Alexander Hough

In case you were looking for a gigantic sign that you should pursue your interest in Shostakovich......

Thanks for the heads up on the link (now fixed) and the additional locations!...

Speaking of NFC North and DEs, I just heard that Lions coach Jim Schwartz and Kyle Vanden Bosch stayed up late last night drinking wine, leading to a $26 million deal. It's not really related to this ...

Your Beethoven comparison is interesting, for two reasons. First, I've always considered those two guys to be similar - they're both masters as writing symphonies (although they wrote other great musi...

My hunch is that you'll like the Eleventh. I love the Fifth as an introduction to Shostakovich's music (it served as my intro to both his music and, in fact, classical music, in general). It's so Sho...

Lucky for you, they're performing without Wendy Lewis this Friday....

Hey Rachelle, try the shaded box here: http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=11,50...

Hey Rachelle, try the shaded box here: http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=11,50...

While it would definitely make it easier if most cabbies took cards, the total number of cabbies in Chicago is around 6,700 (as opposed to the 2,600 cabs involved in this contract). But, hey, it's a s...

The Visa study looked at the difference in tipping on credit card v. cash purchases after the touch-screens were introduced in NY last year. I believe you're exactly right: having the cab driver run y...

You're one step ahead of us, brother. That post will go up tomorrow....

As far as the physical difference, it mainly has to do with size. Marimbas have larger bars and are pitched an octave lower than xylophones. Also, marimbas tend to span a larger range than xylophones:...