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The New York Times reports that the recent re-opening of the Statue of Liberty, closed since 9/11, was delayed so that the non-profit managing the project could raise more money and continue to pay its CEO a nearly $350K annual salary.
Thanks to Nathan Newman for the pointer, in an entry entitled Ineeffiency of Private [...]
For many years, I was deeply involved in Chicago’s creative jazz and free improvisation scene. I was a DJ at WNUR and I went to see shows at the Empty Bottle, the Velvet Lounge, and the Lunar Cabaret (RIP) weekly or more often. Then I left my job at Northwestern and had to [...]
A bit late, I know, but Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time at The Museum of Hoaxes is worth a look. They also blogged a “roundup” of stuff from this year.
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One of my all-time favorite albums is Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. When I was first getting into Van’s folk-soul thing, I didn’t get Astral Weeks at first, but eventually I realized what a remarkable piece of work it was.
Well, we’ve been patronizing Sulzer library a lot lately. Through the wonders of circulation, there [...]