Manon last...

night, a truly remarkable and powerful experience, glad I stayed through the end, was able to really feel the power of an opera well presented, could see how one could become easily "addicted' to opera.
Earlier this morning, however, listening to Lehrer show on WNYC,  became enraged by Jeremiah Moss' segment----something should be done to help small businesses remain in the city---hope that the act the City Council is considering, the Small Business Job Survival Act, will pass and there will be some limit on what landlords can do. They know the banks and endless drugstores want to move in. So every time one is enthralled by an artistic experience in the city, one is brought down to earth by something ugly and aggressive happening to all of us.
Read yesterday that one of the buildings on Brooklyn Avenue, an apartment building right near one of my tutoring students, has been bought---have a feeling that there are mostly people of color living there, will see if any pressure from the new landlords to remove tenants who are rent stabilized occurs. Don't, of course, want to jump to any conclusions, but this is an area that the "aggressive": side of me feels has a lot of potential for gentrification. But then what...?
Later today will go to BAM to try to get into the movie that the guy I spoke with at South Fourth, Tod, is producing---web site says it is all sold out, but I will give it a try. If not....? Well, there are all those bars around there, also JACK has a program that might be check outable. We will see....