Rock Garden Tour
l3wis 
June 2014
Look who is getting another handout
Guess who is working on the YMCA apartment project? I will give you one guess . . . (Item #1)
One of the largest facade handouts ever. I don’t have a problem with helping downtown and city wide businesses with preserving their structures, where I don’t agree is handouts. I think it should be given with a low interest or zero interest loan, but not a handout.
How’s that Sid’s facade working out?
The very ‘vague’ Pavilion Annual Report
The Washington Bazillion is presenting their annual report to the city council during their informational on Tuesday (DOC: Washingthebooks).
They have been presenting this kind of report to the council for a number of years. Very vague. No breakdown of specific revenues from each branch of the Pavilion. My favorite line under Expenses is ‘other expenses’. Imagine doing your taxes with your accountant and submitting this to him? LOL! Oh, and two things have remained consistent, the city’s subsidy goes up each year, and so do the salaries. I do agree with Pavilion officials on one front, results in the arts business are not always measured in revenue, they are measured in cultural impact to the community, in other words, most businesses give raises based on results, whether they are in dollar signs or impact. Wondering how the Pavilion can justify the continued salary increases?
The City Council should demand a full, detailed Annual Report to the city council, like they used to supply on their website to the public. Of course, it may reveal what is really going on in the big purple building. Not a gawd damn thing.
Censorship, Homosexuality and Andy Warhol
Why I have always caught myself going back to him as my favorite artist of all time;
No one knows exactly why Andy Warhol’s only public work, “13 Most Wanted Men,†was censored fifty years ago this month at the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, New York. Initial press reports said it was Warhol himself who didn’t like the work. But that was not the case. Yet, no other rationale was offered. The reason remained unspoken – or perhaps, it was simply “unspeakableâ€?
The double-entendre of “Most Wanted Men,†and the way these handsome bad guys gazed at one another, suggested a homoeroticism that would not have been obvious except to those who were following Warhol’s work at the time. Yet, even if that was a reason for the removal of the work, the taboos surrounding any reference to homosexuality would likely have made it impossible to declare this as the official reason.
While I have never felt a desire personally to ‘play for the other team’ I do fully support people who love each other to be happy. Whatever it takes.