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More correspondence: “Say what you will about Caruso, Bjorling, Tucker, none of them is recorded as having made a backward leap from a standing position onto a table top which, it shall be noted, Ben Bliss did not once but … Continue reading →

I refer to the grotesque disfigurement of the landmarked Palace Theater at 47th Street and Broadway, humbled by developer and corporate greed, and a totally corrupt, feckless regulatory structure. A new tourist-targeted behemoth is being allowed to engulf the Palace … Continue reading →

Of course no one can match Pape’s brilliant combination of resonance and sharp attack, which hits one over the head like a kind of sharp-edged blunt instrument, a kind of shillaugh with razor teeth. But Van Horn comes close and … Continue reading →

The question is, why would any Jew vote for Trump? Supporting Israel’s militarist right-wing policies is ruinous for Israel.

From an enthusiastic correspondent: “These are great days and the cast of Tuesday night’s moody, funny, and gloomy Rake’s Progress deserves mention. One can envision the likes of Golda Schultz, Ben Bliss, and Christian Van Horn joining a kind of … Continue reading →

When von Karajan recorded Aida in 1959, Tebaldi complained that his unwontedly early recording sessions were beginning at an hour when she was customarily still asleep–or at least her voice was. A friend had given me his ticket for the … Continue reading →

Village Preservation has uncovered a smoking gun proving that the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission conspired with the administration of ex-Mayor Bill De Blasio to ensure the completely unnecessary demolition of the designated-landmarks row of nineteenth-century houses on Ninth Avenue. Deferring … Continue reading →

Robert has been a radical operative since the get-go, albeit a more temperate jurist than the slovenly, lazy trio named by Trump and McConnell. Jim Hightower reminds us that Roberts’ court has so disgraced itself that it is now really … Continue reading →

If one flavor of gelato isn’t available, someone has a breakdown. If stemming a pandemic means the minor inconvenience of wearing a mask, the country is enraged. Imagine how grateful 1950s America would have been if wearing a mask could … Continue reading →

OK, maybe not since Hitler’s jig — have we seen any public kinetic exhibition as grotesque as Trump shaking his immense behind in triumph after exploiting the children’s massacre for which his gun policies and the GOP’s are responsible–at the … Continue reading →