STRANGE PHENOMENA
An occasional feature of the MAGBAG is Strange Phenomena. Culled from the pages of magazines like FATE, Fortean Times, and Strange, these oddities give perspective to our workaday world, and enrich our humdrum lives with a taste of the unexpected. Here then is a compendium of a few of the conundrums of science we’ve highlighted in past issues. read more →
World Humanitarian Day
BIRTHDAYS Buzz Kilman 1944Bill Clinton 1946Mary Matalin 1953 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →
International Youth Day
BIRTHDAYS Samuel Fuller 1912William Goldman 1931John Cazale 1935 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →
International Tiger Day
BIRTHDAYS Budd Boetticher 1916Teddy Atlas 1956Scott Steiner 1962 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →
Ratcatcher’s Day
BIRTHDAYS Margaret Whiting 1924Albert Brooks 1947Don Henley 1947 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →
Rosetta Stone Day
BIRTHDAYS Vladimir Nabokov 1870Linda Ronstadt 1946Forest Whitaker 1961 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →
Feast of Grimbald
BIRTHDAYS Steve Lawrence 1935Jeffrey Tambor 1944Wolfgang Puck 1949 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →
Canada Day
BIRTHDAYS James M. Cain 1892Thomas Dorsey 1899Sydney Pollack 1934 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on.. read more →
Discovery Day
BIRTHDAYS Phil Harris 1904Lawrence Block 1938Jeff Beck 1944 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →
Confederate Memorial Day
BIRTHDAYS Tony Curtis 1925Ian Hunter 1939John Dykstra 1947 ____________________________________________________ Have You Seen City Newsstand Since We Remodeled? Dave Hoekstra of the Chicago Sun-Times dropped by City Newsstand and Mike gave him a tour of the store. Read the story and see the video here:http://blogs.suntimes.com/hoekstra/2013/02/city_newsstand_read_and_see_al.html ______________________________________________________________________ City Newsstand is on Facebook! Come like us on Facebook.. read more →