■ 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. ...
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. ...
Sanctified Violence: Holy War in World History,deserves a bit of explanation. The title translates as “The Apostle Saint James on Horseback, or Saint James the Moor-slayer.” How, one rightly asks, did an apostle of Jesus, the same Jesus who preached “Blessed are the peacemaker...
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 t...