Category: people

The Cleveland native came to Cincinnati in 1994 to be the theater critic for the Cincinnati Enquirer, working until her position was eliminated by the paper in 2013. She had come from upstate New York, where she was entertainment editor and theater critic for the Albany Times-Union. Describing her reviewing philosophy in 1998, she wrote that she had high expectations because “people have too many choices to settle for something that’s just OK. Live performance has to bring you something that you can’t find anywhere else for it to become a priority.”

Indeed, without him, Americana might not be worth nearly as much. “For nearly 40 years, from his treasure house of a by-appointment-only store on a quiet block in New Haven, Mr. Reese shaped tastes, cultivated collectors, advised museums and libraries, and made and moved markets.”

He fled Nazi Germany, and then “in 1947 and 1948, still in his 20s, Mr. Kalischer managed to embed himself with refugees uprooted by World War II as they arrived in New York by ship from Bremerhaven. He was able to do so because he had been one of them only six years before.”

Before Horner played in countless nightclubs and was made over by fashion icon Jean Paul Gaultier, “her considerable legend was rooted in the years she spent as a distinctive part of the grand caravan that accompanies the Tour de France, the sprawling French bicycle race. For more than a decade in the 1950s and ’60s she played for the crowds from atop one vehicle or another as the caravan made its way along the tour route ahead of the cyclists.”

Rozhdestvensky “made his name by popularising music by composers who were all but banned by the Communist authorities in the USSR, including Poulenc and Hindemith.”

In the spring of 2014, Eric Abramovitz, a music student at McGill University in Montreal, was offered a full scholarship to the Coburn School of Music in Los Angeles. But he never got the offer: Jennifer Lee, his then-girlfriend, saw the email from Coburn before he did. René Bruemmer reports on what Lee did next – things that convinced a judge to make such a huge award – and how Abramovitz ultimately found out about it.

Ze’ev Rosenkranz, senior editor and assistant director of the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology, said: “I think a lot of comments strike us as pretty unpleasant – what he says about the Chinese in particular. They’re kind of in contrast to the public image of the great humanitarian icon. I think it’s quite a shock to read those and contrast them with his more public statements. They’re more off guard, he didn’t intend them for publication.”

“One. When it comes to scented candles, you really need to watch it. …
Two. Choose one thing to be terribly, terribly offended by, and be offended by this as opposed to the dozens or possibly hundreds that many of you are currently juggling.
Three. Stand up for what you believe in, as long as I believe in the same thing.”

Philip Kennicott visits the restored slave quarters at Mulberry Row (away from “the big house”) and in the “southern dependency” wing of his home outside Charlottesville – including the windowless room Sally Hemings herself slept in.

“As MAD‘s editor from 1985 to 2004 — a position he shared with John Ficarra — Mr. Meglin became a major figure in the magazine’s long history … [He] was the chief barometer of whether the publication’s silly and satirical humor had gone too far — or not far enough.”