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Relics of the Space Age
“Abandoned in Place,” a new book of photographs by Roland Miller, finds haunting beauty in derelict launch pads, rusting towers and other detritus of the American space race. By Kenneth Chang.
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Raunchy, Raucous Coney Island
Perhaps for Freud, Coney Island was America—a realm where fantasy was made material and the pleasure principle ruled. So it is with the bountiful exhibition “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” at the Brooklyn Museum through March 13. By J. Hoberman.
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I want my wings: The Last Tycoons
Andrew O’Hagan reviews “West of Eden: An American Place” by Jean Stein.
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Colonels of Truth
“In Corbin, according to Harland Sanders, ‘Bootleggin’s, fights, and shootin’s was as regular as a rooster’s crowing in the mornin’.’ Whether or not this excessive chicken noise informed Sanders’ future career is impossible to say, but Corbin is where he began his gradual transformation into the future famous food icon.” By Alan Bellows.
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‘King of the Hill’: The Last Bipartisan TV Comedy
The Fox sitcom, which went off the air in 2010, managed to unite both liberal and conservative viewers by emphasizing its characters’ humanity in a changing world. By Bert Clere.
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Amidst of the Rubble of Bedrock City
The rise and fall of the Flintstone empire. By Amy McKeever.
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Twilight of the Superheroes
The increasing darkness of Superman, Batman, and their brethren are indicators of the American public’s anxiety. By Carmen Petaccio.
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We analyzed the names of almost every Chinese restaurant in America. This is what we learned...
A funny thing happened when reporter Jennifer 8. Lee showed the man who invented General Tso's Chicken what had become of his dish: He was appalled. "That's not right. This isn't authentic," he told her, an interaction she chronicled in her 2009 book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food. General Tso's Chicken might be the most popular Chinese dish in the western world...
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It’s All Devo
Gerald Casale
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Barbering for Freedom
Elias Rodriques on segregation, separatism, and the history of black barbershops.
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The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune
A former 1960s bondage-film actress is waging legal combat with a toy company for ownership of her husband’s mail-order aquatic-pet empire. By Jack Hitt.
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Inside Laredo, the Secret, Members-Only Wild West Town in England
Its founders have spent weekends re-enacting American frontier life for over 30 years.
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Skin deep: glimpse into the history of American tattoo design – in pictures
These hand-drawn artworks from the 1900s to 1960s, collected in a new book, are what customers would choose their design from, and are increasingly rare
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whipping post - the allman brothers band
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Meaning of American Pie by Don McLean (w/lyrics)
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Why Girl Scouts Are Still Mostly White
The 104-year-old organization is having trouble recruiting black and Latina kids. Why?
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Henry Ford’s Campaign to Make America Great Again
In the 1924 presidential election, the most hyped candidate was an egotistical and fabulously wealthy businessman who many politicians did not believe would really run. That man was legendary carmaker Henry Ford, and the resemblance between his political un-career and Donald Trump’s is striking. Ford was impulsive, hated experts of any kind, and refused to commit to a platform, specific policies, or even a political party. Instead he ran—for Senate in 1918, and (kind of) for president in 1924—on his reputation as a captain of industry and force of nature.
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Shanty Dreams
A Quest for the Forgotten Stories of the Tennessee River. By Clay Duda. (July 21, 2016)
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Preserving the Muffler Men, America’s Fiberglass Giants
The United States was invaded by hundreds of giants in the 1960s and 70s. Over half a century later, those that remain are weathered and decayed, their kitsch out of fashion.
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Eighty Years of James Agee
Christopher Knapp looks back on “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.”
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