It’s always amazing-slash-disappointing to us to see the poor turnout at SOPAC. Tonight they had pianist Jeremy Denk doing Schumann and Bach to a half-empty house. Denk may not be a household name, but he sure is good enough.
One of the most-read pages on this site is my Styleswitcher, and despite that I carelessly let it become broken. It’s now fixed.
We knew we were on the right track when the first thing we saw walking in the door of Tricia’s ceramics show was this one, the pileated woodpecker, exactly what we saw in the Great Swamp a couple of days before.
I’m considering donating money to Harry Reid’s Republican challenger in Nevada. If the majority leader can’t lead, it’s time to find someone who can.
Is this trip really necessary?
The “Terminator” franchise is a great example of a sci-fi mythology, and mining its veins of self-reference and historical paradoxes has been a rewarding enterprise for most (though not all) of the movies, as well as the “Chronicles” TV series.
But generally, you want to move the ball ahead a [...]
Tonight we put the final touches on the upgrade of lydiajohnsondance.org. Despite the holiday weekend, the staff was in attendance to knock out the last few changes.
Lydia asked for all new Flash movies at the top of each page. I ramped up my Flash skills just enough to be dangerous, swapping in new photos [...]
Archie Brown, emeritus professor at Oxford, has put out a lively and informative book that traces the communist movement from its intellectual origins in the Renaissance through the present day.
If you were politically aware of the world in the late ’80s, you’ll remember it as a time of incredible sweeping change around the world. [...]
Saturday LF got a hot tip: The Navesink River was frozen over, and ice boats were going to be out.
It’s funny, 30+ years in the New York area and I’d never been to one of the concerts at the Metropolitan Museum. Funny, and a mistake I’m going to try and continue making up for. Saturday night we went to hear Anthony McGill and Friends, and all-in-all it was one of the better investments in [...]
I spent most of my time over the break with LF out there in real life, and I offer a thousand apologies for not posting anything. Well, trying to get back on track, here are a few capsule reviews of some of the various entertainments we availed ourselves of.
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