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For History News Network.org, I write  “I Spent Years Interviewing a Soviet Ballerina For a Biography. . . What I learned is especially important to remember at a time of crisis in Russian-American relations.”

We’re now seeing the Republicans rev up two of their biggest and most successful hustles: a) the hysteria and fear-mongering that kept Bush in office, kept Democrats even more quiescent than usual, and made people forget that the Bush-league team … Continue reading →

particularly in ballet.  And I like overlap, too. Alla Osipenko and the late Evgeni Scherbakov: two fascinating dancers and people. Together they perform a minute from Grigorovich’s Legend of Love, act 3 in a compilation put together by zonSatzu2 on … Continue reading →

“You have to speak with that all technique,” says an ex-dancer. “Even if it’s an internal dialogue.”

Joe MacDonald–I was thinking about him yesterday and I’ll tell more in a bit. But he was a big part of the fashion landscape when I started looking at fashion mags ca. 1974. He was lantern-jawed and yet you felt … Continue reading →

Called Wilde on the 31st of last year. “Are you recuperating?” she asked. “Are you ready for the next show?”

No, I’m not talking about the pathetic sight of spring-blooming plants being lulled by the torrid December into putting out blossoms, thus pre-empting the actual spring bloom–that’s been written about by Nicholas St. Fleur [some name!] in the Times. No, … Continue reading →

And General John Campbell is really good at it. Sarah Lazare at CommonDreams details the way that Campbell is ginning up the war in Afghanistan. Lazare writes that: “The U.S. is planning a military role long into Afghanistan’s future despite … Continue reading →

The Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists has put out a marvelous 2016 calendar, each month topped by a cartoon skewering the greed and know-nothing demagoguery behind the current environmental assault.

Here’s the working trailer for the documentary on the Bankhead family that University of Alabama’s public TV station is doing–I told you about it earlier this year.