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You’ll read it here first: Orel Protopopescu has written a consideration of Jennifer Homans’s Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century. Naturally enough, Orel, whose biography of Tanaquil Le Clercq was published in 2021, gives a lot of thought to Homans’s portrayal … Continue reading →

Is the corporate media going to continue to choose not to notice?

Since every accusation made by Trump is sheer projection, what other conclusion can we raw from his smears against Biden dad and son?

Her glorious voice and spirit are forever inspiring. I generally don’t read specialized or academic music publications–and there are fewer and fewer of them, vide the demise of Opera News–and was entirely unaware that Australian director Wayne Groom had released … Continue reading →

Her family issued this notice in memoriam: Nora White Shattuck, of Lincoln Vermont, passed away on July 7, 2023, Middlebury, Vermont at   the age of 97 surrounded by family. Born August 25, 1925 in Ottawa Canada, Nora was the fourth … Continue reading →

Even Trump’s complicit attorneys looked uncomfortable as they were forced to windowdress his senile & completely factitious grandstanding at the courthouse.

I believe in the family romance theory of history. We should know the psychological etiology that has made these damaged, nihilistic individuals so rabidly determined to eviscerate our country.

Trump’s face is a relief map of insanity and ruin.  And that face will be an icon of the country at large should he again become president.

Mary Trump is, of course, a trained psychologist, and she’s able to recognize the dynamic propelling Trump’s cult to galvanize around his moral inferiority even to many of the cult members themselves: “They don’t want a leader to look up … Continue reading →

That is the governing philosophy, the civil credo powering the Republicans.