thanks @googamoogafor lying to me about my booth location this year.and thanks for sayin it was a "rain or shine event. im minus 15k now
— Brindle Room (@BrindleRoom) May 19, 2013
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I'm no scold for public fun, but this festival has to figure out a better way to stage the event without destroying public resources (a weekend's site lease is fine, a whole summer's worth of lawn ruinage is not) and they owe it to their vendors to not leave them exposed to huge losses in the case of a very common weather event
ReplyDeleteNot all of the blogs agree that these problems are worth talking about, some of them would rather have you focus on the rainbows pouring out of everyone's asses
I say take them to court. If the event said rain or shine, they owe you for lost business!
ReplyDeleteI really came here to talk about rainbows coming out of my ass, but I'll weigh in.
ReplyDeleteIf they promised rain or shine, someone is on the hook for at least some of the losses. This situation is a nightmare and I can't imagine anyone is happy. The workers at Ooga Booga must be shitting themselves today. Good luck local businesses who were affected!
I hate all of these foodie restaurants around here. They love it here and think that the East Village is the greatest place in the world right now. They love all the new people and restaurants. They think that places like the Wayland, Zum Schneider, Maiden Lane, Boulton & Watt, the one taking ove Boca Chica and so on are just terrific. No problem with the gentrification at all. They are always sniffing around at empty storefronts. I have no pitty for them.
ReplyDeleteI hate foodie events all around the city and so do so many other people. Neighborhoods are sick of this shit.
Seeing as I get all of my news from EV Grieve, I never heard of this event before now. Sounds kinda stupid, seeing as one could patronize any number of restaurants in the EV on any given day of the week. Why trek out to Brooklyn for food when we live in Manhattan?
ReplyDelete@Anon 3:24: Funny how people on this blog and others like it bitch about banks and chains taking over spaces, but when it's a small business they still find a reason to complain about it. Most landlords aren't going to keep the building at a reasonable rent so you can open a shop and sell trinkets, lost and forgotten items, or extremely cheap eats - otherwise those businesses would still be there. It's unfortunate that the prices of restaurants sometimes have to be so high, but how else would you pay the rent?
ReplyDeleteThe only other businesses that can afford that would be corporate chains, and I'd rather have an independently-owned "foodie" restaurant, than a Citibank.
How much food can one really eat at a food festival before it becomes gorging? The whole idea is repulsive.
ReplyDelete"Foodie" whatever aside...but you folks ripping on the SMALL, LOCAL, NEIGHBORHOOD businesses that happen to be pretty esoteric and in some cases really delicious restaurants make me laugh!
ReplyDeleteIn 10 years when they're being driven out for more chains you'll be on EV Grieve crying about it like poseurs!
How could you be against these businesses and even understand what EVG is all about? Restaurants are the new local joints. Used to be bakeries, and appetizing stores, and meat markets, and trinkets, then sleazy hotels, and bookstores, and etc....just keeps changing. That's NYC. But at least it's staying small and not uber-corporate! At least it's staying LOCAL-centric.
It can get yuppie sure, but waaaaahhhh: that's the Modern Age in Manhattan.
But I dont know about hating on these small businesses. That sounds ridiculous and completely misses the entire point.
screw this stupid festival, i hope this is the end of it and others like it.
ReplyDeletepeople think consumerism = culture and it DONT.
and yes, better neighborhood restaurants than chains but still it's mostly for the noveau riche these days... many of the affordable and historic restaurants were driven out by the landlords in the last 3 years.
i don't know how people maintain their appetites while surrounded by screeching yuppies in these new places. how is it in any way appetizing to congregate with them? i find it nauseating.
sure, we'll all leave and bring back the drug dealers, junkies and pimps whom you all seem so misty eyed for. and while we're at it, to hell with small business if it isn't the right kind of small business.
ReplyDeletelonging for dirty needles and crack vials instead of the #woocrowd doesn't make you cool, it makes you an idiot.