Archive for September, 2007
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: Olympic chief to stop by Windy City
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 […]
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Cigar of the Week: Rocky Patel 1999 Vintage Connecticut
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 […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Tidbit of the Day: Clinton campaign kills GQ piece
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…)
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: In Chicago, History Guides Bid for Games
Check out this interesting piece from today’s New York Times about the Chicago 2016 bid.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Video of the Day: ‘Ain’t No Half Steppin’
Just had to post this classic joint by Big Daddy Kane. Enjoy:
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: Chicago 2016 Committee marketers shuffled
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 […]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Tidbit of the Day: Grossman out, Griese in!
Woo-hoo! That is all.
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Welcome Sun-Times readers! (Re: Yesterday’s Chicago 2016 logo post)
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 […]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Garry Kasparov: The Russian oligarchy’s next target?
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 […]
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Chicago 2016 Update: NEW OLYMPIC LOGO UNVEILED
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 […]
