••• Graffiti Earth has been closed this week because of a leak. Let’s hope it reopens soon!

••• Some, most, or maybe even all of the pedestrian curb cuts below Chambers have been spray-painted along these lines. Are they getting redone?

••• The façade of the Flea theater’s new home on Thomas has progressed quite a bit. Below the photo are two renderings of what it might end up looking like. The first one is what’s posted at the site; the second was handed out at Community Board 1 (after the first one had materialized). Time will tell….

••• I’m on record as loving the new Selldorf Architects building at 10 Bond Street. I hadn’t realized till the other night was that it has shades on the outside of the building; they were rippling a bit in the breeze. Not sure I’ve seen that elsewhere….

••• City Winery is organizing a music festival at Forest Hills in September. The headliners are Sheryl Crow and Aretha Franklin. Here’s Aretha’s amazing version of “It Ain’t Necessarily So.”