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In the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Matthew Brandon Wolfson takes on the “sentimental repackaging” of Bush and Cheney attempted by Peter Baker in his new book Days of Fire.

Alla Osipenko once told me that at the opening night gala program given by the Mariinsky (then Kirov) to kick off their London season in 1970 she had turned a triple pirouette in the Black Swan pas de deux. “Alla, … Continue reading →

Thursday night at New York City Ballet’s Nutcracker, guest conductor Raphael Jiminez loosened the reins a bit on Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers, the blooms breathed a sigh of relief, and Sara Mearns and the “girls” took it from there! … Continue reading →

In a country like sours, where runaway, unsupervised surveillance by the government has beomce a norm countenanced by most of our elected representatives, including the President, you can be sure that some of that snooping is going to be used for political … Continue reading →

A relative has always played by the rules.  I doubt she’s ever paid a bill late in her entire life. But she’s always been anxious about money, and while she certainly has enough, she asked me how she could get … Continue reading →

When Patricia Wilde was in NYC earlier this month to accept the Dance Magazine Award, I naturally buttonholed her for a little interview. Or course she had many insightful, interesting things to say about ballet, about herself, about her colleagues. … Continue reading →

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I was perplexed, melancholy. I could no longer find stocked at Fairway those bottled grilled onions imported form Italy. Then Garden of Eden stopped stalking them as well.  And Fairway’s deli had long since stopped making their own. Those onions … Continue reading →

That’s what the weather announcers on “mainstream” TV were doing yesterday, as they do day after day, cozening up to the camera and all but nuzzling the viewership as they promise “record warmth” in the days to come, as if … Continue reading →

There’s an abundance of talented men in New York City Ballet’s corps. A case in point is David Prottas–He’s got outstanding coordination, jump and plumb-line pirouettes. In The New York Times, Claudia La Rocco described Prottas as “a beautifully classical … Continue reading →