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The Feria de Abril is now in full swing. It started at midnight last night with the alumbrao, the official lighting of the portado, or fairground gateway. The theme this year is the 100th anniversary of the first flight over Seville, and you can see a plane hanging high above the entrance. I heard from [...]
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Poking around the Prelinger Archives, I found a campy, two-part video from 1952, “Midwest Holiday.” The film was sponsored by Standard Oil, I’m assuming to promote to the use of cars, gasoline and oil. When a newspaper reporter returns, begrudgingly, to his Chicago newsroom from Paris, he promptly gets sent on vacation to adjust his [...]
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Yesterday a friend forwarded me a link to a YouTube video, with the note “FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT SAT AND WATCHED THIS VIDEO. DO IT.” (Let me just add here that my friend isn’t usually an ALL CAPS kind of guy.) The forwarded email text–in multiple colors and fonts, which always make [...]
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