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Predictably, the gun fanaticism-for-profit freaks bring Trump to heel in just no time at all.

OK, it’s forty-plus years later, but I suddenly had a flashback to Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera singing “My Own Best Friend,” at the end of act one of Chicago. They grabbed you by the throat and looked as noir … Continue reading →

who tweets: “[Bret] Stephens et al are just playing their role in a very old parlor game, where Serious Conservatives tell liberals they are bad and wrong (that’s what ‘intellectual diversity’ means to elite center-lefties) and liberals proceed to engage … Continue reading →

The Manhattan Borough President has to know that she can’t just talk the talk but must indeed walk. Somewhere. In some direction. We need to demand that she take a stroll. I hope she walks down Broadway from 14th street … Continue reading →

On development issues as well as public education, there are now, at best, distinctions w/o a difference. Diana Ravitch describes De Blasio’s betrayals of public education and capitulation to private charters.

His latest utterly fact-and-logic free stemwinder in Philadelphia demonstrates, once again that he is an existential danger to American democracy and to global humanity.

Tchernichova when talking to [complaining to] Baryshnikov about his lieutenant (often more than that, practically deputy ABT director at times) Charles France used to, in the late-1980s, mock-Russify and feminize his name into “Charlita Franzovna,” which Misha found hilarious!

Sen. Schumer is doing nothing to stop the passage of the bank deregulation bill, about which Sen. Warren is crying foul. Minority Leader Schumer is allowing Democrats to ensure passage of this disgraceful bill, which totally undermines the Dems’ claim … Continue reading →

when it comes to preserving neighborhoods and affordable housing. The Midtown East scam, the Mayor’s refusal to stop the Rizzoli demolition, his reluctance to ensure that new zoning protections accompany the proposed Tech Hub on 14th Street–when it comes to … Continue reading →

as I sat watching Shuffle Along on Broadway in the summer of 2016 that those very same cast members dancing, singing, tapping were also germinating the Broadway Advocacy Coalition. Why don’t we let them tell the story, as they do … Continue reading →