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I ever saw was Tchernichova rehearsing Susan Jaffe in 1983 for thirty minutes exclusively in Giselle’s run across the back of the stage early in act two. Posting this before I get sidetracked by political outrage. Will supply more details … Continue reading →

I just got off the phone w/Sen. Schumer’s office, after telling them that if Chuck keeps capitulating to Trump and trying to cut deals with him, I along with millions of other Democrats are going to walk out of the … Continue reading →

Eastwood’s new movie is so simple it could be Quaker.  Boy stops terrorist on train.  That’s about it.  No background on the terrorist or his motivations; that would be moral equivalence not pure evil.  No connection to boy’s prior life … Continue reading →

Well worth waking up for

A student of totalitarian societies I know doesn’t think so. Yes, both of them disseminate vile defamation and propaganda. But Tokyo did what she had to do to survive in a police state. Kellyanne does what she does by her … Continue reading →

I was browsing in a wonderful mid-size independent bookstore upstate. Great selection, except — virtually no books on the arts, let alone the performing arts. It’s not SAD!, but it’s sad.

From People’s Artist: “We all knew what our families had been through,” said the Kirov’s Sergei Vikulov. Born in 1938, he “grew up hearing about the Great Terror…How they would huddle together in fear in the apartment when they heard the Black … Continue reading →

As Sen. Blumenthal tweets: “Refusal to release Democratic response to #NunesMemo – evidence of obstruction of justice by Donald Trump happening in real time.”

Now he claims that the gargantuan military budget is needed to begin rebuilding the U.S. military. A trillion-dollar-plus military needs rebuilding??!! Are any Dems going to challenge this hogwash? Meanwhile, in the lower chamber, Ryan all but out-lies McConnell, claiming … Continue reading →

Don’t forget that Choerilus of Samos was wondering that back in the 5th century B.C., when he wrote: “The arts are all fenced in now, the field parceled out, And we, the latecomers scratched from the race, No room to … Continue reading →