Flatley Steps Down
Michael Flatley is retiring! This is terrible news. But you can see why he'd want to go home. He started Irish step dancing when he was eleven, as he was growing up on Chicago's South Side, and this is a discipline that takes a lot out of you, especially the way he came to practice it. (His Web site says that he once produced thirty-five taps per second. How is that possible?) He's now fifty-seven, and he doesn't nee…