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Repost: In 1975 I Was 10 And I Thought This Was The Coolest Music In The World
Repost: Alexa Is My Collective Unconscious
Christmas With The Peanuts Gang
Series: The Moral Injury of Late Capitalism
From the Archives: On The Constitutionality of Obamacare
A Beautiful But Flawed Epic Montage
Turn Off The Car Radio And Listen To This
A Working Theory of What Happened at the Rainbow Bridge
Stacy Kent Never Fails to Charm
Read My Review of Rachel Maddow's "Prequel"
Autumn in Buffalo: A Quantity of Quartets
Series: The Moral Injury of Late Capitalism
Ravi Coltrane Honors His Father's Legacy In An Unforgettable Concert
On This Harvest Moon I Remember Leon Redbone
An Intimate Evening With A Musical Master
Sarah Marie Chadwick's New Album Is Confessional Songwriting At Its Best
Repost: On the Twelfth Anniversary Of Troy Davis' Execution
The Song Of The Day Was Written Under A Tight Deadline By A Songwriter Suffering From A Broken Skull
The BPO Begins 2023-2024 in Mid-Season Form
Remarks At My Mother's Remembrance Service
Repost: Two Drunk Men Were Leering at a Teenager at a Beachside Bar in Rio . . .
The Song Of The Day Is A House/Technopop Celebration Of Same-Sex Love
Captain Beefheart Sings The Song Of The Day
The Song Of The Day Is, Like Me, From Missouri
Two Of 2023's Best Jazz Albums
Picard, Van Halen, and the Multiverse
The Song Of The Day Is A Jimmy Buffet Love Song
The Undeniable Greatness of the Late, Great, Rowdy Roddy Piper
A Brief Comment On The Coverage of the First GOP Presidential Debate
Repost: Paul F. Tompkins As Werner Herzog at Trader Joes
Elon: Don't Make Jokes. You're Bad At It.
I Talk To The GEICO Caveman About Sex Stuff
"Three Busy Debras" Was Too Good For This World
Suicides Are At An All-Time High
In 1975 I Was 10 And I Thought This Was The Coolest Music In The World
I Am My Mother's Savage Daughter
The Song of the Day is From Jazz's First European Outpost
The Song Of The Day Is A Painting
The Song of the Day Features A Jazz Legend, Born in Manchuria in 1929
The Song of Today Is From Roy Buchanan
We Must Say Goodbye to the Pride of St. Catherines
WARNING: The Song of the Day Isn't Trying To Be Nice And It Doesn't Care What You Think
The High Drama of "Vocal Jazz Ensemble"
From the Archives: Jury Nullification
The Song of the Day Is From The Greatest Artist in Human History
Tim Reid's "Love With You" Is the Song of the Day
Alexa Is My Collective Unconscious
Not So Long Ago, Racial Hierarchy Was Justified by Bullshit (Racial) "Science"
Hiatus Over - New Posts Recommence Monday
Hiatus Post From Behind the Paywall
Hiatus Guest Post From Gyasi Hall
A Brief Introduction to Buddhism
The Political Center Has Drifted Far to the Right in One Generation
The Sacred and the Profane in the Pacific Breezes
Podcast: How to Be a Man During the American Revolution
How to be a Man in Hollywood Featuring the GEICO Caveman
Albany's Removal of Philip Schuyler's Statue is a Good First Step
Trumpism Is a Coping Mechanism We All Use
Taylor Swift and Clarissa Dalloway
Opera Review: Nickel City Opera's Production of "The Barber of Seville"
Never for Money. Always for Love.
In 1973 Hall and Oates Refused to Lip Sync to Teenagers Dancing. Also, Lou Rawls.
The "How to Be a Man" Podcast, Episode 3, Will Be Released July 6th and Continue Biweekly
Snoop Dog, Late Capitalism, Disintermediation, and the Marginalization of Creative Labor
The Buffalo Chamber Players Perform "Acis and Galatea" at Babeville
Happy Father's Day From "How to Be a Man!"
