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“I’ll never forget it, because he was like an insane man. He was like a panther out of a cage. I had never seen Scheherazade like that.”

Why does it continue to claim that nuclear-generated energy is “carbon-free”? Why? In the Los Angeles Times, Ron Rodarte penned a letter rebutting this pernicious myth, which the LA Times editorial board also tried to perpetuate. “How does one cheer … Continue reading →

and so beautiful: Farrell, Morris, and Paul bourreeing around each other in the dream scene of Balanchine’s Don Quixote, recorded for posterity by Bert Stern at the ballet’s preview premiere night in May 1965.

who shoots herself in the foot on a regular basis. “WHY WAS SHE GIVEN A SHOW IN THE FIRST PLACE?” Kelly Macias at Daily Kos wants to know.

Up-is -down maestro Pruitt signals the deformed double-think now proffered by Trump and his lieutenants. Want cleaner air? Burn more coal. Yeah, right.

Remember Estelle Winwood in The Producers, beseeching Zero to play “The Countess  and the Chauffeur?” Well, Graham really gets into “Dictator Over Country.” Jonathan Lemire, Eric Tucker and Lisa Mascaro at Talking Points Memo report that Sen. Graham is “warming” to … Continue reading →

The craven, doddering rich white men who run the NFL colluded with the craven, addled, rich-from-criminality President Trump to suppress the civil rights of United States citizens. Will the Democrats dare murmur a protest?

At New York City Ballet, Maria Kowroski danced Mozartiana last night better than she had ten years ago!

When the Republicans started hauling out Hitler’s Big Lie playbook as a campaign strategy in 1944, FDR swung into action. Thom Hartman of the the Independent Media Institutes quotes at Alternet the words of a Democrat who fought back–and boy, … Continue reading →

Sort of like the final scene in Dangerous Liaisons, when society decides it has finally had enough.