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Gardner McFall: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Gardner McFall. Photo by Susan Unterberg. __________________________________________________________________________________ First Kiss When Raymond glided by me…
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Celebrate Independence: George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes [by Stacey Lehman]
Russian born choreographer George Balanchine loved America. It was here that his genius found its full expression in the New York City Ballet. Nowhere is that love more manifest than in the exuberant "Stars…
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The case for “Blow Out”: 40 years later — on 7/4/21 [by Joe Lehman]
Brian De Palma directed Blow Out (1981) at the height of his ‘Hitchcock’ period, during which he helmed such films as Sisters, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double. All these movies contained homages…
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Readers Real and Ideal [by Katha Pollitt]
I love the Gertrude Stein quip David Comiskey posted in response to my last blog: “I write for myself and strangers.” That just about covers it, doesn’t it? Another reader sent in a …
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Quote of the Week: Christopher Marlowe
Here is the epigraph T. S. Eliot chose for his poem "Portrait of a Lady": << Thou hast committed —Fornication: but that was in another country,And besides, the wench is dead. >> from The…
