General – Doug Turnbull

Big Goals for My Spring Sabbatical

When I tell people I’m going on sabbatical this coming Spring, they often imagine rest, travel, and long stretches of[…]

When I was in high school, I went to a ton of shows at small music venues in and around[…]

I asked ChatGPT to “Write a short academic paper about local music recommendation.” Here is what it put out: Local[…]

(tl;dr – Porchfest.live – your guide to an afternoon of local music.) A Porchfest is a music event where local[…]

Back in the Spring of 2018 when I first started working on Localify.org with JimiLab Alum John Burger, I was[…]

Update on Oct 6, 2021 – Caroline Grass from the Ithacan wrote an article about this work entitled “Q&A: IC[…]

I’m a fan of Bill Maher and regularly listen to the podcast of his HBO show “Real Time with Bill[…]

Despite the fact that I love music, playing music has never really come naturally to me. I tried and failed[…]

I just finished watching The Social Dilemma and it rocked me to my core. It is a documentary about societal[…]

Last week was an exercise in managing multiple mindspaces. There was my normal mid-semester teaching and academic work, my family[…]