2016, The Year in Review

 

Song

Weyes Blood, Front Row Seat to Earth (Mexican Summer)

sample track:  "Do You Need My Love"

Weyes Blood + Sahara + Ducks Unlimited, Baby G, Toronto, October 29, 2016

DIIV, Is the Is Are (Captured Tracks)

sample track:  "Bent (Roi's Song)"

Ranking Dillinger, None Stop Disco Style (Clocktower)

sample track:  "African World Wide" + "Into the African Dub"

Heron Oblivion, s/t (Sub Pop)

sample track:  "Beneath Fields"

Destroyer, “Forces From Above” and “My Mystery” (both remixed by DJjohnedwardcollins@gmail.com) (Merge)

Destroyer + Andre Ethier, Mills Hardware, Hamilton, ON, November 10, 2016

Nathan Bowles, Whole & Cloven (Paradise of Bachelors)

sample track:  "I Miss My Dog"

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed)

sample track:  "I Need You"

Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker (Columbia)

sample track:  "It Seemed the Better Way"

Promised Land Sound, For Use and Delight (Paradise of Bachelors)

sample track:  "She Takes Me There"

Angel Olsen, My Woman (Jagjaguwar)

sample track:  "Shut Up Kiss Me"

Steve Gunn, Eyes on the Lines (Matador)

sample track:  "Ancient Jules"

Steve Gunn + Promised Land Sound + Nathan Bowles, La Victrola, Montreal, June 26, 2016

Bob Dylan and The Band, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 11:  The Basement Tapes Raw (Sony/Columbia)

Bob Dylan, Another Self Portrait (1969-1971), The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 (Columbia)

sample track:  "Pretty Saro"

Bob Dylan, John Birch Society Blues (bootleg)

The War on Drugs, Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian)

sample track:  "Barrel of Batteries"

Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary + Early EPs [deluxe edition] (Sub Pop)

sample track:  "Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts"

Townes Van Zandt, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas (Fat Possum)

Sandy Denny, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Hannibal/Carthage)

sample track:  "The Banks of the Nile"

Wye Oak, Tween (Merge)

sample track:  "Better (For Esther)"

Cate Le Bon, Crabday (Drag City)

sample track:  "Wonderful"

The Byrds, Untitled (Columbia)

sample track:  "Lover of the Bayou"

Beyoncé, Lemonade

sample track:  "Formation"

Meg Baird, Don’t Weigh Down the Light (Drag City)

sample track:  "Stars Unwinding"

Sahara, s/t (Artificial Sounds)

The Feelies, Time For a Witness (Bar None)

sample track:  "Doin' It Again"

David Byrne w/ Arcade Fire and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Société des Arts Technologiques, Montreal, February 19, 2016

 

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Moving Images

The Lobster (2015), dir. Lanthimos

Stranger Things (2016- ), created by the Duffer Brothers

Arrival (2016), dir. Villeneuve

Manchester By the Sea (2016), dir. Lonergan

Weiner (2016), dir. Kriegman & Steinberg

Son of Saul (2015), dir. Nemes

The Revenant (2015), dir. Iñarritu

45 Years (2015), dir. Haigh

Mustang (2015), dir. Ergüven

Paterson (2016), dir. Jarmusch

Gimme Danger (2016), dir. Jarmusch

Dark Horse (2015), dir. Osmond

The Strong Man (1929), dir. Szaro

Algol:  Tragödie der Macht (1920), dir. Werckmeister

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13th (2016), dir. DuVernay

Moonlight (2016), dir. Jenkins

Things To Come (L’Avenir) (2016), dir. Løve-Hansen

Mia Madre (2015), dir. Moretti

Cooked (2016), prod. Gibney & featuring Michael Pollan

 

Print

John McPhee, Levels of the Game

Guy Lawson, "An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole:  The Story of an Accidentally Pioneering Expedition," The New York Times, March 17, 2016

T.H. White, Letters to a Friend 

Frankie Barnet, An Indoor Kind of Girl

Ben McGrath, "The Wayfarer:  A Solitary Canoeist Meets His Fate," The New Yorker, December 14, 2015

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Rowan Jacobsen, "The Essential Oyster:  A Salty Appreciation of Taste & Temptation" 

Ken Forkish, The Elements of Pizza

Greil Marcus, Mystery Train:  Images of America in Rock ’n’ Roll Music [revisited]

Greil Marcus, Invisible Republic:  Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes [revisited]

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Evan Osnos, "The Far-Right Revival:  A Thirty-Year War?," The New Yorker, January 12, 2016

Andrew Marantz, "Trolls For Trump," The New Yorker, October 31, 2016

Travis Lett, Gjelina:  Cooking From Venice, California

Bon Appétit, "Healthy-ish" issue, January 2016

Nancy Singleton Hachisu, Preserving the Japanese Way

Ruth Allman, Alaska Sourdough:  The Real Stuff By a Real Alaskan

 

Food & Drink

Larrys, Montreal, QC (co-winner:  AEB's Montreal Restaurant of the Year)

Boulangerie Automne, Montreal, QC 

Butterblume, Montreal, QC (co-winner:  AEB's Montreal Restaurant of the Year)

Bar Henrietta, Montreal, QC

Doc Ponds, Stowe, VT

CoVino, Venice, Italy

Enoteca Ferronato, Pordenone, Italy (store + degusteria)

Tortellini di Martina, Pordenone, Italy

Ranzani 13, Bologna, Italy

PizzArtist, Bologna, Italy

Roccati l'Artigiano del Cioccolato, Bologna, Italy

Osteria dell'Orsa, Bologna, Italy

Gelateria Castiglione, Bologna, Italy

Enoteca Storica Faccioli, Bologna, Italy

Mercato Delle Erbe, Bologna, Italy (featuring Banco32)

Deirdre Heekin + Caleb Barber @ La Garagista Wines, Barnard, VT

Backacre Beermakers, Weston, VT

Comforting Tomatoes in Cream with Bread Crumbs and Smoked Salt

Chatham Shellfish Co., Chatham, MA

homemade Zucchini Blossom Pizza

Taste for Grain conference, Montreal, QC, June 13, 2016

Plum Cobbler

Grain Therapy

"The Essential Oyster!:  The Montreal Book Launch," Lawrence, Montreal, December 12, 2016

Colville Bay Oyster Company, Souris River, Prince Edward Island

Nonesuch Oysters, Scarborough River, Maine

Rockin' Cool Times Bar & Grill, Montreal, QC

 

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Italy (Venice/Pordenone/Friuli/Bologna), October 2016

Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone, Italy

Museo Canova, Possagno, Italy

Villa di Maser (a.k.a. Villa Barbaro), Maser, Italy

Brion Cemetery, San Vito d'Altivole, Italy

Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Bologna, Italy

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DIY Sashiko

DIY Shibori

3Sixteen

Filson

Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, VT

Mjölk, Toronto, ON

Christmas in Vermont, 2016

 

R.I.P.

Leonard Cohen

David Bowie

Prince

Raoul Coutard

Carrie Fisher

Debbie Reynolds

Jim Harrison

 

Well, it certainly was an eventful year, wasn't it?

All the best in 2017 from your friends at AEB.

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