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Picking up my 82-year-old aunt Barbara at JFK last week and driving her back there for her return flight to Seattle was a treat.  I had the chance to talk to her alone, which I rarely have in my life.  … Continue reading →

70 degrees is predicted for Sunday, October 20.  The true NYC autumn with which I grew up now seems as though it’s irrevocably gone. If you get outside NYC you can’t miss the rancid smell of leaves decomposing from the … Continue reading →

But Mary Bottari at Commondreams.org thinks Simpson and Bowles have reached new highs/lows of hypocricy.

It’s so telling: Banksters who wrecked our economy are bailed out on our taxpayer dime and allowed to grab off more power and control over the economy than ever before. While New York City Opera is allowed to shutter with … Continue reading →

For Beat the Press, Dean Baker performs a task that should no longer be even necessary, but certainly is, given the corruption of our “mainstream” media—exposing the callous duplicity of Niall Ferguson. Baker decries “the absurdities pushed by Ferguson and … Continue reading →

Senator Sanders e-blasts: “At a time when the middle class is collapsing and poverty is increasing, these right-wing ideologues want to repeal virtually every piece of legislation passed in the last 80 years which protects the elderly, the children, the … Continue reading →

That’s the philosophy of Ted Cruz as well as the whole platoon of GOP unconscionables who are mugging the country. But—not to fear—Ted doesn’t need Obamacare because his and his wife’s Cadillac health insurance allows their employers a tax break!! … Continue reading →

There’s an incredible array of restored films being shown over the next month at “To Save and Project,” the Museum of Modern Art’s 11th International Festival of Film Preservation.

Concerning a new Australian web magazine on dance for which she’ll be the New York correspondent: The Fjord Review edited by Penelope Ford.

James Wolcott gobbles the book!