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Hanna, IN Final concert in Chicago for...
I will honeslty say that Beyonce is one class act performer! She puts herself into every show I have ever seen on TV and in 2005 I was lucky enough to win...
Read Concert Review Ballwin, MO People Think I'm Crazy
I have a memory of this song that comes back every single time I hear it. 1978, Joliet Illinois. August I think. I awoke to loud banging and shouting on my...
Read Memory Ballwin, MO First Trick
Why do I keep returning to this album? To answer that question I might have to go all the way back to 1977 and remember what the music scene was like at that...
Read Music Review Ballwin, MO Broomsticks
I have lots of memories tied to this album, but since I am currently making a living playing guitar, this is probably a good one to start my posts with. When...
Read Memory Oswego, IL U2: Passing the Hat
On September 21, 2005, at the last Chicago performance of the Vertigo tour, U2 led us in the ever-thrilling sing-along of 40. As Bono made his final bow he...
Read Memory Iketown First Date: Shakira 1997
Bella...remember our first date? The Shakira concert in 1997 at Chicago's Aragon ballroom? It was Shakira's first time in the U.S. A fairly uknown rising...
Read Dedication Knoxville, TN To be 13 again !
It was the year of the American Bicentennial. I was 13 years old and with my Schwinn bicycle (with its banana seat and sissy bar) I was FREE! I duct taped a...
Read Memory Arlington Heights, IL A Memory
In the entire world, this particular song might just end up on my top five all-time favorites list. I can't remember exactly when I first heard it, or even...
Read Memory Iketown Sunny Shores
Summer in a big city like Chicago can get real hot and crowded. When the temperatures got to be too much, me and my friends would pack up some food and...
Read Memory Unknown Time for Leaving....
Many years ago while listening to this song I decided to leave this country for new lands and for new faces, many years after I've come home just to realize,...
Read Memory Iketown The Truth About Terrance
03.06.04Terrance is dead. It was all Janice could get out over the phone. She lost it after that. For me, it was beyond comprehension. I was numb. I flew to...
Read Memory Iketown Parking and Kissing
In July of 1992, I met a girl at a fourth of July picnic we had through work. She worked in the same place as me, so I kind of knew her, but we never...
Read Memory Rancho Cucamonga, CA Tough-Guy Molasses
When I lived in Chicago, everyone always told me not to go out at night. I even took a mini safety course in which a security guard taught us girls how to...
Read Memory Iketown Cool and High
This song, which I discovered by seeing the video on my video iPod back in 2005, reminds me of a brief time I lived with my wife and kids in a Chicago high...
Read Memory Iketown My First Chick (singer)
Read Suzanne Vega's post today in the New York Times See http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/profane-and-divine/It sparked my own memory of...
Read Memory Iketown 415-867-5309 ...hey, wait a second
So it's just another lazy day at the Pleasure Dome - our squalid apartment above a gay strip club in Chicago. Along came an opportunity for a Sting..you...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) We will be back...
My son and I were visiting Chicago. We had just hurried ourselves away from the Children's Museum, dinosaur exhibition, and a mall, in order to fit in a...
Read Memory Prague Missing Lake Michigan
I grew up a handful of miles from Lake Michigan. It was the 1970s, when residents of small towns still had jobs in nearby factories. My dad and my uncle...
Read Memory Gainesville, FL Elevator Taps
 Elevators don’t scare me at all; in fact, I really enjoy riding in elevators because of the unique social convention that the occasion represents....
Read Memory Chicago, IL Lake Shore Drive
I moved to Chicago shortly after college, ready to settle down and make it home. I fell in love with the city quickly through a series of summer jobs and...
Read Memory Iketown Heard It From A Friend
Frank, Frankie, Ace, Weasel, Wiley Coyote, Toys-R-Us boy - he went by many aliases. He had to, he loved REO. Approaching his late twenties, he was living...
Read Memory Iketown Tingling Companions
My wife and I love Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel. It was probably the first "our song" when we were dating. I remember sitting in my apartment...
Read Memory Iketown A Subway Memory
For years I worked in downtown Chicago right across from the Chicago Board of Trade. Each day I rode the Howard Redline train to the Jackson Boulevard...
Read Memory Iketown Redemption Dome
In 1996 I moved into one of the dumpiest three bedroom apartments imaginable with three other guys. The place was above a gay strip club called Madrigals -...
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