If you haven't preordered yet what are you even doing?

Incredible work here

i have an idea for fixing the met's money problems: what if we let someone besides Peter Gelb try (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

It's @saramcclarinet.bsky.social's birthday today! To celebrate, preorder her book here: www.harpercollins.com/products/dec... OR Buy your ticket for the book launch at the the Strand rare book room on May 21! Sara Van Os + Rachel Harrison: Decomposition Book www.eventbrite.com/e/sara-van-o...

new met tristan

Sometimes you learn the song you want in rehearsal and sometimes you suffer for 50 minutes and then cave and let the kids give their performance of eye of the tiger for 3 recorders and treble voices.

Fanny's scream merch is now available in the store... henselpushers.org/store/fannys...

Not Norman Lebrecht pulling a Tyra Banks

Seeing snow shovelers in vests on the platform: 🤩💋🏙️😭♥️🏳️‍🌈✨✨✨ Seeing the NYPD on the platform: 💩😷🤮🤢🤬😠😾😡🗑️🚮🙈🙊🙉✋🛑

Subway ads: make ravioli the easy way | we've put cameras in the train car | say good by to dirty blush palettes

JE used Botstein for pretty constant access to Carnegie Hall, usually with one or more girls in tow, and there's a few things there I still need to put all the pieces together ... but it's not going anywhere good www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I find the constant messaging of "don't be afraid to ask for help" hilarious because there's no faster way to get people to look the other way and remove their help than to ask for it.

these have been good years for medievalists, first wondering if the pope will excommunicate the emperor and now watching the king have his brother locked up

Here’s a really cool Florence Price piece that we Chaski gals played on the final concert of our 40th anniversary season. Have a listen. (Tbh, most of us would likely benefit from listening to a few minutes of contemplative music played on bass flute & harp!)

do i have a favorite podcast? yes, it’s called listening to my wife

A fascinating side effect of poor literacy + tech is that I see so many sentences with word swaps clearly suggested by autocorrect and the writer doesn't know that they're looking at the wrong word. For example: "interloper" instead of "interpolates".

one other thing worth pointing out, which itself somewhat refutes what the spokesperson says here, is that Bard's president was forwarding emails regarding Bechet Allen back to Epstein if he wasn't already copied in by her parents. But yet they say Epstein had no influence here

well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

"Hi I would like to donate to your university" "Aren't you like a sex offender tho" "Yes but I am just an *ordinary* sex offender who was convicted and went to jail." [cashes check]

Some years ago, a friend of mine was nursing his wife through her final illness. She had played with the ASO, and told her husband "The one good thing about dying is I'll never have to play under Botstein again."

@bardcollege.bsky.social you up

at any rate what could possibly go wrong with being tens of thousands of dollars in debt to Jeffrey Epstein in 2018 www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

This is the problem with Assisted Dying policies that are implemented without sufficient policies to ensure a right to care or a dignified life. A Canadian man waited a year for treatment for end of life care only to get denied. His MAiD approval happened in two weeks. That’s eugenics.

The more info we get about this raid, the worse it becomes. ICE had NO valid warrant (administrative warrants do not authorize forceful entry into a home), the guy's sole prior conviction was a since-dismissed drug charge from 2008, AND he had checked in with ICE just days earlier.

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

Patty, a woman observer in Minneapolis, was abducted from a car by federal agents today. She was released and talked about her experience in custody. An agent said, "You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead." 🙏🏼 @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Finished the last of the buttons on yet another knit for my wife - a vest she can wear to work to keep her warm when the heat goes out.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

This is what happens when you elect a guy who actually bikes instead of a guy who double parks in a bike lane sideways.

Happy New Year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEwi...

Everyone in Times Square looks like they were held at gunpoint

One of the kids in the choir picked this out for me for Christmas because "ms van os likes hats"

Why do the people who INSIST on being first on the train also insist on standing directly in the door?

Just me and this car alarm tonight

In a town of small hells I walked past a new one today: the los tacos across from grand central.

🎶many people are sicker than you knowwwwwwwwwww 🎶you are probably sicker than YOU knowwwwww🎶the infrastructure is violenttttttttt🎶

MVP on the "keep Elizabeth alive during December" team is single portion microwaveable rice bowls. And spam.

Have you ever tried to review SEVENTEEN Christmas carols with children in one hour? Don't.

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If you'll be at the National Opera Assn meeting in January, come see me at the New Works Expo! I'll have free copies of art song to give away, plus perusal scores and video. (Should I have candy? It's my first NOA and don't know the vibe.)

Somebody tell me why there's two funerals being scheduled (like on the books, time and date) for this week in which the main character has not yet died.

Literally so excited to see @saramcclarinet.bsky.social on this list and also now I have a whole TBR that is gonna be so so cool.

Listening to Christmas carol albums on the bus because I don't know if they remind me of all the sad things or all the good things and confused tears are better than dissociation probably?

This entire weekend

the magic of wicked 2 is that it fails to land even one single emotional beat. The color was much better though thank god.

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

I am also going to add , that part of the reasons we don’t means test is because of how often disabled people are abused by people in their own families . That the PARENTS being rich doesn’t mean they actually take care of the kids and in fact often use that as control

Featuring: – An Alma Mahler Labubu – The Britten Seaside Trauma snow globe – “Fratres” for Cats – The “Anna Netrebko Accountability” Advent Calendar – Lush’s “Shostakovich Panic Attack” bath bomb