Some Truer Words of Wisdom

from The New Bankrupt Times QUOTATION OF THE DAY “Banking should not be exciting. If banking is exciting there is something wrong with it.” CLAY EWING, president of German American Bancorp., a community bank in Jasper,...

Kate Moss is going to live forever.

from SANS ARTIFICE TARRED & FEATHERED By Sans TAR is not a fashion magazine – its editor, Evan Schindler will tell you as much. Sure a few fashion personalities make special guest appearances and there is a smattering of editorial content but ultimately these are...

A Jazz Memoir in Verse

from Shelf-Awareness Birth of the Cool: Minnesota I know, Miles, you didn’t have rural southern Minnesota in mind when you blew your classic mute on your Birth of the Cool sessions in New York, circa 1949. But it’s the way the paper-thin ice forms on the...

Happy Birthday, Buddha

from Foreign Policy Temple boys: Young South Korean Buddhist devotees pray under rows of lotus lanterns at the Chogye Temple in Seoul on May 1 (one day ahead of when Buddha’s birthday is celebrated in that country this year). Buddha was born approximately 2,553...