Thursday, February 2, 2012

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Jazz legend Giuseppi Logan in Tompkins Square Park earlier this week. By Bobby Williams]

A feature on director Amos Poe, whose films will play at Anthology Film Archives this weekend (The Wall Street Journal)

About those bogus Gem-Spa-has-closed rumors (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Bar etiquette signs of the East Village (Capital New York)

Introducing Tripping With Marty (Tripping With Marty)

Man who brought us AvalonBay Communities now working for the Housing Authority (Crain's)

12 East Village/LES restaurants that have expanded to Williamsburg (Eater)

The rather doomed corner of Essex and Houston (BoweryBoogie)

Delancey Underground looks for support via Kickstarter (The Lo-Down)

Vintage Talking Heads (Flaming Pablum)

Thor's new Coney Island building on Surf Avenue is fucking horrible looking (Amusing the Zillion)

Madonna on her forthcoming tour: "People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it." (Newsweek)

And several readers noted a late-night trash-can fire in Tompkins Square Park near Avenue A and St. Mark's Place. Per an EVG Facebook friend: "Fire ... was being stoked by a half naked, gyrating man."
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2012 at 2:11 PM

    ----And several readers noted a late-night trash-can fire in Tompkins Square Park near Avenue A and St. Mark's Place. Per an EVG Facebook friend: "Fire ... was being stoked by a half naked, gyrating man."----

    Ah, the good old days.. not quite gone forever.

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  2. Marty WombacherFebruary 2, 2012 at 6:31 PM

    Cool shot of Giuseppi Logan by Bobby!

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  3. onemorefoldedsunsetFebruary 2, 2012 at 9:08 PM

    That Thor building is awful. I wish Bob Guskind was still around -every time I see an abandoned sofa I think of Gowanus Lounge.

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