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Scene from Cara Blouin's  'Dan Rottenberg Is Thinking About Raping You': To set things right.

An editor's mea culpa

An apology about sex abuse

Let me face up to what's been keeping me awake nights these past weeks: My advice to women about how to deal with predatory males was ignorant, insensitive and hurtful, not to mention useless.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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Scene from Cara Blouin's 'Dan Rottenberg Is Thinking About Raping You': Persuasion vs. intimidation.

About my column on sex abuse

Broad Street Review under siege: Lessons from a controversial column

My recent column on female responses to male sexual abuse unleashed a firestorm of angry mail and demands for my dismissal and worse. Since my role at BSR is to provoke discussion and educate myself, you may well ask: What have I learned from this experience?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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A journalist, or a sex symbol?

Male sex abuse and female naiveté

What should women do?

This is the controversial column on female responses to male sex abuse, for which I later apologized.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Rozin: How to change the world?

Producers vs. critics: Two questions

What's it all about, theater folks?

Two questions I didn't have time to ask the theater producers at Broad Street Review's symposium on theater critics really boil down to one: Why, ultimately, do you do what you do?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read

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Yannick of the big shoulders: Why is this man smiling?

The Orchestra's vanishing audience

A financial crisis, or a marketing crisis?

The Philadelphia Orchestra has lost 40% of its audience since Riccardo Muti departed. That statistic begs a fundamental question: What's the point of balancing your books if you can't sell your product?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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Dad (second row, center) and friends at International House, c. 1990: His fountain of youth.

Doing good through dance: My father's story

He found his niche, through dance

Rebecca Davis and Ashley Fargnoli, two 20-something dance activists from Philadelphia, head for the world's hot spots armed with choreography. My dad did something similar nearly half a century ago, when he quit the rat race to start a dance company, for his benefit and the world's.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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Timoney was everywhere in the '90s, or so it seemed.

Symbols and the Orchestra: Three examples from the "90s

What Police Chief Timoney understood (and the Philadelphia Orchestra doesn't)

Before you dismiss the value of symbols, consider their use at three institutions: the Philadelphia Police Department, the Philadelphia School District and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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Gilda Radner: Included in the price of admission.

Gentiles and the new American Jewish History Museum

But is it good for the gentiles?

What is a museum of American Jewish history doing on Independence Mall, when there's no museum there for Brits, Irish, Germans or African-Americans? There's actually a good answer to that question.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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A dowager taught the young Stokowski (above) something about contractual relationships.

The Orchestra's bankruptcy and the Pew connection

The Orchestra's failure and the elephant in the room

What's more dismaying— a Philadelphia Orchestra board that abdicates its responsibility to its creditors, or a major arts funder that shrinks from making artistic judgments?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 8 minute read
Is this woman strangling, or was that just a metaphor?

"Strangled' by government regulation

Ayn Rand lives!

The Philadelphia entrepreneur Joan Carter, recently inducted as the first woman president of the Union League, is a remarkable business success story. But she insists that she and her husband are “choking” on government regulation. Where have I heard this complaint before?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read