The NFL had Jerome “The Bus” Bettis, the MLB has “Tony Plush” (Milwaukee’s Nyjer Morgan) and the NBA has the Three Kings. Sadly, none of these nicknames compare to the creativity shown by professional wrestlers like “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, and Sgt. Slaughter. To help [...]

Sunday’s Bears game was undoubtedly special. Beyond the much needed win, Chicago had a chance to send Forte, Urlacher and the rest of the team over the Atlantic to the surprisingly sunny London. I’ll leave the post-game commentary to the football pundits but as an expat living in London, I [...]

The last two weeks have been tricky. The Piehl clan was scheduled to make our first European vacation but my sister Kimberly – the family’s best long distance runner – broke her foot and the trip was put on hold until the Spring. Kind of… Papa Piehl still needed to [...]

Anyone can run outside during the summer but it takes a diehard runner, or a huge chocoholic, to attempt the Hot Chocolate 15K / 5K race this November. The race itself is a rather standard event, but in the end participants earn a delicious mug of Ghirardelli hot chocolate, chocolate [...]

There is a new ‘race’ in town and like the 1960s space race or the 2000s smartphone race, this one features two heavy weights fighting for your loyalty. But this time they aren’t pushing iPhones, Blackberrys, or anti-Communist messages, now it’s about whiskey. Not to be out done by The [...]

A London fact only Londoners know (well maybe): While some Americans try to downplay Columbus Day by saying he got lost and then “found” a part of the world that was never lost, most European’s don’t bat an eye. To them, Columbus was just another explorer. Growing up, Columbus Day [...]

Building a 65 story building in the middle of a Mexico City could be a complicated task to complete. So the folks at BNKR Arquitectura in Mexico are proposing another option: build tower below ground and call it an ‘”Earthscraper.” With a glass ceiling, the ground level mall will look [...]

Between sci-fi movies and CNN headlines, it’s almost tough to imagine a future that doesn’t include a zombie apocalypse. And since some of the sci-fi movies like 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and Shaun of the Dead take place in England, there is a good chance Londoners will be [...]