Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Obama doubles down on neo-con failure, hard-wiring the catastrophic Cheney-Bush foreign policy doctrines. As Phylis Bennis, who actually knows something about the Middle East, attests in an interview with Real News, “the more weapons that get sent, the more weapons … Continue reading →

In the chapel in Churaevka, the Russian Village in Southbury, Connecticut this Tuesday, June 9th at 1:30 p.m.

Wilde’s first season with New York City Ballet was its London debut in the summer of 1950. Reviewing the season, Arnold Haskell wrote in his Ballet Annual that NYCB had done more “for the artistic prestige” of the U.S. “than … Continue reading →

I was out with a friend last week who’s a regular visitor there, and I finally went in–I’d passed it any number of times. The selection of new and used is panoramic. The spare and elegant space makes literacy stylish … Continue reading →

Check out on youtube the 1959 Pathe news squib on Paris’s Salle Wacker–featuring among other instructors Olga Preobrajenskaya and Valerie Camille. And take a gander at Pathe’s tease on 1927’s The Gold Diggers at the Lyric in London–Tallulah doing a … Continue reading →

It is of course ludicrous the way so many “mainstream” journalists can call TPP, as Politico does this week, a bid by Obama for a “legacy-burnishing accomplishment.” TPP, if passed, will ensure that Obama leaves office in disgrace. Obama appears … Continue reading →

Thirty years after ex-American Ballet Theatre Anna Spelman and I went to New York City Ballet we were back to watch Sunday’s matinee. That was after Saturday night’s Giselle at ABT. Anna is one of those people who’s always on … Continue reading →

Secret technology in my laptop allows me to discern who does and who doesn’t. Just kidding. BUT As I said to a relative, I may have missed her birthday, but that doesn’t let her off the hook!!

that left hundreds of thousands dead, cost trillions, is still raging, and has now led to ISIS. No one knows that better than Ambassador Joe Wilson, who was slimed by Cheney and his low-life crew for telling the truth. You’ve … Continue reading →

Harvey Wasserman at Common Dreams asks how close NYC and environs came to annihilation in the most recent Indian Point fire — there have been no fewer than three there in the past decade. Even the useless Nuclear Regulatory Commission … Continue reading →