I honestly really didn’t see this coming, but in the wake of last week’s naming ceremony and plaque-unveiling at the corner of Cortlandt Alley and Walker Street, I pretty much thought that was that. As a final coda on my part, I reached out to my friends over at the TriBeCa Citizen and pitched a short piece about it, being that it happened in their back yard. They posted that and it actually garnered a lot of negative comments, specifically ones questioning why Charly Garcia deserved such an honor when, say, Robert DeNiro doesn’t have his own street. Apparently, there’s a healthy degree of myopic xenophobia in TriBeca, but I digress….
In any case, once that story moved off the TriBeCa Citizen’s front page, after a week, I figured that saga was complete.
Well, imagine my surprise, then, to find that Rolling Stone en Espanol devoted its cover to the story, and further augmented their coverage with an ancillary piece that concentrates on how the location of the fabled corner was determined, as well as the crucial story behind the very name Clics Modernos, that being my friend and storied New York City punk rocker, the late Fran Powers of Ultra Violence, Whole Wide World, East of Eden, Box of Crayons and – oh yes, do please wait for it – Modern Clix.
Guess who gets mentioned in that story. I do, that’s who.
Being that I don’t speak a lick of Spanish, however, I’m pretty much relying on Google Translate to make head or tail of it. But you can read it here.
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