Teaser trailer for S4 of New Angle:Voice, the podcast about pioneering women in American architecture www.instagram.com/reel/Dbqh30d...
Dominic Umile
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Writer (Not recently: LA Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal). Editor. I hate board games. Brooklyn, NY. dominicumile.com
True service journalism, and y'all could stand to learn a thing or two from it gothamist.com/food/5-nyc-b...
5 NYC banana puddings as good as Magnolia's
Here are several borough-based bakeries where you can indulge in the delicious dessert.
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Love this series from NYT & Marcus J. Moore—nice shout-out for title track on "Search"! Adding that his Blue Train contributions are marvelous, and don't sleep on Infinity, which was shelved for nearly two decades. Feel lucky to have nabbed the posthumous 1972 2-LP set years ago on the cheap
Blue Note Records@bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 2h agoNY Times: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Lee Morgan www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/a... "technically dazzling, melodically direct and fearless in his pursuit of swing." Browse Lee Morgan vinyl on the Blue Note Store: store.bluenote.com/collections/...
get aloft with the frow show, playing all the different types of music (as depicted by josef gabriel frey in 1878), from now 'til midnight on @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
Back in 2023, I wrote about For Those Who Chant, which is a *really* overlooked album considering that Joe Henderson, Carlos Santana, Neal Schon, Gregg Rolie, Michael Shrieve, Lenny White and Coke Escovedo (among others) play on it: burningambulance.substack.com/p/chant-alon...
Chant Along With Luis Gasca
A should-be-legendary Latin fusion album, now reissued on CD
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Rest in power Luis Gasca. So many legendary names on this recording. And elder #Oakland Black Arts movement era artist Philip Mason's art gracing the cover.
Burning Ambulance@burningambulance.bsky.social · 3d agoRIP trumpeter Luis Gasca, dead at 86. His album For Those Who Chant is one of my favorite albums by anyone — a psychedelic/spiritual Latin jazz-rock jam with half of Santana, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Joe Henderson, Hadley Caliman and many more.
Who has time to sleep when crimes need to be done? We have to keep doing crimes www.npr.org/2026/08/01/n...
For sale: early access to Trump's Truth Social posts
The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws.
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Worth it for @questlove.bsky.social coining "James Brown's post-mustache era." www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAyo...
Kurt Loder | The Questlove Show
YouTube video by QLS
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"Moving readers is not a skill one can learn through practice. It’s a trait, like charisma or rhythm. You either have it or you don’t." About re-reading Ray Bradbury's classic short story There Will Come Soft Rains on the exact day when it's set: August 4, 2026. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...
Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set
The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.
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I wrote in 2025 about Ray Bradbury’s dealings with EC Comics and their adaptations, both illegitimate & legitimate www.dominicumile.com/blog/ray-bra... (you might dig, @shaenon.bsky.social @alsirois.bsky.social)
Ray Bradbury's The Autumn People and its EC horror comics — Dominic Umile
Eight EC horror comics based on Ray Bradbury stories were shoehorned into a paperback in 1965
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Al Sirois@alsirois.bsky.social · yesterdayThe entire EC story, from Weird Fantasy 17 (January-February 1953) drawn by the brilliant Wallace Wood, is available here: dochermes.livejournal.com/405625.html?
A perfect marriage of the very unique vapidity associated with influencers + a widely loathed corporate robot product. "It’s not entirely clear what the influencers were actually doing on the trip, because there is surprisingly little content online from the event" www.theverge.com/tech/975173/...
Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · yesterdayWrote about the OpenAI influence trip, the limits and perils of tapping influencers to do your bidding, and how the whole thing just kind of seems like amateur hour, from a practical standpoint. Lots going on here! www.theverge.com/tech/975173/...
There's much more to Kurt Loder than his age, but it always blows my mind that he's older than my dad and was already pretty seasoned when MTV became a thing.
Totally engrossing conversation re: Kurt Loder's path from print journalism to broadcast—and everything in between—and Quest was brimming with enthusiasm
Dee Phunk@deephunk.bsky.social · yesterdayMandatory viewing/listening for folks of a certain age who remember what the M in MTV stands for. Kurt doesn't pop out the house for things like this too often so this is special.
