After my recent post on Bill Christman’s Joe’s Cafe Gallery, Virgil Elliott, a former CWEnder who works as an artist and writer in California, sent the following comment: “I’d be very interested in reading what Jack Parker wrote in his captions for Thelma Blumberg’s photographs of the Gaslight Square days. However, I am nowhere near…
Category: Art & Architecture
Halloween 2012 Costume Contest
The moon was almost full on a chilly Saturday night as the annual CWE Halloween ritual unfolded. People were gathered in the windows of nearby buildings overlooking the mainstage. And the organizers added a huge video screen to the mix allowing celebrants to see the action up close from just about everywhere. Crowd-favorite Michael Jackson…
Dog Parade Halloween 2012 Part I
After witnessing reports of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy on the east coast, it is with mixed emotions that I post more snapshots of happy moments from Saturday's Halloween festivities in a sunny CWE.The couple and their dogs shown in the photograph above were among the prize winners for best costume in the 2012…