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The friend of another fabled dancer writes in to describe a different singular pair of feet:  “I used to play with them, feel how they worked. You’d press down, first the ankles wrapped past 90 degrees and then the arch … Continue reading →

In Florence Foster Jenkins, Streep played the polar opposite of a Callas–an untalented amateur who had no idea how ludicrous she was. I knew I should see the film but I didn’t see it in a theater when it came … Continue reading →

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A gay dancer came into the wings and walked over to a straight dancer who was watching the show, and started deeply kneading his arm–or nudged his foot, or put his arm around him–I’m remembering different things you’d see. Was … Continue reading →

Read Cordelia Tai at The Fashion Spot.

He knows the legal jeopardy that he and his fellow Republicans are exposing themselves to, and while it’s way too late to keep his ass clean, he can at least try to keep it out of jail.

We are seeing treason unfold before our eyes. As Jared Yates Sexton tweets: “It’s astounding that the story is the Nunes Memo didn’t work as a political maneuver and not that Republicans were willing to destroy the FBI and betray … Continue reading →

is to sort of stovepipe into a word cloud and then almost randomly select words and phrases meant to be provocative, then arrange in no particular order, and then just almost blindly take aim, in the hope something they’re saying … Continue reading →

Next month, the Estonian choreographer’s memoir will be published–in Estonian. So I may not be able to read it right away, but I’ll remember the fun I had with her and Tchernichova in St. Petersburg in 1999. Earlier that year, she’d … Continue reading →

As John Dean tweets: “Nunes co-conspirator on the Hill is his staffer Kashyap Patel. They both belong in jail for betraying national security with their scam.” He links to Philip Carter’s indictment of Nunes and Patel at Slate.