MARK KIHARA issued his Lindy Hop challenge gently, but firmly. The Century Ballroom instructor wrote to say he enjoyed a column I wrote about swing, but wanted to show me that Lindy Hop was not hard, ...

It might not mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing, but according to hep cat Chicagoans, there’s just no stoppin’ Lindy Hoppin’. Swing, after all, is easy. It’s step, step, rock-back. The basics can ...