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Proud papa. @bambrooklyn.bsky.social senior copywriter. New music on stage and on record: https://nightafternight.substack.com [he/him/his]

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 1d

For the Record: Oct. 10, 2025.

Therapeutic sounds from The Necks, Sarah Davachi, Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.

Photograph: The Necks, by Dawid Laskowski

For the Record: Oct. 10, 2025.

Therapeutic sounds from The Necks, Sarah Davachi, Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 8h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 21h

Tonight’s agenda-in-progress.

Paper program for ‘Sibyl,’ a multimedia opera by William Kentridge, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, and Kyle Shepherd at Powerhouse International in Brooklyn.

Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 22h

Gonna spit teeth if I’m late to my show because of a tugboat.

MTA Subway Alerts (Unofficial) @mtaupdates.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 22h

A R trains are delayed in both directions while the South Channel Bridge opens for marine traffic to pass.

For latest updates, visit https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit and https://mta.info. #nyc #mta #subway

New York City Transit

New York City Transit manages and maintains subway and bus service in New York.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 1d

For the Record: Oct. 10, 2025.

Therapeutic sounds from The Necks, Sarah Davachi, Ellen Fullman and The Living Earth Show, and more new arrivals and coming attractions.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible scene, sharp thread.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Wilson's 'Moby Dick'! The National Theatre's 'Hamlet'! A 50th anniversary return for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, celebrating 100 years of Rauschenberg! All that and mooooore in the @bambrooklyn.bsky.social Winter/Spring 2026 season, newly announced TODAY. Dig: www.bam.org/winter-spring

Winter/Spring 2026

Full-tilt creativity anchors a season of monumental theater, dance, music, and more.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 2d

There was no better time of year to work at the old Time Out New York offices on Tenth Ave. at 36th St. than during NYCC, when the streets around Javits swarmed with amazing characters and cosplayers.

Boo! Boo! Spoooooky Robo @gogoandyrobo.bsky.social · 2d

It wasn’t until the third steampunk cowboy walking on 8th Avenue that I realized today was NYCC 🤣

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music @bambrooklyn.bsky.social · 24d

Big congrats to @norachipaumire, just named a Tate Modern Infinities Commission artist for 2026! 🎉 Meet the mind behind the brilliance: catch her in person at BAM for an intimate artist talk with the Dambudzo team, Fri Oct 10, 6PM.

🎟️ https://tr.ee/xHy2r0

A Conversation with nora chipaumire & the Dambudzo Cast

nora chipaumire and her cast and crew discuss the influences behind Dambudzo.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 2d

A different look for @roulettenyc.bsky.social tonight as @bambrooklyn.bsky.social is in the house with ‘Dambudzo’ by nora chipaumire to open this year’s Next Wave festival. #NextWave2025

The Brooklyn concert venue Roulette with chairs cleared out, lights on the walls and ceiling, a video screen over the stage, and a DJ in one corner.

The Brooklyn concert venue Roulette with seats cleared out. Four seated men are visible in silhouette against a video screen, and the room is illuminated with a disco ball.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 3d

I got 19 out of 25… it should have been 20 but my thumb fell wrong.

On the one about what MTA stands for. Sheesh.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 4d

Running to stand still

A William Kentridge opera at a new culture and arts festival in Brooklyn, and more recommended live new-music events for Oct. 7–14.

Photograph: Sibyl, by William Kentridge, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, and Kyle Shepherd; photography by Stella Olivier

Running to stand still

A William Kentridge opera at a new culture and arts festival in Brooklyn, and more recommended live new-music events for Oct. 7–14.

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 4d

this picture is from los angeles 1992, not portland 2025. journalism malpractice

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 4d

A stabbing on the sidewalk outside the Shake Shack, it’s been reported.

Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. pix11.com/news/local-n...

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 5d

JFC. Thanks, I’d started to wonder when I saw it wasn’t a certain other kind of operation.

Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 5d

Police have cordoned off the Shake Shack at 82nd St and 37th Ave.

NYPD vehicle parked in front of a Shake Shack restaurant surrounded by police tape and officers.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 5d

News 4 copter suspended over 80th St. between Roosevelt and 37th Aves.

News helicopter hovering over Jackson Heights on Monday around 4pm.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 5d

Creeping me out massively to hear a helicopter hovering over Jackson Heights right now. Can't tell from indoors where exactly it is, but disinclined to go outdoors.

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Steve Smith @nightafternight.bsky.social · 5d

Pinch me. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Rush Sets Reunion Tour for 2026; Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Discuss the ‘Difficult Decision’ of Finding a New Drummer After Neil Peart’s Death

Rush will head out on a reunion tour in 2026, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson joined by a new drummer. The tour will pay homage to the late Neil Peart.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5d

This is grim. Just anecdotally, 7 or 8 years ago every experimental playwright I knew was moving to LA to write for the seemingly boundless appetite of Netflix et al. Now people I know who have worked in TV/film for three decades are out of work

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 8d

I think the weak jobs numbers we are seeing now are just the beginning.

We are only just starting to see indirect effects of mass layoffs in government, tech, now entertainment. So many service jobs are downstream of these relatively stable, relatively high-wage ones.

www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

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