I'm no marketing expert, so when I read that our highly regarded sports architecture firm, HOK Sport Venue Event, changed its name to Populous, I was confused. Why ditch a well-known name for one that sounds like a pharmaceutical-grade acne medication?The name change was necessary after the local firm's management bought itself out from under St. Louis-based HOK Group at the end of 2008. A source at HOK Sport told me yesterday that the split happened because the KC office, with its focus on s
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist
brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from
area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do
this for one reason: Knowledge is power.
Going Places: How America's Best and Brightest Got Started
Down the Road of Life
Author:
E.D. Hill, former host of Fox News' "I Have Nothing Else To Live
For So I May As Well Watch This" Morning Show
Publisher:
The
Regan imprint of HarperCollins, the same people who brought you O.J.
A 24-ounce can of PBR is in the back of my fridge right now. It's in the regular spot for a tallboy, towering over the craft beers but a neck below the Tank 7 Smokestack series from Boulevard. Tallboys are the lone holdout from my days of college drinking. They still go well with a football game and take up less room than a six-pack. Also, they seem to be a compromise with Father Time: Hey, at least I'm not drinking a Forty, anymore -- 24 ounces is a sign of moderation.
