Happy thanksgiving. My tradition. youtu.be/0EEl7uV6YQU?...

Things I’m thankful for… youtu.be/FT65_G8ItEs?...

Happy thanksgiving. My tradition. youtu.be/0EEl7uV6YQU?...

Rep. Robert Garcia — an out gay member of Congress and the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee — led a powerful field hearing in Los Angeles this week, gathering testimony from residents who say they or their loved ones were wrongfully detained in recent ICE raids.

Peking Duck as is right and proper.

As one does when an important artist dies, I’m going back and listening to Jimmy Cliff for the first time in a while. Does anyone know the story of “Vietnam”. Seems like it’s missing a middle verse and the last verse is repeated twice. The narrative feels like it has a hole.

“the University of Hangout-ology.” “I just hang out with people that know more than me, better than I’ll ever be, and try to pick up something from it, and then share it,” [David Amram] said. HT @morleymusic.bsky.social #giftlink #musicsky www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...

Forgive them lord, they know not what they’ve done. RIP Jimmy Cliff. Cross those rivers well. youtu.be/GlH1X5mpVsE?...

We need a sad trombone air-horn for this.

I never got to work with him but grateful I got to experience the righteous joy of a Jimmy Cliff concert. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

“It’s so painful…something is beyond ring its way into my ears and I can’t escape.” I’m becoming lowkey hooked on rappers listening to classical rock for the first time. Here’s my first classical one. King Crimson’s 21st Century Schizoid Man youtu.be/agHfia4pGVc?... @nightafternight.bsky.social

President Reagan, Mastermind. SNL, 1986. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wf...

Life in the upsidedown

What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?

“It’s all so absurd, and completely unserious.” - Marjorie Taylor Greene www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

Life during wartime. What a great conversation between @afikra.bsky.social’a Mikey Muhanna and Stages Ruwanthie De Chickera about Dear Children Sincerely -Rwanda-Sri Lanka Collaboration at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi youtu.be/OnZVJZ5-2xw?...

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Portrait of the artist Yoshiko Chuma, an artist in motion, of the legendary School of Hard Knocks, NYC 2024. Please join my #photography #substack and help me choose the images in my next book.

I’ve never known anyone to rickroll themselves - my wife to me. We were listening to a mix I made for a friend & colleague’s departure. Amidst Leaving on a Jet Plane, Homeward Bound and a few versions of Never Gonna Say Goodbye - I surprised myself.

An unprecedented first time collaboration between Ukrainian bandura player Maryna Krut, Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko, and South African guitarist Derek Gripper culminating a stunning sold out concert at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi. Hope this leads to more. #musicsky

They’re really building a new digital G_d. Thanks friend.

An unprecedented first time collaboration between Ukrainian bandura player Maryna Krut, Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko, and South African guitarist Derek Gripper culminating a stunning sold out concert at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi. Hope this leads to more. #musicsky

Exactly. Oh and since you can’t come see Ballaké Sissoko and Derek Gripper tomorrow. Here’s a taste

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi’s residency with Ukrainian singer and bandura player Maryna Krut begins with a visit to an NYUAD class Real and Imagined: Women’s Writing Across Worlds taught by Sabyn Javeri

The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi’s residency with Ukrainian singer and bandura player Maryna Krut begins with a visit to an NYUAD class Real and Imagined: Women’s Writing Across Worlds taught by Sabyn Javeri

If you resold candy that you bought in bulk, in high school, raise ya hand 😂

Charms lollipops. 6th grade.

Oh, here's that exquisitely beautiful music from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh that you should hear.

My friend Piotr Orlov @dadastrain.bsky.social writes regularly about Rhythm, Improvisation, Community. He also wrote about the recent shift in NYC thanks to the Mayoral election thru that lens. open.substack.com/pub/dadastra...

Will you take off Broadway theater productions with Danny Aiello? youtu.be/WZ6JK9jYT1Y?...

I’m not hungry. I’ll just pick. youtu.be/WZ6JK9jYT1Y?...

I don’t know how to make this a Well Done gif but I would like to.

wait for her 😍 IG:emmakeys836

"Can you do facial?" an officer is heard asking. (Isn’t that entrapment?)

Jenny Holzer

World’s longest-married couple reveals key to a lasting relationship: ‘We love each other’

I wanted to steer folks to open.spotify.com/track/7IKo80... @listigeplaylists.bsky.social so now we may need to add a second track.

Happy DJ MAM included me in his Billboard roundup. My quote, alluding to the Brazilian cultural tendency of “cultural cannibalism”: “Brazilian artists devour global musical styles from pop, to electronic music, to rock, to funk, and yet continuing to create something uniquely Brazilian.”

As if being consistently pro-Palestinian and promising to raise taxes is telling a NY audience “exactly what they want to hear”

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It’s amazing how Trump keeps demanding state ownership of major corporations and people worry about Mamdani being a Marxist

The jury — which had sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches — deliberated the charges for several hours on Wednesday and Thursday.

“To design it he leaned into his fascination with the mythologies of traditional masks from African antiquity and his childhood memory of seeing Parliament-Funkadelic in concert; the sculpture is named after the band’s 1975 album.”

Remembered to buy tickets to GlobalFEST; last year I left it too late and missed out. www.lincolncenter.org/series/linco... cc @activecultures.bsky.social

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.