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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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  • 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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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the September 24, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 19-25. (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 September 17, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 11-18. (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 September 10, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates September 5-11. No, your eyes do not deceive you: Each of these events happens on September 7 (though happily, one provides a wider range of options)… and this isn't even everything happening that particular night.

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the September 3, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates August 29-September 4. [link] [This event took place at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth; link.] [This event took place at San Damiano Mission in Greenpoint; link.]

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the August 6/August 13, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates August 1-14. [This event took place at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine; link.] [This event took place at various venues in Skaneateles, NY; link.] [This event took place at the Saratoga

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  • My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the July 30, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates July 25-31. [This event took place in the Glass Box Theater at the New School; link.] [This event took place at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA; link.] [This event took place at St. Peter's Church, Lexington

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  • I believe that our culture (and by “our culture” I’m talking about North America, and perhaps also Europe, to some extent) has undergone a fundamental shift. Expertise is no longer much valued in the cultural sphere; rather, it seems that the currently prevailing belief is that any one person’s opinion is as good as any

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