RIP to Robbie Bachman, Jeff Beck, David Crosby, and so many others who gave us the music we love.
What if Elon Musk Wasn’t really a monster? Just kidding! He is.
There are people who have seen doz… of Bruce Springsteen concerts They travel the world, even, To experience the joy and exuberan… That no other performing artist ca…
Chicago’s party of the summer is the Pride parade up north It’s boozier than St. Patrick’s… Less explosive than the 4th Lots of people dance and play
Someone who wants to bestow a name… must typically be its creator or the one who purchased or discovere… The United States has done none o… as pertaining to an enormous body…
Whenever I hear that someone has… the first thing—and often the only… I want to know is how old they wer… Someone older comforts me because I feel like I still have some tim…
Chewbacca is a wookie C3PO is a droid. Luke’s the Jedi student to fill Kenobi’s void. Vader is a scary villain
When Donald Trump took over as pr… the United States Constitution we… from the White House’s official w… If there’s a more fitting metaphor somebody tell me what that might b…
A crowded street teems with touris… as Commercial Street lives up to… This surely wasn’t the case in 202… when COVID-19 stole away the sum… The idea of getting “back to norma…
Your poetry book from 1946 was recently acquired by me at a book fair in Chicago. It appears to have been lightly us… during its first go-round
I shall dance no more with rhythmless guilty feet. The saxophone played. George Michael’s “Careless Whisp… Will haunt us all forever.
She enjoyed 96 years of luxury and privilege far beyond anything we could ever imagine. Now that her time is up
In a world where every single mont… Is measured as being the warmest o… It’s not such as bad thing To have a chilly day outside. The unbearable heat will be here
The band’s ferry got stuck in a sa… on their way to New York City on an April day in 1954 when music was changed forever. By the time Bill Haley and his C…
2024 will be culture wars all day, every day so we might as well get it started on Day One. Senator Tuberville would be upset
The people of that northern state That we all call “Wisconsin” Have but only one desire To see their beloved Pack win If you’re near to Chicago or St.…