Archives
Blogroll
- Amazon
- Barns
- Citibike stations
- Ephemeral NY
- Glimmerglass Opera Festival
- Glyndebourne Festival (England)
- Gothamist
- Harlem Bespoke
- Ivy Style
- Joseph Urban Collection at Columbia University in the City of New York
- Kurt Weill Foundation
- La Fenice Venice
- Lincoln Center Summer Festival
- Mayflower Society
- Metropolitan Opera
- Monteverdi Choir
- Municipal Arts Society
- Museum of the City of New York
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem (Smithsonian)
- National Women's Rights Historical Park at Seneca Falls, NY
- Opera America
- Oratorio Society of New York
- Patel and Waterman's History of NY
- Ted Talks
- Tenement Museum blog
- The (Manchester) Guardian
- Walking holidays in England
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Yale Art Gallery
Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com
BUT JIM JORDAN IS THE ELITE, GINNI THOMAS, AND SO ARE YOU
The idea that Justice Thomas’s activist wife Ginni could possibly defend Rep. Jordan, could possibly portray him as anything but an elitist fighting to put elitist predator Donald Trump in a perch way above the law, speaks to the Democrats’ … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
THIS IS McCONNELL’S FUTURE
He will not be able to go anywhere in public without being confronted by American citizens castigating him for what he’s done to destroy America. He will not, that is, unless he and Trump succeed in establishing a dictatorship here.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
THE RADICAL SUPREME COURT MAJORITY
In the Harvard Law Journal Blog, Charles Reid reminds us that “the Court has undermined or overturned precedents that embodied longstanding and difficult compromise settlements of sharply opposed interests and principles. These decisions are not the work of a conservative … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
ANOTHER CALAMITOUS FAIL BY THE DEMOCRATS
Non-stop record-breaking temperatures, flooding and burning on a around-the-clock basis, and they still do not make environmental destruction a campaign issue, nor mock and deride the Republicans for their evil lies about the gravity of the situation.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
THE WEAKNESS OF THE DEMOCRATS
“Senate Democrats simply do not know how to wage a bare-knuckle fight any more,” Jill Abramson writes in the Guardian. Obama’s preemptive appeasement when nominating a replacement for Scalia cost him his Supreme Court seat. “Instead of picking a liberal … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
WE NEED TO BE THERE
July 10, when the New York City Council convenes its one and only hearing on the Tech Hub project. 9:30 a.m. at City Hall. Zoning and landmark protections must be put in place or else we will see a wholesale … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
JIM JORDAN IS ABOVE THE LAW, JUST LIKE TRUMP
The GOP doesn’t care how much sexual abuse Rep. Jordan ignored–nor how much he lies. Lying is exactly what he’s there for: just let the rabid little reptile chomp on our rule our law and our judicial system, just keep … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
THE REPUBLICANS HUMILIATE US ON THE WORLD STAGE
The Kremlin hasn’t hosted such a bunch of pushover saps in 500 years.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
PRUITT IS TRUMP’S IDEAL OF A PUBLIC SERVANT
Here’s what it’s about: screw the public and the public interest like nobody’s business. kiss Trump’s ass shamelessly. steal so much that you make Trump look normal.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
OOMPH FROM DOWN UNDER AND HIGH UP NORTH
The preserved acts 2 & 3 from the Met’s Die Walkure of December 18, 1937 star Australian Marjorie Lawrence as Brunhilde, Norwegian Kirsten Flagstad as Sieglinde, German Friedrich Schorr as Wotan, Danish Lauritz Melchior as Siegmund, Swedish Kerstin Thorborg as … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment