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From mint juleps to pigs in a blanket, these dishes are ideal for a Gatsby-worthy get-together celebrating a century of ...
Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100. A century later, it is ...
In 1925 the Jazz Age was in full swing. It was the year Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington made their first recordings.The Phantom of the Opera opened at movie theaters. The Ku Klux Klan marched ...
Even though it’s been more than a century since some of these novels roared onto the literary scene, they all remain classics ...
The overarching themes of the novel could be said to be those of the American Dream and the Jazz Age, and more specifically about the clash of these two ideas in America in the 1920s. There is no ...
And he did! Besotted with each other, they traveled constantly, drank constantly, smashed up some cars, broke some rules, and were the very image of “The Jazz Age.” They embodied the phrase ...
Paul Natkin/Getty Les McCann, a singer and pianist who helped to pioneer the soul jazz genre, has died at age 88. On Monday, The New York Times reported that the musician died on Friday in a Los ...
The Great Gatsby is set against the backdrop of Roaring Twenties America: an era Fitzgerald famously dubbed the Jazz Age.