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A Year of Clips #3: Todd and Naomi Showcase ULHS 2005

This is a new installment where we here at Swungover discuss a dance clip from the archives of past and present swing dance, the current goal to do so regularly for a year. Feel free to discuss your thoughts in the comments section. For our third clip, we’ll watch what I consider one of the…

January 26, 2010
A Year of Clips #2: Nick and Carla at ILHC 2009

This is the second of a new installment where we over here at Swungover discuss a dance clip from the archives of past and present swing dance, the current goal to do so regularly for a year. The first installment was sort of an instructional write-up on how to break down the basic dance styling…

January 17, 2010
The Art of Vintage Manliness–Shaving

OCCAM’S SAFETY RAZOR This is the first in a series of articles dedicated to trying out the common–and sometimes uncommon–things our grandfathers and their grandfathers did as part of being a man. For this article, I’d like to give a shout-out to Allen Kerr, master of the safety razor. The era of modern shaving was…

January 8, 2010
A Year of Clips #1: After Seben

This is the first of a new installment where we over her at Swungover discuss a dance clip from the archives of past and present swing dance, the current goal to do so regularly for a year. This first clip is merely a sort of instructional on how to break down the basic styling of…

January 5, 2010
The Art of Vintage Manliness: Introduction

INTRODUCTION Dear readers, this is the introduction to a new series of articles I’m writing, possibly for future publication (who knows) but mainly just for myself. I’ve toyed with this introduction a lot, and will continue to do so. It’s a bit long and overambitious for what is essentially a project to do a bunch…

January 4, 2010