First-time listening for August 2023

26598. (Edi­tors) In This Light and On This Evening
26599. (Eivør [Eivør Páls­dót­tir]) Live in Tórshavn
26600. (Roy Clark) Great­est Hits
26601. (Eugène Ysaÿe) Vio­lin Con­cer­to in E Minor
26602. (DeVotch­Ka) A Mad & Faith­ful Telling
26603. (Lenny Breau) Lenny Breau on CBC Radio, 1983
26604. (George Enes­cu) Sym­pho­ny #3 in C, Op.21
26605. (George Enes­cu) Roman­ian Poem for Orches­tra, Op.1
26606. (Ian Tyson) Carnero Vaquero
26607. (Kan­tele Song and Dance Ensem­ble) Best of Kantele

READINGAUGUST 2023

25227. (Bri­an Klaas) The Despot’s Accom­plice ― How the West is Aid­ing and 
. . . . . Abet­ting the Decline of Democracy
25228. (K. P. Dial, A. M. Heers & T. R. Dial) Onto­genic and Evolutionary 
. . . . . Trans­for­ma­tions: Eco­log­i­cal Sig­nif­i­cance of Rudi­men­ta­ry Structures 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
25229. (Stephen M. Gatesy & David M. Baier) Skele­tons in Motion: An Animator’s 
. . . . . Per­spec­tive on Ver­te­brate Evo­lu­tion [arti­cle]
25230. (Daniel Z. Lieber­man & Michael E. Long) The Mol­e­cule of More
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Image of the Month — Storm on the Canadian Prairies

FILMSJULY 2023

(Lantz 1930) Not So Qui­et [Oswald the Lucky Rab­bit cartoon]
(McCarthy 1930) The Okla­homa Cyclone
(Wilkin­son 2023) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.134 ― The Dept of Lies
(Ishii & Itô 2016) Erased: Ep.2 ― Palm of the Hand
(Green 1945) A Thou­sand and One Nights
(Losey 1948) The Boy with Green Hair
(Davis 2003) Holes

First-time listening for July 2023

26584. (Edi­tors) Black Gold: Best of Editors
26585. (Gabriel Fau­ré) Les Djinns for Cho­rus & Piano, Op.12
26586. (Dead South) Illu­sion & Doubt
26587. (Stam­ped­ers) Against the Grain
26588. (Mis­sis­sip­pi John Hurt & Buk­ka White) Shake ‘Em On Down
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READINGJULY 2023

25218. (Sher­man Hol­lar) Ancient Egypt
25219. (John Flana­gan) Ranger’s Appren­tice: The Ruins of Gorlan
25220. (Ben­jamin D. San­ter, et al) Excep­tion­al Stratos­pher­ic Con­tri­bu­tion to Human 
. . . . . Fin­ger On Atmos­pher­ic Tem­per­a­ture [arti­cle]
25221. (Rebec­ca Gib­lin & Cory Doc­torow) Choke­point Cap­i­tal­ism ― How Big Tech and
. . . . . Big Con­tent Cap­tured Cre­ative Labor Mar­kets and How We’ll Win Them Back
25222. (L. Sprague de Camp) The Great Fetish
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Image of the Month

FILMSJUNE 2023

(Hitch­cock 1935) The 39 Steps
(Cav­al­can­ti 1947) The Life and Adven­tures of Nicholas Nickleby
(Hellings 2007) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.56 ― Death and Dust
(DeBlois & Sanders 2010) How to Train Your Dragon
(Tsut­su­mi & Oh 2022) Oni: Thun­der God’s Tale: Ep.1 ― Onar­i’s Kushi Power
(Gor­rie 1976) The Pic­ture of Dori­an Gray
(Ford 1941) How Green Was My Valley
(Oshii 1996) Ghost in the Shell [攻殻機動隊]
(Frow 2019) Mid­Somer Mur­ders: Ep.119 ― Draw­ing Dead

First-time listening for June 2023

26567. (Christoph Graup­n­er) Con­cer­to for Vio­la d’Amore, Flute & Orches­tra, BWV.725
26568. (Stan Rogers) From Cof­fee House to Con­cert Hall
26569. (10,000 Mani­acs) Hope Chest: The Fre­do­nia Record­ings 1982–1983
26570. (Split Enz) Men­tal Notes
26571. (Dead South) The Ocean Went Mad and We Were to Blame
26572. (Pietro Mascagni) Isabeau [com­plete opera; d. Rapal­lo; Pobbe, Cilien­to, Assandri]
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READINGJUNE 2023

25173. (Abdi Nazemi­an) Like a Love Story
25174. (John Thor­ley) Athen­ian Democracy
25175. (Matthew Edge­worth, et al) The Strati­graph­ic Basis of the Anthro­pocene Event 
. . . . . [arti­cle]
(Stephen Lea­cock) Too Much Col­lege, or, Edu­ca­tion Eat­ing Up Life:
. . . . 25176. [2] (Stephen Lea­cock) Edu­ca­tion Eat­ing Up Life [arti­cle]
. . . . 25177. (Stephen Lea­cock) The Machine at Work [arti­cle]
. . . . 25178. (Stephen Lea­cock) What Good Is Latin? [arti­cle]
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