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Listening to Richard Strauss’s heavenly Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra and also thinking of Antony Tudor’s heavenly ballet Dim Lustre to this same music. By the end of this ballet, the two romantic lead characters have made deep and life-and-relationship-altering … Continue reading →

Someone close to me came up with the churlish comment that nobody knows that I mean Basquiat if I call him “Jean,” and not “Jean-Michel.” But that’s what we called him and he called himself at CAS. Once when I … Continue reading →

“Babe,”–and don’t call me sexist because I’d say the same thing to Kaine–“just don’t let that old screen door hit you on the way out. . .” The filthiest thing about the Kaine pick is that she waited until after … Continue reading →

Hillary reverts to type: Makes what is practically the worst, most reactionary VP pick she could, leaves herself totally vulnerable to Trump’s attacks on Dem support for trade deals. The woman is a disaster and  in the likely event that … Continue reading →

For Truthout, Williams Rivers Pitts discusses shared satisfactions of gardening and activism.

That’s what they were called at City-as-School, and probably still are. Some of them taught classes, but basically they advised the students and directed us to all the work/study internships, college classes, in-house courses, all kinds of things you could … Continue reading →

Photo courtesy of Lincoln Center Festival. Last evening (Thursday July 14) three additional entries from the classical Noh canon. Before we get to that, may I just announce my lifelong fascination with curtains, from the mod fiberglass curtains that masked … Continue reading →

You will never see their likes again in New York. Lincoln Center states: “This summer, Kiyokazu Kanze—the 26th Grand Master of the Kanze School and a descendent of the founder of Noh—brings the profound lyricism and aesthetic elegance of this … Continue reading →

I don’t go on Facebook every day and I didn’t know she had died July 9. She was an unusually stimulating woman to talk to ! Had a memorable lunch with the Barnetts when they were in town several years … Continue reading →

Jim Naurecks at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting supplies the inconvenient (for Dimon) fact that those pay raises he’s crowing about are going to be “largely involuntary”–as in legally mandated. Apparently, following the law is something Jamie thinks he deserves … Continue reading →