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Cookbooks are sorts of time capsules. Open one from a previous era, and comb through old recipes to find evidence of what the people who came before me cooked. So when I heard talk swirling around the interwebs of a cookbook dedicated to a decadent recreation of the 60’s, I was excited to scan the…
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News Revival of ‘On the Town’ Goes Forward Into the Past on Broadway
There’s always some nostalgia baked into a Broadway musical, that old-fashioned and always-dying art form that reached its apex in middle of the 20th century. It’s there in the subject matter, too: Even the freshest “Guys and Dolls” puts you in vintage New York; “Gypsy” is ever in the late days of vaudeville; and even…
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Life Grandmothers, You’re Scaring Me
Grandmothers and more experienced mothers: You’re starting to scare me. I appreciate the constant cooing over my little girl, I do. But the nostalgia you regularly voice is worrisome. My year-old daughter, Lila, and I are regularly stopped by women who identify themselves as having “older” or “grown” children, and most don’t sound so happy…
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The Schmooze Jazz Pearls of Sweet Nostalgia
Gaucho’s “Pearl,” released last month on Porto Franco Records and launched at the Jewish Music Festival of Berkeley, Calif., is the perfect accompaniment to a lazy autumn afternoon. Channeling the sounds of 1930s Paris, the San Francisco-based sextet plays the kind of gentle, sometimes-jubilant, sometimes-melancholy swing that doesn’t make you want to get up and…
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