Brahms the vandal?
Let me start by saying that I am probably the only Chicagoan who likes the 2003 addition to Soldier Field. This week conductor Kent Nagano programmed Brahms’s A German Requiem with interludes …
Let me start by saying that I am probably the only Chicagoan who likes the 2003 addition to Soldier Field. This week conductor Kent Nagano programmed Brahms’s A German Requiem with interludes …
Ben Wallace-Wells writes a fantastic article for The New York Times featuring David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, or by his own description the “keeper of the message.” The article demonstrates the …
A while ago, someone at work approached me because his friend would love to go over some poetry translations with a native Dutch speaker. This friend, Stephen Frech, is working on translations …
Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election today. With this announcement, a new Web site was launched on www.barackobama.com. I first noticed the campaign logo in the top right …
Today’s news of Jaap van Zweden’s appointment to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as the next music director made me remember a thought I had the other day. Last Monday I heard a …
Chicago is going crazy over the Bears upcoming trip to the Super Bowl. Even I, fan of the other kind of football, found myself watching the game in a sports bar last …
“Jimmy, I love Wikipedia. It’s an amazing creation — one that I use every single day. Like you, I want it to be as accurate and objective as possible. I admire the …
Imagine walking through a museum with every major work of art in history. An entire wing with all of Leonardo da Vinci’s works; an entire wing with all of Vincent van Gogh’s …
This week I reached another milestone: one hundred blog posts. Quite remarkable, especially when I look back at my first post in which I wondered out loud whether or not I was …
Today marks my one-year anniversary at my job. The good news is that in terms of what I have learned, it feels I have been at the job over a year, and …