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Art as Olympic sport
From 24/7 Wall Street this morning: 13 Awesome Sports the Olympics Killed. 3. Arts competition > Year introduced: 1912 > Number of Olympics: 7 > Last played: 1948 Beginning at Stockholm in 1912, the…
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The Dog Days of Summer
Just hangin' out, restin' up, and gettin' ready for a big new round of complainin' about whatever needs complainin' about. There's always somethin' or other. Always. In a completely unconnected note, here's a…
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ABT – Taking the ticket buyer for a fool
One minute after ticket sales opened this morning, ABT had – according to the City Center website - sold thousands and thousands and thousands of seats including half of the ADA seats – the…
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Paris Opera Ballet – Giselle, don’t leave us
Thank you to the Paris Opera Ballet for six fantastic performances of Giselle that cleansed our balletic spirit and re-calibrated our balletic priorities. Thursday night, we in New York were privileged to watch Clairemarie…
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PdG
The "G" is for gymnastics. Haglund prefers Nadia. She earned her place on the podium. Sepia colored pictures from ABT fall season advertisement.
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ABT’s fuzzy math
ABT is sending around a self-congratulatory letter with the fall season brochure which boasts that its Met Season ticket sales were $243,000 more than last year. Well, hello?! They had MORE performances this year…