@theotherbill.bsky.social
Good doctor. Pretty good baritone. Terrible pianist. Even worse cellist. Hapless bassoonist.
And I thought I was the only one, or that there was a new resource hidden somewhere that I wasn't savvy enough to discover. When I moved to Boston in 1991 I relied on the Globe's Thursday pull-out culture section. Everything was there...
In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight
A love letter to music listings
www.theatlantic.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And I thought I was the only one, or that there was a new resource hidden somewhere that I wasn't savvy enough to discover. When I moved to Boston in 1991 I relied on the Globe's Thursday pull-out culture section. Everything was there...
No more kings
June 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
No more kings
No more kingd
June 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
No more kingd
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
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Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Really nice visualisation of a lagged health outcome over decades (in contrast to the delays over days/weeks we typically see for acute infectious diseases like COVID)
First as tragedy, then as farce: Willis C. Hawley and Reed Smoot in 1929, right before the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (Wikipedia photo)
April 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
First as tragedy, then as farce: Willis C. Hawley and Reed Smoot in 1929, right before the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (Wikipedia photo)
Yes, I had to try it myself...
March 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Yes, I had to try it myself...
Spring is springing, despite the freezing cold temp this morning!
March 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Spring is springing, despite the freezing cold temp this morning!
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The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...
March 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night.
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
February 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night.
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream.
There is a movement to be harnessed here.
@sanders.senate.gov
(📸 Anna Bahr)
Espace pour les jambes est une bien belle chose
February 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Espace pour les jambes est une bien belle chose
Robert Reich is always right.
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
February 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Robert Reich is always right.
Poolside reading: an impressively violent story of revenge and retribution, narrated from the point of view of the various animals observing the humans in their acts of rage and folly
February 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Poolside reading: an impressively violent story of revenge and retribution, narrated from the point of view of the various animals observing the humans in their acts of rage and folly
Warm sunny day # 2
February 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Warm sunny day # 2
Morning coffee in a warmer clime after a morning swim
February 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Morning coffee in a warmer clime after a morning swim
I did it. It’s easy.
I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉
February 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I did it. It’s easy.
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I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉
February 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I think we should all do this. Really jam up the works for someone at Google.😉
“Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have immortal longings in me tonight…” Happy 98th birthday to Leontyne Price! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrp...
Leontyne Price, Barber Death of Cleopatra, 1985
YouTube video by Jiri Zednik
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have immortal longings in me tonight…” Happy 98th birthday to Leontyne Price! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrp...
Braving the storm (?) for Beethoven, Ravel & Stravinsky at Symphony Hall. Nathalie Stutzmann conducting; Veronika Eberle debuts in the Beethoven violin voncerto (with the wonderful Jörg Widmann cadenzas)
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Braving the storm (?) for Beethoven, Ravel & Stravinsky at Symphony Hall. Nathalie Stutzmann conducting; Veronika Eberle debuts in the Beethoven violin voncerto (with the wonderful Jörg Widmann cadenzas)
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Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Let's say there's "waste" and "fraud" in the government.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
Well that’s why every department had an inspector general to find and stop it.
But guess what? Trump fired most of these independent auditors who should be insulated from politics.
None of this is about waste and fraud.
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I shouldn’t laugh at this but I somehow needed to.
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I shouldn’t laugh at this but I somehow needed to.
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Out now from @pentatonemusic.bsky.social : "Don't Look Down" with Sandbox Percussion - a piece for piano and percussion quartet blending bike pumps, beer bottles, prepared piano and drums with traditional instruments.
Stream: lnk.to/CerroneDontL...
Youtube Preview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4V...
Stream: lnk.to/CerroneDontL...
Youtube Preview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4V...
Don't Look Down (Single Release)
YouTube video by Sandbox Percussion
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Out now from @pentatonemusic.bsky.social : "Don't Look Down" with Sandbox Percussion - a piece for piano and percussion quartet blending bike pumps, beer bottles, prepared piano and drums with traditional instruments.
Stream: lnk.to/CerroneDontL...
Youtube Preview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4V...
Stream: lnk.to/CerroneDontL...
Youtube Preview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4V...
Things in the sink.
February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Things in the sink.