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A particularly menacing sky from two years back...

Lester Young... www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBab...

From 1958, Ben Webster with Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvf9...

Munetsugu Satomi for the Côte d'Azur, 1934.

Today is brought to you by the letter "R".

“Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.” (John Cheever)

By William Eggleston, 1970.

This says everything you need to know about the GOP.

Hodges and Hines in 1966. www.youtube.com/watch?v=732l...

By Ernesto García Cabral (1890 - 1968).

Happy Birthday to James Paul McCartney, born 18 June 1942.

Isabella Rossellini was born on 18 June 1952.

Denis Hulme - Formula 1, sports car and endurance racer - was born on 18 June 1936.

Young Miss Brooks on the cover "Art & Beauty" magazine, November 1925.

Actor and artist Keye Luke was born on 18 June 1904.

Artist and illustrator James Montgomery Flagg was born on 18 June 1877.

Don't you dare look away, trump voters and political boot-lickers. This is your legacy, this is how history will remember you.

"Palais de Cristal" by Joseph Cornell, 1953.

Cartoonist and illustrator Wally Wood, born 17 June 1927.

"Dimples" - John Lee Hooker from 1956. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eued...

Writer and journalist John Hersey, born 17 June 1914.

She's managed to keep herself out of the limelight, but she's still raking in money hand over fist in the background. These people are so corrupt it's mind boggling.

We were sorry to hear that legendary pianist Alfred Brendel has passed away at the age of 94. Alfred Brendel made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1958, and gave many performances at the Hall, including programmes of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and more. Our thoughts are with all who knew him.

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Charlotte Rampling on the set of "Sequestro di persona" (released in 1967). Photo by Paolo Di Paolo.

Earl Hines with his new trio, c. 1965. Wonderful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSl8...

Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky and Igor Stravinsky.

Leonard Bernstein backstage with the cast of "West Side Story" (1957). The original Broadway production ran for well over 700 performances before touring.

"Girl With Pigeons" by Morris Hirschfield, 1942.

"A federal judge in Boston said Monday the termination of NIOH grants for research on diversity-related topics by the Trump administration was “void and illegal” and accused the government of discriminating against racial minorities and LGBTQ people." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Now that's an orange king I would support! #orangecat #cat #gingercat #nokings

"Utah Sen. Mike Lee is facing criticism from a number of Minnesota politicians after appearing to make a joke about the suspect accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, claiming it was the result of 'Marxism.'" minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/16/s...

"If there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business... I don't know anything about human nature. I don't know anything about curiosity. That's not part of what I do." Gene Hackman as Harry Caul in Coppola's "The Conversation" (1974).

Igor Stravinsky, born 17 June 1882.

Writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten was born on 17 June 1880.