Some great shots of the Feb. Which Side event by @mrjohnsoares.bsky.social (installment 1 of 3) Thanks to guest musicians Flying Vipers, Eric Salt & Jim Infantino as well as guest speaker Patrick Wilson (pictured with @ashmont.bsky.social) & the #WSAYO Paid Protestors!
#protestmusic #resist
British singer Tina Charles was born this day in 1954. She has a great voice, though I am not sure if I’m buying those two male pants wearers as either guitar players or background singers.
Ah, spring in Boston! A magical time when majestic snow mountains recede, revealing a new landscape of candy wrappers, nips, dog poop, and funyun bags.
It's Bandcamp Friday, the day of the month that the artist-friendly music platform waives all of its fees. That means it's a good day to buy some music, including perhaps a pre-order of the forthcoming Joe Pernice album, out April 4.
I had a feeling, again, based on fact, that the Red Sox would win the World Series last year.
I got so much great feedback about this post about Frederick Wiseman, and unearthed so many new Wiseman fans I didn’t know that I am sharing it again for any members and potential members of the fan club who were not reached.
A good and sobering read about the business of music that I also find kind of hopeful.
It's SO WEIRD that the HeWho administration has not seized on the opportunity to skewer its higher ed archenemy about all of the latter's ties to the evil human trafficker.
Acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman died last week at the age of 96. It was my honor to play a small part in helping him make one of the final movies of his 56-year career.
Greetings from Boston
Thanks to @cleasimon.bsky.social for this nice piece about our @whichsideboston.bsky.social series.
This was seen as an ideological victory in the Cold War, which was thought to have been won by Americans in 1991. But, as it turns out, it was won by the Russians on November 8, 2016.
The Miracle on Ice happened on this day in 1980, when the ultimate underdog U.S. hockey team beat the four-time gold medal winning USSR team at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5t...
It makes sense in retrospect, as Barbera, one half of the Hanna-Barbera duo that created the series, was a devout Catholic who also made a series of animated bible stories which he reportedly considered his life's crowning achievment.
Pebbles Flintstone was born this day in 1963, in an episode called "The Blessed Event." I remember them singing on the show, but I don’t remember the aggressive religious overtones like in this song. The show took place in 10,000 B.C., FFS. Historically inaccurate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFoo...
Thanks to Jared Bowen at GBH's Culture Show for having me on yesterday to talk about my experience with the great Frederick Wiseman, who died on Monday. The conversation is at the top of the show.
Yes, I will sign on to this letter to the editor in today's Boston Globe.
As we get ready for the February edition of @whichsideboston.bsky.social, @sullivanjames.bsky.social and I and the rest of the team just posted video from the January show on our web page. Wonderful performances. (Scroll down for the videos.) www.whichside.boston/2026-01
SONG OF THE DAY: Nena, “99 Luftballons” #wsayo
Ninety-nine years of war
Left no room for winners
There are no more defense ministers
And no jet planes either
“How a party balloon led the government to shut down a Texas airport” (The Independent)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSl...
Even if he did commit a crime, and it sounds like he probably didn't, he was 17. How is this good policy? How is it making us "safer?"
Listening to the BBC reporting on the Navalny poisoning. They interview the British Shadow Foreign Secretary, and I think, "Why can't we have one of those?"
