EVG Etc.: B&H Dairy at 80; 'Smithereens' at the Quad

[At First Street Green Art Park]

A feature on B&H Dairy as it turns 80 this year (The Times of Israel)

Tenants claim NYCHA ignored complaints about tenant with 33 malnourished dogs in his Campos Plaza apartment (The Post)

Praise for Mama Fina’s House of Filipino Sisig on Avenue A (The New York Times ... previously)

Catch a screening of "Smithereens," starring Richard Hell, tomorrow at 5:15 p.m. at the Quad Cinema (Official site) From the EVG archives: My interview with "Smithereens" director Susan Seidelman here.

The history of Seventh Street and Second Avenue (Off the Grid)

A talk with the manager at Union Square's Flat Fix, where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who recently won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district, worked as a bartender (Town & Village)

ICYMI: The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence (Harper's Magazine)

Diversions: Steve Albini's Grub Street Diet (Grub Street)

... and a few of the acts playing the back room at Pangea, 178 Second Ave. between 11th Street and 12th Street ... via the EVG inbox...

In July regulars Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch (Sun July 15 and Thurs July 19) give another dose of their exquisitely raw post-punk cabaret, and the 2018 Bistro Award-winning singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and storyteller Rachelle Garniez (Tues July 17) to make the month pulse with new ideas. One of the most exciting performers we present — the jazz vocalist Tammy McCann — comes in from Chicago for another night (Thurs July 26), doing Gershwin like you’ve never heard before.

...and of possible interest coming up on July 15 ... Os Mutantes, Lee Ranaldo, Yonatan Gat, A Place To Bury Strangers and Martin Rev, among many others, play the En Orbita Festival at Le Poisson Rouge on Bleecker Street. This link has full details.