Jeremy Denk

January 30th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Music |

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.
Jeremy Denk

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Updated “Styleswitcher”

January 27th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

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.

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Tricia Zimic Ceramics

January 25th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Art |

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.
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The Great Swamp, Winter

January 20th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Travelogues |

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The Future of the Health Care Bill

January 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Politics |

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.

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Terminator Salvation

January 19th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Movies |

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 […]

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Fort Hancock

January 18th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

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Lydia Johnson Dance

January 17th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |

Tonight we put the final touches on the upgrade of lydi​a​john​son​dance​.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 […]

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The Rise and Fall of Communism

January 14th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Books |

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. […]

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Ice Boats

January 12th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

Sat­ur­day LF got a hot tip: The Navesink River was frozen over, and ice boats were going to be out.
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A Civilived Evening

January 11th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Music |

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 […]

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The Week In Reviews

January 9th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Art, Entertainment, Movies, Music |

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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