Toward the end of the 2000 Salzburg Festival, Gérard Mortier, the Belgian impresario whom the New York City Opera has just named to take over the company’s fortunes in 2009, delivered a memorable operatic rant that Wagner would have applauded. For a decade, Mr. Mortier had run the festival less like the world’s most exalted Read More
Granted, John Catsimatidis has made noises about running for mayor before. More than once.
But there’s still something refreshing about a person so willing to talk about every aspect of his theoretical campaign before so much as hiring a press secretary.
Yesterday, we chatted about some of the specifics of Read More
Neither the New York- nor the Cleveland-based branches of the family has explained why Bruce Ratner is selling the remaining 30 percent of his company, Forest City Ratner, to his cousins at Forest City Enterprises, and why at such an opportune time. (The final deal was announced today.) One equity analyst Read More
“Why, oh why, oh why, oh—why did I ever leave Ohio?”
Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote those lyrics way back in 1953 for Rosalind Russell to wail in Wonderful Town. Had they known then what would happen 53 years later, they might have filed an early injunction against a sophomoric, confused and frankly Read More
“Why, oh why, oh why, oh—why did I ever leave Ohio?”
Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote those lyrics way back in 1953 for Rosalind Russell to wail in Wonderful Town. Had they known then what would happen 53 years later, they might have filed an early injunction against a sophomoric, confused and frankly filthy Read More
In the great piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Bartók, the driving impulse is a kind of competition for eloquence. The piano declares itself with fierceness, tenderness or loneliness, only to find its sentiment amplified or elaborated upon by the orchestra. The orchestra suggests a new sentiment and the pianist responds, as if Read More
In the great piano concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Bartók, the driving impulse is a kind of competition for eloquence. The piano declares itself with fierceness, tenderness or loneliness, only to find its sentiment amplified or elaborated upon by the orchestra. The orchestra suggests a new sentiment and the pianist responds, as if Read More
Since Sunday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been running an all-out series on Forest City Enterprises, the nation’s largest publicly traded real estate company of which our own little Forest City Ratner (MetroTech, the new Times tower, Atlantic Yards) is just a small part.
They spend a few paragraphs on Forest City’s Read More
The other night, I had the Kafkaesque experience of showing up at a restaurant I’d been to just three weeks earlier to find it had disappeared. Gone without a trace. My friend and I searched the shuttered storefronts on Cleveland Place in Soho until I began to wonder if I’d never been to the restaurant Read More
The first part of Fred Siegel‘s and E.J. McMahon‘s big new article in The Public Interest is now online here. It’s a smart conservative’s take on why New York City and State lurch from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis.
As the authors put it: “The fiscal crisis Read More
