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“Oh, my God. . . what IS that?. . . That’s disgusting,” someone said to me when I pointed out the latest monster tower rising on Bloomberg’s dystopian nightmare cityscape, 57th Street’s Billionaire’s Row. Last year, Nan Victoria Munger in … Continue reading →

Trump’s frightening, incoherent, defiantly ignorant babble to Axios about climate change tells us that we are looking at a presidency and a party that has not only gone rogue, it has doubled down on curtailing humanity’s future. And the Democrats’ … Continue reading →

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reacts to the World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Index, which shows that 60 % of the world’s fauna have been wiped out since 1970. And that has apocalyptic implications for humanity, as the Democrats continue … Continue reading →

As I follow my customary movement patterns throughout the city, as well as divert into neighborhoods I don’t visit that often, I’m photographing all the wonderful nineteenth-century buildings I see being leveled or about to be leveled in the neighborhood-and-history … Continue reading →

A nonstop barrage of violence, hatred and fear, endorsed both explicitly and covertly by the aspiring dictator in the Oval Office. Trump’s response to every spasm of violence occasioned by his inflammatory rhetoric is to call for more guns, more … Continue reading →

On a nightly basis, Carlson is attacking America, undermining American democracy and national unity. So when he face plants about why, oh, why, the country is so divided, it’s time to expose his Goebbelsian methodology. Shame on S & S … Continue reading →

When I mention the “Kirov’s” current Raymonda performances, yes I know that they re now the Mariinsky once again, but they were Kirov during the 1950s when Konstantin Sergeyev’s somewhat revised Raymonda premiered in St. Petersburg (yes, I know that … Continue reading →

You know how, when you see the Kirov’s Raymonda–last performed here in Washington, D.C. in 2016– it looks very authentic, the least subject to Soviet- era revision of all the nineteenth-century repertory? I mean, apart from the Vikharev reconstructions. Well, … Continue reading →

You can’t make this stuff up.  Joe Biden and Michelle Obama are actually participating in the normalization of George W. Bush’s presidency by presenting him with a freedom medal. In the Nation, Steven W. Thrasher is aghast at the foolishness … Continue reading →

The right-wing Supreme Court majority begins, with Wilbur Ross, to shield the Trump would-be dictatorship from any legal accountability.