Joke told around Harvard Yard: “Q: How many Southerners does it take to change a light bulb? A: Five – one to change the bulb and four more to talk about how […]
Toward a geography of rock: part 3, the South – looking backward to go forward…
Honey Pie: Paul McCartney, music hall crooner
“Both John and I had a great love for music hall, what the Americans call vaudeville… I very much liked that old crooner style, the strange fruity voice that they used, so […]
The Sky
You need to look up more often, Sparky. My S&R Tokyo series will return periodically. From now on I’m doing things at random, ‘cause entropy needs love too. It rained a little […]
STEP RIGHT UP! It’s Dr. Cho’s Magical UnSplash Elixir!
You give it to us. We make money it on it. I think the word you’re looking for is “pimp.” The medicine show is back in town. Meet Mikael Cho, entrepreneur, and […]
Twilight of the gods: a musicologist considers the work of the Beatles…
Mellers’ exploration of the Beatles as a group and as solo artists is rich in insight; anyone who wants to understand both the musicology and the psychology of the Fab Four owes […]
A geography of rock: pt 2, the Northeast – NY, Philly, Boston, art, money, and soul…
“Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft A Bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning, A jest falls from the speechless caravan.” – Hart Crane (Read part […]
Is J.K Rowling the last truly global literary icon?
So I was switching channels a couple of weeks ago during the rain delay at Wimbledon, and hit a Harry Potter movie, which I am always happy to waste some time on. […]
Gyre: Happy Lughnasadh from S&R
Lughnasadh or Lughnasa (pronounced /ˈluːnəsə/, LOO-nə-sə; Irish: Lúnasa, /ˈl̪ˠuːn̪ˠəsˠə/; Scottish Gaelic: Lùnastal, [ˈl̪ˠu:nəsd̥əl̪ˠ]; Manx: Luanistyn, [ˈluanɪst̪ən]) is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season.
Hey Bulldog: John Lennon, rocker…
“Hey Bulldog” provides us with the only film of the Beatles recording a song, amazing as that sounds. “I remember ‘Hey Bulldog’ as being one of John’s songs and I helped him […]
Vivian Maier was a stealthy street-camera recon patrol (S&R Honors)
Unknown, unpublished in life, photography icon is now enjoying a post-mortem renaissance… Vivian Maier shot up the streets of Chicago, but no one ever called the police nor filed any kind of […]
