Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

I don’t know why so many (formerly) middle-class, (now probably, due to the economic realignment, bottom of the 1%), I know consider NPR an alternative to the corporate-owned commercial media. Increasingly, it ain’t. Consider its decision (at a time like … Continue reading →

On Saturday, November 22 at 3:00 p.m., silent film historian and live piano accompanist Ben Model will discuss the way that great clowns of the silent screen gagged us and themselves silly via camera undercranking.

Zaid Jilani reports for Alterntet that incoming GOP committee chairs “have a frightening disregard for America’s bedrock programs.” Take note dumb ass, spineless Dems, this is what happens when you fail to tamp down GOP voter disenfranchisement and fail with … Continue reading →

Saturday afternoon/early evening at 5:00,  the Museum of Modern Art screens a restoration of the never-finished, never-released Bert Willims Lime Kiln Club Field Day, made in 1913. Williams was one of the first and  most successful African-American  stars to crossover to … Continue reading →

In light of the fact that Obama’s presidency is now virtually over–his war hunger and his timidity before the GOP will see to that–I called Senators Warren and Sanders yesterday (I mean, I called their offices!) and implored them to provide the … Continue reading →

In Tudor the  emotions are huge but they are often tamped down by period decorum and psychological repression. Hamrick’s movement wasn’t small. If she jumped there was a full expression of the shape and the dimension with, as well, a … Continue reading →

She delivered an a propos rendition  of Caroline in Lilac Garden Sunday mat at ABT. Moe later.

Remember how earlier this year I gave you a heads-up about the talk Debra Levine was giving in Los Angeles about Theodore Kosloff? Kosloff was a pivotal figure in Russian Imperial ballet, in ballet-infusion on the Great White Way, and … Continue reading →

For the London Review of Books, Laura Jacobs reviews Elizabeth Kendall’s Balanchine and the Lost Muse, finds it just as fascinating and provocative as I did–and discourses eloquently on the creative process as she does so. A must, as is Kendall’s … Continue reading →

He’ll be interviewed there this Sunday, October 26,  at 4:45 p.m. MOMA.org has details.