Culture Reviews
peeing in public
by harvey molotch
The inequities of class, gender, and physical capacity gain their expression in moments of anxiety over how to eliminate one’s waste. This is one truth made evident in Q2P (an abbreviation for “Queue to Pee”), a movie by the award-winning, India-based filmmaker Paromita Vohra.
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good sociology makes lousy tv
by michael kimmel
There are very few films and virtually no television or literary characters that speak to sociology. And what is out there depicts sociologists as idealistic yet clueless liberals, perverse voyeurs, pseudo-scientific poseurs, or hopeless apologists for the status quo. And those are the complimentary images.
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the big business of haut chocolat
by priscilla parkhurst ferguson
Chocolate, in case you haven’t noticed, is big business. Visits to the 13th annual Salon du Chocolat in Paris and the 10th annual Chocolate Show in New York afforded a splendid opportunity for comparative chocolateering.
Official website for Salon Du Chocolat, and New York Chocolate Show.
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trespassing in someone else’s utopia
by jonathan r. wynn
Fan Fair-the Country Music Association (CMA) Music Festival-is an annual migration for tens of thousands of fans. Nashville’s storied Lower Broad district is glutted with people hoping to spy a star, get a signature, and catch as many performances as possible.
