Chicago area moviegoers against area movie theaters for showing commercials before movies. The suits allege that instead of starting the feature on time, the theaters are showing ads delaying the start of the film by up to four minutes. This brings up an excellent point. Why are we forced [...]
Only one guy came to hear Carol Mosley-Braun speak at an Iowa campaigning stop. This solitary soul also happened to be a friend of Mosley-Braun. While Styx playing at the local Walmart was more funny than sad, this is more sad than funny.
It looks like France bashing has become a national sport. A restaurant in North Carolina now refuses to sell french fries as french fries but only as freedom fries: CNN.com - Fried politics: Restaurant serves ‘freedom fries’ - Feb. 19, 2003
The Bush folks are big on attitude, weak on strategy and terrible at diplomacy. I covered the first gulf war, in 1990-91. What I remember most are the seven trips I took with Secretary of State James A. Baker III around the world to watch him build — face-to-face — the coalition and public [...]
Milestone build M5 of the Eclipse Project has been released. Pages and pages worth of new features have been added. More details can be found here.
Styx is playing tonight at the Orland Hills Walmart. That’s just funny.
Those years that I was out of the band [the Smashing Pumpkins] just killed me. I was racing [cars] once every two weeks, but playing in a band is like racing every night.
Jimmy Chamberlin
Read the entire article on Jimmy Chamberlin’s comeback from the depths of drug addiction to forming the band Zwan, with former bandmate [...]
When I was teaching [high school], I used to see a lot of talent that didn’t particularly go anywhere, and at first it was really mysterious to me. I couldn’t really understand it–I mean, to see a seventeen-year-old kid who’s a natural bass. Those are born. You don’t learn to do that. And to hear [...]
I ate at the Next Door Bistro, in Northbrook, yesterday with my family. It’s so named because it’s next door to Francesco’s Hole in the Wall. If you’re going to eat there, I suggest getting the whole roasted chicken. My brother ordered it. It’s a good deal of food and a cheap dish at around [...]
