Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger at commondreams: “Obama often has treated Democrats in Congress as if they’ve been quarantined for Ebola; they’re more likely to get into the White House if they dress up on Halloween as Republicans and go … Continue reading →

It’s not just the hospitals and lovely old low-rise buildings being mowed down for condos, it’s libraries as well. SPEAK OUT at the Metrotech Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. before the Uniform Land Use Review (ULURP) Hearing … Continue reading →

As if I don’t have enough scribbling to do at the moment — Just looking at the ms of a novel I wrote but not totally finished based partly on the experiences of a dancer friend of mine. Something poignant … Continue reading →

One of the most appalling things about the right wing’s attack on economic mobility and a democratic society is the assault on public education. And Scott Walker’s made Wisconsin ground zero for that, as for so much other degradation of … Continue reading →

The smell of freshly-cut grass and blooming honeysuckle in the night air…

The Barre Flies review Ratmansky’s Sleeping Beauty at ABT. Read, then see one or all of the final three performances of the run, tonight, t’row and t’row night. And make up your own mind! Or, better still, see it and … Continue reading →

With Democrats like these, who needs the other side? As Jonathan Tasini writes on his Working Life blog, Wasserman Schultz must now resign as Party chair.

That’s the question where Obama is concerned. From Associated Press via Talkingpointsmemo, reporting on the Presidents final pep talk re: the monstrous TPP boondoggle: “Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, said Obama had told Democrats that ‘his whole philosophy, life, everything … Continue reading →

I’m in the country and it’s so sunny that I can hardly see the movie I’m watching on youtube because of the glare on my laptop screen!

* and writes a great piece — for The New Criterion, on what powered Balanchine’s Baiser de la Fee, and what powered Balanchine.