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You never really know (unless you actually do know) why two performances of the same ballet in close proximity in time turn out so differently, particularly when key personnel are consistent in both. Ormsby Wilkins conducted ABT in Symphonie Concertante … Continue reading →

of existential peril for American democracy, there’s no time like the present to revive Beckett’s existential benchmark Waiting for Godot, on stage for a few more days at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. “It’s a magical play,” says a friend … Continue reading →

The Democrats’ victory panics Trump, and he moves to shut down the Mueller investigation w/Sessions’ “resignation” during the lame-duck Congressional term. Watch for aspiring-dictator Trump to do more dictatorial things before the end of the year.

astonishingly spry Joy Williams Brown, who’d danced Calliope with Balanchine in Mexico City in 1945, at last Saturday night’s Balanchine: The City Center Years. The program opened with–that’s right, Apollo, performed by the Mariinsky. I liked Xander Parish’s interpretation because … Continue reading →

“Oh, my God. . . what IS that?. . . That’s disgusting,” someone said to me when I pointed out the latest monster tower rising on Bloomberg’s dystopian nightmare cityscape, 57th Street’s Billionaire’s Row. Last year, Nan Victoria Munger in … Continue reading →

Trump’s frightening, incoherent, defiantly ignorant babble to Axios about climate change tells us that we are looking at a presidency and a party that has not only gone rogue, it has doubled down on curtailing humanity’s future. And the Democrats’ … Continue reading →

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reacts to the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Index, which shows that 60 % of the world’s fauna have been wiped out since 1970. And that has apocalyptic implications for humanity, as the Democrats continue … Continue reading →

As I follow my customary movement patterns throughout the city, as well as divert into neighborhoods I don’t visit that often, I’m photographing all the wonderful nineteenth-century buildings I see being leveled or about to be leveled in the neighborhood-and-history … Continue reading →

A nonstop barrage of violence, hatred and fear, endorsed both explicitly and covertly by the aspiring dictator in the Oval Office. Trump’s response to every spasm of violence occasioned by his inflammatory rhetoric is to call for more guns, more … Continue reading →

On a nightly basis, Carlson is attacking America, undermining American democracy and national unity. So when he face plants about why, oh, why, the country is so divided, it’s time to expose his Goebbelsian methodology. Shame on S & S … Continue reading →