Powerful art!

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I took the subway out to Bushwick yesterday. I’d read that it’s the new Williamsburg, but it’s not nearly as gentrified and cute. A lot of the area is still industrial, graffiti (huge murals) abounds, the art is edgy, sidewalk vendors have interesting objects, many unique. Then I caught the train out to Rockaway Beach, where the surf happened to be about as good as it gets on the east coast. Took a lot of photos, here are a couple. Gotta get to JFK for the flight home.

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I went to the Broadway musical “After Midnight” last night and was it good! Music of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, the ’20s – ’30s era of great music at The Cotton Club in Harlem. The play opened with a guy stepping on to the stage and talking…and it struck me that this was so REAL…no special effects, nothing digital, just real human beings. Not a YouTube video. Rare in this electronic age.

   It’s just a spectacular show, old school all the way. If you could time-transport it to the ’30s, the audience of those times would love it. Wonderful singing and dancing, non-stop, it’s hard to believe the collection of talent here, the great songs. “Stormy Weather,” “It Don’t Mean A Thing, “Come Fly Away.” There were times during the dance numbers when the collective audience would gasp.

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People just showed up, drifted in and were harmonizing to old Beatles, Dylan songs.