Absinthe is really something to experience. The audience is gathered together rightly around a very small stage that rises and tilts on occasion and the acts that appear, duos, trios, solos and quartets, strip pretty much to not very much at all and balance on each other, whip around wearing roller skates, undulate in a bathtub, twirl down from the ceiling, balance on a tower of chairs, all under the bawdy emceeing of The Gazillionaire and his horny assistant Penny Pibbets.

Can you speak about the art work from The German Art exhibit? I was most taken with that one.

The German Art exhibit is a controversial exhibit, as it features some of the artwork created during the Weimar Republic – the “sin” days in Berlin between 1919 – 1933, and the burning of said artwork by the Nazi’s on order from Hitler when he sent Joseph Goebbels in to “clean up Berlin” after he became chancellor of Germany. The Hirschfeld Institute, the world’s first sex research center, was on the top of the Nazi’s list for destruction, and many of the photos seen of the book burnings in Germany at that time were items from the Hirschfeld Institute. Priceless research and artwork were lost, and we have some of the items that were left behind represented in this exhibit. If governments can control people’s sexuality, they can control the people, and this was certainly true of Germany from 1933-1945.