Author Archives: sogalitno

Women get equality at last at WimbledonTimes Online; Neil Harman, Tennis Correspondent; and Simon Cambers The All England Club will give men and women equal prize-money at this year’s Wimbledon Championships. It will be the first time in the tournament’s … Continue reading →

Over on Transatlantic Plantsman, Graham is ever-so-helpful to his newbie blog-readers back home in England.  It's Blogging 101, plus some more advanced details I'm still confused about myself.  (Feedburner "Subscribe Here" creates emails to readers of your new posts?  And … Continue reading →

I BOUGHT a car on Friday – for the first time in oh well, since college and that wasnt a few years ago. Of course living in Manhattan and Brooklyn NO CAR unless you have lots of $$$ to throw … Continue reading →

A friend points out this exhibit opening this week… Arturo Toscanini: Homage to the Maestro From February 21, 2007 through May 25, 2007Vincent Astor GalleryThe New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY … Continue reading →

George Orwell lived long enough to know the Third Programme; he adapted his own Animal Farm for it. Language that is manipulative and deceitful is now for ever Orwellian. He would have undoubtedly recognised some of the ways in which … Continue reading →

New York, NY (February 21, 2007) — Lorin Maazel, one the world’s most esteemed maestros, will return to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in 45 years to conduct five performances of Wagner’s Die Walküre, beginning January 7, 2008. … Continue reading →

Opera Chic has ALL the JDF you would want!

well… this is interesting – apparently he INSISTED that he go – threatened to quit and make a big scandal. Prince Harry moves into the line of fire as 1,600 troops get set to move outWhite House unhappy with timing … Continue reading →

I BOUGHT a car on Friday – for the first time in oh well, since college and that wasnt a few years ago. Of course living in Manhattan and Brooklyn NO CAR unless you have lots of $$$ to throw … Continue reading →