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Physicists are forced to concede that they can know  either  the location or the speed of a particle. They can't know both because the v...

The Institute While this is not our first foray into interdisciplinary art exploration, we at the Institute are aware that our preoccupatio...

Escalator Over the Hill  ( EOTH ) distills a corner of the counter-cultural energy of the early ’70s. Politics is fodder for satire here, bu...

The whole world-why restrict it-the entire universe-knows that the Beatles have released a song called Now And Then. This Frankenstinian e...

  Monsieur Proust is welcome to his madeleine. Those little cakes may have a rich provenance , but they are a rather wan substitute for mo...

  The cohort of 1950s trumpet players is a pretty astonishing lot . Booker Little, one of that (often ill-fated) group, died of uremic poi...

  Edmund Wilson; a man who doesn't look like he enjoys his work. Otherwise known for more high-fallutin’ work, writer Edmund Wilson did ...

 In honor of Frank Zappa's birthday, here are my lyrics to "Peaches En Regalia" (every note). ENSEMBLE 1 Too lifelike to destr...

  If I'm to be dragged into the fires of Hades while I'm still alive, I'll take this one along. Originally composed as a recurri...

Musicians One-Nostril Clyde Toothpick Willie Joseph 'Vaseline' Brunelle Clyde 'Ofal' Pivnik L'il Chicklets Big S...

So far, we've had a 100% failure rate with our end-of-year resolutions, and I see no reason this year should be any different. In fact, ...

This is not to knock the idea of hearing songs befitting the season. There are some that retain their charm despite being in heavy rotation ...

One thing both Biden and Trump voters seem to agree on is that there’s a lot at stake in this election. The degree of partisanship itself ...