Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Defending Larry Summers? Offering more work to Timothy Geithner? In The New York Times, Annie Lowry reports behavior from the President and his team of economic incompetents that will have you running for cover–or more productively, getting on the phone … Continue reading →

I interviewed Violette Verdy about seeing Alla Osipenko dance in Paris with the Kirov in 1961:  Osipenko, recalled Verdy, “had a body that allowed her to show you her imagination, her incredible sense of neo-classicism–using the classical technique in a completely … Continue reading →

From an interview with Marianne Lipanovich in San Francisco Cultural Voice back in 2011. “I watch the X Factor, and it’s terrible. You can go to Juilliard any year and hear and see much more talented and beautiful singers. . … Continue reading →

that the “mainstream” commercial media is emitting re: the puling heir, Nafeez Ahmed in the Guardian speculates on what the planet may very well look like by the time the newborn is is a young adult. And let’s put it … Continue reading →

Nate Silver at Deadspin: “ I’d argue that MOST political pundits are completely useless; the outliers are the few who are actually worth reading.” I might add that what most of the pundistry class actually and actively do is make … Continue reading →

I left City Center after The Cradle Will Rock elated and optimistic!  The societal reality it presents is certainly chilling, but the singing and telling of it and its exhortation to action something else altogether. Marc Blitzstein’s theater event wears … Continue reading →

In the last issue of Ballet Review, Mimi Paul gave what I think is one of the most astute assessments of her ex-New York City Ballet colleague Maria Tallchief’s dancing: “I liked how she read the music physically; she inscribed … Continue reading →

Writing in the Times, Paul Krugman doesn’t want Detroit’s fiscal fail to become an excuse to scapegoat pensioners.

The old-time stage stars knew how to objectify themselves every moment they were on-stage, or perhaps it would be better to say, every time they were in front of an audience.  They were they own zoom lenses–they had to be.  … Continue reading →