2nd Avenue, 8:23 a.m., Sept. 6

Avenue A, 9:52 p.m., Dec. 23

Looking north at East Ninth Street...

This weekend: It's the 7th annual d.b.a. holiday fair (part 2)

This weekend (and next!): It's the 7th annual d.b.a. holiday fair

In case you were away for the long weekend

RIP grace (Sunday)

It snowed (Monday)

A Hamptons Market Place is opening on First Avenue (Monday)

Coyote Ugly is still not open — and here's why (Sunday)

EV Grieve favorite Donohue's Steak House is back open (Saturday)

Tonda randomly open this past weekend (Monday)

We spoke with Minnie McSorley (Saturday)

Someone tagged 35 Cooper Square (Saturday)

Yummy House closed on Third Avenue (Monday)

People ate outside on the Bowery because it was warmish (Friday)

And Lady Gaga walked around without pants on, though this isn't really news (Monday)

Holiday Fair at the Neighborhood School (plus, pix of cute kids!)

From the EV Grieve inbox...

The Neighborhood School’s Holiday Fair:
A FUN FAIR FOR A GREAT CAUSE!

The Neighborhood School’s beloved Holiday Fair is back! On Sunday, December 5, from 11 am to 5 pm, come out to support a local public school and have a blast. There’ll be carnival games, arts & crafts, face-painting, print-making, henna and temporary tattooing, a huge kid-built maze (made of deconstructed cardboard boxes — the Avenue A equivalent of a corn maze), a raffle and great food from neighborhood vendors including Ciao for Now, Solo Pizza and Mudspot.

And of course there’s the silent auction. A mere sampling of items up for bids this year: Gift certificates to terrific local shops, salons, spas, yoga studios and gyms; passes to the Landmark Sunshine; museum memberships; theater subscriptions; Knicks tickets; Doyle & Doyle jewelry; family portraits by professional artists and photographers; meals at fave neighborhood spots like Mama’s Food Shop, Esperanto, Il Buco, Sugar Sweet Sunshine, Café Mogador, Caracas Arepa Bar, Balthazar and many more! Bid online or in person. Neighborhood School dad and EV institution Richard “Handsome Dick” Manitoba and writer Zoe Hansen will host a live auction at 3pm. Bidding closes at 4pm.

Admission to the fair is free and open to the public. Wondering what a progressive public school in the East Village is like? Come check us out! This is a great (and cheap) way to have fun indoors with your kids on a chilly winter’s day; you can have a nosh and shop for some great items while your kids run around playing and art-making with their friends. Proceeds from the fair support the Neighborhood School PTA, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization that pays for the school’s art and music education, field trips, classroom supplies, special programs and teacher support. The Neighborhood School is at 121 East 3rd Street between First Avenue and Avenue A

And a school parent passed along photos of some of the students... most of them were taken by the kids, some in an afterschool photography class (taught by a parent, since there is no more funding for afterschool programs) and some in school as part of the curriculum.

Let the holiday weekends begin

Our blogging friend Bryan Waterman passed along the details on dba's annual holiday fare on Saturdays this month (3-8 p.m.) featuring the work of some local artists...



Anyway, there's a lot of holiday things going on...and The Villager rounds up a lot of the activities right here. And La Superette will be down on Front Street in the South Street Seaport today and tomorrow.

And a little later this week, I'll have more information on the "Skits N Tits! One Year Anniversary Holiday Party" at the Bowery Poetry Club Wednesday night...the evening will mark the debut of CRAFTERMATH, formed by a group of women active in multi-disciplinary arts who love odd, original art, and cheap, anti-corporate gift-shopping in the spirit of comrades like Reverend Billy and La Superette.

An EV Grieve holiday weekend recap

Someone is doing a reality show on dog runs.




"Step Up 3D" filmed on Avenue B.



The bar with all those different names and awnings on Second Avenue and Fourth Street closed.



People stood in a long line for brunch.



Chico finished the mural.



The Umbrella House unveiled its annual installation.



The annual Loisaida Festival took place.



Street fair!