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Laura Jacobs reviews in The Wall Street Journal Judith Mackrell’s Flappers, just published stateside after a success in Britain.  Both Jacobs, and it seems from her review, Mackrell and her book, have something important to say about that epochal generation … Continue reading →

Cutting SNAP benefits is not only sadistic, it’s bad economic policy.  Katie Wright at Think Progress details the ways these benefits do indeed benefit our society as a whole, including generating $9 in economic stimulation for every $5 in benefit … Continue reading →

For those who braved the snow to show up at New York City Ballet last night for the season opening, a treat was in store: the two ballerinas danced Concerto Barocco as if they knew that those reference performances are … Continue reading →

Particularly in New York in the months of February and March. What with Borodin’s Prince Igor being revived at the Met after a century’s absence (I last saw it when the Kirov brought it to the Met during their 1998 … Continue reading →

. . . is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Dean Baker at his Beat the Press blog [via Alternet.org] tells us how.

On Wednesday the 22nd, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is showing at the Walter Reade Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky, sound-tracked by Prokofiev–to be followed by a panel discussion including Prokofiev scholar Simon Morrison.

Paul Buchheit at alternet.org reports that the amount of investment return enjoyed by 13 Americans last year is more than the entire SNAP budget,  thus making even more filthy the avidity of Republicans to make draconic cuts to SNAP, as … Continue reading →

Can you believe that while Finley and Drake are in Zankel, in the Isaac Stern main hall at Carnegie, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic is playing that same night?? I’ll never forget attending a chamber concert at the Philharmonic’s home theater … Continue reading →

He’s not singing at the Met this season (was his Count last season something simply too good to be surpassed?), but he’ll be at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall February 13 to sing Schubert’s Winterreise, accompanied by Julius Drake, with whom he’s … Continue reading →

I always underline in pencil as I’m reading a book. When you underline you can always easily get back to the parts that you felt were most important.  I recently picked up a book w/fabulous words and pictures that I’d … Continue reading →