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A great comedy opens in a few days at the Waterfront Playhouse. La Cage Aux Folles. Sure to be popular and well attended. Will run from February 26 to March 22. I will not miss it! The play/musical is that good!
I had the good fortune to see the show on Broadway the year it opened in 1983. Several years earlier, it had its debut in France. The movie The Birdcage was an adaptation of the Broadway show. I have seen the movie several times and will continue to view it at every opportunity.
La Cage celebrates love, family and acceptance. Surrounded in homosexuality.
This weekend a big one for Key West artists and art fans. The Key West Art & Craft Festival. Today and tomorrow from 10-5. At the Truman Waterfront Park.
An annual event of long standing. Well worth viewing. Don’t miss it. Guaranteed you will enjoy.
When I first arrived in Key West, the event was staged on Whitehead Street. Over the years, it grew. More and more tents with artists and their works being shown and selling. The Festival expanded along Whitehead and eventually into parts of Truman Annex.
It was roughly 25 years ago that I purchased my first work at the Festival. Jack Baron’s Black Madonna and Child. Baron’s best work in my opinion. I still have it today. Cost me $4,500 at the time.
“Queer Keys” bespeaks a Key West slightly of today and more of yesterday. My opinion. Some will disagree with me.
Thirty years ago when I became a Key West fan, gays and lesbians abounded. Key West was definitely a gay community. Still is, but much less. I suspect high prices drove many of the community to Miami and Fort Lauderdale over the years. Unfortunate.
“Queer Keys” is a nonprofit that supports and empowers the local LGBTO community with resources, events and fellowship.
“Queer Keys” and Kirby’s Closet boutique, 218 Whitehead Street, joined to present an Out of the Closet fashion show fundraiser. The second annual event was held on February 12.
Twenty one local models from all walks of life modeled clothes, shoes and accessories. The event was a success. A grand total of $14,750 was raised.
The Monroe County School District receives $11.4 million in federal funding for 2024-2025. Some DEI. Will the School District lose such funding? If so, what is the School District doing to compensate?
Portion of a Citizens’ Voice comment this morning: “The airport is out of control.”
I agree.
A bit of Trump.
Less than one month into his second Presidency, Gallup Poll shows Trump’s job approval rating at 45 percent.
The greatest part of his following continues to be Republicans.
His numbers are down cross the board. Below 50 percent in every area.
I will be surprised if they rise. I view Trump in a steady decline every month. His wildly unpopular actions will continue to be so with the American people. He also will begin to lose Republican support.
The DOW dropped 748 points yesterday. A significant number the day before also. The two day drop 1,200 points plus. Friday was the biggest drop so far this year.
Maureen Dowd wrote an historically perspective Opinion piece in this morning’s New York Times: “Failed, Caesar!”
Dowd compares Trump to a certain Caesar. Caligula. He ruled Rome from 37 AD to 41 AD. A very bad guy. He once said, “Remember, I can do whatever I want to whomever I want.”
Sound familiar?
Caligula has been described as “self-indulgent, cruel, sadistic, extravagant and sexually perverted…..an insane murderous tyrant who demanded and received worship as a living god, humiliated his Senate and planned to make his horse a counsel.”
Caligula and Julius Caesar were both assassinated.
Dowd wrote: ” Trump is thinking of himself as a king and cogitating on a third term. He banks on the magniloquent rhetoric of acolytes genuflecting to an instrument of divine providence.”
At the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, a group calling itself the “Third Term Project” erected a sign depicting Trump as Caesar.
Love GOP Senators. All except one, have come to kneel to Trump as he asserts dominance over them.
I close with Woolworth’s. Recall the once famous five cents store?
Woolworth’s began its meteoric rise this day in 1879. A simple idea. Open a store where nothing costs more than 5 cents. The idea caught on quickly. Woolworth’s became a retail phenomenon.
Surprise! The first Woolworth’s store opened in my home town Utica, N.Y. It failed.
A second was opened in Lancaster, Pa. The sign from the failed Utica store was used. It succeeded. Further Woolworth’s did also. Including another which opened in Utica.
Enjoy your day!