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If you’ve got any lingering belief that, as a class, our  “mainstream” media “news reporters” are honest actors, Eric Boehlert at Media Matters will put it to rest with his dissection of the way that Christie was sold to the … Continue reading →

It’s funny: whenever there is any attempt in our government to make our society function for anybody else than the one-percent, the right wing throws the word “socialism” around as a bugaboo that is supposed to arouse a Pavlovian (I … Continue reading →

In the current issue of Pointe Magazine, Gillian Murphy and Laura Jacobs try to pin down what it is. P.S.: Not “pin down,” I should say “explore.”  They’re not attempting to be certitutidinous.

Scientific American describes how radioactive iodine from Fukushima has been found in kelp off the coast of California.

— for morality. And now someone has: Ronnie Moas of Standpoint Research, who downgrades Apple over the way it treats workers: “For Apple Computers to pay their workers $2 an hour while they have $150 billion in the bank is … Continue reading →

Transcribing in full for the first time my interview with Muriel Stuart from 1981. About her time spent dancing with Pavlova and her troupe– Pavlova was “the first Russian that I have ever known who was interested in what was … Continue reading →

At New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker last week, Megan Fairchild was flipping some of the switches. It’s not like there’s any doubt that Fairhchild has pretty legs and feet.  We know that. But as she balanced in arabesque at the end … Continue reading →

In the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Matthew Brandon Wolfson takes on the “sentimental repackaging” of Bush and Cheney attempted by Peter Baker in his new book Days of Fire.

Alla Osipenko once told me that at the opening night gala program given by the Mariinsky (then Kirov) to kick off their London season in 1970 she had turned a triple pirouette in the Black Swan pas de deux. “Alla, … Continue reading →

Thursday night at New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker, guest conductor Raphael Jiminez loosened the reins a bit on Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers, the blooms breathed a sigh of relief, and Sara Mearns and the “girls” took it from there! … Continue reading →