Archive for Arts & Culture

What is Burning Man?

January 7, 2012 @ 6:50 pm · Filed under Arts & Culture, Burning Man

Oh my, such a loaded question… so many ways to answer it… Well, allow me to share a few other people’s glorious takes on Burning Man  (WARNING: There are some naked breasts in the video and photos that follow…): I think this is just brilliant! Based on Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go! this [...]

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February 3: The day the music died… the day the music was born…

February 4, 2009 @ 4:41 am · Filed under Arts & Culture

50 years ago today (2/3/1959), Buddy Holly, along with J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens, died in a plane crash while touring the Midwest. NPR had a nice story about this, and of course there’s Don McLean’s 1971 song, “American Pie.” 200 years ago yesterday (2/2/1809), Felix Mendelssohn was born. He went on to [...]

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