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Will be interesting to see if a single politician gets up and makes a peep about the Metropolitan Opera’s difficulties.  Hell, if that theater were torn down for condos you probably wouldn’t hear a peep. In its boringly clichéd but undeniably … Continue reading →

Keith Ellison gives a thumbs-up but wants it “limited”– Obama lets us know that the we are back in Iraq for the long, long haul. And these morons expect to hold any majority at all?

He IS George W. Bush.

The question now is, will he cook the Democratic Party’s as well? Richard D. Woolf at Truthout explains how Obama’s capitulation to the shackles of ruling-class conventional wisdom crippled his presidency.

You can be sure the Dem base isn’t coming out in November if he bombs Iraq. Dropping food and medicine is another story. Let’s not forget that the House was lost in 2010 to a great degree because Obama would … Continue reading →

In tribute to the recently deceased, endlessly listenable Carlo Bergonzi I request that you watch the Hardy Classics DVD of Aida at the Verona amphitheater in 1966. Not that Rhadames was his best role.  It always seemed a bit too … Continue reading →

I was walking through a Westchester park when my attention was directed by a local resident to a stretch of turf that was noticeably flatter than what surrounded it.  Seems that the area in question had been fenced off as … Continue reading →

We Flies, having covered ABT’s  Cinderella at the Met last month, now sojourn to the Joyce and catch–and comment upon–Pilobolus.

    That’s how they went to Europe in those days. Jonathan Watts and Tanaquil Le Clercq en route with New York City Ballet and the Boss,  April 1955.

By now, you’ve bought Vol. 3 of VAI’s New York City Ballet in Montreal series. And you’ve taken a gander at the historical exhumation I was talking about.  More than one gander, undoubtedly. . . . VAI’s Allan Altman just … Continue reading →