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Farm fresh has a whole different meaning in the Middle East. Picking out vegetables for my smoothie that just arrived at the market by horse, straight from the farm.

Barring several scientific breakthroughs and assuming continuity of the universe past ~2100 there will be a day sometime in the future when LeBron James and I will technically be equally good at basketball. Humbling to think about

April 18: Al Pacino step out on rare outing with Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and more stars.

Rip Florida oranges, subject of the best book ever written about a particular fruit

They’re clip farming Mike Leigh now

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@SamAdlerBell What novels would you recommend for this kind of feeling?

adults are supposed to reckon with this feeling — the sense that the world was whole, sensible, and suffused with meaning in childhood and no longer is — by reading novels and thinking about death and cultivating some irony about life. I suspect these guys don't do those things.

The final words spoken in Frederick Wiseman's final film: "Everything is Beautiful"

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

@tnyfrontrow Your review of In Jackson Heights got me to watch the film, and it changed my life. Thank you.

In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life

It is impossible for me to imagine understanding the world without his body of work. Rest in peace to an immeasurably great artist.

The summer of 2020 was the worst period of my life. I watched In Jackson Heights and felt as if I'd been struck by lightning. Some days I told myself I couldn't end it before watching all of his films. Lucky for me there were so many of them.

If you throw a dart at Frederick Wiseman's filmography, the movie you land on has a 60% chance of being so good that if it was the only film he ever made, he would still be among the greatest directors ever. He made 49 feature films.

The "direction" the Wilpons want SNY to head in

I would add that in "Upside Down," we don't just anticipate the b-flat major because of the ii V (or i IV) vamp. We actually already hear it in passing within the vamp! Makes the minor version hit that much harder.

This is great. There should be a place for music theory in music criticism. So often, the emotional effect of a pop song depends on its composition prompting the ear to expect something, and then subverting that expectation in different ways. Theory illuminates this.

Set in a Mamdani stronghold with a huge South Asian population. With cameos from Bill DeBlasio and Joe Crowley.

On this first day of the Mamdani era, may I recommend 2015's In Jackson Heights, a film about, among other things, immigration, policing, gentrification, religion, lgbtq rights, community organizing, the world cup, real estate capital, local governance, and taxi cab drivers.

Happy 96th birthday to our greatest living artist