How Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws Unexpectedly Led to a Chinese Restaurant Boom in America
This past spring, the oldest continuously operated family-owned Chinese restaurant in the United States served its last plate of chop...
How Russian Artists Imagined in 1914 What Moscow Would Look Like in 2259
In the days of popular retrofuturism—say, the first half of the twentieth century—people tended to imagine the world of tomorrow looking...
Tatlin’s Tower, One of the Most Ambitious Buildings That Was Never Built
It’s no small project to found a new society, especially when you’re doing it on the scale of a place like Russia. Apart from the...
How Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules & Etiquette for Watching Films (1912): No Whistling, Standing or Wearing Big Hats
I admit, I sometimes pay a premium at a certain dinner theater chain with a lobby-slash-bar designed to look like classic indie video stores...
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