The first public concert is a performance by the Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo, Pablo Cohen and the bandoneonist Daniel Binelli on Wednesday evening.

In a city financed largely by user fees, government coffers have little to spare for subsidies. Voluntary contributions could pick up the slack.

I've got the lonely man's blues.

While I was on the ground photographing the flowers, I noticed a red and black hister beetle that proved to be Margarinotus bipustulatus—aptly named considering the two red maculations on the elytra.