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and lights up the stage whenever she appears in Carousel. Now, I love Tebaldi singing “If I Loved You,” so if Fleming had gotten really operatic with those great songs she’s got that would have been OK, but nevertheless she … Continue reading →

Facebook and Zuckerberg have more than shown their true colors: they are another major threat to American democracy. Jake Johnson in Common Dreams responds to the alarms being sounded by Zuckerberg’s partnering with a Koch-funded plutocract’s club to attempt control … Continue reading →

If only. With Gina Haspel’s confirmation, the U.S. has reached rock bottom. And we can still go lower.

What with Patricia Wilde’s discipline and intellectual curiosity — Wilde was here last week to tape for the Balanchine Foundation, reunited with Robert Barnett to scrutinize the roles they danced together in Bourree Fantasque and Western Symphony six decades ago. … Continue reading →

The latest Pruitt revelations demonstrate in excelsis what this party and this president and this cabinet of gargoyles are doing to us.

How’d you like those anti-Semitic World of Trump freak show tele-clerics delivering the key note addresses at the Embassy opening? Have you fucking lost your mind, Sen. Schumer?

And I agree with Katie Halper: “As a Jew, I’d like to thank Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer for proving that we can be just as bigoted, backwards & Islamophobic as Donald Trump. If we kill them, do they not bleed?”

This is why the red-state Democrats aren’t going to get re-elected. McCaskill says she’s going to continue to fight “the worst parts” of Trump’s agenda. Why aren’t you fighting against all the parts of Trump’s hideous agenda? Which parts of … Continue reading →

Defy the criminal, apocalyptic insanity of BoltonTrump, circle the wagons and vanquish their determination to induce Iran to produce nuclear weapons.

Because this summer Veronika Part is teaching at the Fadeyev Ballet Academy on Long Island.