Science! Psuedo-science! Nature! Art! Nonsense!
January 25, 2025
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In town on yet another wedding planning trip (woo hoo!), we attended the Pittsburgh Symphony. Incredible!
MARÍA HULD MARKAN SIGFÚSDÓTTIR: Oceans [PSO Premiere]
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2
SIBELIUS: The Oceanides [PSO Premiere]
DEBUSSY: La Mer
Vadim Gluzman was excellent. As always the Prokofiev was the best thing.
January 25, 2025
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Ah yes. 5/25/25 approaches. Four shots from the black and white party (shot by donnie gray) put into a Warholesque pattern by the excellent April Claggett.
Here is a black and white version suitable for silk screening (hint hint).
January 25, 2025
art, concert, travel Charlie Brown Christmas, DJ WIlliams, Lion's Den Cigar bar, original music, richmond, RVA Leave a comment
Well, not really back home. DJ Williams now lives in Colorado. But his roots are in Richmond.
We went to see DJ perform at Anytime Beer Company. Honestly, though the brewery might be awesome, we’re just not beer people. In fact, before the show was on, we spent some time next door at the Lion’s Den Cigar Bar and had way more fun. But hot damn is DJ Williams excellent and the band is tight.
We were on a secret scouting mission for our up coming 5/25/25 nuptials. So glad he is involved in the plan!
Of course there was xmas music. Obligatory.
December 20, 2024
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It seemed like time for a show. And it was! We just had to ask.
So it was off to the Lee Arts Center to see what Emily Shepardson has whipped up as of late. We stocked up as usual.
Romey and Joan are scheming again.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, Maybe was making some art of her own. Or maybe it was just a mess.
November 30, 2024
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More art in Chicago, according to plan. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the best art museums in the world.
The Chagall stained glass is, alone, worth the price of admission.
America, what has become of you?
But there’s lots more.
Chicago, Chicago, It’s my kind of town.
November 30, 2024
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It wasn’t really the plan, but it did get one of the items scratched off the list! An afternoon at the MCA was topped only by a visit to Tiffany on the way back to the hotel to check out their wedding rings. Yeah, we got some.
Yeah, they are beautiful.
After art
Champagne
November 30, 2024
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November 20, 2024
art, concert barns of rose hill, BORH, furnace mountain, jen, jen lee, megan caldwell, musical, orange on the blue ridge, original music, suni Leave a comment
An original musical, Orange on the Blue Ridge was performed twice at the BORH. Here are some pictures. (More information can be found on Facebook…not linked here).
November 20, 2024
art, theater Babbitt, dc, harmon hall, izakaya, matthew Broderick, play, shakespeare theater, Sinclaire Lewis Leave a comment
Babbitt, written by Sinclair Lewis in a different age, still strikes way too close to home. Politics as blustering entertainment and bullshit is still a huge problem, especially in a country as downright stupid as the United States.
. Harmon Hall is an excellent theater.
Dinner at Izakaya was very good, though don’t try parking there on game day! Parking was a challenge, but McGraw luck held.
October 31, 2024
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Art is as art does.
