As the holiday party season gets into full swing, we should acknowledge the great partiers of days gone by: specifically, the modernists
There are just over 20 drive-in restaurants and 300 drive-in movie theatres left nationwide in the US. Here, MailOnline Travel takes a nostalgic glimpse back at this vanishing pastime.
Champagne glass towers and punch, please!
Sometimes these cabarets would feature midget waiters who were dressed as demons.
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If your quarantine sweats are feeling uninspired, check out these styles from a century ago
New York City, 1937
The golden age of hollywood has always been known as such an elaborate, decadent period of time. It represented a time when America was on top of the world and respected by every other nation. The …
As a jazz musician for seven decades, and as a chronicler of its intellectual and spiritual development through his fascinating, award-winning photography, Milt Hinton acts as an essential connecting point for the music and its associated culture. Hinton played bass alongside iconic figures like Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong, and, as a photographer, brought these men and a host of others into focus as musicians, artists, and vital contributors to twentieth-century American life. With the generous consent of David G. Berger and Holly Maxson, who along with Milt Hinton co-authored Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs, Jerry Jazz Musician presents a photo exhibit, "Jazz: Through the Life and Lens of Milt Hinton."
musical film, motion picture consisting of a plot integrating musical numbers. Although usually considered an American genre, musical films from Japan, Italy, France, Great Britain, and Germany have contributed to the development of the type. The first musical film, The Jazz Singer (1927), starring Al Jolson, introduced the sound era of motion pictures. It was followed by a series of musicals hastily made to capitalize on the novelty of sound. One of the few outstanding films of this early period was Broadway Melody (1929), which won the Academy Award for best picture of 1928–29. In the early 1930s the German
In these photographs of yesteryear, passengers spending the holiday season on board the Cunard Queen Mary were treated to a plenty of festive cheer during the golden age of travel.
Paris in the 1920s is such a glamorously evocative concept … You can’t help but think Ernest Hemingway and highballs, Josephine Baker and dances of wild abandon, Coco Chanel and beaded black party frocks, avant-garde artists and smouldering muses … And, most of all, fun — crazy-mad fun. Paris didn’t call these years les années […]Continue Reading
1940s nightclub served a side of horror with its martinis
We sometimes hear or read this term, ‘so-and-so was a Golden Age author’ or ‘in the Golden Age style’. But what was the Golden Age? When was it, what did it mean, who were t…
“It was a girl – a girl arrived.” In Zadie Smith’s brilliant new novel Swing Time, two North London schoolgirls in the early 1980s form an intense friendship that thrives on their love of dance, and one exceptional performer in particular. Together they attend classes in a local church hall, and watch VHS copies of film musicals – rewinding and replaying the dance numbers to pay tribute to their idols and to learn their techniques.
When you think of the 1920s, one might imagine speakeasies filled with plush carpet, cigar smoke, jazz music, and bathtubs full of gin. Let's remember,...
Hungry for paprika chicken, zucchini casserole, vegan cookies or chili so delicious Elizabeth Taylor demanded it? You will be.
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There were cigarette girls allover Las Vegas. It seems like such an old fashioned idea but it was still executed so well. It didn'...
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