The Astor Place Kmart has your holidays covered!

If you're looking to knock off all your upcoming holiday shopping with one trip, then look no further than the Astor Place Kmart.

Aside from the expected Valentine's Day (this coming Friday!) gifts ...



Goggla reports that the St. Patrick's Day goods (no beer display!) ...



... and Easter (April 12) items are all ready...



We'll check back next month for the Thanksgiving display.

Holidays in the East Village

[Met Fresh, Avenue D]

EVG contributor Stacie Joy took these photos in shops and on the streets to capture some of the holiday spirit on display around the neighborhood this season...


[Lancelotti, Avenue A]


[Andrew Glover Youth Program, Avenue B]


[Mother & daughter, Avenue D]


[Porto Rico, St. Mark's Place]


[Ray's Candy Store, Avenue A]


[Key Food, Avenue A]


[Il Posto Accanto, 2nd Street]


[Fly at MoRUS, Avenue C]


[Hamilton Fish Recreation Center, Pitt Street]


[Exit9, Avenue A]


[4th Street at Avenue C]


[Avenue D]


[The Odessa, Avenue A]


[Sneak Ez, 9th Street]


[The Stand, 7th and Avenue C]


[Scrooge, Stanton Street]


[The Sock Man, St. Mark's Place]


[Shop Fair, Avenue C]


[Spark Pretty, 9th Street]

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And an extended look at 7B/Horseshoe Bar/Vazac's on Seventh Street and Avenue B... a winter wonderland this time of year...

Holidays on 5th Street

Here's the festive-looking 327 E. Fifth St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue done up as always for the holiday season ...



Thanks to EastVillage Siren for the video clip!

Tomorrow (Friday!): Holiday Bazaar at the Children's Workshop School

The Children's Workshop School on 12th Street is hosting its Holiday Bazaar tomorrow (Friday). Here are a few details via the EVG inbox...

Come see our lobby transformed into a winter wonderland, do some holiday shopping and come eat at the CWS Cafe. We have something for everyone.

• An expanded Cafe — breakfast items including bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon, breakfast sandwiches, assorted holiday treats! Lunch items including salads, chili and sandwiches, after-school treats! Also available: whole breads — banana, babka, etc.
• Gifts for children to buy — CWS slime, air plants, small crafts
• A wide variety of vendors — from homemade crafts to artisanal chocolates, gold jewelry, records, CWS branded items

And for the first time this year, a gift wrap table — buy something and get it wrapped for only $3

Come browse, get something to eat and enjoy the beginning of the holidays with the CWS community.

CWS Holiday Bazaar
Dec. 7
7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
610 E. 12th St. between Avenue B and Avenue C

This link has the full list of vendors.

Happy holidays

From our muni-meter to yours... Photo on Fourth Street today by Derek Berg...

'Tis the season

EVG reader Fenton Lawless created this short video… getting into the spirit of the holiday around the East Village...

In case you are looking to buy the ol' [insert your name here!] family holiday tree on Thanksgiving

You're in luck! You can find some at St. Mark's Market...



Whole Foods Bowery ($50 for a Fraser Fir!)...



...and a new treecomer on Second Avenue in front of Jupiter 21...




No trees just yet at the Trailer Park Santa stand on First Avenue and East 14th Street...



There are likely more stands up. Maybe outside Rite Aid on First Avenue?

Anyway! Buy early, discard early, and pretend it is leftover from December 2012... win a prize.

Looking at the snow (sort of), enjoying the quiet streets

Dave on 7th is out looking at the snow... and enjoying the empty holiday streets...

Candlelight Caroling tonight in West Stuyvesant Square Park

Lordy I can still hear the drunken Santas butcher Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis" on East Fifth Street that one Saturday...

IT WAAAAAAAS DECEMBER 24TH ON HOllllllllllis AVENUUEEEE... uh, faa lala IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME IN HOLLLLIS QUEEEEEEEEENS!

[Pause]

Tonight at 5:30 in West Stuyvesant Square Park on Second Avenue and East 16th Street...

... there'll some classy holiday cheer...

EV Grieve's last-minute holiday gift ideas

Spotted in the window at Brickman & Sons on First Avenue...

You know how it is sometimes. You're at the bar with your friends, and everyone seems to be talking at once! You need to cut through the clutter and make your point! Then look no further than the Mega-Sound Megaphone, which will slip easily into one of the three or four bags that you're carrying. It's also good for tracking down your friends who may have stranded you on a quiet side street at 3 a.m.

Perhaps you can think of other uses for it. Regardless, it's $9.99.

* Requires four C batteries

Reminder: Holiday tree lighting this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park

Previously.

It's a wonderful life now on Avenue A, for several reasons...

Playing at (or outside) 2A ... and no woo-wooers on Avenue A...

Photo by Dave on 7th...

4 holiday-related events that you can do today in the East Village

You can:

• Attend the Tompkins Square Park tree lighting at 4

• Shop at the "De-Flea Market" at Bar 82

• Go to the The Neighborhood School’s Holiday Fair

• Visit the Christmas Bazaar at the Ukrainian Museum on East Sixth Street

Let me know what I'm forgetting in the comments... (What I'm forgetting about holiday-related events, that is...)

Tree Lighting this afternoon in Tompkins Square Park

The lights are on the tree...

The festivities get started at 4 ...

As The Villager reported this week, the Tompkins Square Park Neighborhood Coalition will dedicate the event to the memory of Kevin Dowd, a former vice president of the coalition who died March 8 after a battle with lung cancer.

It could have been a very different tree lighting this year... Hurricane Irene brought down a tree back in August that nearly took out the Park's Holiday Tree...