Saturday, October 8, 2022

EVG Etc. Remembering Chef Colin Alevras; assessing the mayor's street sweeps

• RIP Colin Alevras, who ran the the Tasting Room with his wife Renee on East First Street from 1999-2006 before moving to Elizabeth Street. He died of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer. (The New York Times

• Assessing Mayor Adams' street sweeps six months later: "Property destroyed, people separated from services, no reduction in street homelessness" (1010 WINS

• Dysfunction in the Adams administration fuels housing crisis (The Post) ... And the mayor parties until late at Little Sister at the Moxy East Village (Page Six)

• State court keeps possibility of permanent outdoor dining program alive (Gothamist

• New program will convert unused newsstands to rest stops for delivery workers (The City

• Primary Wave Music has acquired a major stake in Joey Ramone's music-publishing assets for around $10 million (Variety

• Interesting behavior from Christo and Amelia in Tompkins Square Park (Laura Goggon Photography

• Fake heiress Anna Sorokin (aka Anna Delvey) is living in the East Village upon her release from prison yesterday (The New York Times... the Post

• The story of Angel Ortiz, Keith Haring's overlooked collaborator (i-D

• Some history of the recently opened Nine Orchard hotel on the LES ... aka, the old Jarmulowsky Bank building (The Forward

• Double Chicken Please on Allen Street named one of the world's best bars (6sgft

• The evolution of the egg cream (Eater

• Iggy Pop Covers Leonard Cohen's "You Want It Darker" (Pitchfork

• THIS WEEKEND: A few screenings left of Kathryn Bigelow & Monty Montgomery's "The Loveless" and Abel Ferrara's "The Addiction" (Anthology Film Archives)

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