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If they build it: Lake County Fielders site moved...

In the film Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner walks through his cornfield and hears someone whisper. “If you build it, he will come.” Costner’s character Ray Kinsella  somehow concludes that he should build a baseball field. And, of course, so it came to be.

FIELD OF DREAMS, Ray Liotta, Kevin Costner, 1989, (c) Universal

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Communist Money Friday: The Cuban Peso

This is the Cuban Peso. It is currently worth 1.08 US dollars, 7.5 Chinese Yuan, 972.05 North Korean Won.

The fellow on the Peso is Jose Marti. He is best known for his poem Versos Sencillos (Simple Verses), some stanzas of which ended up in the popular song Guantanamera.

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Matisse being Matisse: The Exhibit at Chicago's Art Institute

Today’s post is written by Don Shearn

I just wanted to clarify that I am not the visual artist/painter at Ageless North Shore. So my opinion about the Matisse exhibit is purely from the entertainment angle.

Bathers by a River, March 1909–10, May–November 1913, and summer 1916–17

To wit, is it worth it to spend $18.00 ($12.00 if you’re over 65, a student or a child) at Chicago’s Art Institute to see the 120 paintings, prints, drawings, and prints that Henri Matisse created between 1913 and 1917?

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