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Havana is bursting at the seams. Anyone who figures they can wait and visit Cuba when it opens up, more hotel rooms are available, and the rates are cheaper will have a long wait. The city is already doing a brisk tourism trade, and dozens of buildings that started as hotels have been converted to […]
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[youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xobv5cUMt0&w=854&h=480] That’s not the beginning to a joke, it’s how three writers became friends and collaborators. I first met A.R. (Amy) Miller and Rachel Eliason at an Iowa author signing in Des Moines. Then the three of us hosted a panel at ICON39 discussing urban fantasy, and we discovered that even though our backgrounds were […]
This article from Business Insider (click on the image to read it) about a young woman’s travails because her name is Beyoncé, reminded me a promotion we did at WMT-FM way back when called “Famous Names.” We invited anyone who shared a name with a celebrity to attend a fundraiser. About thirty showed up. I specifically […]
Only I could give a career day presentation to middle school students that includes the advice: “If you have to ride an elephant, wear long pants.”
Psychologists say that most people’s musical taste is forever frozen in their teens or twenties. And I suspect that every music-head ever born has looked at the older generation and thought “No oldies for me. I will always stay current by listening to Top Forty Radio.” Or today, perhaps it would be better to say […]