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Frederick Wiseman 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.

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.

The Week of February 23 in Music Birthdays Wilson Simonal, Oliver Cheatham, Foster Sylvers, Prisonaires, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Winifred Atwell, Barbra Acklin, Syreeta, Victor Uwaifo

Winifred Atwell was (perhaps) born this day in 1914.

1 Million Monthly Listeners. 12 Tickets Sold. Here's The Scam. Why the industry keeps mistaking algorithmic reach for real fans.

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.

Frederick Wiseman 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.

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.

YouTube video by Moist Cut McCabe & Mrs. Miller — "So Quiet Now"

Greetings from Boston

Music Feature: "Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-out" - How Music Meets the Moment - The Arts Fuse The eighth iteration of “Which Side?” was a wild success, mixing musical genres from reggae to old-school Boston punk and punctuated by two moving (and brief) speakers.

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.

YouTube video by Kung Fu Records The Vandals - Change The World With My Hockey Stick (Official Art-Track Video) [Kung Fu Records]

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.

YouTube video by boyjohn Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm - The Lord Is Counting On You (song)

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...

The Week of February 23 in Music Birthdays Wilson Simonal, Oliver Cheatham, Foster Sylvers, Prisonaires, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Winifred Atwell, Barbra Acklin, Syreeta, Victor Uwaifo

Birthdays. And snow.

Elvis in IMAX: How Newly Found Footage Became an Immersive Documentary

I am VERY excited to see this. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/m...

The Week in Birthdays: February 16 to 22 Ted Taylor, Yoko Ono, The Vancouvers, Exuma, Kathy McCord, Roger, Fakhr, Horace Hinds, The Cramps, Manduka, Lopez Sisters

Celebrating Exuma's birthday.

February 17, 2026 - On Frederick Wiseman, Dell Hamilton, Uli Lorimer on the snowpack, and Matthew Shifrin Joyce Linehan joins “The Culture Show” to reflect on the legacy of documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. As Chief of Policy for Mayor Marty Walsh she was key to Wiseman’s documentary “City Hall,” w...

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.

Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96: The Documentary Legend Was One of Cinema’s Greatest Masters Wiseman's 50-plus year career started with a bang, "Titicut Follies," and only got better.

Very sad day. What a body of work. www.indiewire.com/news/obituar...

The Week in Birthdays: February 16 to 22 Ted Taylor, Yoko Ono, The Vancouvers, Exuma, Kathy McCord, Roger, Fakhr, Horace Hinds, The Cramps, Manduka, Lopez Sisters

The Week in Birthdays (and unintended consequences).

JAN 20 2026 — Which Side Are You On? A Protest Music Teach-Out

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

YouTube video by Nena - Topic 99 Luftballons

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...

‘I feel like a ghost’: new father deported by ICE to Bhutan that exiled his family Mohan Karki – one of many people ICE has deported to countries with which they have little connection – leaves behind his wife and seven-month-old baby he has yet to hold

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?"

Texas University Cancels Exhibition Critical of ICE | Artnet News UNT exhibition censorship as College of Visual Arts and Design Galleries canceled Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez's show criticizing ICE.

This exhibition originated here in Boston, and there are lots of MARKA27 murals in the Boston area. I believe he is an SMFA alum. As the photo in the article says, this artist has been silenced.

New IMLS Guidelines Echo Trump's Vision for American Culture The IMLS is recommending grant applicants read up on President Donald Trump’s executive orders to align with his vision for U.S. culture.

Museum and library grants from the federal government will come with a price.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

The government is using these low-bar administrative warrants to intimidate.

""You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized." - 1984

Ten For Today Revisit: Ferris' Wheel The Everly Brothers, Donovan, Superfine Dandelion, I.R.A., Barbara Keith, Mark Capanni, Pernice Brothers, Jens Lekman, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Fiona Apple

A Valentine to Ferris, the Civil Engineer.

Latent Protest Music Protest music is not a genre. I’d suggest that protest music sometimes isn’t even protest music.

Protest music is what you want it to be.

Latent Protest Music Protest music is not a genre. I’d suggest that protest music sometimes isn’t even protest music.

Protest music is not a genre. It might not even be protest music.

This will be of interest to creative people looking for creative space in the New Bedford area. starstorenb.org