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That’s the question where Obama is concerned. From Associated Press via Talkingpointsmemo, reporting on the Presidents final pep talk re: the monstrous TPP boondoggle: “Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, said Obama had told Democrats that ‘his whole philosophy, life, everything … Continue reading →

I’m in the country and it’s so sunny that I can hardly see the movie I’m watching on youtube because of the glare on my laptop screen!

* and writes a great piece — for The New Criterion, on what powered Balanchine’s Baiser de la Fee, and what powered Balanchine.

Obama doubles down on neo-con failure, hard-wiring the catastrophic Cheney-Bush foreign policy doctrines. As Phylis Bennis, who actually knows something about the Middle East, attests in an interview with Real News, “the more weapons that get sent, the more weapons … Continue reading →

In the chapel in Churaevka, the Russian Village in Southbury, Connecticut this Tuesday, June 9th at 1:30 p.m.

Wilde’s first season with New York City Ballet was its London debut in the summer of 1950. Reviewing the season, Arnold Haskell wrote in his Ballet Annual that NYCB had done more “for the artistic prestige” of the U.S. “than … Continue reading →

I was out with a friend last week who’s a regular visitor there, and I finally went in–I’d passed it any number of times. The selection of new and used is panoramic. The spare and elegant space makes literacy stylish … Continue reading →

Check out on youtube the 1959 Pathe news squib on Paris’s Salle Wacker–featuring among other instructors Olga Preobrajenskaya and Valerie Camille. And take a gander at Pathe’s tease on 1927’s The Gold Diggers at the Lyric in London–Tallulah doing a … Continue reading →

It is of course ludicrous the way so many “mainstream” journalists can call TPP, as Politico does this week, a bid by Obama for a “legacy-burnishing accomplishment.” TPP, if passed, will ensure that Obama leaves office in disgrace. Obama appears … Continue reading →

Thirty years after ex-American Ballet Theatre Anna Spelman and I went to New York City Ballet we were back to watch Sunday’s matinee. That was after Saturday night’s Giselle at ABT. Anna is one of those people who’s always on … Continue reading →