Musical foundling. History of blues.
I waited for my next encounter with Maxwell Street and Chicago (the first in the August 2023 article) until I started my university studies. One day I learned that lectures…
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September 22, 2025
‘Happy city’ and people as hard as rocks. Boulder City. Part 2
<< Part I In the realities of the 1920s and 1930s, the West and the state of Nevada was a backward part of the USA that paled in comparison to…
December 17, 2025
A brutal planet and people as hard as rocks. Black Canyon Part 1
Do you have someone among your friends who is passionate about energy? Until a few months ago, the answer would probably have been - 'no, I don't'. Back then, energy…
December 10, 2025
Everything for sale. How controversial adverts work now and then
"Sell, sell, sell" is a classic call of militant salesmen around the world. The technical and psychological skills of controlling people's lust for new things have been improving for many…
October 14, 2025
Wealth has always traveled from West to East
Oligarch Part II
<< Part I William Andrews Clark's political success was not impressive, however. In 1907 Mark Twain described him in his essay, as the embodiment of corruption: “He is as rotten…
September 19, 2025
“Never bought a man that wasn’t for sale”
Oligarch Part I
A meaningful nomination for the title of Word of the Year 2022 could be "oligarchy". Everyone talks about the oligarchs, but each in a different context. The British talk about…
September 13, 2026