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    I’m Home

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    November 20, 2025

    After two emergency surgeries, 31 days in the hospital, and 17 days in a subacute rehabilitation facility, I’m home—and will be sleeping in my own bed for the first time since the night of October 2. Recovery is a long-term project. But with the love and support of family and…

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  • Sports

    “All Rise” for Aaron Judge

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    November 14, 2025

    It may have been another disappointing year for Yankee fans, but the achievements of Yankee outfielder Aaron Judge could not go unnoticed. Last night, Judge won his third American League Most Value Player Award (over the last four years), edging out Cal Raleigh who hit 60 home runs in the…

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  • Culture, Frivolity

    Happy Halloween 2025!

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    October 31, 2025

    Yes, I’m still in the hospital, as I explained here. But right after Labor Day, I put up a mini-Halloween display in my apartment and recorded a holiday video. Last year’s apartment move around this time made it impossible to put up any holiday decorations at all. Have a safe…

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  • Culture, Music, Personal

    So Nice to Come Home To

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    October 29, 2025

    One year ago today, on October 29, 2024, I did what I once thought was unthinkable. I moved from the Gravesend section of Brooklyn, where I’d lived my entire life. I didn’t go far, though. I now live in the Madison neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay. I will always be a…

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  • Music

    Song of the Day #2236

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    October 8, 2025

    Song of the Day: Skate is credited to a host of writers, including Brandon Anderson, Dernst Emile II, James Fauntleroy, Domitille Degalle, JD Beck, and Bruno Mars, who is one of the lead vocalists on this track from the 2021 album, “An Evening with Silk Sonic.” I had the pleasure…

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  • Film / TV / Theater Review, Music

    Song of the Day #2235

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    October 1, 2025

    Song of the Day: Victor/Victoria (“Le Jazz Hot”), music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, is one of the highlights of the 1982 film, starring Julie Andrews in the hilarious gender-bending title role. Through the years, I have featured so many songs by Andrews, from her Broadway triumph, “My…

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  • Rand Studies

    “AYN RAND” v. JARS

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    September 30, 2025

    For more than two decades, I was associated with The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (JARS). That journal’s debut issue was published in September 1999. The brainchild of Bill Bradford, the journal became the first (and only) nonaligned, interdisciplinary double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly periodical to feature critical commentary on Rand’s work,…

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  • Music, Remembrance

    Phil Woods – Live at Hopper’s

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    September 29, 2025

    Ten years ago on this date, September 29, 2015, the legendary saxophonist Phil Woods died at the age of 83. He was among the greatest jazz musicians of his time. Popular audiences knew him—without realizing it—as the guy who took that melodic sax solo on Billy Joel’s classic, “Just the…

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  • Music, Remembrance

    Song of the Day #2234

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    September 26, 2025

    Song of the Day: Cry Me a River, words and music by Arthur Hamilton, was recorded in 1955 by actress and vocalist Julie London, with Barney Kessel on guitar and Ray Leatherwood on bass. Featured as the first single off London’s debut album, “Julie is Her Name,” the recording was…

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  • Music

    Song of the Day #2233

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    September 22, 2025

    Song of the Day: September Morn, words and music by Gilbert Becaud and Neil Diamond, is the title track to the Brooklyn-born artist’s thirteenth studio album, which was released in 1979. This lushly orchestrated ballad provides an appropriate finale to my Tenth Annual Summer Music Festival. Indeed, we’re hanging onto…

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