Hello, your Sports Curmudgeon here.
The Olympics got off to a start with a bling-laden spectacle of 10,000 athletes from 200 countries sailing down the Seine in bateaus. These athletes will be housed and fed in new “villages” as they go for the gold. They will be showcased and touted in new performance venues with luscious back stories of their lives. Billions of dollars go in and billions of dollars go out. And the homeless are pushed off the streets and the poor are still poor.
The start of the CSO season, the Cincinnati Ballet season, the theater season, and fine shows at the CAM and the CAC are not significant to the local TV news, but they are excited about the start of the local high school football season.
Serious Cincinnati visual artists will work for decades and decades crafting their art, exhibiting nationally and internationally. In their careers, they will not get as much media attention as Joe Burrow’s new hairdo has.
Professional sports are not essential services, but art is.
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