On the Road: POWs in the Midwest—A Road Trip to Algona, Iowa
How do you store 425,000 prisoners of war? What sounds like the setup for a tasteless joke was an actual concern for the US in World War II. England ran […]
On the Road: Drizzle and Blues in Grafton, Wisconsin
Is Wisconsin the furthest state from the Mississippi Delta? Culturally, perhaps. Yet the land of butter burgers and cheese curds played a big role in preserving the blues. While 78 […]
On The Road: Memphis’ Graceland Is a King-Sized Tribute to Elvis and a Bygone Era
There’s hardly anything more American than a road trip, right? Pack yourself and your ride-or-die, and all your various belongings into the car with some extraordinarily unhealthy snacks and some […]
Minneapolis Monsters- Guillermo Del Toro Meets Mia
“Inside every creative person, there’s a Bleak House.” It’s something I said to Gabriel Ritter, the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia for short), when discussing […]
On The Road: Minneapolis Institute of Art – A World Class Can’t-Miss
Though my heart remains buried in the mountains of the Wild West, my family has always been Midwestern. Though all of us are from Chicago itself originally, we’ve scattered a […]