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What a great idea! The film series runs January 20-February 4 on 53rd St. . .

It’s time to call the war-mongering what it is: straight out of the totalitarian playbook. As Hermann Goering said at the Nuremberg trials: “Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who … Continue reading →

Killing thousands of innocent children–all in a day’s Presidential work, according to extreme right-wing panel moderator Hugh Hewitt. The right wing’s degradation of this country reaches a new low at the GOP debates, shocking even to William Rivers Pitt, who’s … Continue reading →

Mimi Paul and Violette Verdy work on Balanchine’s Emeralds at the Sarasota Ballet January 20 – 30.  It’s part of a triple bill there that premieres on the 29th.

Throw out all the furniture, then have two dancer guys from New York City Ballet go all agile up and down the multi-levels. That’s what NYCB’s Emily Kikta does in her new short “W 73rd,” a collaboration with NYCB’s Peter … Continue reading →

Norman Solomon at commondreams translates for the President. Had he been leveling with the public, Obama would have admitted that: “In the name of defeating terrorist forces, our air war has the effect of recruiting for them. Meanwhile, in Syria, our obsession … Continue reading →

Robert Parry at Consortiumnews writes that the President “seems to want so desperately to be one of the elite inhabitants of Official Washington’s bubble that he keeps pushing narratives that he knows aren’t true, all the better to demonstrate that … Continue reading →

“I’m not even from this branch,” a librarian tells me. “Send some of it our way!” “It” is of course $. The line was long at the branch I was taking out books from, which is why that visiting librarian … Continue reading →

OK, I interviewed Estelle Winwood when she was ninety-nine, but Alex Ross interviewed now 101-year-old Norman Lloyd last May in Los Angeles and in the process “stepped back eight decades in time.”  On the New Yorker website, a companion piece … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been watching 1966’s Our Man Flint, a 007-spoof in which the Bad Guys raise the world’s temperatures in order to create mayhem. And now, fifty years later, it’s happening for real!