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It’s 6:00 p.m., Monday, May 5, 2014 You’ve got 90 minutes to get to the 92nd Street Y and catch the last of five performances of Ted Sperling’s Ziegfeld Girl: The Many Faces of Fanny Brice. It makes the theme-park … Continue reading →

In March I took someone I’ve known since I was thirteen years old to a Paul Taylor performance during its closing weekend.  She’s someone who’s seen a lot of performances in her time. When Taylor himself came out for his … Continue reading →

Wendy Perron wrote to tell me she liked what I wrote about Balanchine and the Lost Muse in the current Ballet Review. Wendy’s own response to the book is here. And speaking of responding to books, the painful modesty of … Continue reading →

That’s where the U.S. government and “mainstream” commercial “news” media are taking us. . . . So says Robert Parry at his Consortiumnews.com, and he knows a hell of a lot more about what’s going on in the world than … Continue reading →

Kos of Dailykos.com rightly terms Governor Cuomo a Republican on matters economic, and is not displeased at the Governor’s sudden realization that he could be in for a mass defection on his left. –lowered taxes on the rich –gleeful union … Continue reading →

In perfect synchronicity, our Spring 2014 issue planes down upon the desks and library shelves of not just the U S of A, but the entire dance-loving world. Have I written anything for this issue? Yes. Direct your fingers to … Continue reading →

It’s not like Roberts didn’t blow his cover a long time ago. He’s the quintessence of judicial activism, and his zeal in leading America  back into racially segregated economically polarized aggressively disenfranchised anomie is brazen. Sotomayor in her dissent to … Continue reading →

Outrageously hiked rents mean an increasing number of vacant storefronts in the West Village.  And of course greed on this scale is frequently self-defeating in the long run: the West Village begins to look shabby, forlorn, and thus less desireable … Continue reading →

HoundDog at Dailykos.com previews Elizabeth Warren’s A Fighting Chance a week ahead of the official pub date.  Warren writes that Obama and Geithner’s apathy toward the plight of the jobless and foreclosed made her want “to scream with frustration.” It … Continue reading →

And they exhume history: For Volume 3, they’ve found something that I don’t think anyone has seen in sixty years or even seems to have remembered.