The Fall and Rise of Bowie
It’s easy to start a fight between David Bowie fans: Simply ask them to name his best album. Thanks…
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The Hollywood Blacklist Gets Whitewashed
An exhibit on loan from the Jewish Museum in Milwaukee is now at the Capital Jewish Museum in…
Insect-ifying Humanity: The Paul Ehrlich Legacy
Dr. Paul Ralph Ehrlich (1932-2026), who passed away last week at the age of 93, was perhaps the…
Chosen to Make America’s Toys
The People of the Book, it turns out, are also the people of the Teddy Bear, Barbie, and Batman. As…
A Lexicon for the Linguistically Curious
Ever wonder what the six teeth on all Venetian gondolas signify? (The six districts of Venice.) Or…
The Sacred and Profane Decade
One of the stranger moments in the history of American popular music occurred in the winter of 1986,…
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