Four April 2004 culture recommendations from our editors
Culture Watch
Danny Duncan Collum 4-01-2004
If we get the heroes we deserve, then Pete Rose may just be the man for America today.
Nontando Hadebe 4-01-2004
The distinctive sound of Ladysmith Black Mambazo is one of the finest expressions of African music.
J.R. Burkholder 2-01-2004
Captain America and the Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism, by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence.
Danny Duncan Collum 2-01-2004
Sam Phillips spread the blues, broke racial barriers - and left a mixed legacy.
Duane Shank 1-01-2004
The Cost of Moral Leadership: The Spirituality of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson.
Kimberly Burge 1-01-2004
One last time, the Man in Black brings his music, and love, to the Carter Family Fold.
Danny Duncan Collum 1-01-2004
The beer-commercial sensibility of deliberate, cultivated empty-headedness is pervasive.
Diana Butler Bass 11-01-2003
Even if Christendom is only a vague European memory, the United States suffers from a sort of Constantinian hangover. The Emperor Constantine just won't go away.
David Fillingim 11-01-2003
Miles and miles of two-lane blacktop crisscross the rural South, forming a web of connections among myriad small towns with declining populations and evaporating economic base