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Happy Valentine’s Day

February 14th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |

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Another Concert Plug

February 13th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

It’s a busy couple of weeks around here, at least on the music side of things. This Sunday, the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble is playing a nice concert of Liszt and Mendelssohn. Steven Graff is doing the Liszt Concerto No. 1, and as an encore a cute little Capriccio by Felix M., whose 200th [...]

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Happy Birthdays

February 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music, Politics, Science |

Tomorrow is the 200th birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. If you stretch it out to last week you can add Felix Mendelssohn. The three of them within a week and a half. Does that strike you as a lot of “household name” people to be born in such a short period of time?

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Panic?

February 10th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Starting at about 2:00 into this, it’s the scariest thing I’ve seen yet about the economy.

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The Reader

February 8th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Movies |

In “The Reader,” Kate Winslet is a woman with a dark secret. Two of them, actually. Set in Germany in a period spanning the late ’50s to the early ’90s, the first 30-40 minutes involved a lot of the delectable Ms. Winslet getting naked with a much younger man. I was thinking that perhaps the [...]

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Am I Missing Something Here?

February 7th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

What exactly is this supposed to stimulate?

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Happy Birthday…

February 6th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Family |

…Dear Alex, Happy Birthday To You.

My son turns 20 today, which is remarkable considering I’m only like 25 myself.

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Six Months

February 6th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Home |

The last six months have been really, really good. Thanks!

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The Kind Of Thing I’ve Been Wanting To Hear

February 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

From Obama’s message today, some really straight talk.

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Broadway Bach Ensemble Concert

February 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

This Sunday if you’re in the area come out and hear The Broadway Bach Ensemble’s winter concert.

Where: Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114th and Broadway, NYC
When: Sunday, February 8, 2009, 2 p.m.
Cost: Free

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Tony Blair at SHU

February 3rd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

The guys in the press booth were amusing themselves.

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Happy New Year

February 1st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Home |

Chinese New Year, that is. It’s the Year of the Ox, so that’s why this one showed up at the party we went to today.

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