Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/a...

Grateful to have had this discussion about my musical journey with Lisa Koops and George Blake back in Jan., and it's now out on a podcast! We touch on piano lessons, orchestration, Judy Garland, musical memories, my young nephews and niece...and even martians! creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

This is an example of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” #VintageFood

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Cleveland Public Square Voting Booth (1890). Source: Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery.

Samhain, the thinning of the veil between the living and the spirit world. The beginning of the darker half of the year. The light this morning was lovely shortly after sunrise here in Glastonbury. #samhain

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“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

New column up at @thr.com where I offer a history of the Committee for the First Amendment, then and now.

Working on a column about the newly resurrected Committee for the First Amendment. Here are some essential reads that can inform this moment. #nowreading #history #politics #firstamendment

On Looking: Poet Lia Purpura on the Art of Noticing www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/04/l...

Breaking News: A hard-fought international treaty to protect ocean life, decades in the making, cleared a final hurdle. It allows for the establishment of enormous conservation zones in international waters.

Amidst all the misery, some really great news.

In 2021, high school journalists from our network of Student Reporting Labs asked educators in their schools about the significance of teaching 9/11, what the events meant to them, and why it’s important to study the history before and after that day. https://to.pbs.org/47isJrb

On September 11, 2001, the unthinkable happened. Amid the smoke and chaos, New York’s first responders ran toward danger with unwavering courage. 343 @FDNY, 37 @theportauthority_ny_nj, and 23 NYPD lives were lost that day—and many more still suffer from its toll. Their bravery lives on.

Classic SESAME STREET is coming to YouTube. With new shows airing on PBS the same day they debut on Netflix, there will soon be multiple ways to watch the show for free — while also expanding reach via the 2 most dominant streaming platforms. www.engadget.com/entertainmen... #SesameStreet #TVSky

NEWS: A House of Representatives Subcommittee just voted to continue library funding in next year's federal budget. This is thanks to YOUR hard work as library advocates. The fight to #FundLibraries isn't over yet. Stay tuned for more ways to take action for libraries. #ForOurLibraries

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COVID-19 rates in the Southwestern United States reached 12.5% — the highest in the nation. It comes as California students, for example, return to the classroom after RFK Jr. nixed the CDC’s recommendation that they receive booster shots. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

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mRNA Vaccine Tech Could Transform Medicine and Cure Diseases. RFK, Jr. Just Pulled Its Funding.

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (1949) — 4:00 pm ET — 1h 43m (Summer Under the Stars: Judy Garland) Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall; directed by Robert Z. Leonard Feuding co-workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals. #TCM #TCMParty

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/29/c...

Your attention: CPB winds down January 2025 Your local NPR & PBS stations survive with your contributions. If "Tiny Desk" and "Finding Your Roots" and "PBS Newshour" are important to you, They Need Your Money Now. Don't be wringing your hands about what's lost when you have the chance to save it.

In a laboratory-scale study, green roofs captured 97.5% of microplastic particles in soil keeping them out of runoff, in addition to substantial heating and cooling benefits. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/an-u...

William Wyler & Humphrey Bogart on the set of The Desperate Hours 📷 Elliott Erwitt, 1955

Here is a list of nearly every provision in the domestic policy bill nearing a vote by Senate Republicans, and how much it would cost or save Americans.

Raise your hand if you've ever used rubato as a way to cover over a sudden mental lapse on the next note. #piano

The Irish conductor I'm working with wrote this lovely feature on Judy Garland and our concerts in Dublin and Wexford next month celebrating her artistic legacy! 🌈 www.rte.ie/culture/2025... #judygarlandconcert #gethappy #dublin #wexford #joansingsjudy #overtherainbow #niallkinsellaorchestra

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

Heat is a terribly effective killer. With the large areas of North America under heat advisories, I'd like to suggest that people check on others, especially elderly or vulnerable neighbours. My neighbour is 97, has no air con. Let's take care of one another.

Charlie Burrell has died at 104. “Burrell joined what was then the Denver Symphony in 1949, becoming the first Black American member of a U.S. orchestra,” as CPR’s Andrea Dukakis wrote after her visit last year: www.cpr.org/2024/11/29/i...

All hail Mary, Queen of Deadpan on her birthday 👑 #MaryWickes #BOTD #FilmSky

Currently, private insurers, Medicare, and Medicaid require no-cost coverage of vaccines, which is connected to recommendations made by ACIP and CDC. If these recommendations are removed, people could face out-of-pocket costs. We explain:

Here’s the local Blandings house that was built in Elizabethtown, PA. A dentist & his wife saw the movie in 1950 and sent for the plans. #MrBlandingsBuildsHisDreamHouse #TCMParty

Shout out to @joanellison.bsky.social on Judy's birthday today!

Here's today's birthday girl, Judy Garland, with "Just in Time." To semi-quote the lyric, she certainly changed MY life that lucky day I first heard her!! ❤ www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM90...

Happy Monday!

Here's our Stars and Stripes front page from June 6, 1944. Today is the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings.

On D-Day, 81 years ago, bravery fell like rain on the parched soil of Europe. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is shown with Company E, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, at the 101st Airborne Division camp, Greenham Common, England, on June 5, 1944 - one day before the landing. Heroes all.

81 years ago. When people still realised you have to fight fascism.

And after all this madness today…tomorrow is D-Day.

Good morning. #filmsky #moviesky #BOTD