Trick-or-Treating, Turnips and Jack-o-lanterns
Irish Central, Atlas Obscura, and the English Heritage Blog have some stories about the origins of Halloween and a man named, “Jack.”
Two Sinister and Macabre Nightclubs of Twenties Paris
So Bad So Good has a gallery of images from “sinister and macabre” Parisian nightclubs from the 1920s.
In Search Of… : A Beginner’s Guide To An Uneasy Universe
This week guest star is Holly Hunt is covering for Carol Borden. Holly Hunt hopes someday to write about Hans Holzer’s The Habsburg Curse as the book that changed her life. ~~~ In Search of… the classic–I’d even say paradigmatic–paranormal reality show, ran from 1977 to 1982. The […]
The True Story of Prince & Basketball
The Undefeated has an account of the basketaball game between Prince vs. Charlie Murphy in, “Game, Blouses.” ‘“Yes, it’s true, we had on ‘blouses,’ and frilly shirts,” Free said. “The same clothes we had at the club. Prince played in 6-inch heels!”’ (Thanks, Less Lee!)
All the Spare Ribs!
Open Culture has all 239 issues of Spare Rib. “Founded in ’72 by Marsha Rowe and Rosie Boycott (pictured below), and run as a collective, the magazine featured a ‘breadth of voices.’ Early issues “involved big-name contributors including Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Margaret Drabble and Alice Walker, but […]
Cosmonaut’s Retro-Mission Patches
“The history of Soviet mission patches begins with one of space travel’s most significant achievements. In 1963, Valentina Teresknova made history as the first woman in space. Her call sign was Chayka—Seagull—and under it, she completed 48 orbits of Earth. As she did so, hidden from view, sewn onto the […]
The Cultural Gutter 