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— and have some job security, they tend to speak confidently and intelligently. Check out the Paris Opera’s Francois Alu in Tutti Magazine. P.S. Yes it’ s in French, but don’t be calling me no art historian!!

earlier this week by a free concert at the Kennedy Cent;er. Arvo Part’s work “conveyed minimalist beauty through paired down compositions that were meditations of life, faith and death.” The composer was in attendance “able to hear his music played … Continue reading →

I didn’t know that Sinclair Lewis had once lived in the West Village. But I’m reading about that in the May issue of the West View News.  This paper is great at informing us about the days when the Village … Continue reading →

Sorry, it’s not the rich who take the risks. The latest debunking by fact of right-wing cant by Paul Bucheit at Common Dreams.

Writing for The Wall Street Journal, Laura Jacobs straddles the sartorial and kinetic disciplines, as well as scrambling the time frames,  writing a preview/deja vu of Christian Lacaroix costumes for ABT’s 1988 revival of Massine’s Gaite Parisienne. It re-revives next … Continue reading →

But Robert Reich won’t let him.  He rebuts the .5%’s favorite Treasury Secretary’s blinkered definition of policy success–aka enrichment of guess who?

OK, you can read my piece on Balanchine’s Theme and Variations at playbill.com OR you can get tactile and sensory paging through it in your seat when American Ballet Theatre opens its Met Opera season tonight and at every subsequent performance … Continue reading →

from Marco Rubio.  He just doesn’t believe in the notion of climate change. This is today’s GOP agenda, and it is apocalyptic. Dems, go to town. I’m waiting.

The New York Public Library WON’T be destroying the original 1913 stacks in the 42nd Street flagship and WILL be refurbishing the Mid-Manhattan library, housed in the historic ex-department store across the street. Robin Pogrebin reports in the Times.

Josh Marshall reels at Talkingpointsmemo.com at the ramifications of a Federal judge commending Scott Walker for exploiting loopholes in campaign finance laws. Do we now understand a bit more about why it is so crucial that Obama win approval for … Continue reading →