The Wilderness Must Be Explored!
Although bearing a resemblance to the subject of my previous piece, the title for this week is actually a line from Pixar’s “Up.” Lovely movie. It also proves that whoever said animated movies can’t
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Die Weltstadt mit Herz
“The world city with a heart” would be a proper translation, I suppose. The above line was the motto of Munich up until 2005, when it became “München Mag Dich!”—Munich loves you! While the
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TECHNOLOGICAL CATASTROPHE
In his recent columns, Altuğ has written about the effects of technology and the Internet on the music industry. I want to talk about a different aspect of technology’s impact on music: the recording
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Little Did We Know
Writing fiction is unbelievably fun, so much so that I can’t stop myself from getting animated, jumping on chairs and tables, laughing and being amazed at an idea that has just popped up in
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A Couple of Words on Autism
I do not write often about genetics—as well I shouldn’t, since this is a column for general audiences, and genetics is one of the most jargon-infested fields out there (that, and I am not
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Why Music Reviewing Matters
I was inspired to write such a column when I watched an hour-long panel from SXSW 2014 about the relevance of music reviewing, in which two of my favorite reviewers, Anthony Fantano and Myke
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