- 2 hours ago
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Jambox at the Chicago Art Institute. This little thing has been my best purchase in a really, really long time. Plus Yves Behar is just wonderful.
- 1 day ago
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“Jupiter” - Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, and Bryce Dessner at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
- 3 days ago
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In between Olafur Arnalds and Max Richter and Philip Glass, this is the terrible song that is easing me into summer.
- 4 days ago
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"The longer my tour went on, and the more I saw of the country, the fewer gaps remained for my imagination to fill with danger. The remainder of my trip was an exercise in being repeatedly underwhelmed. I was underwhelmed by the danger. I was underwhelmed by the religious fanaticism. And I was especially underwhelmed by the anti-Americanism. Everything that Western media had conditioned me to expect from Iran, I found in far lesser quantities than I’d anticipated. The only thing present in a larger-than-expected dose was normalcy. The entire country was plagued by normalcy. I couldn’t seem to get away from it. Everywhere I looked—on street corners, inside of shops, and even inside of homes— there were normal people doing normal things."
Humans of New York in Tehran. This is why travel is important.
- 4 days ago
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Sam Amidon - My Old Friend (2013)
- 1 week ago
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New York is rough as usual, no matter how optimistic I am about the week-
but I did just go see Nico Muhly preview his opera “Two Boys” and some other things at Le Poisson Rouge tonight. Nico is sort of terrifying in his brilliance, but an absolute wonder to watch on stage. Sam Amidon was scheduled to play his album release show here on Thursday and I was bummed to miss it, but then he showed up tonight and played a couple of songs including a super creepy folk ballad that shook me to my core when I saw it in Iceland, and did the same tonight. Late night, but just what the doctor ordered to get me through the rest of this silly, silly week.
- 1 week ago
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