Sunday, January 27, 2019

That was Life



In honor of the hoopla around Fox's live production of "Rent" tonight... here's a look in the EVG archives... Michael Sean Edwards took these photos outside Life Cafe, where Jonathan Larson spent time when he was writing the musical, in the weeks leading up to its closure in September 2011 after 30 years in service on 10th Street and Avenue B...








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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Am I the only one to consider it ironic that Trump's favorite ultra-right wing conservative white straight suburban "news" source was the one chosen to broadcast a show about bohemian urban lifestyles with themes like AIDS/HIV, homelessness, struggling interracial poor people, drag, gays, anarchists and drug addiction, or was it because somebody at Faux so admired the character of the traitorous money-grubbing landlord and thought, "Yeah, he's one of us, let's do it!"?

~evilsugar25 said...

I still miss Life! One of my EV comfort spots.