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)

Silent night

After mentioning Friday that the lights were still on at the Tompkins Square Park holiday tree... they were extinguished this past weekend... Didn't even get to be lit up for Presidents' Day...

Avenue A, 5:29 p.m., Feb. 21

Horus Cafe may want to consider reinforcing their awning

Sixth Street and Avenue B.

Reminders

Also for more Bowery history.... the Bowery History exhibit curated by Rob Hollander for the Lower East Side History Project and the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors closes on Wednesday. It's in the public space on the second floor of the Whole Foods on the Bowery.

Today in pop stars walking around the Lower East Side without pants

[And thanks for the e-mails about this. I think. More via Pop Dust and BoweryBoogie]

Photo via Splash.

Watch out for the Big Bad Wolf on the Bowery, Little Red Riding Hood

He'll tear down your grandmother's historic house and build a condo-hotel-luxury apartment complex-dorm...

This morning on the Bowery at East Fourth Street.

Once more, with feeling

Tompkins Square Park this morning.

The East Village gets a taste of the Hamptons, sort of

Hamptons Market Place, with two locations on the West Side, is taking over the former Olympic Deli space on First Avenue at 13th Street ...

And the new owners have cleared out where the flowers were once sold on the 13th Street side...

...exposing part of the building's original features...

We've moved on from the @EVLambo

Via EV Grieve contributor Bobby Williams.