Editorials
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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"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?
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