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which is one reason why the “mainstream” commercial media so often chooses not to share them with us. But The Nation reports  that: “Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard has never taught a day in a Chicago public school. The Chicago … Continue reading →

You’re strolling NYC, enjoying the beautiful weather—yesterday was that increasingly rare September occurrence in NYC: a warm day that still felt like autumn approaching. And if on your strolls you see a distinguished looking journal featuring on its cover a  … Continue reading →

in the Times about the way the Bush administration paid no attention to the 2001 memos warning them of Bin Laden’s intentions where our country was concerned.  . . up to and including the one little memo that Condoleeza Rice … Continue reading →

I was pleased to encounter as I walked down Broadway today toward Union Square a procession of teachers marching uptown in support of their striking Chicago brethren.   Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is among the Democratic politicians who are now pushing the same scam … Continue reading →

In his convention address, he took out his customary heart to nuclear power.  You know, Fukushima and all.  Gregg Levine at firedoglake.com comments.

No matter how conservative the Democrat, the “mainstream” commercial media always is eager to tell him or her to go farther to the right.  FAIR deconstructs Newsweek’s latest gaffe.

Btw, the Liane Dayde interview came from a “Nuits Blanches” series of master classes in Paris organized by the Vestris Society.   On their site, augustevestris.fr., you can purchase a book in which they’ve collected the recollections by these dancers of … Continue reading →

Hullabaloo’s Digby on “the worst fact-check of all time.”

I write for City Arts about Mark Morris’s Dido and Aeneas at the Rose theater.

Sarah Jaffe writes on Alternet.org about the media enablers who’ve created a mythological Paul Ryan.