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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 11–17, 2025. Patricia Brennan – Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 24, 2025) Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch; 2025) Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith – Angel Falls (Intakt; due Oct. 3, 2025) Ingrid Laubrock – Purposing the Air
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily
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Photograph: Jin S. Lee for 9/11 Memorial & Museum Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you
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Get your flu shot. Don’t delay.
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Happy New Year to you and yours! Here's to achieving great new things in 2020.
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily
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Friends, colleagues, virtual associates: here is a thing I've been thinking long and hard about saying—or not. Possibly you've noticed that I have not been updating this blog very frequently lately, not even with routine posts sharing work I've made for other publications. Possibly you haven't. Maybe you've wondered why an email or DM might
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Happy New Year, everyone. I'm resolved to keep things humming here again… watch this space.
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A bit of news to report, and rather than waxing loquacious I'm simply going to state it plainly: This is, for the foreseeable future, the last post I'll be writing for Night After Night, the blog I've operated on Typepad since October 2005. That's not to say I'm packing it in, just that I've decided
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily
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With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot, from "Little Gidding" (Four Quartets)
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily
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Found art, East Boston Greenway, Sept. 5, 2015 I feel like I've been been decrying and lamenting my lack of genuine blogging (as opposed to endless playlists) here for some years now. But frankly, I've been an especially miserable blogger this past year or so. I've rarely even managed the bare-minimum gesture of posting links
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Matthew Aucoin, by Yoon S. Byun/Boston Globe NEW MUSIC BOSTONJune 2015 (Updated June 1) 1 Chris Watford + Transient CanvasPresented by Equilibrium Concert SeriesMusic by Beau Kenyon, Timothy McCormack, Zach Sheets, and Scott WollschlegerDavis Square Theatre, 255 Elm St., Somerville8 p.m.$10More information 2 American Repertory TheaterMatthew Aucoin, CrossingRod Gilfrey, Alexander Lewis, Davone Tines, Jennifer
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Watch this space…
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily
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WiFi signal is dire where I am right now, but I want to get something posted quickly in order to get word of tonight's events circulated. I'll come back to this later in the day to flesh out the list. Official business Wednesday, April 2: Unsound Festival New York 2014Issue Project Room; 8pm; $25, members
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Annina Claire Pellegrinelli-Smith made her world-debut appearance on Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 7:49pm. Weighing in at 9lb, 2oz, and measuring 22 inches, she immediately displayed an intense curiosity, and a healthy appetite for life and much else. Annina started an unlimited engagement in Jackson Heights on Saturday afternoon, where she's enjoying the support of
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Since last Sunday (Jan. 26) I've been listening to concert recordings by my favorite rock band, and absolutely nothing else. Go ahead and look at the previous post. It's all there. I started working at Time Out New York 12.5 years ago, as a part-time editor handling classical music exclusively. Two years later I became
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily
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