Dear Readers: This post will conclude my review of the Hollywood movie “Hidden Figures“, which I saw recently. Using as my particular slant the movie’s cavalier contempt for Russia and Russians which, alas, is just an ideological given in Hollywood … Continue reading
Dear Readers: A couple of days ago I watched the 2016 Hollywood movie “Hidden Figures”. Disclosure: I didn’t read the book yet, upon which the movie is based, but I plan to read it, as it sounds extremely interesting. All … Continue reading
Dear Readers: Today I have for you this bitter philippic penned by the appropriately named Russian TV journalist Valentin Philippov. Like a Roman Senator of the time of Cato the Elder, Philippov curses his native city, its corruption and cowardice, and … Continue reading
Dear Readers: Today’s post will conclude my review of the Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinee production of “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky. Which I watched in an American IMAX movie theater in Live HD streaming, a way of distributing culture to the masses, … Continue reading
Dear Readers: This is my review of the Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinee production of “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky. I watched/heard, alas, not in the actual theater at Lincoln Center in New York City, but, second-best choice, in an IMAX movie theater in … Continue reading
Dear Readers: Today finishing off this interview, in Komsomolskaya Pravda, with Russian political dissident Alexei Sakhnin. Alexei’s interlocutor is reporter Darya Aslamova who met with Sakhnin in a pub in Stockholm, Sweden. Sakhnin had just finished recounting his rise and fall … Continue reading
Dear Readers: Please excuse the interruption of one day in our continuing saga of Alexei Sakhnin. I had important work to do: I was busy posting fan fiction in the comment section over on Mark Chapman’s blog, (long story), hence the … Continue reading
