By David_Chesanow on Jan 26, 2010 in Interview, What Experts Collect | 0 Comments
Charismatic, inquisitive, intelligent, enthusiastic – did I neglect to say telegenic? – Elyse Luray, like her three fellow investigators on the PBS series “History Detectives", brings to the field of history all the energy, relevance and wonder that somehow got bled out of it in too many junior high and high school classrooms.
You can tell [...]
By David_Chesanow on Dec 30, 2009 in Books, History, Interview | 4 Comments
Serial murderers, including serial murderers with sexual motivation, have terrorized humanity since time immemorial; we just don’t know to what extent. The vampire and werewolf legends of lore no doubt account for many of these, and I think it’s interesting that a recent medical theory attributes some historical cases of vampirism to rabies infection: It [...]
By David_Chesanow on Dec 17, 2009 in Art Posters, Events, Interview | 3 Comments
Poster art, like album cover art and T-shirt art, has been part of the iconography of American music since the 1960s – that decade of so many great, misguided and/or lost causes – when music really started to make a statement. You can trace some of the evolutionary branches of rock and roll through its [...]
