Tag: Festivals
Hanukkah celebrations have changed dramatically − but the same is true...
Samira Mehta, University of Colorado Boulder
Hanukkah is not the Jewish Christmas. Articles and op-eds in newspapers remind readers...
The roar of the crowd – how fans create electric atmospheres
Tim Hill, University of Bath; Giana M. Eckhardt, King's College London, and Robin Canniford, The University of Melbourne
Since...
How the gay party scene short-circuited and became a moneymaking bonanza
Christopher T. Conner, University of Missouri-Columbia
When coronavirus restrictions threatened the White Party, an annual circuit party held in...
Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes – and they bragged...
Thomas Martin, College of the Holy Cross
In ancient Athens, only the very wealthiest people paid direct taxes, and these went to fund the city-state’s...
Fyre debacle shows how smaller acts can get burned in modern...
Jonathan Wynn, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Alexandre Frenette, Vanderbilt University
The Fyre documentaries on Hulu and Netflix gave a behind-the-scenes look into an ill-planned...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
