They don't love opera!

They just perceive opera as sophisticated and think that showing up to it makes them sophisticated too.

A really sad group of rich people only value opera and art for the clout.

If they actually valued art they would probably be poor artists instead

Sky made the same mistake with Bedford Park. The practice facility should be a community hub in Bronzeville or Washington Park but they are too cheap

I think Bridgeview was supposed to be a compromise between the city and the suburbs. But actually no one ever wanted to go there.

Looks like Evanston might be better!

The explosive growth in prominence of women's sports is possibly the most impactful cultural phenomenon of our time

It is criminally underappreciated how brilliant the politically and socially relevant works by the CSO, Lyric Opera, and Joffrey Ballet have been. They have gotten almost no credit for these successes.

Thank you so much for this interview and context!!

Interesting that Mamdani's lesser of two evils political expediency calculation is more harmful than almost any decision by a "corporate democrat"

Will this protect new yorkers? Yes. But the burden falls harder on people in other cities and states with less capacity to shoulder it.

You can say a million things about Brandon Johnson, but he is not a frickin coward who validates terrorists for his own political gain

24 years after 9/11 new yorkers decided it is just more convenient to capitulate to terrorists

the answer is rod blagojevich!!!

How was it??

perhaps you are a prophet!!