And more on access to nature from New York public transit: as my birding friend Paul B. likes to point out, you can get to Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge from the Broad Channel station on the A, or (according to Paul Lehman (ed.), A Birder's Guide to Metropolitan Areas of North America, on the Q53 express bus line.

posted: 11:32:10 PM  

More on the beat-o beat-o flat on my seat-o Club-Winged Manakin (Machaeropterus deliciosus): Christopher Joyce interviews Kimberly Bostwick and plays an audio clip of its music.

posted: 11:20:24 PM  

Miranda Gaw hops the A train to Far Rockaway.

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Simon Callow previews the U.K.'s 50th anniversary production of Waiting for Godot, directed by Peter Hall.

(Thanks to ArtsJournal.)

posted: 11:12:36 AM