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Archive for April, 2010

Corsets and Cross-dressing, or the Joys of Theater

Posted in advertising, photography, theater, tagged , , on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Dear Prodigy pioneers, This week and next, the undergrad dorm where I’m a resident tutor is putting on their annual musical—this year Guys and Dolls. And complete Carrie Bradshawesque narcissist that I am, that got me thinking back to my own theatrical past, specifically trying out for my high school’s production of Guys and Dolls [...]

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Music Mags From the Age of Implosion

Posted in music, periodicals, tagged , on April 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Dear iTunes addicts, Today’s post comes to you courtesy of Jack Hamilton, a fellow PhD student in Harvard’s American Civilization program. He is currently at work on his dissertation titled ‘Rubber Souls’: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, 1963-1971. Before coming to Harvard, Jack was a contributor to Rolling Stone and Paper, among other [...]

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Q & A: Margot Canaday, Historian of Sexuality and the State

Posted in government, Lazy Scholar Interview, LGBT, tagged on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Dear hump day hurdlers, Welcome to the second Lazy Scholar interview, this time with Margot Canaday, Assistant Professor of history at Princeton University. Professor Canaday’s first book, the insightful and inspiring The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America, came out from Princeton University Press last summer. Drawing on a wealth of diverse [...]

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Getting to Home Plate With Sheet Music and Tobacco Cards

Posted in Baltimore, baseball, leisure, music, sports, tagged , on April 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Dear seventh-inning stretchers, With President Obama’s high and wide pitch, baseball season is officially upon us. So I turned to Matthew Mugmon to dig into the archive for signs of the pastime’s past. Matthew is a graduate student in music at Harvard, whose dissertation looks at the relationship between American modernism and the music of Austrian [...]

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Thrills of the Open Road

Posted in advertising, cars, commerce, leisure, tagged on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

To the spring-attired, I never imagined myself an auto enthusiast. In fact, for years, I had nightmares about losing control of my car on the parkway, and wasn’t sure if I should interpret them as a Final Destination-ish prophecy of my own demise or a mere anxiety dream. Yet after driving 3000 miles through Southwestern [...]

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Easter Bunny Blues

Posted in holidays, periodicals, religion, visual culture, tagged on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

To the holiday-cheerful, Today’s post comes to you from a very special guest, someone who can speak with far more authority about Easter than I ever could (and far more irony than I would ever dare), Mollie Wilson O’Reilly. Mollie is an associate editor of Commonweal Magazine, and blogs at Restricted View. You may have [...]

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