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Funny business: When Buzz spoke with Richard Allen, CEO of The Allen Group, Tuesday, Buzz was reminded why Buzz is not rich. Buzz really does not get business.
Allen, the...
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So, that was why Richard Allen stood us all up at the altar a week ago. I think I feel...better. Strangely. It's kind of like: Good news, the groom's not dead. Bad news: The...
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You know it's bad when your biggest, best contribution to the team is an injury.
This season Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams disappeared for long stretches, dropped...
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Why do so many Mexicans work for Taco Bell and El Pollo Loco? Don't they know they only add a false credence to the belief that this is Mexican cuisine? The bastardizing of...
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There's nothing exciting—and certainly nothing glamorous—about the studio in which Midlake recorded its third full-length album, The Courage of Others. Hidden in...
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"The Cloud is coming to steal my music collection!"
It sounds like a bad horror movie, and yet it might be true. The common way to listen to music has changed relatively...
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Mark Growden creates the kind of rich, evocative, cabaret-noir-Americana that thousands of Tom Waits imitators would give their porkpie hats to be able to write. And as if...
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More than once I've seen Spoon's seventh album mentioned with some Radiohead reference—a friend even liked it to In Rainbows, insisting Transference likewise takes some...
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One of the wonders of modern music is how there are always emerging new artists capable of using the familiar building blocks of chords, melodies and instrumentation to...
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"It's a party at a Rodeo, man!" Big J shouted over Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." during last week's Back to School Bash at Rockin Rodeo. The crowd went wild. Wild. And,...
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There are two possible reasons why India West's dining room was so sparsely populated the evening of my final visit.
One involves the presence of a Russian businessman...
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I was all hyped up to eat lunch at ChaCha's—which surprisingly (and disappointingly) is not a gentleman's club, but instead was a kickass-lookin' Mexican restaurant I'd...
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"Did you shoot my daughtah?" is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved and much-vengeful, from...
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It's hard to look at painter Benjamin Brantley Purvis' work without recalling the 1994 Meat Puppets hit "Backwater"--"In the backwater swirling/there is something that'll...
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Perhaps the exact reason Christopher Ciccone would not want you to give his art attention is arguably the only one that would cause you to give it a second look: he's...
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Bad dates. I've been on a slew of 'em and dealt with everything from introverted-emotional types all the way to brazen sport-heads, and from five-star restaurants to Mama's...
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There's something special about handmade objects. Whether it's a painting, drawing or sculpture, the fruit of someone's labor is something to be appreciated, and sometimes...
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Even if you haven't been to the corner of Chicago's Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street since 2004, chances are you've seen an image of one of two 50-foot tall glass towers,...
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Let's be honest here, being a woman is awesome. And every year, the Kim Dawson Attitudes & Attire Luncheon and Fashion Show sums up the major reasons why: 1.) Women are smart...
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Toss on your best bell-bottoms, practice your hip shake and shine up your best side smirk; it's the King's birthday. The only artist ever dubbed the King of Rock 'N' Roll...
