There’s a few people, but the cool thing is I can’t think of one because I actually met him — one of them was Miles Davis.
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Chicken-Fried News: Liquidation sale
A recent auction of Aubrey McClendon’s wine exceeded all expectations.
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Chicken-Fried News: Abandoned cellar? Put your kids in it!
Grand plans for Aubrey McClendon’s wine cellar didn’t quite work out as intended. The project, near the Chesapeake campus at NW 68th Street and Classen Boulevard, was started in 2006. It was abandoned sometime in 2008, complete with rusting steel beams and a partial foundation. Grand plans are once again underway, but rather than storing […]
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Ghosts of McClendon
The lawsuit, which also named Encana Oil and Gas USA, claims both energy companies took part in a 2010 public auctions for oil and gas leases by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The Michigan AG claims if the companies worked together after an initial auction so as not to bid against one another, it […]
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Nice curves
Glimcher Realty Trust reported the $51.8 million buy of Classen Curve, The Triangle at Classen Curve and Nichols Hills Plaza on March 3. The purchase plan first was announced in Glimcher’s fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 results released in February. The sale is the latest move in an effort by the energy company to […]
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We’re no. 51!
The Great Place to Work Institute scored companies based on employee survey responses, in which employees rated trust in management, workplace pride and camaraderie and job satisfaction. The institute also added that the 100 companies promote the best applied management practices. In Chesapeake’s case, it mostly just practices laying people off. “This recognition is a […]
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Magna Carta Holy Sh*t
The former is, of course, met with deafening applause, wild cheering and a palpable sense of excitement, as is the latter. But the icon is greeted with something more, this sort of split-second pause, wherein that uncontainable anticipation is temporarily supplanted with an awestruck, almost audible gasp of, “Oh my god. He is real.” That’s how […]
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A “Phresh” performance
Although apparently meeting expectations with crowd-pleasing hits like “Duffle Bag Boy,” “Birthday Song” and “I’m Different,” his set was little more than him shouting lyrics into the mic; yelling, “Say what?!” for no apparent reason; taking gratuitous bows; and occasionally delivering a few lines of actual rap that made the listener wonder if maybe he […]
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Love ya, too, Eddie Vedder
He knows Chesapeake Energy Arena is a Ticketmaster venue, right? Nevermind that, we guess. The … show … sold out. Didn’t it? However, we did get tickets for sale on Ticketmaster for $64-ish. Plus fees. So, $80-plus. But we digress. What’s disturbing is that on the band’s tour, even as a joke, Vedder, eh, kids […]
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CHICKEN FRIED NEWS
Courtesy He knows Chesapeake Arena’s a Ticketmaster venue, right? Nevermind that, we guess. The … show … sold out. Didn’t it? However, we did tickets for sale on Ticketmaster for $64-ish. Plus fees. So, $80-plus. But we digress. What’s disturbing is that on the band’s tour, even as a joke, Vedder, eh, kids about “the […]