Paying Attention: Google’s top searches of 2015. You are what you search for. Special thanks to the gang at Google for compiling this amazing list.
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The Celtic New Year
The Hunt For New Music: Van Morrison closes out the holiday season’s music with this terrific version of “Celtic New Year”. Click it on, turn it up, take it in. It’s a great way to end the old year and bring in the new one. The Fine Print: Embed courtesy of YouTube(thanks guys). Posted …
Looking Back
The end of the year 2015 offers the chance to put things in perspective. Below, a group of “best of” lists covering 2015. Click through to get an informed overview of the what happened of consequence in culture, money, music, news, and sports in 2015. The Year in Money (Source: Bloomberg.com) Forty-Seven Weirdest Charts from 2015 …
Weekend Concert Series: Robert Cray Band
The Hunt for New Music: There’ll be lots of New Year’s Eve Concerts to select from this coming Thursday, but, just to wrap up the Extended Christmas-New Year’s Holiday Weekend, why not a little searing music from blues master Robert Cray and his band. Here, as the final Weekend Concert Series program for 2015 is …
John Wayne on Fighting
“Don’t pick a fight, but I suggest if you find yourself in one, make damn sure you win..”
LV’s new exhibit
Paying Attention: The Brand Train continued it’s very long run at the top of the social “got to have it list” in 2015. But as anyone who’s ever been on top can tell you, uneasy is the head that wears the crown. So the only correct thing to do is to double down and press …
Woody Allen on Innovation
“If you’re not failing every now and then, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative..”
The Cheaters
Paying Attention: Not much is better on a cold December night than watching classic Christmas Movies, in black and white. This one, “The Cheaters” is from 1945 and is considered a little gem, even though very few have heard of it (Might be the fact that it also has another title, “The Castaways“..that’s always confusing. …
Tracking Santa
Paying Attention: Once a year we hear from NORAD with their now-traditional Santa tracker, which tracks Santa all across the globe. Here’s the link to follow Santa on his world-wide journey. Pretty terrific stuff….let’s hope we don’t hear from NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) any other time of that year. That would fall in …