Take Me Back, Please: The Art Deco Preservation Ball at Bimbo's

What a superb piece.  This paragraph particularly deserves repeating; "But we've changed the paradigm for celebration and leisure; the effortful illusion of effortlessness has given way to an abject literalism that makes everyone involved look uncreative, desperate, and cynical. And so we must look to other eras and find the occasional oddball nostalgia gig if we want to have a good time and retain our dignity."

 Larissa's lamentation, alas, cannot lead to changed ways of clubbing.  So she is right: only by going back in time when people comported themselves in the ways described in this article, can we push aside the clumsy and boorish behavior of the present era.  C'est la vie.  Hope to see Larisa and others at the De Young this Friday when the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra plays those same tunes and people show up in the dresses and suits of the Good Old Days.