This past weekend I had the wonderful opportunity of seeing out musician Eric Himan at the North Haldsted Market Days in Chicago. I became aware of Eric Himan’s music last year after listening to the Feast of Fools podcast. I purchased his new album Resonate earlier this year, and after one listen I was hooked! [...]
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This weekend I’ll be attending the annual street fair in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, known as North Halsted Market Days. The incomparable Miss Jennifer Holliday will be performing and I’m so excited! So in honor of Jenny setting her feet down in Chicago for the weekend, I’m featuring her in today’s wake up. If this doesn’t get you [...]
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If anyone remembers this video, you’ll definitely win some points from me. I had originally planned to post something else (sorry Jason), but this song popped into my head while in the shower. It took me forever to remember the name of it, but I managed to find it. Today’s video is a song called [...]
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Dear Readers,
Let me start out by saying that I’m completely ashamed of myself as a blogger. In fact, I can’t even call myself a blogger at the moment as clearly I don’t blog! This week has been crazy as I’ve been in the process of moving to the glorious neighborhood of Andersonville in Chicago. Hopefully [...]
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If anyone was bothered by the planned construction of the Spire, take a look at what could have been! This was an original plan by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Illinois was planned to have stood 5,278 feet and Wright was convinced with careful engineering that this building was actually possible. Can you imagine what this [...]
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