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Watching VAI’s new Legends of Ballet CD, it’s all interesting, all the Bell Telephone Hour performances by NYCB and ABT stars. But writing about Patricia Wilde, I’ve been watching the Square Dance excerpts more than anything else. It’s worth noting … Continue reading →

Columbia’s Susan Boynton writes at Talkingpointsmemo about the way that “with each passing year, it becomes clearer that cheap labor has become the hidden foundation of American higher education. According to the American Association of University Professors, more than 50 … Continue reading →

Unlike the shameless, rabid exhortations of the Two Ongoing Wars Isn’t Enough, Let’s Have Three or Even Four, While At Home Our Infrastructure Crumbles, California Sizzles, ETC. crowd–the Metropolitan Opera’s Ernani is a bona fide, legitimate exemplar of performing art!! … Continue reading →

Brave New Films has prepared a short, “Wrong About Iraq, Wrong About Iran,” which juxtaposes the hysterical, brazenly false statements made about Iraq at the turn of this century with the hysterical, brazenly false statements now being made about Iran … Continue reading →

We already are one !! Ellen Brown at Common Dreams explains (courtesy her Web of Debt blog, ellenbrown.com) how we reached the point that we’ve reached,and what we can do to return to actual democracy.

At the Seder last night I told Cindy how DARE she not let me know she’d just written about Wagner and the Jews!!! Here’s her interview with Leon Botstein for the Connecticut Jewish Ledger, occasioned by the new documentary Wagner’s … Continue reading →

Watching on youtube Anna Moffo–enchanting in voice, face, figure, presentation–at the Bing farewell gala in 1972–astonishing vocalism considering that her vocal travails had already begun. And when she’s finished the Gavotte from Manon–the applause reminds me of the sound you … Continue reading →

Reading about the way that Republican presidential contenders defend the Indiana law that imposes theocratic values on the population-at-large, you can only surmise that the common campaign thread among GOP presidential-aspirants is “We will make as many of your lives … Continue reading →

At Alternet, Tana Ganeva supplies the sickening details.

When the Republicans do something treasonous and unprecedented, like their letter to the mullahs,  when they strike a direct hit against civil society and a political order that runs with a modicum of stability, they accept no responsibility, acknowledge no … Continue reading →