By most calculations there are between one and three million gay retirees in the US, many of whom entered adulthood in the first blush of gay liberation in the Sixties. It took a retired university professor from New York, Bill Laing, to realise that many lesbians and gays would rather be...
For decades, Chinese-Americans were feared and hated, yet when WWII happened, it was Japanese-Americans that were placed in concentration camps. Asians is a large category, and so while all people from Asia were discriminated against by United States society, they did not feel as if there ...
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There’s a huge list of things you could complain about. Homage to the point of pastiche or even plagiarism. Americans doing Sarah Records-type twee emotion, with all the problems that entails. An extremely conscious ditching of the 80s pastiche lo-fi sound that took some defending in the ...
From there, country music grew roots in the city of Nashville, where the Grand Ole Opry radio and television show launched the careers of icons like Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash. It was also the place where the genre had its "Big Bang" moment, when talent scout Ralph Peer began to scout...
the Leftist New Republic suddenly became unusually respectful of the supposed arch-nemesis of the far-Left and simply stated “the head of the National Rifle Association” went to Mass there as well. Perhaps that’s because so few Americans know that, like clownish “gun-advocate” Ted Nugent...
Living to 100 may seem like a major feat, but there are communities around the world where it's common — they're called "Blue Zones." Minnesota native Dan Buettneris one of the foremost experts on how they work. Buettner's new Netflix documentary and New...
In Waterloo, Jackson County, lies this dirt road that twists toward Sugarloaf Lake. There is an old 1800s graveyard hidden somewhere in the woods, with no gravemarkers left. Think you can find it? M-25 Google Maps M-25 This highway worms its way around the Michigan Thumb, with plenty ...
It first originated in the early 1900s, particularly among working-class southern Americans. Elements of fiddle songs, ballads, banjo, jazz, and blues became entangled together, leading to its official recognition as a genre (often referred to as "hillbilly music") by the 1920s. From there, ...
Alexa Jay says she got invited to The Highlight Room with some friends for a party. While there, she ran into friend and model Ella Halikas. Jay claims that after she and her friends got to the front of the line, the bouncer let her friends in before he "put the rope down" in fr...