Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Since summer now extends into what was once fall, how appropriate that the Metropolitan Playhouse down on East Fourth Street revives S.N. Behrman’s 1936 End of Summer beginning October 7. Behrman’s one of our greatest playwrights, but his work isn’t … Continue reading →

It’s been a long, long time since I first went to Staten Island for one of the riotous parties she threw in her parents’ historic old home. It’s even been a long time since I last saw her, at a … Continue reading →

Jim Naureckas at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting finds it interesting and lamentable that “mainstream” “news” media journalists can’t seem to muster up any interest in the fact that Amy Goodman was arrested–by the state of North Dakota!– for trespassing … Continue reading →

Senator Warren shoots a shot across HRC’s bow: Warren’s letters to the DOJ and FBI remind Hillary that she is not getting a free ride: support from Warren is conditional. Hillary’s love affair with Wall Street has to cool. You … Continue reading →

It’s my birthday present from the hood, perhaps: I actually heard a political comment made by someone in the West Village! Not talking about his lovers, his career, his commodities. Two guys sitting on a townhouse stoop. I walk by … Continue reading →

It is a war, and it needs to be recognized and described as such, and it goes hand in hand with the wars on literacy, on public education, on enfranchisement. Virtually no government funding, shamefully little “mainstream” commercial media attention, … Continue reading →

You go to the coffee shop and peripherally take in the endless chatter by customers about whom and what they are consuming, and then you read “When Will New York City Sink?” by Andrew Rice in New York Magazine, and … Continue reading →

Now Streisand’s doing it. Isn’t it time you did? The memoir thing.

Over last winter, a falling tree crashed into the garden fence, behaving with intolerable rudeness to a yellow day lilly. And so, over the course of day lilly blooming season, no yellow day lillies from this traumatized plant. But the … Continue reading →

Yes, Krugman is right, Hillary is being mau-maued by the press–but no more so than was Sanders. And that’s what the “mainstream” “news” media does to Democrats: we have a media owned by right-wing moguls and corporations that espouses right-wing … Continue reading →