The Trash Force's first Honor Mother Earth festival is today from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Riverfront Amphitheater. I'll be pouring Beak's Beast and Black & Blue Grass; $4 for 16-oz pours, cash only, please.
While you're demonstrating support for environmental awareness, take a glance at the amphitheater facility and think about how we might improve it. Better yet, with the city currently awash in bond money, consider how we might conjure the will to glance outside the box and apply creativity to improvements. It's possible. We're doing it in other areas.
ON THE AVENUES: Looking for Quality of Life bond issue bonuses? "Pick me," says orphaned Riverfront Amphitheater.
... Delight (with the new roof) was expressed, because after all, someone else’s money had been spent. Smiles were choreographed, victory was declared, ribbons were eviscerated, New Albany Events was chartered, self-congratulatory plaques were nailed into place, and then subsequent events held on the waterfront stubbornly reiterated the crucial point known by all and sundry even before the winds from the Gulf started blowing.
Namely: Glistening band shell or not, all remaining facilities at New Albany’s Riverfront Amphitheater remained completely outdated and inadequate.
Rather than rush to fix the ceiling, England’s team might have patiently commissioned a comprehensive overview to address the Amphitheater’s complete infrastructure needs, but it was not to be, because goldfish just don’t play banjos. Now the elephant’s a whiter shade of pale, just sitting there.
