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Eric Pinder

@operahockeyguy

Actor, director, writer, bon vivant. Artistic Director of CFVA and Opera Del Sol. Gay. Sardonic. Ironic. Not iconic Working on the libretto for a hockey opera tentatively titled “Goaliedammerung”

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We don’t have theme park attractions like at Disneyland but we do have an escalator that’ll scare the crap out of you

07.03.2026 23:57 👍 622 🔁 51 💬 31 📌 2
Vienna Philharmonic program showing the 3/11 concert of Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra and Sibelius Symphony #2 with the Steinmetz Hall stage in the background

Vienna Philharmonic program showing the 3/11 concert of Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra and Sibelius Symphony #2 with the Steinmetz Hall stage in the background

Hearing the Vienna Phil in this rep was even better than I had hoped. Fantastic concert and the encore was a Strauss waltz #PinderSmootCulturalFortnight

12.03.2026 11:50 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lovely shade of purple too!

12.03.2026 11:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Osmosis

12.03.2026 11:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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So glad I lifted my Wrangler

11.03.2026 16:59 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

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11.03.2026 15:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

10.03.2026 13:25 👍 1277 🔁 807 💬 25 📌 98
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

11.03.2026 14:00 👍 13104 🔁 3360 💬 145 📌 244
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💫Released on this day 1970💥

#musicsky #recordingsky #recordingstudiosky #musicchallenge #musicmoments #musicthread #musicproduction #onthisday #nowspinning #vinylsky #vinylrecords #postpunk #indiepop #britpop #newwave #punk #synthpop

11.03.2026 11:40 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Was great to see them playing well and having better puck protection

11.03.2026 02:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A convincing 3-1 win by the Solar Bears continues our #PinderSmootCulturalFortnight

11.03.2026 02:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Apologies. I know how to spell Frederick Loewe’s name but spellcheck didn’t

10.03.2026 21:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.03.2026 21:18 👍 1025 🔁 342 💬 0 📌 3

Turn a band into theatre:

Lerner and Lowe’s My Fair Ladytron

10.03.2026 21:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Turn a band into theatre:

Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead or Alive

10.03.2026 21:36 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

I plan to go to the HD. Day after we get back so just me

10.03.2026 15:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thought about that, but we are only in town for 5 days. This will be my first time hearing it live so it will be pretty damn special

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I wish I could take in another performance but it’s a hard ask of my husband

10.03.2026 12:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

We are front row in the center section at least

10.03.2026 12:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Excited for the MET Tristan, especially after hearing the broadcast last night. But now worried that I won’t be able to see all the “tunnel action” from our Dress Circle seats

10.03.2026 12:03 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

09.03.2026 19:06 👍 12622 🔁 2111 💬 616 📌 306
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09.03.2026 20:57 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

09.03.2026 17:04 👍 3188 🔁 679 💬 21 📌 5

Listening to the premier of Tristan und Isolde at the MET tonight before seeing it next Tuesday! #PinderSmootCulturalFortnight

09.03.2026 19:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

09.03.2026 19:22 👍 9028 🔁 2510 💬 130 📌 178

This is how I access Bluesky

09.03.2026 18:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

[Morrissey voice]

08.03.2026 05:31 👍 33 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
An old time-y illustration of a Chervil.

An old time-y illustration of a Chervil.

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Ventôse in the year 234.
Ventôse is the month of wind.
Today we celebrate chervil. #JacobinDay

More information on chervil

08.03.2026 23:02 👍 67 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 2
The view of a stage before the show begins from the audience

The view of a stage before the show begins from the audience

Final performance of Susanna’s Secret and Trouble In Tahiti. Fortunate to have excellent singers. They turned out well #PinderSmootCulturalFortnight #HiHoTheGlamourousLife

08.03.2026 23:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello this is Robert Stack and tonight on unexplained mysteries we talk to a guy who buys Labatts on Amazon

02.03.2026 20:41 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1