Archive for June 2025
Greatest love songs ever: #35 “Maria”
By Tom Quiner This soulful aria is but one of the many dazzling songs from West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. “Maria” is…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #36 “Blue Moon”
By Tom Quiner Even younger readers are familiar with Rodgers and Hammerstein. But few knew that Lorenz Hart was Richard Rodger’s lyricist before Oscar Hammerstein II. Hart’s lyrics had a…
Read More“I had an abortion yesterday.”
“Nah … I can’t go for a run today because I had an abortion yesterday.” Thus begins an extraordinary scene from the 2015 HBO series, “Girls.” Mimi-Rose (Gillian Jacobs) stuns…
Read More