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Usually when I walk into Trader Joe’s and the line snakes all the way back nearly to the front door, I turn around and walk out. Today I had to tell myself that I was trapped. I’d walked cross town … Continue reading →

The deputy director of the Fashion Institute of Technology is a serious balletomane. Serious as in being curious and taking the art form seriously. She told me that after  reading Dancing on Water she’d gone to youtube to look up … Continue reading →

about Wilde. I quote her in the Introduction: “She was a force of nature. A beautiful tempest that was not dangerous to anyone, that was beyond the ordinary clouds.”

University Press of New England/ForeEdge did a great job with the catalog copy: “At eighty-seven, Patricia Wilde remains a grande dame of the ballet world. As a young star she toured America in the company of the Ballet Russe. In … Continue reading →

As it’s currently practiced in Washington: Democrats selling the store.

After what he’s seen the GOP do to Obama over the past seven years, Biden extolling bipartisanship immediately puts him out of the running. “TomP” at Daily Kos points out the absurdity. And we thought Obama didn’t get it. . … Continue reading →

Or brilliants or rhinestones or paillettes or bugle beads or whatever was laid down on her little gored dress in Myles Thatcher’s new Polaris at New York City Ballet. Not that she didn’t look fetching, but man, Zuhair Murad’s costumes … Continue reading →

That’s what we’re seeing upstate today. Beautiful, but completely freaky, and yet completely freaky is the new normal where weather is concerned. Will the GOP stage one of its idiotic snowball stunts again?

Mark Karlin at Truthout describes the skewed calculations that produced a zero cost-of- living increase in Social Security–depriving 70 million Americans. By his own admission, Obama has wanted to cut Social Security–the euphemism is “reform”–since before he took office.  Perhaps … Continue reading →

For their roles in harassing rent-stabilized and rent-controlled tenants? Unlike Bloomberg, De Blasio appears to understand how alarming the housing crisis in NYC is, and is now allocating more funds for legal representation to combat tenant harassment. But given the … Continue reading →