Friday, January 9, 2015

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition


[Hanging out on Avenue A yesterday via Bobby Williams]

RIP Main Squeeze proprietor Walter Kuehr (The Lo-Down)

Cake Shop seeking investors to continue bringing live music to the LES (Gothamist)

Meanwhile, go see a band at Cake Shop. Check out their live lineup (Cake Shop)

Success Academy won't be opening a new charter school in the East Village or LES for at least another two years (DNAinfo)

Protecting the University Place/Broadway corridor from towers (Off the Grid)

More tenant woes at 113 Stanton St. (BoweryBoogie)

Fundraiser Sunday for fire-stricken Black Crescent on Clinton Street (Facebook)

Marky Ramone: "The Lower East Side is like anywhere else in the country now" (New York Post)

When burlesque meets opera at Drom on Avenue A (Bedford + Bowery)

A look at 3,000 Manhattan doorways from 1976 (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Rev. Billy arrested at Grand Central (Runnin' Scared)

Rain dogs (Gog in NYC)

A place that can't exist again: Blondie's New York (NPR)

Group show Places and Things continues at the Dorian Grey Gallery on East Ninth Street (Dorian Grey)

Check out a full concert from the Talking Heads in 1980 (Dangerous Minds)

... and EVG reader Greg Masters caught Christo in action for a moment the other day in Tompkins Square Park...

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2015 at 1:23 PM

    Can somebody tell me what those giant panel things are in the picture above?

    Though I enjoy all the speculation and hypothesis from all of my friends, I really am curious!

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2015 at 9:19 PM

      cell phone signal relay towers

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2015 at 7:46 PM

    Oh, Christo the bird! I thought you meant Christo the artist.

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  3. GojiraJanuary 9, 2015 at 9:32 PM

    @Anon. 1:23 - do you mean the cell phone towers? The big white ones in the first photo? Cos that's what they are.

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