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He delivers another win for the one percent. Disillusioned yet, cheerleaders? The shit is really going to hit the fan if Obama does win fast-track authority, and the bill is finally made public. Oh, he’ll have his legacy all right.

I’m a manual laborer; I only write about ballet for the money. More about that in a little bit.

Got that full circle feeling last Saturday night. There I was at ABT for Sleeping Beauty, Alexei Ratmansky’s production based on the Stepanov notations made at the Mariinsky in 1903. Diana Vishneva was Aurora and Veronika Part was Lilac Fairy. … Continue reading →

Bill Moyers and Bernard Weisberger at commondreams: “Obama often has treated Democrats in Congress as if they’ve been quarantined for Ebola; they’re more likely to get into the White House if they dress up on Halloween as Republicans and go … Continue reading →

It’s not just the hospitals and lovely old low-rise buildings being mowed down for condos, it’s libraries as well. SPEAK OUT at the Metrotech Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. before the Uniform Land Use Review (ULURP) Hearing … Continue reading →

As if I don’t have enough scribbling to do at the moment — Just looking at the ms of a novel I wrote but not totally finished based partly on the experiences of a dancer friend of mine. Something poignant … Continue reading →

One of the most appalling things about the right wing’s attack on economic mobility and a democratic society is the assault on public education. And Scott Walker’s made Wisconsin ground zero for that, as for so much other degradation of … Continue reading →

The smell of freshly-cut grass and blooming honeysuckle in the night air…

The Barre Flies review Ratmansky’s Sleeping Beauty at ABT. Read, then see one or all of the final three performances of the run, tonight, t’row and t’row night. And make up your own mind! Or, better still, see it and … Continue reading →

With Democrats like these, who needs the other side? As Jonathan Tasini writes on his Working Life blog, Wasserman Schultz must now resign as Party chair.