How Do You Preserve a Vanishing Music Scene?

How Do You Preserve a Vanishing Music Scene?

Memories fade. Documentation disappears. Scenes vanish. When you’re busy creating a world, you don’t always think about how to preserve it for history. So old fliers and magazines get brittle and crumble, photos get lost, publications go out of business and websites get deleted. It falls to archivists — sometimes …

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What Dr. Ruth Left Behind

What Dr. Ruth Left Behind

When Ruth Westheimer died last July at 96, she was celebrated as a pioneering sex therapist, cultural gadfly and consummate Manhattanite — described once as a 4-foot-7 cross between Minnie Mouse and Henry Kissinger, to use a much-repeated description, who changed the way we talk about our most intimate lives. …

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