Carl Wallace
@cwallace.bsky.social
music, arlington, software development, red sox
This is some repugnant shit right here. No one should ever sit foot in the dearly departed Kennedy Center ever again.
Here’s the Ric Grenell letter to Chuck Redd. Because Grenell can’t help himself, he insists that Redd’s withdrawal was “very costly” to the Kennedy Center while also alleging “dismal ticket sales” and “the public’s lack of interest in your show.”
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This is some repugnant shit right here. No one should ever sit foot in the dearly departed Kennedy Center ever again.
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The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the facility. https://to.pbs.org/4sesdVc
Christmas Eve jazz concert at Kennedy Center canceled after Trump name added to building
The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the facility.
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the facility. https://to.pbs.org/4sesdVc
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Keith Jarrett / Charlie Haden: For All We Know
YouTube video by Wookyung Kim
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Go fill this out.
If you live in Arlington, you can share your thoughts about this here: us.openforms.com/Form/c616040...
Form of Government Charge Feedback
us.openforms.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Go fill this out.
Fortunately, rumors of the demise of the Rock Spring Park dinosaurs, gnomes and army men are not true. The squirrel utility worker has been missing for a hole though. #ArlingtonVA
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Fortunately, rumors of the demise of the Rock Spring Park dinosaurs, gnomes and army men are not true. The squirrel utility worker has been missing for a hole though. #ArlingtonVA
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NEW: my selection of the greatest jazz piano albums of all time
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iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the...
TT 556: The Greatest Jazz Piano Albums of All Time
or really: from 1921 to 1990
iverson.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: my selection of the greatest jazz piano albums of all time
iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the...
iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the...
Catching up on some Greenleaf releases tonight. Their subscription plan is a bargain.
Subscribe – Greenleaf Music by Dave Douglas
greenleafmusic.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Catching up on some Greenleaf releases tonight. Their subscription plan is a bargain.
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This is by far the longest piece I've written for @fastcompany.com, but it takes a few words to unpack why the NextGen Acela isn't that much faster than the old one, the past mistakes that got us here, and the incomplete steps Amtrak is now taking to speed up every train on the Northeast Corridor.
Amtrak’s new Acela trains can’t keep up with high-speed rail
The fastest train in America rides on one of the country’s oldest railroad tracks.
www.fastcompany.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is by far the longest piece I've written for @fastcompany.com, but it takes a few words to unpack why the NextGen Acela isn't that much faster than the old one, the past mistakes that got us here, and the incomplete steps Amtrak is now taking to speed up every train on the Northeast Corridor.
Results of nuclear testing in Rock Spring?
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Results of nuclear testing in Rock Spring?
Needless to say, this sucks.
Since Trump took over the Kennedy Center, decades-long jazz programmers have been fired, performers heckled, and the only confirmed jazz booking is a WWII-era big band.
Columnist Michael J. West looks at the state of jazz at the KenCen:
Columnist Michael J. West looks at the state of jazz at the KenCen:
Swing Beat: The Future Looks Bleak for Jazz at the Kennedy Center
The performing arts institution has let its music programmers go, and currently its jazz season is composed of one WWII-era big band.
buff.ly
October 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Needless to say, this sucks.
Halloween approaches in Rock Spring. #ArlingtonVA
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Halloween approaches in Rock Spring. #ArlingtonVA
Wow. Two Flos died in the same week.
September 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Wow. Two Flos died in the same week.
RIP Mark Volman
FRANK ZAPPA -- CENTERVILLE
YouTube video by PLASTICDADA II
m.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
RIP Mark Volman
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rich nimbys in charlottesville lost the political debate over zoning, leveraged the legal system to try to stop it, and are going to lose the political debate again for the simple reason that the voters of cville support zoning reform and have elected a city council that intends to see it through
Plaintiff in city zoning case speaks out - Cville Right Now
One of the plaintiffs in the White vs. Charlottesville zoning lawsuit laid out the reasons for the action against the city.
cvillerightnow.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
rich nimbys in charlottesville lost the political debate over zoning, leveraged the legal system to try to stop it, and are going to lose the political debate again for the simple reason that the voters of cville support zoning reform and have elected a city council that intends to see it through
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Somewhere in South Carolina a teacher is begging for crowdfunding to buy construction paper for her classroom of thirty 2nd graders while the governor sends the National Guard to stand around Washington D.C.
August 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Somewhere in South Carolina a teacher is begging for crowdfunding to buy construction paper for her classroom of thirty 2nd graders while the governor sends the National Guard to stand around Washington D.C.
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Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.
Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...
www.pbump.net
August 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
Latest item in Rock Spring Park. #ArlingtonVA
August 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Latest item in Rock Spring Park. #ArlingtonVA
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The 10-piece Either/Orchestra, formed in Cambridge, MA in 1985, “will be coming out of a long hibernation” according to their leader Russ Gershon. i believe their last album was 15 years ago, but a new one is on the way.
August 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The 10-piece Either/Orchestra, formed in Cambridge, MA in 1985, “will be coming out of a long hibernation” according to their leader Russ Gershon. i believe their last album was 15 years ago, but a new one is on the way.
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Charlie Haden was born in Shenandoah, Iowa on this day in 1937
📸 Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images, NYC, July 3, 1975
📸 Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images, NYC, July 3, 1975
August 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Charlie Haden was born in Shenandoah, Iowa on this day in 1937
📸 Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images, NYC, July 3, 1975
📸 Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images, NYC, July 3, 1975
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Whoa… over 24,000 old vinyl LPs digitized and available for free to the public, including over 5,000 from shuttered Seattle record store Bop Street
Of no interest whatsoever to anyone on this feed.
archive.org/details/unlo...
The unlocked recordings collection at the archive, largely if not entirely commercially unavailable (other than extortionate prices on discogs, I'm sure.)
archive.org/details/unlo...
The unlocked recordings collection at the archive, largely if not entirely commercially unavailable (other than extortionate prices on discogs, I'm sure.)
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
July 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Whoa… over 24,000 old vinyl LPs digitized and available for free to the public, including over 5,000 from shuttered Seattle record store Bop Street