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Planetarium III

Deep listening in deep Ridgewood and briefly knowing that state of pure unknowing

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Andy Beta
Feb 04, 2026
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Despite the single digit temperatures, the mountains of perilous gray and black ice that made walking a city block a harrowing nighttime adventure, not to mention the hourlong ride each way on the subway, I found myself deep in Ridgewood twice this past weekend, making what has become an annual pilgrimage to experience one of Chee Shimizu’s Planetarium …

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