■ While you’re at theSpectator, of course by now you should have already studied mylament for the excessive strength of widely available beers— provoked by the news that Sam Smith’s Brewery have increased the alcohol level of their trusty and reliable Alpine Lager. ...
The genre also deploys with a remarkable regularity a number of familiar tropes ofze Germanswhich the above clip from a British comedy sketch programme (introduced to me by the indomitable Jack Smith) aptly mocks. November 23, 2017 10:30 am |Link|1 Comment » ...
Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (2024). A marvelous, meditative session by two revered jazz elders–both are now in their 80s. It’s easy to call such a meeting historic, and it is, but the music is simply beautifu...
In the 1960s and ’70s, I was a teacher in Baltimore City Public Schools assigned to the Department of Radio and Television housed in an old Carnegie-endowed public library building on Smith Avenue and Greeley Road in the heart of Mt. Washington. ...
Jonathan Riley-Smith on theMotivations of the First Crusaders. In making such a case, the focus is usually on Byzantine Christians and their letters and embassies to popes and western nobility, as well as their attendance at ecclesiastical councils like Piacenza and Clermont, all in an effort to...
Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers,Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens(2024). A marvelous, meditative session by two revered jazz elders–both are now in their 80s. It’s easy to call such a meeting historic, and it is, but the music is simply beautiful....
She graduated from Smith College. ... The bride is the great-great-great maternal granddaughter of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the astronomer, meteorologist and oceanographer who is known as the Pathfinder of th...
Smith it seems all vampires that don’t sparkle live in the South. Why? (If there’s one panel I’m scheduled into at almost every con I attend, it’s this one. But having just finished my third Fat White Vampire book, Fat White Vampire Otaku, I’ve got something new to share.)...
I remember watching the premier of the television version of Alexander McCall Smith’s “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” at her’s there on Easter Sunday evening in 2008 — an Edinburgh/Southern Africa crossover event if ever there was one. She was amused but dignified when another wo...