Burl Ives Debate Erupts, Dividing Town Simone Thursday, December 20, 2007 Peaksville, MD – The question of late folk-singer Burl Ives’ viability as minstrel of Christmas che… Read more
Night Of The Radishes Simone Thursday, December 06, 2007 Noche de los Rabanos (Night of the Radishes) is celebrated the 23rd of December in the Zocala, wher… Read more
Heart of Gold WOW. I think I saw the best concert of my life last night, and I'm still all a-tingle. Neil, man. Neil Young. He pla… Keep reading
Gleesome Gladness Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fair, held on September… Keep reading
Pomp And Circumstance The Quad at the University of Missouri at Columbia Today I read about a 98-year old woman who just got her Master's… Keep reading
Winter Storm All Up In Here It was only a matter of time before we had to pay the winter gods for all the unseasonable warmth we had over Christmas… Keep reading
Happy Equinoctial Point Well we made it to Spring. The vernal equinox gives me a chance to stop and contemplate things like math and astrophys… Keep reading
Jazz and Classical fight like mad dogs at Helzberg Hall This past Saturday was my first concert at Helzberg Hall in the Kauffman Center. I discovered there are three things I… Keep reading