Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Joe MacDonald–I was thinking about him yesterday and I’ll tell more in a bit. But he was a big part of the fashion landscape when I started looking at fashion mags ca. 1974. He was lantern-jawed and yet you felt … Continue reading →

Called Wilde on the 31st of last year. “Are you recuperating?” she asked. “Are you ready for the next show?”

No, I’m not talking about the pathetic sight of spring-blooming plants being lulled by the torrid December into putting out blossoms, thus pre-empting the actual spring bloom–that’s been written about by Nicholas St. Fleur [some name!] in the Times. No, … Continue reading →

And General John Campbell is really good at it. Sarah Lazare at CommonDreams details the way that Campbell is ginning up the war in Afghanistan. Lazare writes that: “The U.S. is planning a military role long into Afghanistan’s future despite … Continue reading →

The Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists has put out a marvelous 2016 calendar, each month topped by a cartoon skewering the greed and know-nothing demagoguery behind the current environmental assault.

Here’s the working trailer for the documentary on the Bankhead family that University of Alabama’s public TV station is doing–I told you about it earlier this year.

What a great idea! The film series runs January 20-February 4 on 53rd St. . .

It’s time to call the war-mongering what it is: straight out of the totalitarian playbook. As Hermann Goering said at the Nuremberg trials: “Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who … Continue reading →

Killing thousands of innocent children–all in a day’s Presidential work, according to extreme right-wing panel moderator Hugh Hewitt. The right wing’s degradation of this country reaches a new low at the GOP debates, shocking even to William Rivers Pitt, who’s … Continue reading →

Mimi Paul and Violette Verdy work on Balanchine’s Emeralds at the Sarasota Ballet January 20 – 30.  It’s part of a triple bill there that premieres on the 29th.