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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the April 29, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates April 24-30. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the March 18, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates March 13-19. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the February 18/February 25, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates February 13-26. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 14, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 9-15. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the January 7, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates January 2-8. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 24/December 31, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates December 19-January 1. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • Seth Parker Woods. Photograph: Michael Yu Four years ago, I started a weekly series on this blog titled Wandelwatching, devoted to news and essays about composers of the Wandelweiser Group, a loosely knit global collective inspired by post-Cagean ideas concerning sound, space, silence, place, contemplativeness, and collaboration, among other things. If you're just catching up…

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 17, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates December 12-18. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] Fun fact: Editors excised two words from the very end of the above listing: "(Mine did.)" [link] [link] [link] For whatever reason, as I'm typing…

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 10, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates December 5-11. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the December 3, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 28-December 4. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 26, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 21-27. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]  

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 19, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 14-20. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 12, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates November 7-13. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the November 5, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 31-November 6. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 29, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 24-30. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online has been repaired, but I'll provide them again here anyway. Why not? (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) Ralph van…

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 22, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 17-23. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online is still going strong, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) Baruch…

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 15, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 10-16. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online is still doing its thing, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) Le…

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 8, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates October 3-9. The bug that lately has prevented venues from appearing with listings online remains at large, so I've provided them again here and on Twitter. (Click on any listing to enlarge it.) David Geffen Hall,…

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the October 1, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 26-October 2. I don't have any clue why the venues are not mentioned in these online listings – usually they're visible until an event has passed – so I provided them on Twitter and…

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  • From November 2009: I've spotted Missy Mazzoli at the Met for House of the Dead. One day I'll be here to hear her. Bank on it. — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) November 25, 2009 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From December 2009: From today's issue of The New York Times: You can read the happy news here, and the original leap…

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