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Matthew
@imatthewi.bsky.social
Photographer & environmental lawyer
Known to be enthusiastic about music & photography
Fond of Brutalist architecture
#Jazz #HipHop #Architecture #ProgressivePolitics #Photography #EndangeredSpecies #Urbanism #BostonCeltics #Boston
Opinions my own, etc.
So, this week's #BlueskyArtShow theme is: #Bright

digging into my archives for this onel:

Minot Light Bathed in Light

Minot Legde Light lighthouse, off the MA coast south of Boston Harbor, with late afternoon sun.

#photography #photosky #colorphotography #EastCoastKin

flic.kr/p/aEtrG4
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Artist Fave 15: artist : Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15.

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #jazzsky #ErikFriedlander

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 15, rank # 1

Erik Friedlander: "Promises, Promises" (John Zorn, Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach, Tzadik 1997)
Promises, Promises
YouTube video by Release - Topic
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Artist Fave 15: artist : Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15.

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #jazzsky #DaveDouglas

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 14, rank # 2

Dave Douglas: "Wives and Lovers" (John Zorn, Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach, Tzadik 1997)
Wives And Lovers
YouTube video by Dave Douglas - Topic
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Reposted by Matthew
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Artist Fave 15: artist : Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15.

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #jazzsky #RahsaanRolandKirk

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 13, rank # 3

Rahsaan Roland Kirk: "You'll Never Get To Heaven" (Bright Moments, 1974)

a phenomenal live album
You'll Never Get to Heaven
YouTube video by Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Topic
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"Workers had legal status but could not get their documentation. 'Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers,' said the car wash manager. 'I could bring it to them, but don’t know where they are. And why bring in an armored vehicle?' he added 'What are we, terrorists?'”
BU student says he called ICE ‘for months’ prior to Allston Car Wash raid - The Boston Globe
“This week they finally responded to my request,” Zac Segal wrote on Nov. 8. “As someone who lives in the neighborhood, I’ve seen how American jobs are being given away to those with no right to be he...
www.bostonglobe.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Happy Birthday 🎂 to the great #jazz drummer #IdrisMuhammad

Idris Muhammad: Loran's Dance (Power of Soul, CTI, 1974) (sampled to great effect by Beastie Boys on Paul's Boutique)

with Randy Brecker (trumpet), Grover Washington Jr. (sax), the legendary Bob James (Fender Rhodes), & others

#jazzsky
Loran's Dance
YouTube video by Idris Muhammad - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Reposted by Matthew
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Artist Fave 15: artist: Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #jazzadjacent #FredFrith

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 12, rank # 4

Fred Frith: "Trains and Boats and Planes" (John Zorn, Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach, Tzadik 1997)
Trains And Boats And Planes
YouTube video by Fred Frith - Topic
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MA friends: join me for "Mass Fights Back: What it Takes to Strengthen Our Democracy" forum.

Speakers:
Justin Lam, Brennan Center for Justice
David Weinberg, Protect Democracy
Marisol Santiago, MassVOTE
Shanique Rodriguez, MA Voter Table

#mapoli #ProgressiveMass
actionnetwork.org/events/ma-fi...
MA Fights Back: Strengthening Our Democracy: What It Takes
With less than one year until the 2026 elections, the health of our democracy is on all of our minds. What do we need to do to ensure free and fair elections, and how do we make sure that MA is a lead...
actionnetwork.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Artist Fave 15: artist : Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15.

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #jazzsky #ErnieWatts

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 11, rank # 5

Ernie Watts: Knowing When to Leave (Planet Love, World Pacific Jazz, 1969)
Knowing When To Leave - Ernie Watts Quartet
YouTube video by johnnystaccata
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Reposted by Matthew
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ear3xH
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#LookAndSee 248 [💨]
#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #Zappa

Many options, but the last time I did one of these I went with the Mothers of Invention, so keeping that streak going:

Zappa / Mothers of Invention: "Any Way the Wind Blows" (Freak Out!, 1966)

youtu.be/JpbYkgpKSN4?...
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
sooooooo many many ways that #SpotifyisEvil.

Also, this piece reminded me of how much I (still) miss Other Music (the NYC and shorter-lived Harvard Square locations and online presence).
The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.

Read more from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/81574...
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reposted by Matthew
No notes….nailed it 🎯
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Artist Fave 15: artist : Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15.

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #jazzsky #GrantGreen #McCoyTyner #ElvinJones

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 10, rank # 6

Grant Green: "Wives and Lovers" (Matador, Blue Note, 1965)
Wives And Lovers
YouTube video by Grant Green - Topic
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Artist Fave 15: artist : Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15.

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #jazzsky #GrooveHolmes #HammondB3organ

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 9, rank # 7

Groove Holmes: "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" (Workin’ on a Groovy Thing, 1968)
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
YouTube video by Richard Holmes - Topic
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"Keep your glory gold and glitter...
Slip like Freudian
Your first and last step to playing yourself like accordion"

Brilliant reimagining of MF DOOM & Madlib's "Accordion" by Neneh Cherry & Swedish avant jazz trio The Thing

Neneh Cherry: Accordion (The Cherry Thing, 2012)

#jazzsky #hiphopsky
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Accordion (Madvillain/MF Doom cover)
YouTube video by NenehCherryTV
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I haven't done a #BlueskyArtShow or a #Stunday post for a while. This week's Bluesky Art Show theme is "evening."

This photo fits the bill and is also appropriate for a Stunday post.

#photography #photosky #EastCoastKin #evening

"The Sea Wall (November)" Pine Point, ME.

flic.kr/p/aLSnUX
The Sea Wall (November)
Spent Thanksgiving in Maine. The weather was beautiful and so was the beach, especially at low tide in the late afternoon November sun. And at sunset. (Not to be confused with The Sea Wall (Durutti...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Senior Judge Mark Wolf, U.S. Dist. Court, D. Massachusetts, steps down to speak out: "The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable. It is contrary to everything that I have stood for on the bench."
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Doubling down while adding more confusion & chaos. Memo threatens harsh penalties to “scare states partway along the process, and tells them to turn back.” But law prof. David Super notes that it is "not legal to claw back benefits already provisioned without affording people due process." 🎁article
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Tremendous enthusiasm among architects for Zohran Mamdani."

"Architects are excited because they know that under glorious communist regime of Comrade Mamdani, brutalism is so back." 😄

. . . (famed brutalist architect) Paul Rudolph's prescient support for the Portland Frog:

flic.kr/p/2hudbmE
November 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Artist Fave 15: artist : Burt Bacharach, ranking 15 fave #jazz covers. A song a day, Nov. 1-15.

#ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #jazzsky #QuincyJones

#BurtBacharach: jazz covers

day 8, rank # 8

Quincy Jones: "What's New Pussycat?" (Quincy Plays for Pussycats, 1965)
What's New Pussycat?
YouTube video by Quincy Jones - Topic
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
😁 (AND the alt txt 😆)
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Reposted by Matthew
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM