Bruce plays during tomorrow’s Super Bowl halftime show. I don’t care if the critics have been luke warm in their reviews, I say go out an buy this album. If you are a fan, you will love it. We’re all just workin’ on a dream. […]

If you were to pick your favorite literary passage to be permanently embedded into your skin, which would you choose? Something inspiring? Or would you choose a passage more emblematic of your core beliefs? “Tattoos may be associated in the public mind with bikers and […]

Lawrence Summer, economist, former Treasury Secretary and former president of Harvard, has started a new Web site for big ideas. Check it out. It’s called Big Think. It’s very interesting; check it out.

An alarming report came out earlier this week. American’s aren’t reading much anymore. The New York Times concludes from the NEA’s report: “As that happens, [students] reading test scores are declining. At the same time, performance in other academic disciplines like math and science is […]

Seymour Hersh has a rather chilling piece in a recent New Yorker about the administration’s planning for possible action (military) against Iran. The story highlights suggestions made by the president that Iran is behind the insurgent strikes on American troops, and in retaliation the U.S. […]

As many of my friends know, I’m a huge Bruce fan. I’ve been listening to his new albulm, Magic, almost nonstop this week. There’s not much to say other than it’s wonderful. I can’t wait to see him next month when he brings the E […]

Winnepeg has a population of nearly 600,000, of which 413,513 residents have library cards. Traffic at the city’s Millenium Hub has increased 50 percent in just the past year, reaching 1.5 million visitors. Winnepegers can’t get enough. Why? According to Winnepeg blogger Morley Walker, in […]

In my effort to learn more about classical music, I recently came across two quotes from two very successful conductors, composers and leaders of the world’s most respected orchestras. They are very similar, and they made me think about how we manage creative people. “To […]

Each year, more than 1,000 of the biggest movers and shakers in the world are invited to attend the TED Conference (I believe it’s invite-only) to hear about some of the most cutting edge ideas on the planet. Now there’s a conference I’d like to […]