History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...in North America, thrust together a diverse, yet socially stratified population. "Fame and Infamy" forms the heart of the book, tracing the reciprocal evolution of Bourbon Street's international notoriety and...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the International Center for Photography in New York. The Whitney staged a major retrospective, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, that traveled to the Cocoran Gallery of Art...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...a voice, a mouth that drinks, and a set of "parts" that cool wind blows across in the night (11).4William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (New York: Vintage International Edition,...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...During Tom’s tenure as director, CDS has become an internationally recognized documentary arts institution, annually offering many undergraduate courses and continuing education classes leading to certificates. Integral to these educational...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...David Pierce played drums. The members of Pylon, then considered the Athens band most likely to follow the B-52’s to international fame, heard the performance and invited Oh-OK to open...
Huntsville, Alabama images
Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Find 'Forgotten' America," New York Times, April 22, 2008. The Bloody Sunday beatings, by Dallas County deputies and Alabama state troopers, provoked international outrage, led to the Selma to Montgomery...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...family history; discussion of "Elegy for the Southern Drawl;" and realism.) About Rodney Jones Rodney Jones won the 2007 Kingsley Tufts Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry...
Authorship in Africana Studies
Joan Anim-Addo: Traveling with Imoinda Above, the cover to Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name (London: Mango Publishing, 2008). Below, the cover to the 1688 first edition...