Give me a good musical anytime.

Apparently Chan Lowe and his wife agree. They took in “My Fair Lady” at Lincoln Center and he got a column out of the excursion for The Berkshire Eagle. It’s not about the famous play, but rather about “A lesson in life from the streets of New York” (the headline). You can look it up.

But if I could get to the city this week I would head for The Flea and one of the seven final off-Broadway performances of “A Blanket of Dust” including tonight’s at 7 and the Saturday matinee at 2. It takes on a real-life international tragedy that badly needs exposure, a job that has been assiduously avoided by our “free press.” (For details scroll down to entries for June 18 and 22 below.)

An exception to this journalistic avoidance was publication in WestView News of a guest column by a member of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry. (For details scroll down to the entry for June 20 below.) This encouraging development is a side drama to the subject of the play on stage blocks away — searching for the truth behind the mass murders of September 11, 2001, that go on murdering every day.

My apologies to those who are tired of the repetition. Some things bear repeating.

Congratulations to WestView News publisher George Capsis, colleague Dusty Berke, and all who have written in comments about the column. And to everyone involved in the play including those who go see it.

— Mark