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hootenannies

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plural of hootenanny

as in sings

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In his first years, Dudamel explored standard symphonic repertory with immersions into the symphonies and worlds of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Dvorak and Ives, often in context with new music.

— Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Should symphonies try to educate their patrons on the rule with an announcement at the beginning of the concert?

— Judith Martin, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

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Vintage computer festivals bring collectors together This year more than 3,500 people attended the two-day Vintage Computer Festival in early August that celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apple, founded in 1976 in nearby Cupertino, Calif.

— Terry Chea, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
With the fall festivals gearing up for launch and studios locking in their year-end release plans, a handful of high-profile titles that many had penciled into the 2026 awards conversation are not likely to drop this year.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026

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But this film’s logic lies in the edit, starting and ending with a stop-start stutter motif that jars us into this world of a small Oklahoma town, where a bluegrass band jams in a restaurant parking lot.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Satellite navigation can fail when an adversary jams GPS or China’s BeiDou system.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026

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There’s an amulet (one of those glowing doohickeys the fate of the cosmos hangs on), and your heart may sink every time someone starts chattering about it.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 May 2026
Co-writes from Brandi Carlile and vocals from Chris Stapleton can’t save it; the choruses can’t muster up the old dopamine hits; even the trademark Dessner doohickeys seem absent, just uninspired arrangements with heavily Melodyned vocals.

— Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of doohickeys

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While boy and girl campers were housed in separate dormitories, the camp assigned Wesley to watch over the girls’ dorm at night, and also disabled the rooms’ locking mechanisms by taping over them, according to court records.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026
Many other personalist post-Soviet states have created institutional mechanisms for selecting new rulers or communicating clear expectations about who will take power after the current leader leaves.

— Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026

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