Micaela Baranello
@micaelab.bsky.social
musicologist (asst prof, Temple University), Philadelphia’s 36th leading SEPTA Route 2 busfluencer. she/her.
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TIL that when people refer to the Chicken Man in a Philly context they don’t necessarily mean the guy who got blown up in the Springsteen song. Sometimes they’re referring to a guy in South Philly who is famous for eating 40 rotisserie chickens in 40 days.
MVP Louise Alder
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
MVP Louise Alder
Voilà
Neither of the leads can sing below a forte but this is an OK opera for that as it goes
Neither of the leads can sing below a forte but this is an OK opera for that as it goes
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Voilà
Neither of the leads can sing below a forte but this is an OK opera for that as it goes
Neither of the leads can sing below a forte but this is an OK opera for that as it goes
Excited to see Andrea Chénier, everyone’s second favorite French Revolution opera, tonight!
Obviously it is inevitably second to Gottfried von Eminem’s Dantons Tod
Obviously it is inevitably second to Gottfried von Eminem’s Dantons Tod
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Excited to see Andrea Chénier, everyone’s second favorite French Revolution opera, tonight!
Obviously it is inevitably second to Gottfried von Eminem’s Dantons Tod
Obviously it is inevitably second to Gottfried von Eminem’s Dantons Tod
Philadelphia 🤝 NYC
Menaced by cars with NJ plates
Menaced by cars with NJ plates
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Philadelphia 🤝 NYC
Menaced by cars with NJ plates
Menaced by cars with NJ plates
I’m taking Amtrak this morning and they made us line up as usual but then let us onto the platform to wait for the train to arrive. what is this strange decrease in idiocy???
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m taking Amtrak this morning and they made us line up as usual but then let us onto the platform to wait for the train to arrive. what is this strange decrease in idiocy???
I heard there was a secret chord
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I heard there was a secret chord
Google AI has some takes on Acocella/Garafola/Greene's foundational article "The Rite of Spring Considered as a Nineteenth-Century Ballet"
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Google AI has some takes on Acocella/Garafola/Greene's foundational article "The Rite of Spring Considered as a Nineteenth-Century Ballet"
I took my Vienna 1913 class to Penn to see the Alma Mahler-Werfel papers and it was so fun!
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I took my Vienna 1913 class to Penn to see the Alma Mahler-Werfel papers and it was so fun!
love learning from the highly informed commenters on the Philadelphia Inquirer's Facebook posts
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
love learning from the highly informed commenters on the Philadelphia Inquirer's Facebook posts
If you would like to watch this production the stream is available: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjn...
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you would like to watch this production the stream is available: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYjn...
Top 5 genres:
let's put on a show
black and white European art film, 100 minutes or less, any language or topic
David vs. Goliath setup involving government or corporate malfeasance
period piece that uses only candles for interior light
get the team together for one last heist
let's put on a show
black and white European art film, 100 minutes or less, any language or topic
David vs. Goliath setup involving government or corporate malfeasance
period piece that uses only candles for interior light
get the team together for one last heist
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
Top 5 movie genres are:
Breathtakingly beautiful magic realism that represents grief
Buncha fuckin losers decide to become a family instead of going to therapy
Yikes a ghost! Oh it's just sad.
Bright colours, singing, dancing, gay subtext/text
Whatever the fuck Star Trek First Contact is
Breathtakingly beautiful magic realism that represents grief
Buncha fuckin losers decide to become a family instead of going to therapy
Yikes a ghost! Oh it's just sad.
Bright colours, singing, dancing, gay subtext/text
Whatever the fuck Star Trek First Contact is
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Top 5 genres:
let's put on a show
black and white European art film, 100 minutes or less, any language or topic
David vs. Goliath setup involving government or corporate malfeasance
period piece that uses only candles for interior light
get the team together for one last heist
let's put on a show
black and white European art film, 100 minutes or less, any language or topic
David vs. Goliath setup involving government or corporate malfeasance
period piece that uses only candles for interior light
get the team together for one last heist
This is not a subtle opera but we are not in subtle times
Temple is presenting the first collegiate production of Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale!!!
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is not a subtle opera but we are not in subtle times
Temple is presenting the first collegiate production of Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale!!!
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Temple is presenting the first collegiate production of Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale!!!
the mouse: rampaging again
the mouse control:
the mouse control:
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
the mouse: rampaging again
the mouse control:
the mouse control:
Monteverdi’s Orfeo at Curtis
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Monteverdi’s Orfeo at Curtis
I know it could be a monopolistic corporate succubus but my kingdom for an Interfolio to manage grad school letters of recommendation
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I know it could be a monopolistic corporate succubus but my kingdom for an Interfolio to manage grad school letters of recommendation
I let the students choose boxes to look at but am going through all of them beforehand and I’m here looking at Alma Mahler’s AAA card
I'm going to see the Mahler-Werfel papers at Penn with my class and unsurprisingly there is some wild stuff in there
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I let the students choose boxes to look at but am going through all of them beforehand and I’m here looking at Alma Mahler’s AAA card
These anti smoking on the train ads have been up for a while and they’re so confusing. Why does it yell that SARAH IS A TEACHER? Why does it make poor Sarah look so sinister when she’s just minding her teacher business?
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
These anti smoking on the train ads have been up for a while and they’re so confusing. Why does it yell that SARAH IS A TEACHER? Why does it make poor Sarah look so sinister when she’s just minding her teacher business?
I'm going to see the Mahler-Werfel papers at Penn with my class and unsurprisingly there is some wild stuff in there
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm going to see the Mahler-Werfel papers at Penn with my class and unsurprisingly there is some wild stuff in there
I know there's stuff going on but there's also a Cry to Heaven (lurid Anne Rice castrato novel) adaptation directed by.... Tom Ford starring.... Adele? what?
www.vulture.com/article/adel...
www.vulture.com/article/adel...
Adele Will Make Her Acting Debut in Tom Ford’s Next Film
Alongside Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in an adaptation of Anne Rice’s Cry to Heaven.
www.vulture.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I know there's stuff going on but there's also a Cry to Heaven (lurid Anne Rice castrato novel) adaptation directed by.... Tom Ford starring.... Adele? what?
www.vulture.com/article/adel...
www.vulture.com/article/adel...
when you develop a “little side project” ethnography and then look at a calendar for next summer
a pixelated image of a man with the words we have to go back on the bottom
ALT: a pixelated image of a man with the words we have to go back on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
when you develop a “little side project” ethnography and then look at a calendar for next summer
Not the point of the post but we were assigned The Agony and the Ecstasy for AP Euro History summer reading for some unknown reason and I think I was the only person in the class to finish it and also at 15 I was so confused about its whole deal
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Not the point of the post but we were assigned The Agony and the Ecstasy for AP Euro History summer reading for some unknown reason and I think I was the only person in the class to finish it and also at 15 I was so confused about its whole deal
We finished the game!! There was an altercation at the concert, civil trials for the two lawsuits, Alban Berg died in World War I, no one figured out who the spy was, and the avant-garde decided to abandon Vienna and all moved to Berlin at the end
I finished the draft of my Schoenberg Reacting to the Past roleplaying game!! It requires a gavel, someone to sing Berg op 4, and 12-sided dice. Guaranteed to surprise!
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We finished the game!! There was an altercation at the concert, civil trials for the two lawsuits, Alban Berg died in World War I, no one figured out who the spy was, and the avant-garde decided to abandon Vienna and all moved to Berlin at the end