In the Spring of 1990 Andrew Apter and Moishe Postone were relatively new faculty at the University of Chicago. Both would go on to become highly regarded teachers and scholars.
Wednesday Night (Joel 8)
Songs about intoxication have a long history, from NWA’s Dope Man
to Loretta Lynn’s Honky Tonk Girl to Henry Purcell’s The Macedon Youth.
Hey Mas (Rekha 2)
The terrace at University of Wisconsin’s Memorial Union is a spectacular
place to study with a pitcher of beer or read a copy of The Onion.
Chocolate Cow (Ben 8)
In Providence, Rhode Island of the eighties one could buy a Coffee Cabinet before
going to a hear music at Club Rocket, or take Amtrak south to see the same
band at d.c. space in our nation’s capital.
Was It Real? (Sikay 10)
Little Italy’s San Gennaro Festival has been the backdrop of multiple movies, including Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever, where an intern got to spin cotton candy.
Paul Mason Fotsch 