Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Cat and chamber orchestra: a Lithuanian diversion.

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In the clip above (courtesy of sanmartinfields ) you can see and hear a one movement concerto performed by the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Encouraging words on the way to the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Seen on the top step leading from Cadman Plaza East/Washington Street to the Brooklyn Bridge walkway this morning.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Gail Collins nails the New York Senate.

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In her continuing New York Times dialogue with David Brooks, Ms. Collins has this to say: [Y]ou can’t run a big, complicated country witho...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

Frank McCourt: goodbye to an old friend.

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"Old friend" may be a strong claim. I haven't seen or spoken to Frank, other than on a couple of isolated occasions such as t...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

"And that's the way it is ...."

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Will anyone say it with such assurance again? Goodbye, Walter. Image: O'Halloran/Library of Congress [VIA PINGNEWS]. Update: Television...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Manohla Dargis on Harry Potter yields a magnificent Alan Rickman simile.

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In her review of the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in today's New York Times , Manohla Dargis writes: [T]he sensational...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Charlie Gracie redux: "Butterfly" (1957)

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Back in April, I posted a video I made of Charlie Gracie doing a song called "I'm All Right" at the Roots of American Musi...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

An almost-perfect baseball night.

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The Mets are breaking my heart yet again, but tonight they gave me a nice tease . Jeff Francouer proved to be an impact player in his first...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Aerospace socialism.

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Back in the day, Ed Koch was a congressman representing the district on Manhattan's East Side that had been John Lindsay's before he...
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Monday, July 06, 2009

One of the "best and the brightest" is gone.

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Robert S. McNamara, who died today at 93, may, in President Ken...
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Saturday, July 04, 2009

Goh Nakamura performs Simon and Garfunkel's "America"

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Last year I marked the Fourth here by posting a clip of Paul Simon singing "American Tune", which, I noted, had a melody that s...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Yanks sweep Mets at Citi.

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Yuck. An all too familiar story: Mets outhit the opposition, but bring in fewer runs. History is made: Mariano Rivera gets his 500th save ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Gehry eclipses Gilbert on the Brooklyn Bridge

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June 7, 2008. On a hazy summer morning, Cass Gilbert's magnificent Woolworth Building, near the 95th anniversary of its completion, ca...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Straight talk on Iran.

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Steve Kornacki has an excellent column in PolitickerNY about why President Obama is right not to utter red-meat rhetoric concerning events...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

If Charles Darwin had a Facebook page...

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...might it look like this ? The page was developed by Heather Snyder and Anna Heran, of the staff of the Lloyd Library and Museum , Cincinn...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Happy Bloomsday.

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I read Portrait of the Artist as a freshman college English assignment, and found it an interesting, if challenging, contrast to the ficti...

News from Tehran

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Thanks to friend Geoff for sending me a link to Tehran24 , which provides photos (the image above is taken from the site), video and text co...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

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Thanks, though, to GimpelTheFool for this excellent poem, posted "in memory of BotFer Claude Scales": Barrow Street I will die...
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Saturday, June 06, 2009

The Mets are messin' with my mind.

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At the end of April, I was ready to give up on them. Then May brought good play and fortune, and I was beguiled . By the end of the month, ...
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Friday, June 05, 2009

Goodbye, Koko Taylor

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The drumbeat of losses from the music world continues with the death, at 80, of Koko Taylor, who reigned for many years as queen of Chicago...

I'm shocked, shocked!

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Downright flabbergasted by the result of this Gallup poll .
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Marshall Chapman, live in Louisville.

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Marshall Chapman and I go back a ways . Our encounters have been few but fun, certainly for me and I hope for her. She gives great hug. ...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

There's a story here, somewhere.

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Plymouth Street, Brooklyn. Municipal Building, Manhattan.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

The uncle I never met.

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Photo: Tyrone Daily Herald  / Christina Pryor Thomas Jefferson Lane Jr. was my mother's younger, and only, brother. I never knew the...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Some New York harbor scenes.

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(Click on images below to enlarge.) Queen Mary 2 at her berth in Red Hook, Brooklyn, May 8, 2009, as seen from the Manhattan ramp of the Br...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

"[S]o authentic the pages smell like cheap gin."

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Michael Simmons, on Barney Hoskyns' new Tom Waits biography, in LA Weekly .
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Jazz and the visual arts.

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Michael Sorgatz, Jazz Band at the Park (©2009 Michael Sorgatz; image posted with permission) There is a longstanding connection between j...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Mets seem determined to make a fool of me.

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All I had to do was get snarky about their early season woes, and what do they do? Take three of four from the defending champ Phillles, w...
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Saturday, May 09, 2009

Stephen Bruton, 1948-2009

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Stephen Bruton was an immensely talented guitarist, singer and songwriter who was part of the Texas generation and milieu that produced Ji...
Friday, May 08, 2009

How are the (no longer Grateful) Dead like the Bank of America?

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Michael Simmons gives the answer in this piece from LA Weekly .
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