IN IMELDA, Ramona S. Diaz’s 2003 documentary, former first lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos stands over her autarch husband’s unburied and uncannily pickled cadaver, declaring that her own tombstone, when the time comes, should read “Here lies love”; little does she know she’s titling an immersive musical reuniting David Byrne and Fatboy Slim following their maiden 2008 collaboration, “Toe Jam.” In this pageant of camp and control, the epitaph becomes a maudlin self-own for a figure who transformed from a symbol of rebirth into one of vulgar opulence and theft, and an accomplice to Ferdinand
NORWALK, Conn. Some Norwalk announcements for you:
Tax Sale set for Sept. 20
Sunday concerts in Mathews Park
Female-owned businesses offered grant opportunity
Tax sale scheduled
Norwalk’s ninth tax sale will start at 3 p.m. Monday Sept. 20 in Norwalk Concert Hall, located at 125 East Ave. A memo from the Tax Collector says that the sale’s purpose is “to collect past due taxes and maintain a high current tax collection rate, and not necessarily to redistribute property ownership.”
While most properties do get paid up prior to the sale, previous tax sale receipts have nonetheless exceeded $44 million overall.
As of Wednesday, 62 properties were in the Sept. 20 sale. There’s no public inspection of the available properties; the owners retain full rights and trespassing before or after the sale is forbidden.