Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Robert Parry at Consortium News wonders if Obama is brave enough to stand up to the neocons and chart a new foreign policy that will actually combat rather than abet terrorism and violence.

So quipped a sharp guy at the Integral Yoga health food store near me. I’d ranked on him for being on the check-out line himself rather than staffing it. In other words, he was buying some items. And yes, we … Continue reading →

It’s early November in New York City, and the only way to feel cold (assuming you’re dressed) is to be in one of the many air-conditioned interiors. . .

Even when Kirsten Flagstad spoke it was like tectonic plates shifting. Listen to her on youtube advising young singers to wait before trying Wagner.

His pet billionaires fund his campaigns, and in return, he spews toxic sludge denouncing citizens and taxpayers who want more than a globe-busting military budget for their buck.  They’re after free stuff, you see. And then there’s the art historians. … Continue reading →

Steve Willis of Bennett College was scholar-in-residence at New York University in 2006 researching Sands. Since then he’s written a play about her which has been performed at a number of venues around the U.S. Her tragically curtailed but brilliantly … Continue reading →

Usually when I walk into Trader Joe’s and the line snakes all the way back nearly to the front door, I turn around and walk out. Today I had to tell myself that I was trapped. I’d walked cross town … Continue reading →

The deputy director of the Fashion Institute of Technology is a serious balletomane. Serious as in being curious and taking the art form seriously. She told me that after  reading Dancing on Water she’d gone to youtube to look up … Continue reading →

about Wilde. I quote her in the Introduction: “She was a force of nature. A beautiful tempest that was not dangerous to anyone, that was beyond the ordinary clouds.”

University Press of New England/ForeEdge did a great job with the catalog copy: “At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In … Continue reading →