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Elements of Life

On Wednesday, a prominent farmer’s house caught fire (here and here). He and his wife got out, due to smoke detectors waking them, but he went back in. He didn’t leave. On Thursday, trucking magnate J.B. Hunt died, several days after slipping on ice outside his home (here and here). Now, both were men up […]

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Take Five, and Five More

It’s not that I see a lot of concerts. I don’t. So in the context of relative superlatives let it be henceforth: Sunday’s concert of the Dave Brubeck Quartet followed by the Ramsey Lewis Trio was the best jazz concert I have ever seen. This includes seeing Mr. Brubeck in Little Rock in 1993, ’94 […]