Sakura Matsuri on a Little Street

Reports from the Field indicate the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is jammed for its annual spring event but here in Flatbush, Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn, despite the cooler temperatures, we are having our own Sakura Matsuri with the bright pink explosion of soft color in front of our home in Fiske Terrace.

Photos by Anthony Napoli

Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn

Loretta Lynch Confirmed as Attorney General

Despite the political foot dragging of the GOP, the confirmation of Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the United States, the first woman of color to hold that post, represents another huge step in the long march toward equality and democratic values in this country. Although it should only be anecdote to her impressive record, the fact that this represents a significant step both in both racial and gender equality in the U.S., that the top law official in the U.S. Government is a woman of color, it is as significant as the election of President Obama. And with the hope that in her 18 months in office she can further address her goal of bringing police and minority communities together and fight human trafficking it is another very proud day to be an American.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/as-attorney-general-loretta-lynch-plans-to-shift-tone-for-justice-dept.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

NYC Art: Light, Dark and Everything in Between

Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I at the Neue Galerie and featured at the heart of Simon Curtis's film Woman in Gold

Jean-Michel Basquiat's Tuxedo 1982 from Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at the Brooklyn Museum

Waits on Wednesday: "God Used Me as a Hammer Boys/To Beat His Weary Drum"

Hoist That Rag by Tom Waits 2004 from "Real Gone"