Ordinary Sunday Brunch
Music Links
[Mu1] The Accusations Against Ryan Adams Are All Too Familiar: How far are the harassment and career-derailment allegations against the rocker from, say, the A Star Is Born story?
[Mu2] How Pop Music Embraced Death and Lost Its Sex Appeal .
[Mu3] Elvis Presley’s Comeback Special at 50: Inside the All-Star Revival.
[Mu4] Jazz, once thriving in Omaha, is now the least popular genre in the U.S.
[Mu5] 7 stunning classical duets that are guaranteed to lift your spirits.
[Mu6] Today in Hip Hop history 26 years ago, February 16, 1993, the legendary pop culture icon Tupac Shakur released his second studio LP.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAP8UpXFhUw&w=560&h=315]
History Links
[Hi1] “For Adams, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War contained within it insight of every possible “usefull” sort: “You will find it full of Instruction to the Orator, the Statesman, the General, as well as to the Historian and the Philosopher.”
[Hi2] The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed.
[Hi3] Buffalo Soldier, 98, Doesn’t Want Black Regiment’s History to ‘Fade Out’.
[Hi4] The Dare Stone – Hoax or History of the Lost Roanoke Colony?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_t20f4PiRM&w=560&h=315]
Art Links
[Ar1] Why some Georgia O’Keeffe paintings have ‘art acne’: A new imaging technique could help art curators track destructive bumps over time.
[Ar2] The Art of Repairing Broken Ceramics Creates a New Kind of Beauty.
[Ar3] Placing Art in Hotel Rooms Can Yield Genuinely Surprising Results.
[Ar4] How Nuns Have Shaped the Course of Art History.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZPksF69b6g&w=560&h=315]
Food Links
[Fo1] When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived.
[Fo2] The Table: Women Changing Culinary Culture, One Dinner At A Time:
[Fo3] Though “soul food” is a phrase deeply entrenched in our vocabulary, the term only became common in the 1960s and around the civil rights movement.
