Night After Night

Writing, a blog, and a newsletter. By Steve Smith.

The New Yorker

  • Goings On About Town, October 15, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, October 8, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, October 1, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, September 24, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, September 17, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, September 10, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, September 3, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, August 27, 2018.

    My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the August 27, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates August 22-28. [link] [link] [link]

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  • Goings On About Town, August 6/August 13, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, July 30, 2018.

    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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  • Goings On About Town, July 23, 2018.

    My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the July 23 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates July 18-24. [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • Goings On About Town, July 9/July 16, 2018.

    My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the July 9/July 16 double issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates July 4-17. [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • Goings On About Town, July 2, 2018.

    My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the July 2 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates June 27 through July 3. [link] [link] [link] [link]

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  • Goings On About Town, June 25, 2018.

    My contributions to the Goings On About Town section in the June 25 issue of The New Yorker, covering the dates June 20 through 26. Click on the image to go to the related page on the New Yorker website.

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  • Goings On About Town, June 18, 2018.

    Why am I sharing screenshots of concert listings from The New Yorker? Because they are mine. I wrote them. And now, I can say so, because as of the June 18 issue, The New Yorker is publishing bylines with its listings in the Goings On About Town section – to which I have been an

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  • Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013

    Matoaka Little Eagle, Cleek Schrey, Mary MacKenzie and Jessica Schmitz, by Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2013 Last month I was lucky enough to get to hear a live performance of John Cage's Apartment House 1776 as part of the

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  • Mantra Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13, 2012

    Mantra Percussion, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times Mantra Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2013 Michael Gordon's new percussion sextet, Timber, ended up on both my year-end Top 10 list for Time Out New York (details of which will come in a subsequent post) and

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  • Unquiet thoughts.

    I'm way, way behind on my blogging, again. I've got three Times reviews stacked up waiting to be archived here. But at the very least, I can endeavor to make time for the really big news: Alex Ross has started a new blog, Unquiet Thoughts, on the New Yorker web site. ("Joined the home team,"

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