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Ode To Opening Day of Baseball Season 2024
Back in the day when baseball was in its infancy, most fans couldn't attend the games in person but boy oh boy they turned on their radios to listen to play by play accounts. And if they had a few cents to spare, they read accounts of the games in... Continue reading
Posted Aug 28, 2024 at pt at large
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Sturgeon Moon Over Marshall Street, Watertown, MA
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August 20, 2024 The wispy cirrus cloud filigree under the moon is saturated by moonglow. The blue dot is an annoying flare that often happens when taking photos at night. Photo by Paul A. Tamburello, Jr. Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2024 at pt at large
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July 4, 2024 Fireworks and Camaraderie at the Hatch Shell Boston
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July 4, 2024 400,000 citizens flocked to the Hatch Shell on the banks of Charles River to enjoy a good ol' fashioned Fourth of July celebration. The cantankerous New England weather did everything except sing Yankee Doodle Dandy. The not a-cloud-in-the-sky 75 degree weather was a meteorological mood enhancer. The... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2024 at pt at large
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Dusk Vanishes Into Evening, July 3, 2022
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From the archives... 50 minutes under the original Big Top. 8:08 PM Porch sitting.... a routine that reminds me of evening vespers at a Catholic overnight camp I attended when I was 9 years old. After dinner, we gathered in a simple wood chapel for evening vesper services. The ritual... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2024 at pt at large
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Lake Street Dive - "Dance With a Stranger"
Just sayin'... Lake Street Dive - Rachel Price "Dance With a Stranger" I've done this, a lot, true words indeed...https://www.youtube.com/user/LakeStreetDive LYRICS Intro] Left, right, front, side Find somebody new And then take them by the hand And say you understand [Verse 1] Look around the room Find someone's eyes that... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2024 at pt at large
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Willie Nelson. Tribute while he’s still standing, smoking and singing
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June 23, 2024 Willie Nelson. A tribute while he’s still standing, smoking and singing. Willie…troubadour, folk hero, counter-culture icon, philanthropist (Farm Aid), father (Lukas and Micah), husband (to Annie D'Angelo), is managing respiratory issues from years of smoking weed, and in the midst what some say will be his last... Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2024 at pt at large
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The Metropolitan Water Works Museum Redux
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April 28, 2024 A reliable water supply of potable water is essential to sustainable life in America. In the 1850s, Boston began modernizing its water supply, which at the time was a combination of wells, pond water, and downhill piping from a Natick reservoir.[3] "The water for the Metropolitan Waterworks... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2024 at pt at large
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Full moon over Oliver Street, May 2024… “The Flower Moon“
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The eerie glow cast over my neighbor's rooftop reminded me of a visit to The House of the Seven Gables in Salem, MA many years ago. Photo by Paul A. Tamburello. Jr. Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2024 at pt at large
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Porch sitting
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May 20, 2024 Southbound jets whisper, robins warble, evening vespers as dusk settles upon Oliver Street Photo by Paul A.Tamburello, Je. Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2024 at pt at large
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Coronal Mass Ejections Taking The World By Storm
Yep, you heard that right. Since Friday afternoon May 10, CNN has been been running non stop coverage...satellite images, experts including Bill Nye the Science Guy, to weigh in about the repercussions that the Coronal Mass Ejections might cause on our digital world. While on terra firma, Stormy Daniels is... Continue reading
Posted May 10, 2024 at pt at large
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Ruby My Dear: Album by John Coltrane
John Coltrane’s saxophone floats like a meadowlark over the spare notes Thelonious Monk co-pilots on his keyboard, a 6 minute 21 second balance between gravity and weightlessness. I didn’t need to google the song to know 31-year-old Coltrane was externalizing a deep emotional experience, soon learned that that the innocently... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2024 at pt at large
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Ode To Opening Day of the 2024 Baseball Season
Tinker to Evers to Chance Major League Baseball in USA officially opened Thursday, March 28, 2024 Back in the day when baseball was in its infancy, most fans couldn't attend the games in person but boy oh boy they turned on their radios to listen to play by play accounts.... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2024 at pt at large
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Peace and Plenty Affords Both
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FROM THE ARCHIVES ...my imagination drifts south as a winter storm approaches Boston... pt at large, February 20, 2006 Peace and Plenty Beach Inn and Bonefish Lodge Stanley Benjamin, Proprietor Queen’s Highway, Georgetown, Great Exuma, Bahamas A flip-flop marinated in Coppertone might have tasted good in this little piece of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2024 at pt at large
