Archive for September, 2007
Andrew Herrmann of the Chicago Sun-Times reported today that Jacques Rogge, head of the International Olympic Committee, will come to Chicago for the AIBA World Boxing Championships in late October. Herrmann reported that Rogge evidently was impressed by Rio de Janeiro when he visited for the Pan-Am Games over the summer. More on this story when it [ READ MORE ]
The Rocky Patel 1999 Vintage Connecticut This is the first of what I hope will be a regular feature on DanielHonigman.com: a Cigar of the Week post. I love a good cigar, so it generally made sense to me to start blogging about them. The first cigar up (please disregard the camera phone photo–I’ll have regular [ READ MORE ]
Gotta love journalistic integrity. This is one of the reasons why I subscribe to Esquire, not GQ. (But I’ve recently been considering a switch to Men’s Vogue…) [ READ MORE ]
Check out this interesting piece from today’s New York Times about the Chicago 2016 bid. [ READ MORE ]
Just had to post this classic joint by Big Daddy Kane. Enjoy: [ READ MORE ]
Lew Lazare, the Chicago Sun-Times media columnist reported the following earlier today: Gordon Kane (pictured), who was one of the top executives in the Chicago 2016 marketing unit, left to work on the upcoming world boxing competitionships set for Chicago. Kane evidently will continue to advise the city’s Olympic committee as a consultant. Mark Mitten, who was [ READ MORE ]
Woo-hoo! That is all. [ READ MORE ]
If you decided to visit my page today after seeing it quoted on page nine of today’s Chicago Sun-Times, I want to welcome you to my site! Of course, if you’re a regular reader, you’re always welcome. (But you should have seen the Sun-Times snippet. Kidding.) Anyway, an excerpt from yesterday’s blog post on the new [ READ MORE ]
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has been lucky. The founder of the United Civil Front, he’s an outspoken pro-democracy, anti-Vladimir Putin activist. Basically speaking, he’s lucky he’s not dead. Alexander Litvinenko, Paul Klebnikov, Anna Politkovskaya and countless others died fighting for their beliefs. His column in today’s Wall Street Journal (the full article is available [ READ MORE ]
What do you think? Here’s an interactive page from the folks at Chicago 2016 about the logo’s symbolism. I’m not sure this one really captures my — or anyone else’s — imagination. If anything, if the games Games had are awarded to Chicago, the committee could revert back to the old logo. (On a somewhat fun [ READ MORE ]