(TIMovate) Today I am inaugurating a new feature in my blog—items that seem to me to be good or bad news for everyone (not just Democrats). Here are today’s. A federal judge ruled that North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature unfairly drew 13 congressional districts to its own advantage and ordered them to come up with a new…
If you have not been aware of the media’s crucial role over the last year, you haven’t been paying attention–in particular, the two giants of journalism–the New York Times and the Washington Post. This movie outlines how the Post rose to its present eminence. (npr.com) The Times was always the pinnacle and the Post was–as…
(operanews) Considering Figaro is our favorite opera and Mozart our favorite composer, this was quite a feat. In fact, we were both dazed as we walked out that this could be happening. But really, we couldn’t stay. We know every note of this piece and have listened to it for 50 years–what was so terrible…
I admit it–I’m a fan of Agatha Christie and her two heroes–Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. I have read every one of her 80+ books and plays and enjoyed them–lurking Anti-Semitism and all. I was looking forward to the remake of Murder on the Orient Express, simply for the pleasure of sitting through the well-known…
Sometimes in my dreams, I imagine a musical heaven (something like the scene in Stairway to Heaven (powellandpressburger) where Rory and I are watching W. A. Mozart conduct his 42nd symphony and all our fellow music lovers are listening intently with us. That longing to hear more of a long-gone composer’s work came true at…
This week, for some reason, all the media people suddenly realized that Trump’s one and only policy has been to destroy everything he could of Obama’s legacy. But only I ( to paraphrase our leader) can tell you why. It is because Trump yearns to be like him, to look like him, to succeed like…
When I was growing up in Los Angeles, we attended an upscale Conservative synagogue called Temple Beth-El. (synagogues.com) Conservative was a compromise between my parents–my father who had grown up Orthodox and my mother who had not and who announced to my father early on in their marriage that she was not keeping kosher. Conservative…
