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Late last month Jack Anderson and George Dorris hosted a get together for friends and colleagues of Ballet Review’s late copy editor.  She enjoyed a long and varied career as serious student of music, as dancer, as librarian, writer and editor. … Continue reading →

That’s apparently what we can expect from the foreign policy Hillary Clinton would pursue as president–an even more vid appetite for perpetual war than Obama has shown. She may even be on a par with George W. Bush. The Atlantic interview was disastrous, but … Continue reading →

We live in a country where, if you are a financial institution engaged in criminal misconduct that brings a national economy to its knees, not only do you suffer no punitive measures whatsoever BUT money collected from the coffers of taxpayer … Continue reading →

Volume 4 will be available early next month.

Will be interesting to see if a single politician gets up and makes a peep about the Metropolitan Opera’s difficulties.  Hell, if that theater were torn down for condos you probably wouldn’t hear a peep. In its boringly clichéd but undeniably … Continue reading →

Keith Ellison gives a thumbs-up but wants it “limited”– Obama lets us know that the we are back in Iraq for the long, long haul. And these morons expect to hold any majority at all?

He IS George W. Bush.

The question now is, will he cook the Democratic Party’s as well? Richard D. Woolf at Truthout explains how Obama’s capitulation to the shackles of ruling-class conventional wisdom crippled his presidency.

You can be sure the Dem base isn’t coming out in November if he bombs Iraq. Dropping food and medicine is another story. Let’s not forget that the House was lost in 2010 to a great degree because Obama would … Continue reading →

In tribute to the recently deceased, endlessly listenable Carlo Bergonzi I request that you watch the Hardy Classics DVD of Aida at the Verona amphitheater in 1966. Not that Rhadames was his best role.  It always seemed a bit too … Continue reading →