Sunday's sorta supermoon

On Saturday, the moon came as close to Earth as it will all year. Allegedly. I cut-n-paste this from somewhere: the supermoon was 14 percent closer to Earth and 30 percent brighter than when at its farthest point.

But Saturday evening's overcast skies didn't make for very good viewing.

Still, last night's moon wasn't any slouch.

Photos by Bobby Williams.

On this date in 1984: Spinal Tap turns it to 11 at CBGB

[Breaking it like the wind at CBGB. Photograph: Ebet Roberts/Redferns]

A little trivia via the History Channel:

Only two years removed from a disastrous 1982 world tour that not only failed to turn the album Smell The Glove into a comeback hit, but also led to the group's breakup, Spinal Tap now had to suffer the indignity of seeing the Marty DiBergi-helmed behind-the-scenes film of that tour gain widespread theatrical release. Would the numerous embarrassments catalogued in the hard-hitting rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap provoke public sympathy for and renewed interest in the band that Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls began back in 1964 as The Originals? Or would the group behind such familiar classic-rock hits as "Give Me Some Money" and "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" be consigned once and for all to obscurity? In this atmosphere of uncertainty, Spinal Tap elected to go back to their roots, kicking off a tour of small American rock clubs with an appearance at New York City's legendary CBGB's on May 6, 1984.

h/t @cbgbandomfug

People's Pops now open; something else to stand in line for on Seventh Street

People are apparently popping by the People's Pops pop-up Popsicle stand (sorry!) ... which opened this past week on Seventh Street near First Avenue.

Apparently summer is here. But we still think it will snow one more time before June.

Previously.

[Photo by Bobby Williams]

Pop-up party is over at Riff on the Bowery

Just catching up on a few items that I didn't get to this past week.

Such as!

Riff, the pop-up store at 313 Bowery, closed last Sunday.

The place opened last October and featured the rock-inspired clothing line called Andrew Charles created by Andy Hilfiger and Steven Tyler... (Tyler performed there during a grand opening last fall.)

In fact, the only thing left in the space is this cutout of Tyler with his daughter Chelsea...

Not sure what's coming here next... the Morrison Hotel Gallery was here for several years..

And, once upon a time ...

[Corbis]

There was the CBGB Record Canteen and, later, the 313 Gallery.

313 had been on the market for months...

However, RKF has removed the listing...

Week in Grieview

[East Fourth Street at the Bowery]

Q-and-A with Patricia Krasnausky, president and CEO of Cabrini Eldercare, soon to be home to condos (Tuesday)

Remembering MCA on Avenue A (Friday)

Big changes coming to 243 E. Second St. (Monday)

18 photos of the LES/East Village that you may not have seen before (Wednesday)

The Neighborhood School library spared for now (Wednesday)

Why Zaragoza should be able to sell beer (Friday)

New gallery space at Dixon Place (Wednesday)

A New York Met in Tompkins Square Park (Thursday)

Meatball Factory closes, now a pop-up restaurant called Hole Foods (Friday)

Jane's Sweet Buns now has a bar (Thursday)

Proto's Pizza opens, and people seem to like it (Thursday)

Bishops & Barons now open on IHOP Way (Monday)

About this weekend's Kinofest NYC (Wednesday)

May Day at Union Square (Tuesday)

Hey, look at Chloe Sevigny's bathroom (Monday)

Tough times for Avenue B (Tuesday)

8:47 a.m., Avenue A, May 6

Open call for Art Around the Park

As we noted yesterday, the Howl! Festival is June 1-3 in Tompkins Square Park. ~ Joan sent along the photo of the poster for Art Around the Park on June 2-3. Check the Howl! website here for more details.

Fallout from last night's Bear Crawl continues

Wow. The carnage continues.

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Bear crawl ends predictably enough on Avenue A

Today on Union Square

Photo by Bobby Williams

Was that a UFO over the East Village yesterday?

From reader Brian B. ... this incident occurred yesterday.

I was walking west on 10th Street between Ave A & B at 5pm today, I looked up and spotted a small red dot floating stationary way up in the clouds.

At first I assumed the red dot was a a child's "toy" balloon that had floated up out Tompkins Square Park. For most of the sixty seconds it took me to travel the block, I watched the red "ballon" remain in a stationary position (against the edge of the buildings in the distance).

When I got to the corner of 10th & A, I watched the "balloon" for a few more seconds, then turned my attention to the pedestrian traffic in front of me as turned right and began walking north on Avenue A.

While I was waiting for light at 12 Street, I looked up and noticed that the "red ballon" that had been floating stationary back over 10th Street was now traveling in a straight line across the horizon acting very much UNLIKE a balloon.

I took out my camera and shot this video. (Canon PowerShot ELPH 300HS 13X optical zoom)

The sun was still pretty bright at 5pm and I my camera's display was too dim for me to see if I was capturing the tiny dot that was hardly visible to my eye. I figured that with the camera zoomed in all the way, the footage would be too shaky to show much.

For most of the footage, the object looks dark, but during the last few seconds of the footage, you'll notice the red coloring I saw when I first mistook it for a balloon.

I don't think it's an alien space craft or anything, but it was definitely a UFO in the sense that it was flying and I couldn't identify it. I'm postive it wasn't a plane or a helicopter. Some kind of surveillance drone? Anyone have any idea what this could be?

I'm totally going with alien spacecraft. But I'm a realist.

You? Your thoughts on what this was. (Aside from Lady Gaga or Lana Del Rey, of course.)

And keep in mind: This isn't the first time for something like this happened around here. Remember this. Or this.