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Surprize, Guess who's hosting the "Life is Beautiful Festival" this weekend? Yep, Las Vegas…where if you've had a bad nite, life probably ain't lookin' too beautiful…!! Anyway, the Life is Beautiful Festival is big street scene set-up featuring free class … Continued
Diana Ross and the Supremes released hit song "I Hear a Symphony" in 1966. What they failed to mention was if the orchestra of this fellow walking their way was in tune or not. Everybody's "person" is a symphony of … Continued
Valleys are cool. California's valleys are really cool; who wouldn't want to visit Napa or Yosemite valleys? Valleys have always been prized for their agricultural riches. The Loire Valley in France is a veritable Garden of Eden. The Great Rift … Continued
In the hardscrabble outback of Kalmykia near the Caspian Sea, there lived a raven known for his moody, shadowy disposition. He had survived several political tilt-a-whirls in his country, so he was touchy about his village's stability. In spite of … Continued
The real "trick" on Halloween is watching American consumers shell out a soft 6 Billion dollars on costumes and Kit-Kats. The "souls" from Medieval Ireland and Scotland must be doing cartwheels in their graves watching the Colonist embellish some primitive … Continued
A friend of mine recently returned from the annual Duke Kahanamoku OceanFest Surfing competition at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (August 17-25) where he served as one of the head graphic artists for the event. Waves are mysterious creatures and similar to … Continued
Maurice Sendak wrote the children's book and Caldecott Medal winner "Where the Wild Things Are" in 1963. It remains popular and was even made into a movie in 2009. Few know that Sendak's family was from Poland and many of … Continued
John Maynard Keynes was a famous economist who may have had an insight into the Law of Supply and Demand. Immanuel Kant was a Prussian philosopher who may had an insight into the ethics of duty and conscience. These 2 … Continued
One of my favorite movie songs is Carly Simon's "Coming Around Again" from movie Heartburn. This month the pure beauty of sport a la natural actually did "come around again" as a biddy basketball team of shoeless Mexican kids won … Continued
My friends just returned from teaching English as a Second Language to Chinese college students in Northeast China (about 5 hours from N. Korea.) Their daughter adopted the Chinese teenage fashionista statement of wearing lense-less glasses. Her dad, an optometrist … Continued