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When your career spans as many decades as Oak Ridge Boys, you get to see a lot of history. When your career is as successful as Oak Ridge Boys, you […]

They tell you in journalism school that you have to remain neutral. With steely-eyed resolve, you must treat your subjects dispassionately to get to the truth. And you should never […]

Star basketball players spend their lives perfecting their skills and training their bodies. Network TV hosts toil for years in obscurity before bringing their personalities to the nation. Folk singers […]

Few toys are more universal than Legos.  The humble plastic building blocks are familiar, inspiring generations of engineers to imagine possibilities from a very young age. Lego fans around the […]

A big part of who you are comes from where you grew up. If you grew up in Chicago in the 1970s, there’s a very good chance you were exposed […]

Besides the obvious benefits in fortune and fame, the real reason to become a famous rock n’ roll journalist is to meet rock stars.  I’m not a famous rock n’ […]

When you’re a kid, summer is a season of expectation and delight. When school ends in spring, those summer months stretch out ahead of us with visions of swimming pools, […]

Writer’s note: You know those pretentious, self-important magazine articles that rely on overplayed openings like “Since the dawn of man …”? Well guess what, pal. This is one of those […]

As parents’ thoughts turn to back to school sales and hipsters wonder why Target is suddenly so busy, the downtown festival scene begins to draw to a close and the […]