Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

I  loved City Center Encores’ The Cradle Will Rock last week and want to write about it. The material still blazes and it was a cast of flame-fanners! But first I do have to say that once again I realized … Continue reading →

Today I ran into a woman who’d owned a small shop here in the West Village for several years beginning in the late-1980s.  She’d moved out West but is now back in NYC.  It would be impossible, she said, to … Continue reading →

“We’re not celebrities anymore,” a leading ballet dancer said not too long ago.  “We’re just trying to survive.”

Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey breaks with the president on the subject of civil liberties, which have been squashed by the Obama administration with a might-as-well-be 4th-term-GW Bush-presidency alacrity. Read Holt’s eloquent, forceful, unequivocal editorial.

I missed this piece by Linda Greenhouse in the Times from June 29:  “The Real John Roberts Emerges.” It leaves no doubt that we now have a frightening take-the-law-into-its-own-hands right-wing majority on the Supreme Court. Thanks, Dems, for once again … Continue reading →

Elizabeth Kendall’s review of the book in Dance Magazine is available on line.

For the last week of their retrospective tribute to director Allan Dwan. En route, you might read on your iphone my overview in City Arts. (Call it my retrospective of the retrospective.)

If you need any further proof of the increasing corruption of the public as well as private university system, dig this, via commondreams.org.

Paul Buchheit at Buzzflash.com: “America’s middle class is sliding out of the developed world and toward third-world status. Column 9 makes it clear. Among all the nations of the world with at least a quarter-million adults, only Russia, Ukraine, and … Continue reading →

Richard Eskow at Nation of Change tells us exactly what Roberts and the gang are up to, and what we can do to stop them.  (And needless to say, how the Democratic Party has enabled the installation of GOP-extremist judiciary … Continue reading →