There's still something mesmerizing about what Mr. Cage is trying to achieve, even if the gumbo endemic to his work is seasoned with too much awful and not enough wonderful this time around.
The English critic Hilaire Belloc compared epic poems to fishermen's nets: not all of Homer's or Milton's lines could be lighter than air, but there had to be enough wonderful passages to act as floats for the whole.
The first "Jewels" didn't quite live up to the level of the previous weeks, but there was enough wonderful dancing to make you thankful for a company that can put it on alongside Balanchine's showbiz "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" or Christopher Wheeldon's rigorously modern "Polyphonia".
Washington -- and, indeed, Georgetown -- has enough wonderful brunch spots that there's no need to spend time or money at one that's less than so.
When asked what it was like to work with the incredible Michael J. Fox, Claudia couldn't praise Michael enough: "wonderful, upbeat, funny, compassionate..."...
