Ryan to Tribes: Drop Dead; Obama Disagrees, Shows Them the Money
Lunatic PAUL RYAN wants to decimate the budget for Indian Health Services. Pushback is coming from PRESIDENT OBAMA,…
Category: Departments
Spring in Verse
Spring cannot arrive too soon, and we anticipate its arrival in verse from SHAKESPEARE, EMILY DICKINSON, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH…
Dame Kiri Turns 70, Bids Farewell to Opera (But That’s Not All, Folks)
Celebrating her 70th birthday today, DAME KIRI TE KANAWA is appearing at Covent Garden in a Donizetti farce--her…
No Down Payment (1957)
In 1957 director MARTIN RITT shattered the facade of bucolic suburban life in post-war America in his lost…
Contemporary Music
During a four-month concert tour of America in 1928, composer MAURICE RAVEL delivered a then-controversial lecture urging American…
It’s a Giraffe! It’s a Horse! It’s a Zebra! <br />No, It’s an Okapi, the Odd Duck of the Congo
A giraffe head plopped on a dark brown horse body with the rump and legs of a zebra--not…
‘Dramatic, Exciting and Cool’
Now showing in selected cities across America, the riveting documentary PARTICLE FEVER chronicles the search for the elusive…
From Matt Monro With Love (and tears) on Valentine’s Day
Love songs of tears and joy for Valentine's Day and beyond, courtesy the late, great MATT MONRO, who…
‘Footlights,’ Chaplin Novella, Discovered, Restored, Seeking Publisher
FOOTLIGHTS, the only work of prose fiction ever written by CHARLIE CHAPLIN, has been pieced together from handwritten…
The Floating World
Can the Japanese today really look to Mother Nature to find out who they are? A visit…