Satoru Inoue
@satoruinoue.com
Japanese-American physicist/translator/data scientist in Chicago. Writes about dishes, discs, and districts at https://www.satoruinoue.com Japanese account: @inoueian.bsky.social
Especially relevant when you are the oversees relative
Steven Lucy@slucy.bsky.social · yesterdayI can call (even with video!) my overseas relatives for free, instead of $1/minute crackly phone line.
When you get an Art Institute membership, you inevitably think about how many visits you need to make it “worth it”, then you go upstairs during the member-only hour and see no one in front of the Seurat and obviously it’s worth it
Uh oh, 4yo says a teacher told him about “Willis Tower”
Satoru Inoue@satoruinoue.com · 9mo ago3yo can now identify “Serious Tower” and the Hancock in photos.
could be good. art depicting cities at Block Museum (Northwestern) art.newcity.com/2026/10/19/t...
The Block Museum's City Symphonies
“Picturing the Modern Metropolis” pulls from the museum's collection of prints and photographs to survey how artists capture city life, with a focus on Chicago and Manhattan.
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If you enjoyed this video on this text-based platform, I recommend Francesco Turrisi's writing—he plays with Rhiannon Giddens & Wu Man in the Silk Road Ensemble & talks often about this kind of cross-cultural musical exchanges (and about food) francescoturrisi.substack.com
Cooking by Ear | Francesco Turrisi | Substack
Where we come to together to explore food and music and find out what they have in common. Click to read Cooking by Ear, by Francesco Turrisi, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.
enjoyed reading the phrase "religious Christmas card sender"
Brandon@bedubble.bsky.social · 6d agoBeing a religious Christmas card sender and contact non-deleter has shielded me from this.
Reincarnation (1983) is part of her recurring mystical streak & I'm not sure it really works. Voyager (also 1983) is much better imo. Leads off w/ this extremely 80s song about a group of girlfriends. "Girlfriends" by Yumi Matsutoya www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKG...
Girlfriends
YouTube video by Yumi Matsutoya - Topic
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Satoru Inoue@satoruinoue.com · 2w agoPearl Pierce (1982) is a great city pop album w/ heavy disco feel especially the 1st half "Come See the Amusement Park Illumination" by Yumi Matsutoya open.spotify.com/track/359IiO...
today, Monday, October 19, in-person early voting opens in neighborhoods across Chicago! chicagoelections.gov/voting/early...
Laurie! Live!@laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2w agoNew on the blog: A roundup of resources for Chicago voters in the upcoming general election! lauriemerrell.com/posts/chicag...
On a separate note, at a kids' Halloween party tonight, met a dad who, unprompted, started talking about biking. When I talked about how I sometimes go out a kid in the bike seat, he mentioned wanting to do Critical Mass with his 1-year-old
Chicago Printmaking Collaborative was great #OpenHouseChicago This was my 3rd time in Lincoln Square in the past 3 weeks. So this could've been my 3rd time at Apple Fest
so funny that this happened to Dallas because of course it did, but it's a really bad look for Michelin www.dmagazine.com/food-drink/2...
Michelin Guide Uses AI To Write Dallas Reviews - D Magazine
Analysis by public and academic AI detection software shows that Michelin’s new Dallas reviews are not the work of its human inspectors.
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We’ll see what happens today but our soon-to-be-2yo is an Open House Chicago baby and the Ukrainian Village sites are great open.substack.com/pub/inoueian...
Right before the baby...
A (half) day in Ukrainian Village
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We were planning on doing some OHC downtown, but my wife is out of commission and it doesn’t seem like a good idea to do it as 1 adult and 2 kids, so yeah…
a random lower-tier soccer team, like...uh, FC Südtirol
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?
Was on Grand, west of the river, saw a sign on an empty storefront advertising itself as being in River North. Just now, heard someone describe Erie Cafe, on Erie just east of the river, as being in the West Loop. I feel like there’s not much room for confusion, but I guess I’m wrong
First time being out with my Myaku-Myaku T-shirt on and someone recognized it (them?) on the bus
Satoru Inoue@satoruinoue.com · last yr.Here’s my post on going to Expo 2025 in Osaka. Let’s see how well the thumbnail with Myaku-Myaku turns out
This was a big oversight when I was listing old train songs There's a very recent recording by Rhiannon Giddens, and another one last year by Muireann Bradley "Freight Train" by Elizabeth Cotten www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DC...
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train (Rare Live Performance)
YouTube video by Cornerstone Recordings
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Satoru Inoue@satoruinoue.com · 4w agoTake a journey with me to find out how Chuck Berry and Yumi Matsutoya are our great transportation songwriters www.satoruinoue.com/p/cars-and-t...
always nice to find a good, new-to-me Roman artist "Mano Nella Mano" by ARIETE feat. Fulminacci www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDxy...
ARIETE - Mano Nella Mano (con Fulminacci) [Visual Video]
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1yo is still quite vowel-y Jam is somewhere in between "jama" and "dama"—he's said "I love jama" All big cats are "jaga"
Satoru Inoue@satoruinoue.com · 5mo ago1yo is starting to fill out the alphabet. “bu(s)”, “ca(r)”, “do(g)”… There’s actually a lot of b-words. “bi(ke)” “boa(t)” “boo(k)”
Ah, the hospital in Austin (neighborhood)
Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 2w agoOne of those fugitives: Former Loretto Hospital executive Anosh Ahmed, who faces fraud charges. He was investigated after @blockclubchi.bsky.social found evidence he took then-rare COVID-19 vaccines from the Chicago hospital for employees at Trump Tower, where Ahmed had a condo.
One of those fugitives: Former Loretto Hospital executive Anosh Ahmed, who faces fraud charges. He was investigated after @blockclubchi.bsky.social found evidence he took then-rare COVID-19 vaccines from the Chicago hospital for employees at Trump Tower, where Ahmed had a condo.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w agoMore damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
Thanks to my sister (architecture & art background), 4yo now owns a set of pastels. Feels very fancy—at the same time, it’s just something where you can just go to Blick and, you know, get them
Story that my parents still tell often: They mentioned the Tokyo Marathon to me when I was little, and promised I could go watch live if I woke up on time, way earlier than my usual wakeup time. They were hoping I'd just sleep through it Sure enough, I woke up on time & dad had to take me there
Thoughts on restaurant dish involving fish and miso: 1. They're almost always pretty tasty 2. They're almost never so good that I don't think I could make it at home
I guess everyone's doing Coltrane 100 now "Naima" by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (ft. Brandee Younger, Joel Ross) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj5m...
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Naima ft. Brandee Younger, Joel Ross
YouTube video by MiguelAFVEVO
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