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- Twenty Years Ago Today by Mango & Ginger on Nov 9, 2009
As everybody who's ever taken a European history class knows, following World War II, Germany was a big mess of divided loyalties, and a focal point of the international dispute between communism and democracy. In 1956, the government of East Germany...
- Anthropology, Architecture & Cooking by Mango & Ginger on Nov 4, 2009
Question:In which discipline is anthropology more important/apparent: architecture or cooking?That's an offshoot of a conversation my sister (the architecture student) and I (the ethnographic research analyst) have been having.After watching Top Chef...
- A Couple of Links from the NYT by Mango & Ginger on Aug 1, 2009
The NYT has, lately, been chock-full of interesting things. First, that Michael Pollan article I wrote about yesterday. Also, this excerpt from Frank Bruni's memoir.Earlier this week, M&G reader Emily sent me a link to the Bruni piece, which I'd...
- Artsy Wednesday: Radical Cartography by Mango & Ginger on Apr 8, 2009
Last week, Apartment Therapy linked to the kind of site where I can lose hours and hours of my day. Radical Cartography is the brainchild of Harvard grad student Bill Rankin. AT honed right in on some of the prettier, older maps, like these maps of t...
- Artsy: Duchamp at the National Portrait Gallery by Mango & Ginger on Apr 7, 2009
The Dada movement has always appealed to me. I'm into the humor, the nonsense, the vacillation between being intellectual/theoretical and not taking anything seriously at all. It's no surprise, then, that I'm a fan of the absurd work of Marcel Ducham...
- Artsy Wednesday: From Altar to Easel to Oven by Mango & Ginger on Jan 28, 2009
About 10 or 15 years ago, my brother picked up this book on a remainder shelf someplace. It was called The Eighties: A Reader - just a collection of essays written during the '80s that sort of summed up the decade.There was one essay he was always af
- Stuff White People Like: Still Relevant by Mango & Ginger on Jan 5, 2009
Even though the Washington Post's "in and out" list put SWPL firmly in the "out" category, this post about sea salt proves that the site's still got it. At least, they've still got a firm, firm grip on what this white pe
