Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

What with all the empty storefronts. . .

She’s someone you’ll want to know about. She’s just written her first article for Ballet Review, a profile of Kathryn Morgan in the current issue. Kyra’s mother is Helen Kramer, who danced with Ballet Russe and New York City Ballet—a … Continue reading →

Yes, we’d love a woman president, but if she thinks that triangulation redux is going to be be tolerated by a Democratic base that has had six years of maladroit attempts at same by the right-wing Dem who occupies the … Continue reading →

About movement and other topos in the new, Summer 2014 issue of Ballet Review. We’ve published an expanded version of the interview I did with Keenlyside in 2010 for City Arts. In other words, you HAVEN’T read it before. So … Continue reading →

Why the .5 per cent are acting this way? They can’t help it.  They simply need to be treated and disarmed. Lynn Stuart Parramore at alternet explains what money does to the psyche.

Talk about the Establishment’s culture of victimization! Playing the victim is what con men do when caught out, isn’t it? I see it in individuals all the time –and it’s an institutional fall back. Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy … Continue reading →

Eliza Gaynor Minden should stand up and take a victory lap!

It’s not like the world-wreckers ever seem to manifest a jot of humility, is it? Jon Queally at Common Dreams gives a close-up of the unappetizing spectacle: The unrepentent scoundrel.  Lying, spinning in weasely self-vindication. Power really does make people … Continue reading →

Robert Parry at Consortiumnews, one of those commentators on geopolitical events who actually know something and write honestly–perish the thought–describes the way that our “mainstream” commercial “news” media now chooses to ignore the fact that Bush invaded Iraq in 2003. What … Continue reading →

The same mad dogs who got the whole conflagration going in ’03 are barkering for one mo’ time. Jon Queally at Common Dreams sizes up the fairway. Isn’ it time for Condi to make a speech? Or is she too … Continue reading →