Cello print by Heather Webster at Etsy I’m dedicating this week’s music mix to a seriously fun show I saw last Friday. The Doug Fir in Portland hosted The Portland Cello Project’s “Extreme Cello Dance Party” (yep, you read that right), a celebration of old and new music arranged and played by cellists who were…
This morning is a very special edition of the Monday music mix because . . . my parents are taking over. Okay, not entirely, but they’re outnumbering me two to one. Before dinner yesterday, I was thinking about this column and how we could pool the diverse Bonney family musical tastes into one post. Rather…
Photograph of Wormsloe Plantation (on vintage tin tile) by Meryl Truett Last week’s trip to Birmingham, Alabama still has its claws in me. Whenever I touch down on southern soil it’s as if some stubborn weed wraps a tendril around me and it makes it harder and harder to leave each time. This trip was…
Print above by Tiny White Lights I’m really excited for the D*S redesign to be up and running (in May!) because the title I wanted to write for this post wouldn’t fit in the alloted space. And man, I hate shortening something important like National Record Store Day. Last week I was thinking about how…
Despite spring’s best efforts, winter seemed to own Brooklyn this weekend. It dipped well below 30 most nights and staying inside to watch movies seemed like the only sensible thing to do. The choices on TV weren’t amazing, so AC and I ended up watching The Runaways and talking about our favorite songs from movies….
One of the things I find myself thinking about a lot lately is how people start their mornings. My last few mornings have been filled with upheaval: packing, cleaning embarrassing piles of (previously) hidden dust and dismantling everything I worked so hard to hang on our apartment walls (Maybe a little too hard. Most of…