Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

On the Thursday or Friday before Labor Day 1995,  Lee Israel leaves a message asking me to call her.  I believed that I knew what that was going to be about.  Some type of intimidation. I’d put an author’s query … Continue reading →

The Speaker understands that if Trump is allowed to extort America on a whim because Fox “News” yanked his chain — insisting on the absolutely essential wall that somehow wasn’t essential when the GOP exerted unified control of government — … Continue reading →

to shut down the Mueller probe? Increasingly it seems likely. And Viper McConnell, deep into his soul-searching mode, is enabling Trump every step of the way. Dems need to discuss how Trump & his handmaidens in the GOP are destroying … Continue reading →

Extraordinary photos, design, cast of characters, historical moment—Valentin Baranovsky’s newish book of mostly photos and some text about Nureyev’s return to the Kirov stage in 1989.

So Sen. McConnell’s considering his place in history, is he? It’s on the slag heap. McConnell destroyed bipartisanship in the Senate, stole a Supreme Court seat, rammed through a Supreme Court justice he knew was a perjurer and a likely … Continue reading →

A majority of Americans oppose Trump holding the country hostage and have no patience with his fantasy wall and the fraudulent premises on which he’s trying to get it psuedo-funded.

repressive inertia. In his last letter, published by Ballet Review in 2004, written to his final protege Igor Markevitch in 1929, he wrote: “One must have patience and be something of a philosopher in life to see beyond the obstacles that … Continue reading →

It’s you who’ve lost all credibility. P.S. You never had any.

will be hosted by Jacques d’Amboise at the National Dance Institute February 4.

Who again is that tubercular woman howling in the street at the end of Crime and Punishment? That’s what Trump and his retinue have turned into.