I saw Bill Frisell play last week at the Narrows Center in Fall River. It was my 7th Frisell show over the last 30 years and one of the best ones. I have detailed my journey with Frisell in the past here. For years, he...
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Shows! Shows! Shows! After a long time without seeing a show because I was in Mexico, I've seen three in a week in a half. The most important to me.
Here's part II our our "A Good Neighborhood Requires Good Neighbors" series.... https://bsky.app/profile/drfarls.bsky.social/post/3lhc42w34n22h Some Canada facts: Canada has 41 million people, making it slightly more populous than California and just.
On January 25, 1960 Mitsui Miike coal mine lockout in Japan began, the single biggest labor dispute in the history of Japan. This was also a core battle to see if the left could play a major role in postwar Japan. The forces of order...
I moved to Albuquerque 25 years ago this summer. Crazy. One of the first places I discovered there was Alpahville Video, your classic arty based movie rental store. It was.
Yasujiro Ozu is one of my favorite all-time directors, but I confess that I haven't watched many of his classic films in recent years. The only film I of his.
Yes I know we're not supposed to pay attention to any of this stuff because it's just all a big distraction. Sue me if I post too long: Donald Trump wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,”...
My annual reading list. You can follow previous years' lists by clicking back through this link. First, the historical and professional work. Let me use the same language I use.
Jimmy Carter has died. Carter was a pretty bad president and then one of the two greatest ex-presidents, along with John Quincy Adams. He’s become something of a beloved figure.
Sometimes it feels as if the only way to write about television is to write about business. As Peak TV recedes further and further into our rearview mirror, the conversation around the medium has increasingly focused on the way that the streaming TV model—and its...
An issue I've always been curious about... But, as MIT legal historian Heather Lee tells it, there was an important exception to these laws: Some Chinese business owners in the U.S. could.
As long-term readers will be aware, I occasionally submit a "where in the world will World War Three start?" upon the arrival of the New Year. Here's this year's list:.