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to Britain’s striking public (as we define the term in U.S. parlance) school teachers, protesting the usual toxic austerity brew that is foreclosing prospects for another generation of British children. In the austericists’ rifle sights is, of course, arts education … Continue reading →

VAI’s just sent me their new Stars of New York City Ballet DVD compilation. It’s drawn from Bell Telephone Hour telecasts from 1959-66 a reminder of the days hen ballet was integrated into American popular culture. It’s wonderful to see … Continue reading →

John Atcheson at CommonDreams describes America’s tragic decline into oligarchy. “Even as we spend tens of trillions on ‘Defense,’ ostensibly to protect our freedom, we quietly relinquished it; not to an invasion from without, but to a silent coup by … Continue reading →

CNN seems to enjoy degrading itself on an ever-accelerating basis. Now it has hired Trump’s s ex-campaign manager as a “commentator.” Feel the love.

Marc Blitzstein’s fun, stirring and incredibly important The Cradle Will Rock will be revived this summer by Opera Saratoga *, one of three new productions in their summer festival. * Not Sarasota as I originally wrote, so maybe I’ll drive … Continue reading →

In 1967, Diana Sands was playing Shaw’s Cleopatra in Atlanta opposite British actor Ronald Bush. At one point in the action, she kissed him on the forehead. The Ku Klux Klan swooped down to picket. Things were getting rough. “I … Continue reading →

You’e got to see the Greenpeace video of pianist Ludovico Eunaidi playing amid our rapidly vanishing Arctic ice pack. Why  isn’t Hillary attacking Demented Donald’s denial of climate change? Why isn’t the DNC platform getting out in front on this … Continue reading →

And you know there’s only one thing that could possibly make me feel that way! It’s those stands of orange daylillies by the road–the ones I told you last year I was so pleased to see once more. That’s what … Continue reading →

For self-defeating, tone-deaf ineptitude few political organizations rival today’s Democratic National Committee. Just as could have been predicated, they’re bulldozing most positions espoused by Sanders out of the party platform. Their refusal to adopt even positions Clinton says she’s for … Continue reading →

There isn’t a single time I walk through Grand Central Station’s magnificent ex-waiting room that I don’t deplore the decision to basically kick the public out. It is now a space  people bustle through on their way in and out … Continue reading →