by Michael Leppert | May 2, 2024 | Pop/Life
When the news broke last year that heavy metal band, Judas Priest, was coming to town for an April concert I took charge and bought reserved seats up front. When I saw them first in 1984, metal bands didn’t even sell reserved seats, we had to fight for them. That was...
by Michael Leppert | Jun 28, 2023 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
The great Chicago philosopher of the 1980’s, Ferris Bueller, said: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” While reading the new book, “From Property to Partner: Women’s Progress and Political Resistance,” I...
by Michael Leppert | Nov 3, 2022 | Pop/Life
“It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man,” is my favorite quote from my all-time favorite western. “Unforgiven” is the Oscar-winning, 1992 Clint Eastwood movie about William Munny, a has-been killer who learns of a $1000 bounty in Big Whiskey, Wyoming that brings him...
by Michael Leppert | Aug 20, 2021 | Pop/Life
I went back to school in 2019 for the first time in almost thirty years. As much as I love the classic 1986 movie, Back to School, my middle-aged return to campus didn’t have much in common with the Rodney Dangerfield version. I got all of the partying, romance...
