An important comedy opens in just a few days on the Waterfront Playhouse. La Cage Aux Folles. Positive to be widespread and nicely attended. Will run from February 26 to March 22. I can’t miss it! The play/musical is that good!
I had the great fortune to see the present on Broadway the 12 months it opened in 1983. A number of years earlier, it had its debut in France. The film The Birdcage was an adaptation of the Broadway present. I’ve seen the film a number of occasions and can proceed to view it at each alternative.
La Cage celebrates love, household and acceptance. Surrounded in homosexuality.
This weekend a giant one for Key West artists and artwork followers. The Key West Artwork & Craft Competition. At present and tomorrow from 10-5. On the Truman Waterfront Park.
An annual occasion of lengthy standing. Effectively price viewing. Don’t miss it. Assured you’ll get pleasure from.
Once I first arrived in Key West, the occasion was staged on Whitehead Road. Over time, it grew. Increasingly more tents with artists and their works being proven and promoting. The Competition expanded alongside Whitehead and ultimately into components of Truman Annex.
It was roughly 25 years in the past that I bought my first work on the Competition. Jack Baron’s Black Madonna and Little one. Baron’s greatest work in my view. I nonetheless have it at present. Value me $4,500 on the time.
“Queer Keys” bespeaks a Key West barely of at present and extra of yesterday. My opinion. Some will disagree with me.
Thirty years in the past once I grew to become a Key West fan, gays and lesbians abounded. Key West was positively a homosexual neighborhood. Nonetheless is, however a lot much less. I think excessive costs drove lots of the neighborhood to Miami and Fort Lauderdale through the years. Unlucky.
“Queer Keys” is a nonprofit that helps and empowers the native LGBTO neighborhood with assets, occasions and fellowship.
“Queer Keys” and Kirby’s Closet boutique, 218 Whitehead Road, joined to current an Out of the Closet style present fundraiser. The second annual occasion was held on February 12.
Twenty one native fashions from all walks of life modeled garments, footwear and equipment. The occasion was a hit. A grand whole of $14,750 was raised.
The Monroe County Faculty District receives $11.4 million in federal funding for 2024-2025. Some DEI. Will the Faculty District lose such funding? If that’s the case, what’s the Faculty District doing to compensate?
Portion of a Residents’ Voice remark this morning: “The airport is uncontrolled.”
I agree.
A little bit of Trump.
Lower than one month into his second Presidency, Gallup Ballot reveals Trump’s job approval score at 45 p.c.
The best a part of his following continues to be Republicans.
His numbers are down cross the board. Under 50 p.c in each space.
I will probably be stunned in the event that they rise. I view Trump in a gradual decline each month. His wildly unpopular actions will proceed to be so with the American individuals. He additionally will start to lose Republican assist.
The DOW dropped 748 factors yesterday. A major quantity the day earlier than additionally. The 2 day drop 1,200 factors plus. Friday was the largest drop thus far this 12 months.
Maureen Dowd wrote an traditionally perspective Opinion piece on this morning’s New York Occasions: “Failed, Caesar!”
Dowd compares Trump to a sure Caesar. Caligula. He dominated Rome from 37 AD to 41 AD. A really dangerous man. He as soon as mentioned, “Keep in mind, I can do no matter I need to whomever I would like.”
Sound acquainted?
Caligula has been described as “self-indulgent, merciless, sadistic, extravagant and sexually perverted…..an insane murderous tyrant who demanded and obtained worship as a dwelling god, humiliated his Senate and deliberate to make his horse a counsel.”
Caligula and Julius Caesar had been each assassinated.
Dowd wrote: ” Trump is pondering of himself as a king and cogitating on a 3rd time period. He banks on the magniloquent rhetoric of acolytes genuflecting to an instrument of divine windfall.”
On the Conservative Political Motion Convention this week, a bunch calling itself the “Third Time period Challenge” erected an indication depicting Trump as Caesar.
Love GOP Senators. All besides one, have come to kneel to Trump as he asserts dominance over them.
I shut with Woolworth’s. Recall the as soon as well-known 5 cents retailer?
Woolworth’s started its meteoric rise this present day in 1879. A easy thought. Open a retailer the place nothing prices greater than 5 cents. The thought caught on shortly. Woolworth’s grew to become a retail phenomenon.
Shock! The primary Woolworth’s retailer opened in my house city Utica, N.Y. It failed.
A second was opened in Lancaster, Pa. The signal from the failed Utica retailer was used. It succeeded. Additional Woolworth’s did additionally. Together with one other which opened in Utica.
Get pleasure from your day!