Saturday, August 27, 2011

Swing Time: "No Cuffs!"

Fred Astaire was born in the last year of the 19th century. Today, in the second decade of the 21st century, we pause for a moment to consider Swing Time——one of his greatest achievements——on its 75th anniversary. The big assessments all are available to read: Arlene Croce’s The Fred Astaire and...
              

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Terror of the Lost Child

For these things I weep; my eye, yea my eye, sheds tears, for the comforter to restore my soul is removed from me; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed. Eichah—Lamentations, 16 “Leiby Kletzy vanished early Monday evening while walking home from a Borough Park day camp alone for the...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Quick Visit to 2007

Easing in to post-vacation blogging to find Tim Footman waxing nostalgic over at Cultural Snow for 2007, “when Amy Winehouse was always in the News of the World and we bloggers used to exchange memes.” (Side note: Ex-Yankee Hideki Irabu’s suicide did not make the international news.)And so Tim offers...
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