A Brief History of the Doughnut - Highbrow Magazine
WEBSep 24, 2016 · Photographer: Google Images; Wikipedia Commons. The “doughnut” came to Manhattan under the Dutch name olykoeks, or “oily cakes,” according to a Smithsonian article. In mid-19th century New England, a ship captain’s mother named Elizabeth Gregory made her son fried dough with nuts in the middle to take on his long journeys.
father and son stories - Highbrow Magazine
WEBfather and son stories. Later my father put on a gray sweater. We ate chili by a fire. We talked about baseball. My father smiled. He was growing a beard. One day he would be smiling in the Denver Airport of Death, but today he was smiling under normal non-death conditions; breathing without making fearful choking faces, with his bowl of chili ...
Food - Highbrow Magazine
WEBSounding the Alarm on Our Global Food System in ‘Food, Inc. 2’. One of the primary messages of Food, Inc. was the fact that an extremely limited number of companies control the global food system, and that money is often the driver behind policy that would be better set based on factors like health, safety, and long-term sustainability.
From Master Juba to ‘Happy Feet’: A Brief History of Tap Dancing
WEBDec 31, 2012 · Master Juba and other black dancers performed for blacks and Irishmen in 1840s New York City. He won many contests against talented white dancers, including some with Irish dancer Jack Diamond. Irish jig and clog-dancing fused with African-American moves like the shuffle and slide, which eventually led to tap dance.
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Actor Kristoffer Polaha’s Journey to Stardom - Highbrow Magazine
WEBApr 8, 2021 · Rather than follow “America’s Prince” with increasingly important TV and movie roles, Polaha landed a string of starring appearances in television shows that seemed promising, launched … and then stalled … time and again. From 2004 to 2012, Polaha had key roles in the nighttime soap “North Shore,” the sitcom “Miss Guided,” the romantic comedy “Valentine,” the relationship ...
Nigeria - Highbrow Magazine
WEBBoko Haram, in the local Hausa language, means something along the line of, “Western education is forbidden.”. It’s a term applied to them by residents in the communities in which the movement arose in the early 2000s, in the northeast of Nigeria. They refer to themselves differently, as Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad (People ...
Satan, Saturn, and Rock’n’Roll: The Mythology of the 27 Club
WEBAug 21, 2014 · The coincidence is so eerie, and yet so compelling, that the curse of the 27 Club has become one of rock music’s best-known mythologies. Rock ‘n’ Roll is, after all, a genre driven by obsession with the supernatural and the occult. Castigated since its earliest days as “the devil’s music” for the way it seemed to infuse teenagers ...
Remembering Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius of Silent Comedy
WEBSep 12, 2014 · One argument for the eclipse of Lloyd – who has been referred to by film historian Kevin Brownlow as “the third genius” of silent comedy (along with Keaton and Chaplin) and by others as the “King of Daredevil Comedy” – is that though he produced many of his own films, he never took a directing or writing credit, as did the other two ...
The Influence of Woody Guthrie Continues, a Hundred Years Later
WEBJul 8, 2012 · Guthrie caught that spirit, that strong, hard will, and immortalized it. Years after his death, in celebration of his birth, we can only imagine that this spirit, strong as ever, will continue on, carried by generations to come. The spirit of Guthrie, his message and legacy have been passed on like the Olympic torch, and new fires are kindled ...