The Wired Media Empire Rises AgainWeb nostalgiaThere should be some sort of formula governing nostalgia: The Pace of Change/It's Impact on People's Lives and Careers = Nostalgia Quotient. If trends and business fade quickly but they were important personally or historically, recalling them is vital, even if it was only...
Another vintage favorite is back this season with the return of Cadbury Adams' Nostalgia gum brands--Black Jack, with its classic licorice taste; Beemans, with its stomach-settling properties, since it contains pepsin; and Clove, with its spicy aroma Another vintage favorite is back this season with the...
I'm as susceptible to nostalgia as the next girl - and she probably falls short of my devotion to Cary Grant - but some things are just obsolete. Blood-letting as medicine, chamber-pots as hygiene: we've moved on for a reason. But some primitive forms die harder than others. With shows...
GEORGE MICHAEL Earls Court LONDON **** When George Michael walked on to the stage at London's Earls Court, in one of the final dates of his two-year farewell tour, he told fans that they were lucky to see a show that he had practised 103 times....
Music We can all agree that the music business is dying. But is avant garde choral music really the answer? 17 By Bill Drummond Beautiful Books Pounds 12.99 The business model under which the music industry has given us great pop music for more than half...
DENVER, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- DNC conventioneers seeking a break from the convention floor can rise above the hustle and bustle just a short walk from the Pepsi Center. Little Man Ice Cream, housed in a gleaming 28-foot replica of an old-fashioned milk can, offers up home-made ice cream,...
When you see a Dolly Parton show, you've really seen something. Tuesday night at UC Berkeley's Greek Theatre -- backed by a big, bland band and three first-rate singers -- the 62-year-old Parton delivered a two-hour show packed with four decades of fantastic songs, loads of corny...
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- 1800mattress.com, the nation's leading tele-retailer of bedding products and accessories, is teaming with bedding manufacturer Simmons and bed & breakfast industry expert Pamela Lanier, to offer an exclusive luxury mattress that reflects the nostalgia and romance of the inn experience. ...
CELTIC'S next opponents in the Feyenoord Jubilee Tournament this evening might as well call themselves Nostalgia FC. Not only do tournament hosts Feyenoord employ the services of former Rangers duo Giovanni van Bronckhorst and Michael Mols in their ranks, and other returning thirtysomethings such as Roy Mackay and Jon Dahl...
There's a rather wonderful new book out by a man named Travis Elborough, which sounds a bit like one of those dead Dorset villages where every second house is a holiday rental. Mr Elborough's previous book was a great thundering roar of nostalgia for the Routemaster bus, and The Long-Player...
LEADING ARTICLE There are few things that cloud the mind quite like nostalgia. We tend to remember our own childhoods as one long nature ramble. And so many will inspect the results of the survey by the BBC Wildlife magazine that shows children are increasingly disconnected...
Ethnographica moralia; experiments in interpretive anthropology. Ed. by Neni Panourgia and George E. Marcus. Fordham University Press 2008 280 pages $25.00 Paperback GN33 Anthropologists describe how interpretive anthropology has shaped the approaches they use,...
Japanese visual culture; explorations in the world of manga and anime. Ed. by Mark Wheeler MacWilliams. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 2008 352 pages $76.95 Hardcover NC1764 MacWilliams (religious studies, St. Lawrence U., New York) examines...
Tequila 100 AnosTM pays tribute to Mexican culture with a collection of original photos of celebrated Mexican musicians from the last century DEERFIELD, Ill., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The "100 Years of Mexican Music" exhibit, sponsored by Tequila 100 AnosTM, arrives in Los Angeles, closing a multi-city...
Company Launches Anniversary Website to Celebrate 30 Delicious Years CALABASAS HILLS, Calif. -- It was first served to Olympic athletes in Ancient Greece in 776 B.C. then became popular in America after a dairyman invented cream cheese in 1872. Now, America's favorite dessert gets its due respect, with...
With the Osmond family as special guests, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square are celebrating Pioneer Day just as it should be: with joy, exuberance, nostalgia, inspiration and love. With a concert Friday night, one tonight and a special "Music and the Spoken Word"...
*Does any night have more truly atrocious shows than Wednesday? It's as if the broadcast networks are using the evening this summer as some sort of historic gathering spot for TV's worst and dimmest: Wife Swap (8 ET/PT) and Supernanny (9 ET/PT) on ABC, Big Brother (8 ET/PT) and Criminal...
For five generations, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch has been not only an American success story but a family-run business. So it is a little sad to see Belgium's InBev, brewer of Stella Artois and Beck's, making a serious effort to take over the company. But it is even...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The pillar-box red lipstick is the first clue the white-coated butcher sawing up a grass-fed California lamb isn't your typical meat-cutter. But then, Avedano's Holly Park Market is no ordinary chop shop. Tucked into San Francisco's funky...
Despite all the talk of globalisation, mutual economic dependency and trade linkages, policymakers spend too much time focusing on the domestic minutiae and not enough on the really big international stories which determine our economic destinies. I know this because, like anyone else, I can log...
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