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The point being, Laura Jacobs has just reviewed for the Wall Street Journal the Atheneum’s Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion & Its Legacy show. And woven in a little backstory about the Atheneum itself. All bases covered in this … Continue reading →

OK let’s get serious. That title, btw, is a gloss on the 1967 documentary Tonight Let’s All Make Love in London, a behind-the-scenes look at the capital when it really Swung–and not just for the City and the Viscounts. I … Continue reading →

that you know how phony the Sanders non-stumble “stumble” about the big-banks-couldn’t-come-a-moment-too-soon break up is? what is it, really, that a leader does? Hunker way, way down into the weeds? No. S/he above all sets policy direction. Does anyone want … Continue reading →

President Obama must now make it clear that he is not going to let the Republicans mug this country and its democratic system of government: if they continue to refuse to give Merrick Garland a hearing, he will be forced … Continue reading →

The privileging of ignorance in this country certainly extends up to the editorial boards of major newspapers. Why are we not surprised that it was the Daily News’ editorial board, not Sanders, who didn’t know what the F what they … Continue reading →

about the way that “mainstream” Western “journalism” keeps juggling those double standards as corruption looms large in the Panama papers. At Consortium News, he decries the way that the media industry: “no longer even tries to apply common standards to … Continue reading →

is the attempt by right-wing plutocrats to destroy America’s system of free public education, the same way that the real crisis in Social Security is the right wing’s attempt to end it. Diane Ravitch.net is a great place to go … Continue reading →

Th Tea Party: people working their tails off, for free, to elect the candidates who will do them the most harm.

“beneficial” humility. Beneficial to the artist, to the art form, to the audience. It doesn’t mean that Flagstad didn’t have a healthy sense of her own worth, but that she understood the enormity of the task of reaching perfection in … Continue reading →

Returning to the Met as Isolde in 1951 after a ten-year-absence, Kirsten Flagstad received 19 curtain calls after act 1. If she didn’t know how to sing Isolde, who did? Yet when Flagstad sang Isolde as a guest in France … Continue reading →