Two pretty significant milestones for psychedelic poster art culture took shape in 1967—the work of pioneering artist Bonnie MacLean was excluded from both. New thing from me www.dominicumile.com/blog/bonnie-...
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Good morning! For the @nytimes.com, I interviewed these two, plus Kid Congo Powers and more, for a story on the Cramps. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/a...
Concept art by Maurice Noble for What's Opera, Doc? (1957), dir. Chuck Jones, Warner Bros. Cartoons
Incredible (or not) that people with billions of dollars to invest fall for these frauds again and again. Media-ready white "genius" kid who got into Columbia at 15 but had like two weeks of investing experience had no idea what he was doing. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Leopold Aschenbrenner Built a Hot A.I. Hedge Fund. Then it Melted Down. (Gift Article)
Situational Awareness, led by a 24-year-old, exploded onto the artificial intelligence scene — and then nose-dived.
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Relatedly, this poster captured the Byrds at the tail end of their tumultuous sessions for ...Notorious, a diverse outing that spans a range of musical ideas including jazz. They worked “Milestones” into a jam during an early set on 12/9 www.dominicumile.com/blog/bonnie-... youtu.be/ZSLijwwm7L8?...
Dominic Umile@dominicumile.com · last mo.The extraordinary work of late Philly native and unsung psychedelic poster artist Bonnie MacLean is represented at Cooper Hewitt’s “Art of Noise” exhibit—this December, 1967, poster is one of several works of hers on view in the graphic design component www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/art-...
"Within a few months after Clifford Brown’s death, Rollins had emerged as the Godzilla of saxophone. In 1956 alone, he recorded two landmark LPs, Saxophone Colossus and Tenor Madness (with John Coltrane). Rollins was at a creative and commercial peak" www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Let Everything Change | Nate Wooley
I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was ...
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Two pretty significant milestones for psychedelic poster art culture took shape in 1967—the work of pioneering artist Bonnie MacLean was excluded from both. New thing from me www.dominicumile.com/blog/bonnie-...
RFK: You’re not a scientist Bash: You aren’t a scientist either —- RFK: I know you’re flustered. Bash: I’m not flustered at all
Absolution tee for Ted and a Life’s Blood tee for his bassist yesterday—lemme get those tees, Ted. New songs are great, old songs still great. ABC No Rio building fund is a good cause + we were glad to support. Made friends w/ a bodega cat on Ave A too www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
Ted Leo 🍉@tedleo.bsky.social · last wk.The Tompkins Sq. Park is free, but we’re to raise the last bit of money needed to finish the new construction on ABC No-Rio, so you can make donations there, if you want!
Perfect storm here—teen prodigy, terrible track record of professional experience (includes being fired for cause), and sheep throwing billions at an unreliable, shoddy product that's been uncritically hyped by legacy media everywhere yet hasn't been proven to yield profitability
Dave Mandl@dmandl.bsky.social · 3d agoIncredible (or not) that people with billions of dollars to invest fall for these frauds again and again. Media-ready white "genius" kid who got into Columbia at 15 but had like two weeks of investing experience had no idea what he was doing. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Concept art by Mary Blair for Cinderella (1950), dir. Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, Walt Disney Productions
when Bryan Johnson tweeted this week that he may have "taken this longevity thing too far," many people assumed he was giving up the game. I don't think that's what it is, but I do think there's some dark reasoning behind his rare expression of contrition: slate.com/technology/2...
The World’s Most Famous Longevity Influencer May Be Regretting It
After devoting his life to living longer, Bryan Johnson is seemingly rethinking his choices—but don’t expect him to stop anytime soon.
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Oh man are we about to get a second Elastica album?? thequietus.com/news/elastic...
Elastica to Return? | The Quietus
Elastica have suggested that there is to be some future activity in a cryptic post on their Instagram today, 31 July. Underneath an old photograph of the band they wrote “Missed us? We’ve been busy be...
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