Rock and Roll Will Never Die (But May Need a Knee Replacement)

Rock and Roll will Never Die

I was in London on a beautiful late winter day in 2009, early for a meeting in the neighborhood of the Old Vic. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed this lady emerging from a building with the hand-lettered sign by the door. When I showed this to my son-in-law, he said, "those have got to be tough classes."

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  • The China Golf Market: An Interview in China Real Estate Business

    This interview first appeared in China Real Estate Business, a Chinese-language newspaper with a national circulation in China, on November 12, 2011. 1. When did your company start to focus on the Chinese golf industry?   Did you focus especially on golf course management and operations?   What kind of problems have you discovered? JOHN STRAWN:  Hills & Forrest is a golf course architectural firm, so our focus is on designing courses.   We have also formed a joint venture with two Chinese partners, one of which, Cheng Jun Golf, does own and operate courses.    The courses they operate are private membership courses, ...

  • The Golf Capital of America: The Road to Bandon Dunes

    In its November, 2011 issue, Golf Digest finally gets around to recognizing that Oregon's Bandon Dunes is  the Number One Golf Resort in North America, supplanting Pebble Beach in its annual rankings.   I've been telling everyone for years that Bandon Dunes isn't the best golf resort in North America--it's the best golf resort in the world.  Nothing I've seen anywhere comes close to challenging Bandon Dunes as a single destination resort, even though a better place  for an extended golf holiday with multiple courses and travel in between does exist--and it is and always will be the west coast of ...

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