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It was an extraordinary experience to be at St. John the Divine Friday night for Verdi’s Requiem. Oberon’s Grove reviews it here; he had problems with the acoustics of the Cathedral, which inevitably were rather drafty, but that actually added to … Continue reading →

In addition to bringing the  U.S. economy to its knees, and then turning around and insisting U.S. taxpayers make this right–for them–Wall Street and its operating officials have sucked the voice, the soul, the sinew out of the Democratic Party.  … Continue reading →

The Supreme Court continues its war on enfranchisement, rejecting a challenge to the Wisconsin voter ID scam. At least Fox “News” was honest enough to say last week that they don’t think more people should vote. They’re not informed enough–particularly … Continue reading →

Eliza Minden asked the Barre Flies to name two modern dance pieces we’d want close at hand on a desert isle. . . I like mine and the others make sense, too–perhaps we could pool our resources: a desert island … Continue reading →

War mongering that is. Robert Parry exposes the frightful back scratching going on between editorialist war-monger Robert Kagan and his wife, the war-mongering Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. And, of course, there are those armaments manufacturers who keep the … Continue reading →

Media Matters for America reports: “Cable news networks spent just 12 minutes covering the revelation that Jeb Bush waited seven years to comply with a Florida law requiring him to turn over his private email correspondence, while the same networks devoted hours to reports about … Continue reading →

The curtain rose on Taylor’s 1987 Syzygy Sunday mat –the dancers tumbled onto the stage with their unique energy and attack. It could only have been the Taylor company’s annual return to New York–but better!  Live music, long missing from … Continue reading →

Instead of being sent to Elba (a lovely island,too nice and too comfortable today to constitute a fit punishment), or to the Hague, (now we’re talking!) the man who lied America into one of the worst foreign policy catastrophes in … Continue reading →

Laura Jacobs in the The Wall Street Journal reviews Fashion Institute of Technology’s Halston/Yves St. Laurent show, to wit: There’s movement through the space of the exhibit, movement capacity in the clothes on exhibit, movement  in the deftly paced piece.

And what did Tom Cotton do, after mustering his treasonous troops?  As William Rivers Pitt recounts at Truthout, Cotton spoke–you can be sure that’s one transcript that won’t be released–to the National Defense Industrial Association, “a collective of weapons contractors … Continue reading →