Inevitably, right after I decided to mention here how I like Plex as a platform for a personal jukebox, I went and had problems with Plex. It’s a ...

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to ...

This is the “tube layout” for an ancient stereo console that someone left out on the street. The sticker, undated, was on an inside wall of ...

A friend some time back shared a photo of an object in the current installation by artist Samson Young, Intentness and song, that is on view at ...

The Ruth Asawa retrospective at SFMOMA is a dozen shades of fantastic. I fear it’s becoming cliché to note it, but with the sculptures, the ...

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written ...

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public ...

Every few years I re-read “Spew,” the Neal Stephenson story published in the magazine Wired in 1994. It’s still online, as are we all. “Spew” is a ...

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to ...

There’s an auction for personal items from the life and work of the late filmmaker David Lynch. I’m relieved to not harbor much of an attachment ...