Circa Sunday Night

Gather 'round, everybody. Class is now in session. Our subject: a lesson in vocabulary. Yes, Jennifer is defining for us terms that are part of the Circa 19xx Land vernacular. What's Crystal made of, and why it is called "crystal"? When is something considered an antique? When is it vintage? Which came first: Art Deco or Art Nouveau? And what in the world is a "whiplash curl"? You'll be able to astonish your friends with your grasp of tr...

Jennifer dropped off the face of the Earth--but she's back now (after three months, but who's counting?). She's been touring mansions again--this time in Newport, Rhode Island. She recounts her adventures for us and answers the question: what is it like to spend the night in a big, 150-year-old Victorian gothic mansion ALONE? She also shares with us some tips for decorating our own Gilded Age-inspired ballrooms. There's a jam-packed itinerary for our little junket to R...

The world is such a harsh place, and life is very hard. But you know what isn’t hard? Fluffy bunnies. Tonight Jennifer does a deep dive into her favorite bunny story: The Velveteen Rabbit. She’ll also take a look at a song right out of Circa 19xx Land that also has ties to Jennifer's memories of the 1980s. And then she'll share with you what she hopes the Easter bunny brings to her this year in her Easter basket. She has a wish list—and everything on it is...

Jennifer has become enchanted with April. Wait, no, that's not quite right. She's over the moon about a book she just discovered entitled The Enchanted April. Yeah, that's it. This book has been around for 100 years, but it just now made it onto Jennifer's reading list and she's now wondering where it has been all her life. Written by Elizabeth Von Arnim and inspired by her stay in 1920 at Castello Brown, a beautiful Mediterranean fortress in Portofino, Italy, Th...

Huh? The title of this episode doesn't sound like something one would find in Circa 19xx Land. Well, Jennifer got a notion; Blame an off-the-cuff remark in Episode 27 for this one. She said something in that episode that tickled her own fancy...and here we are. In tonight's show Jennifer leads us on a virtual retreat in which we clean out our heads of toxic muck only to fill them up again with good, wholesome stuff. Dust off your old school notebooks and find a pencil,...

Oops! Jennifer forgot the show was called Circa SUNDAY Night, and posted this week's episode on Monday. But, we'll forgive her this time because tonight's show is all about the Gilded Age in New York, and as this episode of Circa Sunday Night goes up, a new episode of the HBO drama The Gilded Age is airing as well. Wait...could this have been part of her brilliant plan all along? We'll never know. But what we can say is that tonight's show is weird. ...

Tonight Jennifer confronts the winter blues head-on with an imaginary excursion on the ill-fated Prinzessin Victoria Luise, the first ship designed specifically for pleasure cruising. We're traveling back to 1901 for this little trip, and on that maiden voyage, everything is glittering and beautiful--just as it should be. But, as is so often the case (and why is that? Jennifer wonders...) tragedy looms large in the future of our lovely ship. A crash, a suicide, on-board pand...

Come on over to Jennifer’s house for her annual Christmas party! There’s plenty of cheesecake—and really bad egg nog—to go around. Olive will be there to greet you at the door, and if you can somehow make it past her, you’ll encounter an interesting collection of guests, such as Steve Allen, the first host of the Tonight Show, and the Anderson family from the old radio program Father Knows Best. Jennifer talks Christmas movies, plays a little game of Christmas movie trivia, ...

Welcome to Jennifer's latest obsession: The Phantom of the Opera. Her sister forced her to watch the 25th Anniversary stage production at Royal Albert Hall from 2011, and she fell hard for the show. To learn more she read the original novel by Gaston Leroux, she watched a couple of classic film adaptations from 1925 and 1943, and basically immersed herself in all things Phantom. Before she realized that Leroux's book was published in 1910 she lamented the fact that Ph...

Jennifer loves prowling around and researching old stuff, so it’s only natural—or should we say SUPERnatural —that she would run into a ghost story now and then. Tonight she takes us on a tour of the murkier regions of Circa19xx Land to meet a few of their less corporeal inhabitants. Tonight's itinerary:We take a spin around the phantom ballroom at the Overlook Hotel (you know how Jennifer loves a good ballroom);Jennifer then takes us to the creepiest haunted mansion she has...