LATEST ADDITIONS

My bus was early, so I almost missed it. I sprained my ankle on Monday, so I can barely hobble down the aisles. Denver is humid. CEDIA is an A/V show.
Bitch, bitch, bitch.

It's funny, but everybody <I>knows</I> the Edsel was a flop and a wretched car. Everybody that is, except people who own one. I've known four people who were proud Edsel owners and their cars were all great rides.

Fred Hersch is playing six nights of piano duets at the Jazz Standard in New York City this week, pairing off with a different pianist each night, and Tuesday’s opening set was a marvel, further evidence that Hersch, not quite 52, is one of the two or three most harmonically imaginative jazz pianists on the scene and keeps carving new pathways—more intricate and probing, but no less swaying or lyrical.

Blogging on <I>Stereophilia</I> will be sporadic this week because of CEDIA&mdash;although the chaos kitties will make their Friday appearance as usual.

Remember all that furor over research results indicating women's brains are hard-wired to prefer pink? Well, you needn't.

Stay tuned for live reports from Denver.

Really want to protect New Orleans? Restore the Mississippi Deltaic Plain. The Army Corps of Engineers&mdash;those busy little khaki covered beavers&mdash;have much more than those sub-par levees to answer for.

Who can resist an article that begins like this? "The sniffles of a diva are like the tantrums of La Nina: a tropical depression in the Pacific is ready, by the time it gets to the North Atlantic, to produce lightning bolts, pelting hail and a deluge of biblical ferocity."

Flame on!
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