Exotic and irrational entertainment

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Sunday, April 30, 2017

The other Beethoven: The Beethoven string quartets part 3

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Portrait of Beethoven (detail), by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820 In April the Takács Quartet returned to Berkeley's Cal Performances f...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Mamta

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Mamta (A Mother's Love, 1966), directed by Asit Sen, story by Nihan Rajan Gupta after his novel Uttar Falguni , dialogues by Krishen Ch...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

My city of ruins

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Howard Street, Baltimore (Google Street View) Young men on the corner Like scattered leaves, The boarded-up windows, The empty str...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Not beautiful: The Beethoven string quartets part 2

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Portrait of Beethoven by Willibrod Josef Maehler (detail), 1815 The Takács Quartet returned to Berkeley in early March for the midd...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Suggested reading: Psychohistory is now real

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Your portable (or desktop) personality test Isaac Asimov. Source: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection,...
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