The Last Of Nashville’s Live Music Row Honkeytonks Closes

Nashville’s Music Row was a wonder. A collection of seedy bars that seemed to have been there forever, it was a smorgasbord of live music, played by musicians who played for tips. You could wander down the street, poking into whatever sounded interesting. It was all informal and kind of ramshackle. The city is booming, and now a tourist mecca, it’s “upgrading”… – The New York Times

Why Do We Fall For Fake News? Researchers Have Theories

Much of the debate among researchers falls into two opposing camps. One group claims that our ability to reason is hijacked by our partisan convictions: that is, we’re prone to rationalization. The other group — to which the two of us belong — claims that the problem is that we often fail to exercise our critical faculties: that is, we’re mentally lazy. – The New York Times

The Promise Of Esa-Pekka Salonen And The San Francisco Symphony (A Sneak Preview)

The classical field is now waiting to see what Mr. Salonen will do in his career’s full maturity. He has announced a benevolent little think-tank army of artists who will be helping him, including Nico Muhly, Esperanza Spalding and Julia Bullock, and their plans will germinate through next year, as the orchestra turns to celebrating Mr. Thomas’s final season. – The New York Times

Famed Louis Kahn-Designed Concert Boat Retires To Florida

It was designed by Kahn for the 1976 Bicentennial and lived in Pittsburgh. But it’s been in disrepair for years and its elderly owner has been trying to unload it. In 2017, cellist Yo Yo Ma wrote an impassioned plea to save it, and the challenge was picked up by Pahokee, an economically-depressed small town in Florida, which plans to restore it and use it as an attraction. – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette