Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, published last year, is not so much a memoir or autobiography, but rather a series of snapshots, each drenched in cultural references, that together create a approximation of...
View ArticleSupplementing Angels
A not-so-hypothetical from a reader: Your daughter’s AP English class is using Tony Kushner’s Angels in America as a central part of a semester’s curriculum. You are friends with the teacher and would...
View ArticleRSR reviews collected
With four excellent reviews here on T&S, as well as other discussions around the bloggernacle, you may think you’re covered as far as initial responses to Rough Stone Rolling. But for the...
View ArticleMormonsploitation!!
That is the name of a film series currently going on at the Pioneer Theater in Manhattan’s East Village. The tagline for the series is: “A quick overview of some of the Mormons’ crazy and dangerous...
View Article“There is nobody against this—nobody, nobody, nobody, but a bunch of mothers!”
Jane Jacobs passed away today in Toronto. She was 89 years old. As a married mother of two in the 1950s, Jacobs wrote what has become probably the single most influential book on urban planning — The...
View ArticleMySpace Mormons
MySpace recently overtook Yahoo as the most-visited website in the US. For the two of you that haven’t heard of MySpace, it is a social networking website, where users can post photos and profiles,...
View ArticleThe horror
I found this post today on a Craigslist San Francisco real estate forum: If this is supposed to be a buyer’s market, why do the listings that I have been seeing look so lousy? I know that I can afford...
View ArticleDid Brigham hate your 501’s?
Here’s the lead from an article in today’s New York Times: “IN the 1830’s, when men’s pants were first tailored with buttons visible down the front of the fly, the Mormon leader Brigham Young...
View ArticleDT Demo
I’m a sentimental guy, but really. I received the following email today from the BYU alumni association: A Memory of Deseret Towers As a service of the BYU Alumni Association, we are offering a piece...
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Mormonism’s other glam rock star
By now, everyone knows about Arthur Killer Kane, the bassist of the New York Dolls who converted to Mormonism. But there is another significant Mormon connection to the 1970s glam rock scene. Michael...
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Do Mormons Care About Modern Architecture?
Last month’s issue of Dwell, a shelter/design magazine, featured a cover story about a gorgeous modernist home in Salt Lake City’s Emigration Canyon (pictured below). I hadn’t heard much about...
View ArticleA Memory of Professor Farnsworth
Yesterday I received an email announcing that my Contracts professor, E. Allan Farnsworth, had passed away. He was a genuinely kind person and a prolific scholar, and a generation of lawyers has relied...
View ArticleDealing with Abuse in the Church
Over the last few years, there has been a barrage of accusations, civil suits, and settlements involving child sex abuse that have crippled Catholic dioceses all over the country, both financially and...
View Article“Let us walk through the door”
In honor of this holy day, I offer a favorite poem: “Seven Stanzas for Easter.” John Updike wrote it in 1960 as a university student, as I understand, and published it in a periodical called The...
View Article12 (or so) Questions for Kathleen Flake
Back in November, we solicited questions for Kathleen Flake, author of the terrific book The Politics of American Religious Identity (2004). We are now pleased to present her responses. Thanks...
View ArticleRSR reviews collected
With four excellent reviews here on T&S, as well as other discussions around the bloggernacle, you may think you’re covered as far as initial responses to Rough Stone Rolling. But for the...
View ArticleMormonsploitation!!
That is the name of a film series currently going on at the Pioneer Theater in Manhattan’s East Village. The tagline for the series is: “A quick overview of some of the Mormons’ crazy and dangerous...
View Article“There is nobody against this—nobody, nobody, nobody, but a bunch of mothers!”
Jane Jacobs passed away today in Toronto. She was 89 years old. As a married mother of two in the 1950s, Jacobs wrote what has become probably the single most influential book on urban planning — The...
View ArticleMySpace Mormons
MySpace recently overtook Yahoo as the most-visited website in the US. For the two of you that haven’t heard of MySpace, it is a social networking website, where users can post photos and profiles,...
View ArticleThe horror
I found this post today on a Craigslist San Francisco real estate forum: If this is supposed to be a buyer’s market, why do the listings that I have been seeing look so lousy? I know that I can afford…...
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