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My Favorite Post of 2024: The Greatest TV Theme Song Of All Time

My Most Popular Post of 2024: 'Too High To Review The Willie Nelson Concert'

Merry Christmas!

Video: 'Maggiore On Bowie'

Concert Review: Samara Joy And ‘A Joyful Holiday'

8 Great Albums Of 2024

Why Luigi Mangione's Extradition Challenge Will Fail

Movie Review: ‘Dirty Angels'

Christmas With The Peanuts Gang

Update: People v. Daniel Penny

Update: People v. Daniel Penny

Book Review: ‘Rental House'

Update: People v. Daniel Penny

Movie Review: ‘Maria'

Happy Thanksgiving!

Book Review: ‘An Earthquake Is Shaking The Surface Of The Earth'

Concert Review: Otto Tausk Conducts The BPO

Update: People v. Daniel Penny

Book Review: ‘The City And Its Uncertain Walls'

Introducing 'American Karma'

Update: People v. Daniel Penny

Movie Review: 'Hundreds of Beavers'

Concert Review: The BPO’s 90th Anniversary

Concert Review: The Chiaroscuro Quartet

Movie Review: “Conclave"

Concert Review: ‘Mingus Dynasty Septet'

Movie Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

In 1975 I Was 10 And I Thought This Was The Coolest Music In The World

I Remember Viola Luizzo And I Hope

Concert Review: 'Pink Martini’ With The BPO at Kleinhans

Concert Review: 'A Gospel Symphony Celebration With Lady Tramaine Hawkins'

Two Drunk Men Were Leering at a Teenager at a Beachside Bar in Rio . . .

The 'Subway Chokehold' Trial Has Begun

Concert Review: The BPO’s 'Gershwin & Resphigi'

Concert Review: Stephanie Lambring At Babeville

TV Theme Songs: 'The Rockford Files'

Book Review: Rachel Maddow's ‘Prequel’

What Is The Greatest TV Theme Song Of All Time? The Answer Is Below.

Concert Review: The Buffalo Philharmonic Opens Its 90th Season

Remarks At My Mother's Remembrance Service

Elon: Don't Make Jokes. You're Bad At It.

Concert Review: Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and John Mellencamp

Summer Deep Dive: “Time After Time”

The High Drama of "Vocal Jazz Ensemble"

Summer Deep Dive: Emily Zeck's "Trailer Park Tiki Bar"

Concert Review: Antje Duvekot At The Meeting House

The “Subway Chokehold” Case Goes to Trial in 30 Days

Summer Deep Dive: Jimmy Buffett's “Margaritaville” and "Come Monday"

How To Make a Port Arthur Air Purifier

Album Review: ‘Woodland'

Summer Deep Dive: Khruangbin's "A Love International"

Series: A Masterpiece Comes Home

In Honor of Linda Norgrove

Summer Deep Dive: Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up"

Art Review: 'Quiet Elegance' at the Buffalo AKG

Summer Deep Dive: Taylor Swift's "I Bet You Think About Me"

Lawrence, Kansas to Plattesmouth, Nebraska Is About a 3 Hour Drive

Summer Deep Dive: Frank Zappa's 'Willie The Pimp'

Summer Deep Dive: Sheryl Crow's "Run Baby Run"

The Political Center Has Drifted Far to the Right In One Generation

Summer Deep Dive: "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" Forty Years Later

Summer Deep Dive: Mumford And Sons "I Will Wait"

Is America An Idea Or A Homeland?

Remembering Tony Bennett

From The Archives: Umberto Eco's "The Prague Cemetery"

Summer Deep Dive: "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs

Dear Washington Post: People Are Not Rational

Summer Deep Dive: Hall and Oates’ “She’s Gone”

Art Review: Marisol Retrospective At The Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Concert Review: Wilco At The Chautauqua Institution

Film Review: "Ophelia"

The Moral Injury of Late Capitalism: Welcome To Moe's!

Record Review: Wilco's "Hot Sun Cool Shroud"

The Undeniable Greatness of the Late, Great, Rowdy Roddy Piper

A Beautiful But Flawed Epic Montage

From The Archives: Harvard Law and Policy Review

From the Archives: Harvard Law and Policy Review

From The Archives: Harvard Law And Policy Review

From The Archives: Radio Interview Regarding Redistricting

The Moral Injury of Late Capitalism: Juneteenth Edition

Government Consultant's Report: I Am Deeply Concerned About Adventure Bay's Emergency Response Regime

Summer In Buffalo: Reviews Of The Current Exhibits At The Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Don't Like Jazz? Give Me Six Minutes And Forty-Two Seconds.

The Moral Injury of Late Capitalism: Snoop Dog, Disintermediation, And The Marginalization of Creative Labor

Concert Review: The BPO Closes Its Season With Mahler's "Resurrection"

Look For My Review Of The BPO's Season Finale, Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony

Film Review: "Hundreds of Beavers" Is A Delight

The Sacred and the Profane in the Pacific Breezes

Book Review: 1217 - The Battles That Saved England

Ask Roscoe

The Chooi Brothers Take Over Kleinhans

Concert Review: Yefim Bronfman At UB

Spring 2024 In The Media Room

Art Review: "After The Sun - Forecasts From The North" At The Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Film Review: A Stage of Twilight

Concert Review: The BPO Performs Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto

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Repost: For White Supremacists, Rules Are For Others

Concert Review: Keiko Matsui at Buffalo State

Album Review: Khruangbin's "A La Sala"

Like Most People, I Have Wanted To Punch A Stadium Mascot

Movie Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Taylor Swift Is Awesome

Art Review: Sin Wai Kin: It’s Always You

Opera Review: The Golden Ass

Jason Vieaux Comes Home

Relaunch!

Concert Review: The BPO Performs "Don Quixote"

Concert Review: Veronica Swift in Buffalo

UPDATE: What Happened at the Rainbow Bridge November 23, 2023

From The Archives: Perry v. New Hampshire and the Fallibility of Eyewitness Testimony

Movie Review: "Drive-Away Dolls"

Film Review: "The Taste of Things"

The Bee Gees Were Awesome

Jazz In Color

A 21st Century Trobairitz

Series: The Moral Injury of Late Capitalism

Joshua Redman Leads A Young Band of Adepts

From the Archives: Opera Review

Subscriber-Only, Soft Relaunch

I Remember Viola Luizzo

Modernism Conquers The Solar System: My Review of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's "The Planets"

Scenes of Buffalo in Rochester: Gregory Halpern at the Eastman Museum

A Happy Soundtrack To A Walk In The Clouds

For White Supremacists, Rules Are For Others

Climate Change Comes to Kleinhans

Art Review - Keith Haring in Toronto