Sky view from 2nd and A
Local stories of interest from other sources this past week include...
• 100 immigrants arrested in week 1 of ICE raids (The City)
• At St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, rallying against the new federal directive that strips longstanding protections from immigrant New Yorkers (amNY)
• AG James says NY hospitals — including NYU Langone Health and the Mount Sinai Hospital System — must continue offering gender-affirming care to minors (The Associated Press ... City & State ... CBS News)
• Cooper Union wins legal fight over the Chrysler Building (Gothamist)
• NYCHA residents can apply for grants to fund resident-led community projects that promote a healthy environment (City Limits)
• Mayor Adams does not feel the need, the need for speed for NYC bike lanes (Streetsblog)
• Various folks — Lucy Sante, Tish and Snooky, Danny Orlin, Ada Calhoun, Jason Diamond, Barbara Sibley, (and EVG!) — talk about the past and present of St. Mark's Place (Punch)
• Opening Saturday at the Hole on the Bowery: tinyvices archive 20th-anniversary exhibition (Official site)
• Thoughts on "Discrimi-NATION: Guerrilla Girls on Bias, Money, and Art," the mini-retrospective of posters by the Guerrilla Girls currently at Hannah Traore Gallery on Orchard Street (Hyperallergic)
• Tickets remain for the David Lynch series at Village East by Angelika on Second Avenue at 12th Street (Offical site)
• Checking out the Tex-Mex at Wayne & Sons on Second Avenue (Eater ... previously on EVG)
• Inside Bar Kabawa, a Caribbean spot in Extra Place via team Momofuku (Robb Report ... previously on EVG)
Today (Feb. 7!) is the annual International Clash Day 2025 on KEXP. Stream it online here.
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A-riggy diggy dig dang dang!
3rd song the Morning Show played today!
Joe Strummer kissed me! Albeit a goodbye smooch in the office at the end of a long project and I think it was more because I took care of an embarrassing situation for him than adoration;) Surprised the rest of the office. Me too. Have never really been able to talk about it because then people would want to hear the story which I couldn’t tell but now that I’m anonymous on the lovely EV Grieve there it is.
Good band, the Clash, but their "rock" vibe wore a bit thin after a while along with their half baked socialist nonsense. Post Clash, however, I thought Strummer was really on to something with his last project of World Music, The Mescalero's. Three great albums and then unfortunately he checked out.....
Sandinista! was a masterpiece of its era.
In 1982 I traveled to Leeds for the last Rolling Stones show of their, then, the last tour ever...
In was in a huge park in front of 140K people, and I quickly got bored of Jagger's antics and the endless running from side to side of the stage.
When I came back to the squat we were staying in, the local residents suggested we come with the next day to the Leeds University gymnasium, where we saw The Clash in front of few hundreds people. That was the greatest day of my life then, and still is top 100 after all those years.
“If Adolf Hitler flew in today, They'd send a limousine anyway” The Clash, 1978.
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