A Great Exhibition is coming to a close this summer at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Alice Walton’s visionary art project in NW Arkansas). KAWS – the Jersey City graffiti artist, turned multi-millionaire art world Art Star, is on full display in Bentonville (one of my favorite museums in the USA.)! Because KAWS’s characters […]
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Here are the 25 cognitive biases Charlie Munger listed in his talk “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment”, each explained simply so we can all understand how the brain in influenced in every sales pitch. 1. Reward and Punishment Superresponse Tendency When people get rewarded for doing something, they want to do it more. If they […]
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We all know that we breathe, we eat, we lift objects, and run, we have bones, our heart pumps blood that flows throughout our body, and humans reproduce by having babies, which keeps our species going forward. Here is a refresher about those systems and their various parts that make up each system. Together, they […]
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Café Brûlot – New Orleans’ Flaming Coffee Many of the best restaurants in the United States are in New Orleans, Louisiana and most of those are in the French Quarter. Flaming dishes have long been a tradition… like Bananas Foster. The flaming Café Brûlot is another inventive creation from NOLA. It was invented at Antoine’s […]
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Resistance Bands: The Ultimate Home Gym Essential In an era where home fitness is booming and space is at a premium, resistance bands have quietly emerged as one of the smartest and most effective tools for full-body training. Lightweight, affordable, and incredibly versatile, these stretchable bands can mimic nearly every piece of equipment you’d find […]
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THE WIZARD OF OZ (first a synopsis) Audio of this article. A Storm, a Dream, and a Journey A restless young girl, feeling overlooked and misunderstood in her quiet farming life, longs for something more exciting, beyond her surroundings of flat fields and gray skies. One day, a fierce windstorm (a tornado) sweeps her away—literally. […]
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A 100+ Year Old FAMILY Recipe “Southern Cast-Iron Skillet Cornbread” Cast-Iron Skillet Cornbread Ingredients 1 cup white cornmeal ½ cup flour 1 tbsp baking powder ¼ tsp baking soda 1 egg ¼ cup oil 1 tsp salt Buttermilk Cast-Iron Skillet Cornbread Instructions Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Put the oil in the iron skillet and […]
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A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the most unusual and memorable novels in American literature. It is also a book with a story behind the story. Toole wrote the novel in the early 1960s, but after facing rejection from publishers and growing discouraged, he sadly took his […]
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Editor’s Note: For several years, I worked in New Orleans in the publishing business. I met with the late Chef Paul Prudhomme at K-Paul’s Restaurant and again at his house. He invited our magazine over to a Cajun Christmas Dinner featuring a vast spread of food he had prepared for us and presented on his […]
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The poster for the original movie, The Music Man (1962). Introduction The Music Man is a classic musical play and film that tells the story of Harold Hill, a charming con man who arrives in a small town called River City, Iowa. He assesses the situation, creates conflict and fear, then launches a scheme to […]