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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Easter Bunny Blues
Posted in holidays, periodicals, religion, visual culture, tagged easter on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Good Bye, Leaven!
Posted in advertising, african-americans, food, holidays, Jews, religion, video on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the domestically-inclined, Break out your horseradish everybody! Passover is officially here, bringing with it gefilte fish, chocolate-covered matzo, brisket, and all the other healthy treats you’ve come to associate with the feast of the unleavened bread. In truth, perverse as it might sound, I do look forward to Passover every year, I suppose because [...]
What the World Needs Now
Posted in holidays, scrapbooks, visual culture, tagged valentine's day on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dear leisure suit lovers, It’s here again, everyone’s favorite Hallmark holiday, Valentine’s Day, a chance for singles to moan and couples to glow (and sometimes gloat). Where might we find traces of this hallowed festival in the digital archive? Well, friends, I’m glad you asked. Today we turn to the Notable Women of Simmons Scrapbook [...]
The Kitsch of Christmas Past
Posted in advertising, domesticity, holidays, television, video on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Dear New Years TV marathon viewers, If you wondering when your local cafe, supermarket, and shopping mall would stop playing “Santa Baby,” rest assured: Christmas is almost here! Though my own family is Jewish, the holiday still holds so many sweet memories for me: the evening I gathered all the ornaments given to my mother [...]
Hanukkah Caroling
Posted in fun, holidays, Jews, music, tagged hanukkah on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear holiday lovers, In case you’ve lost track of your candle-lighting, tonight’s the sixth night of Hanukkah—a.k.a. the Festival of Lights, a.k.a. the Jewish Christmas, a.k.a. an excuse to eat oily, fried foods. Hanukkah sometimes felt like a hard holiday to get into as a kid. I loved the eight days of presents and the [...]
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