Expressionist, German Filmmaker Werner Herzog Reviews Trader Joes
Now is the Best Time to Subscribe or Upgrade!
Look What This World Did To Us
Requiem for a Buffalo Soul Food Restaurant
Like Most People, I Have Wanted to Punch a Stadium Mascot
The Buffalo Philharmonic Left It All Onstage To Close Out the Season
Lawrence, Kansas to Plattesmouth, Nebraska Is About a 3 Hour Drive
Remember 2012? Obama vs. Romney? The Summer Hit That Was A Banjo Gospel Tune?
From the Archives - Voter Fraud: The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
From the Archives: People v. Leon Czolgosz, The Story of an Historical Trial Reenactment
How To Make a Port Arthur Air Purifier (Easy Peasy)
Two Drunk Men Were Leering at a Teenager at a Beachside Bar in Rio . . .
GOP Official Clarifies Her Remarks on Globes
LANG LANG'S LONG-AWAITED KLEINHANS PERFORMANCE
BPO JOINS MARK O’CONNOR IN GROUNDBREAKING "IMPROVISED VIOLIN CONCERTO"
REVIEW: LIEBERT'S NEW AGE FLAMENCO SOUND FILLS THE TRALF
A GLORIOUS TRADITION IS BETTER THAN EVER
A MUSICIAN FIRST—BELL WITH BPO
YSAYE QUARTET TEMPERS BEETHOVEN'S DRAMA WITH GALLIC RESERVE
BPO PERFORMS STRAUSS; GUEST PIANIST TAKES ON TCHAIKOVSKY
BEILMAN DEMONSTRATES AN OUTSIZE TALENT
SOTTO VOCE VOCAL COLLECTIVE’S "THE SECOND SIGHT"
THE JUPITER QUARTET RETURNS WITH ANOTHER INSPIRED PERFORMANCE
Controversial Georgia Execution Uses Chemical Not Approved for Use on Humans
Justice Scalia Is Speaking for Just About Everybody on This One
The CSI Effect: Playing in a Jury Room Near You?
Canadian Lesbian Dresses In Drag to Troll Music Industry
Disco is Dead. Long Live Disco!
Guest Post: Dez Dare Spreads Autism Awareness Through Experimental Rock
The Case Against Daniel Penny and His Subway Chokehold
President Biden Must Immediately Use His Fourteenth Amendment Authority on the Debt Ceiling
Enjoy the Rest of Your Weekend!
How We Can Avoid Catastrophe If Congress Doesn't Act on the Debt Ceiling
The Origins of the Debt Ceiling (Hint: War)
A Legend Takes on the American Songbook
BPO Struggles With Jazz Idiom But Supports a Virtuoso
Not a Jazz Fan? Give Me Six Minutes.
To Elena From the Guy in the Laundry Room in Houston 30 Years Ago
Summer 1992 When I Had a Death Penalty Case in the Supreme Court
Billy Childs "Winds of Change" Pays Homage to LA and the American West
I Am Deeply Concerned About Adventure Bay's Emergency Response Regime
GoGo Penguin's New Release is a Marvel
20% off My Substack Until May 7!
Appalachian String Band Releases Protest Song Calling for Gun Control
Ask Roscoe: A Child Confronts Mortality in a Cold, Uncaring Universe
Calypso Came Out of Colonial Oppression
FOX Had to Fire Tucker Carlson
A Brief History of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Billie Martin's New Album is Deep and Lovely
We Are Now Entering Legal Fascism -- Watch Your Step!
Pat Metheny to Release Solo "Dream Box" June 16, 2023
The Mandalorian Chapter 22: Return of the Transitive Property
Harvard Law and Policy Review: High Court Still Fumbling Over Executions of Intellectually Disabled
Picard, Van Halen, and the Multiverse
Nelson Riddle's "Saccharine Strings"
Taylor Swift and Lana Del Ray's "Snow on the Beach"