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Forget hundreds of millions – We now learn that it’s as much as three billion of our taxpayer funds  that Cuomo and de Blasio are giving away to Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man.

Today’s story in the Times will tell you exactly how unfit. The idea that Hillary would have even considered Sandberg for Treasury Secretary is a testament to how close in ideology–not, of course, interactive and behavioral fitness–Hillary and the Donald … Continue reading →

Let me get this straight: Governor Cuomo is giving hundreds of millions of our tax dollars to the world’s richest man. And Mayor de Blasio comes in on cue with an unqualified,  Orwellian endorsement. And they want to hike the … Continue reading →

Sarah Bernhardt, James Agate wrote soon after she died in 1923, “had a hundred different ways of being the same person.”

On the Hungarian side, we’ve got a long involvement in the needle trades. My grandmother’s sister Betty was some kind of fashion model, who “went around with” and then married the son of aManhattan factory owner, whose workers attached soutache … Continue reading →

The Republicans are at it again in Florida.

You never really know (unless you actually do know) why two performances of the same ballet in close proximity in time turn out so differently, particularly when key personnel are consistent in both. Ormsby Wilkins conducted ABT in Symphonie Concertante … Continue reading →

of existential peril for American democracy, there’s no time like the present to revive Beckett’s existential benchmark Waiting for Godot, on stage for a few more days at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. “It’s a magical play,” says a friend … Continue reading →

The Democrats’ victory panics Trump, and he moves to shut down the Mueller investigation w/Sessions’ “resignation” during the lame-duck Congressional term. Watch for aspiring-dictator Trump to do more dictatorial things before the end of the year.

astonishingly spry Joy Williams Brown, who’d danced Calliope with Balanchine in Mexico City in 1945, at last Saturday night’s Balanchine: The City Center Years. The program opened with–that’s right, Apollo, performed by the Mariinsky. I liked Xander Parish’s interpretation because … Continue reading →