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Brian Forehand
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creative polymath
On Saturday, Austin and I checked out The Sound Garden in Fells Point and picked up some new-to-me vintage vinyl, including this ‘Best of The Youngblood’s’ album. I was especially surprised and saddened to read this morning that lead singer, Jesse Collin Young, passed away on Sunday.
March 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The G.O.P.’s solution to passing a spending bill? Stealing $1 billion from DC taxpayers.
G.O.P. Spending Bill Would Force $1 Billion Cut to D.C. Budget
Republicans omitted a standard provision approving the District’s budget in a stopgap funding measure needed to avert a shutdown before the end of the week. The result would be a 16 percent cut.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
R.I.P. Roberta Flack
We need more heroes and role-models like you, especially these days!
Roberta Flack, Virtuoso Singer-Pianist Behind ‘Killing Me Softly,’ Dies at 88
With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Saw this tonight…wow, so powerful and thought provoking. We live in an unjust world!

Inside the Oscar-Nominated Film That No Studio Will Touch www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...
Inside the Oscar-Nominated Film That No Studio Will Touch
“No Other Land,” about the destruction of a village in the occupied West Bank, is one of the year’s most acclaimed films. Still, U.S. studios are unwilling to distribute it.
www.nytimes.com
February 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
“Tyranny demands our fear and our silence and our compliance. Democracy demands our courage.” ~Gov. JB Pritzker
February 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Old school eminent domain and first-wave urbanism as a means of displacing ethnic communities goes global. 😔
Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move
The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, meeting in person with another world leader for the first time since returning to power.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
As is usually the case, this sequel is already considerably worse than the original.
January 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We are just returning from a long weekend in NYC. Sounds like the circus came to town…a parade of elephants and countless clowns. Not sorry that we missed it.
January 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Reflecting on the life of my dad, who would have turned 80 today.
December 23, 2024 at 10:27 PM