Air Virginia

Virginia is up with her first television spot of the campaign, a series of black and white photographs and a script that understandably stresses her strongest suit: her Birmingham arrest.

Given how little money she has, it’s no shock that her campaign won’t say how much they’re planning to spend airing Read More

Mirror, Mirror Update

The Politicker’s band of aestheticians is poring over images of dozens of beautiful politicos.

Meanwhile, here’s my favorite (printable) nomination so far, from a West Side reader:

“I’m afraid I have to nominate Brian Thomas Johnston, skater punk
candidate for Manhattan Borough President.

“He dropped off the scene as suddenly as he arrived, leaving Read More

Met Presents Burne-Jones in a Ludicrous Revival

To mark the centenary of the artist’s death, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has organized the first retrospective exhibition that any American museum has devoted to the English painter, illustrator and designer Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). This is said by the Met to be “the most comprehensive assessment ever of this master’s oeuvre ,” and Read More

In Search of Symphonic Joy: Rattle Gives It Up, Masur Doesn’t

Why have I-and so many of my musical friends-stopped going regularly to symphony concerts, preferring opera, chamber music, or recitals to what used to be the most commanding of classical attractions? One explanation was offered a number of years ago by Leonard Bernstein, who remarked that the symphony had ceased to dominate orchestral writing because Read More