...but I was too late. The store closed last weekend.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Why 99X is closing
Sunday, December 6, 2009
99X is gone
I wanted to get to 99X on 10th Street one last time...
...but I was too late. The store closed last weekend.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Why 99X is closing
...but I was too late. The store closed last weekend.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Why 99X is closing
Pricing Christmas trees in front of Whole Foods
A woman asked how much this tree was outside Whole Foods on Houston and the Bowery... Any guesses?
With a straight face, she was told $140.
With a straight face, she was told $140.
Nevada Smith's World Cup fever
On Friday, ESPN (and CNN) held forth at Nevada Smith's on Third Avenue for the World Cup selections...
Which will mean that you will meet the World Cup Loving Friend of EV Grieve one of these days...
Which will mean that you will meet the World Cup Loving Friend of EV Grieve one of these days...
Flush with success: Cabin Down Below open again
A sign was up today for the Cabin Down Below at the former Pizza Shop space. Which must mean the great toilet overflow from last weekend has been corrected. Which means they were open this weekend....
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Updated: Last day for you pervs to ogle XOXO models on Fifth Avenue
As you may have already read ... some XOXO models have been camping out the last few weeks in an empty storefront on Fifth Avenue at 38th Street... and the models seem to be causing a sensation....
I came across the scene earlier in the week...a scene that was both hilarious and horrorfying...First, you put two models in a window who prance about in bra and panties and seductively brush each other's hair...then you hire a security guard to yell "keep moving -- you can't stand here on the sidewalk" over and over. Like we're really going to move.
And all this is on the other side of the street from the decking-the-halls holiday windows at Lord & Taylor. So there are a lot of tourists who are shocked -- shocked! -- at all this. One mom said to her twentysomething daughter, "You'd never see this back in [Elk Snout, Pigsknuckle -- didn't catch the name of the town]. And then you have a bunch of horndogs with cameras. (Uh, yeah, well, I was technically working...)
The show ends Sunday...the model hours are 12:30-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-8:30 p.m.
Anyway, it all seems pretty tame after the shows at The Standard.
And in response to the comments, YES, there is video...via the XOXO site...
For further reading:
Naked City (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
I came across the scene earlier in the week...a scene that was both hilarious and horrorfying...First, you put two models in a window who prance about in bra and panties and seductively brush each other's hair...then you hire a security guard to yell "keep moving -- you can't stand here on the sidewalk" over and over. Like we're really going to move.
And all this is on the other side of the street from the decking-the-halls holiday windows at Lord & Taylor. So there are a lot of tourists who are shocked -- shocked! -- at all this. One mom said to her twentysomething daughter, "You'd never see this back in [Elk Snout, Pigsknuckle -- didn't catch the name of the town]. And then you have a bunch of horndogs with cameras. (Uh, yeah, well, I was technically working...)
The show ends Sunday...the model hours are 12:30-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-8:30 p.m.
Anyway, it all seems pretty tame after the shows at The Standard.
And in response to the comments, YES, there is video...via the XOXO site...
For further reading:
Naked City (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
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.
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.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Because maybe people really didn't want to pay $26.50 to see Billy Joel memorabilia
Whooa...where have I been today...per Pollstar:
Awwwww... let's take a look back...
After trying to lure music fans to a downtown Manhattan annex for just over a year, execs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are throwing in the towel.Although the closure was announced with no explanation Thursday in a statement issued by S2BN Entertainment, a backer of the venture, HoF CEO Terry Stewart told Cleveland’s Plain Dealer the decision was made by corporate partners who ponied up the capitol for the $10 million dollar spin-off.
Awwwww... let's take a look back...
Does this mean the East Village is no longer dead?
Just looking at the new mural on the Mars Bar...
Previously!
(The above photo via)
And, well...as I already pointed out...
Previously!
(The above photo via)
And, well...as I already pointed out...
EV Grieve Etc., Mourning edition
Photo on Sixth Street between Avenue A and First Avenue sent along by EV Grieve reader Lambert Jack.
What we wanted for xmas in 1955 (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
City of Strangers returns to the Mars Bar (City of Strangers)
The Bowery hasn't been the same since 1920 (BoweryBoogie)
Looking at the LES art scene (The New York Times)
Basement fire on East Ninth Street (Neither More Nor Less)
Eliade's "The Sacred and the Profane" and a sense of place in Manhattan (Save the Lower East Side!)
The girl gangs of old Manhattan (Ephemeral New York)
Canadian doughnut chain coming to the old Zen Palate space on Union Square (A Fine Blog)
John Legend's Bowery bargain (Curbed)
An appreciation of indie comics (NYPress)
Looking at EV Grieve favorite "The Seven Ups" (This Ain't the Summer of Love)
And then! A wave of liquid heat crashed through her. She looked up to find his eyes on hers, filled with smouldering amusement
Page Six Magazine is back! And with this cover story that begins....good lord!
Padma Lakshmi sits in a cozy corner of the East Village Italian restaurant Supper, her black hair half pulled back, the rest rippling around her shoulders. As she orders a cup of coffee and an appetizer of burrata mozzarella with tomato, basil and grilled bread, the Italian words come out with a perfect roll of the r's. The waiter, eager to please but flustered, strains to avoid looking in the direction of Padma's spectacular breasts.
[Bad romance novel quote via]
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