By Myra Ross | From BayLines Express, August, 2022
For many years, the Manhattan String Quartet (MSQ) has run week-long conferences in Europe in January and in the U.S. in June. Each conference focuses intensely on one string quartet, between thirty …
By Steve Dresser | From BayLines Express, June, 2022
Even though I had heard about them, I never seriously considered a “smart” doorbell or a security camera. Then one day, a neighbor called to inform me that he had found a …
By David Kingsbury | From BayLines Express, May, 2022
Crinkled-up papers, tangles of wires, candy wrappers and other random paraphernalia are scattered over the desk of my little home office. A few weeks ago, I took a bulldozer to it as a spring-cleaning project. As my fingers were fumbling around, and to my surprise and delight, I …
