Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

“What good will that do?” I’ve had people ask me when I tell them to pick up the phone, at least make a token effort to improve the future—to ensure that there will be one—to keep our country and the … Continue reading →

Antony Tudor said, or is reported to have said, something profound about ballet and dance that should be trumpeted over the PA  of every school and theater. From my interview with Tudor’s former-assistant Airi Hynninen in the summer 1995 issue … Continue reading →

David Swanson at warisacrime.org defines television “news” stations and the way they “fill fluff that no one listens to into the spaces between advertisements for crap no one buys.”

“Anytime you see my name on the schedule, just go sit down in the corner and I’ll forget you’re even there,” Antony Tudor said to me in 1983 when I asked if I could watch his rehearsals. He knew me … Continue reading →

Laura Nyro’s Save the Country has never been more pertinent. I recently listened to it on the Spread Your Wings and Fly CD, a record of a concert she gave at the Fillmore East in 1971.  I just bought it; … Continue reading →

For the used-Bentley salesman running things across the pond: Why, indeed, were — “British firms granted permission to export deadly chemicals to Syria” ?????????? It’s all over the British press.

Wesley Messamore at PolicyMic tells us about Washington’s own use of chemical weapons: “10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn’t Want You to Talk About.”

In U.S. politics today there’s hardly a more preposterous sight than John Kerry wagging his finger at us.  That digit belongs to someone who may shortly become as disgraced as his predecessors Powell and Rice, and for exactly the same … Continue reading →

He did well leading the Third Campaign of Stars and Stripes at New York City Ballet last May. And he has engaged some wonderful NYCB dancers for his Dance Collective, bringing it to the Joyce last month, and garnering highly … Continue reading →

of GW Bush’s catastrophic deception–that’s what Obama’s mad rush to war is starting to look like to Robert Parry. If you want to know how ill the “mainstream” media is, consider the fact that Robert Parry doesn’t write for it, … Continue reading →