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A Visit to Peace and Plenty Afforded Both
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FROM THE ARCHIVES ...my imagination drifts south as a winter storm approaches... pt at large, February 20, 2006 Peace and Plenty Beach Inn and Bonefish Lodge Stanley Benjamin, Proprietor Queen’s Highway, Georgetown, Great Exuma, Bahamas A flip-flop marinated in Coppertone might have tasted good in this little piece of Paradise.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2024 at pt at large
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Asks
In the past few days, I have received requests for contributions from every non-profit and business I have ever used or contributed to...just sayin'... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2023 at pt at large
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Dinner at Barcino continues a legacy, December 28, 2023
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Barcino is a legacy restaurant…a second visit December 28 underscores the point. The new owners understand why Stellina, the restaurant that previously occupied the space, was so special and had such a loyal and discriminating following that it took a massive culture changing pandemic to force it to it knees... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2023 at pt at large
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23/12/07 Gallery Stroll at the Armenian Museum of America
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23/12/07 2nd Annual Gallery Stroll Armenian Museum of America Armenian Museum of America 65 Main Street Watertown, MA 02472 Member reception, gallery stroll, fund raising event, yes, but more than that… an intergenerational gathering of, no other way to say this, members of a group that has suffered the scourge... Continue reading
Posted Dec 22, 2023 at pt at large
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Brunch at Barcino
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23/12/16 Barcino Brunch 2:30 PM Saturday https://www.barcino.com/watertown/watertown-menu Brunch at Barcino We arrived just before the Saturday brunch menu closed at 3 PM, appetites whetted after holiday shopping. Good start when our server remembers us from a previous visit. And got better when brunch arrived. My wild mushroom and smoked mozzarella... Continue reading
Posted Dec 18, 2023 at pt at large
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Tiger Moan Floor Show on Stage
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Sunday, December 3, 2023 Amy Kucharik and Tiger Moan The Burren, Somerville, MA If you can count by 8 and 16 and beyond as you listen to music, you’re probably a dancer - and certainly a musician. Watching the blues dancers interpret the math into their pas de deux on... Continue reading
Posted Dec 4, 2023 at pt at large
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Tiger Moan, Amy Kucharik, Cheryl Arena: Full Moon Blues
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FROM THE ARCHIVES... Tiger Moan, Amy Kucharik, Cheryl Arena Sunday June 4, 2023 Energy from last night’s Tiger Moan show still keeping time in the marrow of my bones. The Full Flower Full Moon overhead was in its waning gibbous phase. There was no energy waning inside the walls of... Continue reading
Posted Nov 14, 2023 at pt at large
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"Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: 40 Years of Funny Stuff"
From the archives...CALVIN TRILLIN Upon Reading In The Middle Of The Night Don’t plan on reading "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: 40 Years of Funny Stuff" if you happen to be sleeping with someone. By the time you’re halfway through one of his Funny Stuff riffs, “Corrections” for example, you... Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2023 at pt at large
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Storefront Art Projects: Jasmine Chen At Work
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Storefront Art Projects: Jasmine Chen October 14, 2023 83 Spring Street, Watertown, MA https://www.storefrontartprojects.com/jasmine-chen-body-work-and-practice Storefront Art Projects Second Visit 2:30 PM Watching Jasmine Chen paint subjects as she sits at a tiny desk in the compact showroom is painterly ballet in motion, her eyes lifting to capture nuances of form... Continue reading
Posted Oct 22, 2023 at pt at large
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Storefront Art Projects: Jasmine Chen
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October 14, 2023 On view: September 7 - October 14, 2023 Gallery hours: Thursdays and Saturdays, 1 - 4 pm 83 Spring Street, Watertown, MA More photos to follow. https://www.storefrontartprojects.com/jasmine-chen-body-work-and-practice This little outpost is a diamond in the rough. Tucked away on a residential street in Watertown, it regularly hosts... Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2023 at pt at large
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Scott Alarik's Folk Tales
09/30/23 Scott Alarik https://scottalarik.com/bio/ WUMB 11AM September 29, 2023 Scott Alarik was as good storyteller as they come. His weekly program “Folk Tales”, still rebroadcast on weekends, was a deep dive into the roots of Americana music from Appalachia, the Ozarks, Midwest to panhandles in Texas to Florida. From 1972... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2023 at pt at large
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Little Richard Penniman: The Architect of Rock 'n Roll Part 1
PART 1 Little Richard Penniman (1932 - 2020) “I am a creator, emancipator, inventor, the king, originator, a beauty, the Bronze Liberace, original Georgia peach, a human atom bomb, international treasure, living flame and a Southern child.” Last paragraph of this link. It ain't bragging when you're telling the truth.The... Continue reading
Posted Sep 4, 2023 at pt at large
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