Moonstruck opened the 2013 Movies on the Plaza series beside the Maryland Plaza fountain last Wednesday evening. Frances Thompson, marketing director for Maryland Plaza, who has organized the event for the past three years, lucked out with the weather. Wasn't that the only night it didn't rain, make that pour, last week?
Sponsors of the event included the Paul Mitchell School whose students, above, disbursed movie trivia sheets and tickets (to those over 21) for Stella Artois which another sponsor, Bissinger's, poured in stemmed glasses (no mundane plastic cups for this brew!). The only negative was the issuance of a parking ticket awarded to sponsor Mungenast Acura's vehicle by one of the omni-present meter maids. No good deed goes unpunished…
The next movie, The Exotic Marigold Hotel, is scheduled for June 26…don't miss it!
Alley gardens posts have been a big hit on this blog over the past few summers. To get me started in that direction again CWEnder John Stevenson sent this photo of an alley wall spilling over with a bounty of white roses at West Pine Court between Euclid and Taylor. Thanks for sharing the photo John. Haven't the roses been amazing this spring?
What caught my eye when I saw these two (unrelated) people browsing the shop windows at Left Bank Books last month is that the man could have stepped out of a photograph taken on the same corner, Euclid and McPherson, in the 70s. His hair was certainly a different color then but his look could have come from the Gypsy Cowboy, the hip shop of that era operated by Herb Balaban in the corner location that is now The Eye Bar.