I saw Bob Dylan play in Brooklyn on August 12: a concert in Prospect Park. Tickets were $85 or $55, but crowds of people sat outside listening for free. (I’d estimate 6,000 were on the lawns, mostly between the ages of 25 and 64. I was one of them.) This was the eighth time I’ve […]
Dave Beckham’s Chicago Conservative Cafe
If you are sick of pretentious, high-end coffee shops and the liberals who linger in their contrived confines, you might want to visit Chicago’s Conservative Cafe. The name, Conservative Cafe, says it all; just look at the cafe’s owner Dave Beckham, a born and bred Midwesterner clad in a shirt that reads "Zip it, Hippie." […]
The reported real estate ruckus
Last evening <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wn">ABC World News</a> reported on more bad real estate statistics. Prices are down almost 27% in Miami and Vegas, and a number other places have also seen 20-plus percent drops in value — although sales were higher in April than they have been recently. They really made it sound just terrible, as […]
Obama’s Chicago Roots May Prove Deeper Than Clinton’s
The grim blocks of Altgeld Gardens appear to have changed little since a young community activist called Barack Obama first decided to help tackle the dire social problems there in the 1980s. Rows of two-story brick buildings stretch over a snow-bound landscape, still driven by the poverty of Chicago’s overwhelmingly black South Side. Many buildings […]
Driving Across The United States Is Surprisingly Fun And Educational
Formerly being a airline travel enthousiast, I never considered driving across the United States until an infortunate incident forced my ex-fiance and I to change our travel plans. We had flown out to Las Vegas, to attend a business convention late one night. The next morning, I turned on the television, only to find that […]
Sisters Wow All in NYC Marathon
By all appearances, Hillary Beeman is your average 23-year-old, living it up in New York City. The Boise, Idaho native has an irrepressibly cheery demeanor not often seen in these parts, and she can disarm even the grumpiest urbanites with her midwestern charm. A regular at some of Manhattan poshest night spots, Ms. Beeman has […]