Portside

'It was only one of many potent symbols of change that dominated a ceremony unlike many before it.

'Gone was the more solemn air of inaugurations past, replaced by the booming strains of disco, soul, and dance music by the Commodores, Marvin Gaye and Daft Punk, spun by a local D.J. stationed high above the audience. (Even Hillary Rodham Clinton, seated onstage, swayed with the music.)'

New York Times,
on the inauguration Wednesday
of newly elected N.Y. City mayor
Bill de Blasio