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I called my Councilperson Corey Johnson today to register my disgust at the proposed torpedoing of the landmarking process in this city via a new bill that would curtail the amount of time the already extremely underfunded Landmarks Preservation Commission … Continue reading →

Well, I wouldn’t want to make any grandiose pronouncements, but the White House was finally done what Obama has been so unwilling to do: call out by name the people who are most viciously opposed to his presidency–and in the … Continue reading →

And thus something of a lone voice of truth, details at Consortium News.com the complicity of Cheney and his neo-con accomplices in the current refugee crisis.

There’s logic to Cheney’s shamelessness– If you look at the way that he is today urging us over another cliff and into another global conflagration on the exact anniversary of his infamous kick-off thirteen years ago–you see that he is … Continue reading →

It seems incredible that war criminal, war profiteer, and draft dodger Dick Cheney should be making his latest plea-for-war exhortation on the anniversary to-the-day of his nefarious let’s-get-our-war pitch thirteen years ago. And we know how that turned out. The … Continue reading →

“Don’t touch that score–you might give a calculated performance of  ‘Pace’!” So shrieked La Scala intendant Antonio Ghiringhelli as he tore down the hallway to Tebaldi’s dressing room in 1955. OK, that’s bogus. And probably gratuitous. But I couldn’t resist. … Continue reading →

The first time I was on tour with Tchernichova was in Miami Beach in 1983–right before it went Continental. I was there again five years later to do research and it was totally different. Anyway, she and I were at … Continue reading →

I forced myself to watch CNN for an hour this morning. Hadn’t really gotten down with the channel for a year-and-a-half or so. I saw breathless minute after minute about Trump’s and Bush’s campaigns, while the only news of the … Continue reading →

Abbey Zimet at Common Dreams reports on the Icelanders offering Syrian refugees solace after their government says it really can’t be bothered.

I have some stories from actors I interviewed along the way that I”ll contribute. Believe it or not, among her handful of movies, I’ve only seen half. But she is devastatingly droll in Ninotchka, and Three Broadway Girls, and ironic/heartbreaking … Continue reading →