Forgot to post about seeing The Bright Stream (Ratmansky) a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was delightful. Perhaps a little too much of the tired "ho ho! fat ladies are amusingly ill-co-ordinated! and when people try to cross gender lines, hilarity ensues!" kind of humour, but on the whole, quite lovely, artistically, musically, and technically ( Read more... )

Best breakfast in the world ever: rice krispies with chocolate cake crumbs scraped out of the tin (waste not, want not) and raspberries and tea. Cool scented breeze from the park, tweety birds, puppy curled at feet, etc.

Raspberries from the late-night fruit stand near Lincoln Center, purchased after seeing Giselle yesterday. Manhattan life does ( Read more... )

In honour of its being Adar, I give you Dog Torah.


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Went to see La Traviata last night. Marina Poplavskaya as Violetta was glorious, my goodness. Listening to her was just delightful. (I think I also heard her in Don Carlo, but I don't remember noticing then the things I noticed this time ( Read more... )

Gabriel: what about [mashed potatoes] on SHABBES? is it דש?
me: no, it's מש

Israeli to Angli: What's 'mosaic'?
Angli to Israeli: It's when you have lots of little pieces of tile, glued together to make a design
Israeli: *looks VERY CONFUSED*
Second Israeli, learning same material: No, it means Moses wrote it.

"I work at YU," says the young lady at kiddush ( Read more... )

I am entirely, utterly, staying-up-past-bedtime captivated by Look Around You, a cross between the Schools Television of my youth and 1066 And All That.

They're all on YouTube. Oh, am I happy.

Are there wolves in New York? we wondered ( Read more... )

Here's an old question: How can you be religious when there is zero evidence to support the idea of Gods and no reason to think such a thing exists? Is it not foolish to act so illogically?And here's one perspective ( Read more... )