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Ballet de Lorraine Season 2022-23 #1: the easy confidence of lovers [by Tracy Danison]
View of Stanislas Square from the Opéra National de Lorraine. Architecture, culture, venue, the city of Nancy’s a little jewel of a big provincial town and a good place to be. Photo Patrick…
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John Donne’s Holy Sonnets #10 & #14: On Glen Hartley’s Birthday
10. Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest…
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“The Last Cigarette” [by David Lehman]
Every cigarette is the last cigarette. A cigarette is an invitation. When, in The Lady from Shanghai, able-bodied Irish sailor Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles) meets Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) in a horse-drawn carriage in Central…
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from “Duke Rhino,” a work in progress [by Mitch Sisskind]
Every morning the Chicago Tribune was delivered outside the kitchen door, on the landing beside the stairs and the freight elevator. Everything about the stairs and the freight elevator fascinated me, but I had…
