Thinking About Diaryland

I’ve been stumped about blogs for a long time.  I’m still really uncertain of them.  Before they were called blogs, when they were called Diaryland, a totally sissier if not truer title, I wrote a lot of stories.  People were in them.  Sometimes we talked about them.  Sometimes I really made people angry.  I wonder [...]

What’s Left of Jazz

Chicago’s Jazz Festival turned 30 this year, news you couldn’t miss if you attended, because someone made sure to remind us every chance they had. This was imperative because this festival is one of the last pillars of jazz in the country, but as always, the organization that runs it needs money.
There was a [...]