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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3580 on: August 06, 2024, 12:37:02 pm »
Looking forward to receiving this week's issue. There's a story about RFK and the bear!
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3581 on: August 09, 2024, 09:46:14 pm »
I wanted something short to read over lunch today, so I turned to Alex Ross' opera article (Aug. 5).  I was surprised and delighted to find one of my neighbors mentioned, Chas Rader-Shieber, who directed one of the operas that were staged in Des Moines.

For the first year or so that I was in my condo, he was literally my next-door neighbor, as he rented the unit right next to mine. Once he had some soprano stay over, and I got to hear her practice.  :)

He later bought another unit in the building, and he and his husband still live here.
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« Reply #3582 on: August 09, 2024, 09:50:35 pm »
I have kept that issue by my side, as I have wanted to comment on it and say how much I want to go to DesMoines after reading it!
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3583 on: August 15, 2024, 10:01:47 am »
The comedy archive issue has some good articles. Not one but four Shouts & Murmurs, two of them pretty funny.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3584 on: August 15, 2024, 03:09:16 pm »
I have kept that issue by my side, as I have wanted to comment on it and say how much I want to go to DesMoines after reading it!

Wow! I'd better read that one. I have no interest in opera, but I had relatives in Des Moines and it's where my parents met. Although I think now all but one of my family members are either deceased or have moved to Arizona, with the exception of a 99-year-old aunt who lives on her own in a small town in western Iowa.


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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3585 on: August 18, 2024, 04:47:48 pm »
The entire "Talk of the Town" in the Archival Comedy issue is worth reading, even though the article on Robin Williams made me sad. He was truly a genius.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3586 on: August 21, 2024, 09:32:37 pm »
The article on Kamala Harris in this week's issue is a bit superficial. Still I must admit that I am also captivated by her smile and her enthusiasm. It seems genuine, not fakey like most politicians' facial expressions. And that cover of the candidates on the roller coaster! Priceless.
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3587 on: August 22, 2024, 04:03:53 pm »
If you haven't read the SNL article in the comedy issue, you can skip it. It's more an article on the nature of comedy than it is about SNL.
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« Reply #3588 on: August 28, 2024, 09:59:08 pm »
I was thrilled by "The Infiltrators" in the August 26 issue. It's great to know there are leftist anti-fascists (antifa?) going after far-right extremists--although they seem to be doing the job the FBI should be doing.  >:(  I love the quotation at the end where a source told the author that far-right groups "have a First Amendment right to be assholes and voice their opinions--but I have a First Amendment right to call them out on it, and if that results in repercussions where they lose their jobs or go to jail, that's on them, not me."

I thought the article did a good job exposing at least one hypocrisy of these far-right extremist groups. They can march and spew antisemitic bile and so on, but as soon as they get push-back they go crying to the police. (I'm thinking of the guy who had paint splashed on his car windshield and his tires slashed.)
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Re: In the New Yorker...
« Reply #3589 on: August 29, 2024, 04:26:16 pm »
I was thrilled by "The Infiltrators" in the August 26 issue. It's great to know there are leftist anti-fascists (antifa?) going after far-right extremists--although they seem to be doing the job the FBI should be doing.  >:(  I love the quotation at the end where a source told the author that far-right groups "have a First Amendment right to be assholes and voice their opinions--but I have a First Amendment right to call them out on it, and if that results in repercussions where they lose their jobs or got to jail, that's on them, not me."

I thought the article did a good job exposing at least one hypocrisy of these far-right extremist groups. They can march and spew antisemitic bile and so on, but as soon as they get push-back they go crying to the police. (I'm thinking of the guy who had paint splashed on his car windshield and his tires slashed.)

I've long doubted the existence of antifa, at least in any substantial numbers, because right-wingers are always blaming them for being the "real" troublemakers on Jan. 6 and things like that. I once covered a visit by Trump to an upscale community that was in my beat area. (I never saw Trump, nor even the motorcade!  >:(  Long story.) Anyway, while the crowd was still gathered I went to get a pop or something from a gas station. I asked the kid at the counter if he'd seen the motorcade at all (which had gone by out front) and he said, "No, I just hope I don't see antifa." I could hardly keep my eyes from rolling out of their sockets.

But if this article is about people who just go undercover among the MAGAs -- like the guy who took video of them trashing the Capitol on Jan. 6 -- I'll look forward to reading it!