EV Grieve

Monday, December 21, 2009

(Updated) The Penistrator, or a clever imitator, returns

With this weekend's snowfall, we expected as much...On Avenue A near Fourth Street...

Unfortunately, much of the possible evidence was tainted before we could properly examine it.

Bob Arihood also captured some of the Penistrator's work from the weekend storm.

UPDATED:

While out and about earlier, we found more handiwork from this shameless snoffiti artist...

Previously on EV Grieve:
An EV Grieve investigative report: In search of the Penistrator

A stunning development: Is Haley Joel Osment the Penistrator?

Snow is in the forecast tonight, which means....

The Ludlow roof used for PETA's nude photo shoot

Last week, you may have read about PETA's latest "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ad that we unveiled in Times Square featuring Bethenny Frankel, who is apparently on "The Real Housewives of New York City."

Anyway, the photo shoot took place atop The Ludlow at Ludlow and Houston, according to PETA.

Perhaps The Ludlow can figure out a way to work this into their marketing materials.

Hmmm...How about:

"Red Square has the first head of state of the Soviet Union...

...but we have Bethenny Frankel!"

If you want, you may watch a behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot, which also features images of animals getting clubbed to death.

Cooper Union's new academic building "is a genuine triumph,a canny exercise in architectural multilingualism"

At Time magazine, Richard Lacayo weighs in on the the still-pretty-new Cooper Union academic building...and here we go:

The East Village is a New York City neighborhood with a complicated vibe. It's a place where restaurant equipment wholesalers and ancient brick walk-ups rub shoulders with spanking new condo towers and hip hotels with signature martinis. Almost everywhere there are also traces of the hippie-Boho culture that settled in before the 1960s and does what it can to keep its flag flying.

Yes, yes...

It's difficult to insert a new building into those streets and get it to speak to so many different contexts. The ideal combination of grit and elegance, muscle and intellect is hard to arrive at, and over the last four or five years some local projects by name architects have gotten it wrong. But Cooper Union's new academic building, which opened this fall, is a genuine triumph, a canny exercise in architectural multilingualism.

Permanent Brunch branding: Introducing the Burger

Permanent Brunch on First Avenue is now known as Permanent Brunch & Burger, as Grub Street said it would be. Think they'll serve a bacon burger?

Former Baluchi's space turning Japanese

The Baluchi's Indian eatery on Second Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street will soon be this...

E2E4's private, gated drive gets plowed

Or at least shoveled yesterday morning for those residents who likely don't live here yet.

Perhaps enough room for a toy car.

On Saturday, the 15-stories of condo at East Fourth Street and the Bowery were starting to feel a little homey.

Previously.

And what happened to all that wood?

And I wonder if anyone ever claimed the free couch...

Sunday, December 20, 2009

White night

Thanks to EV Grieve reader ~evilsugar25 for sharing these excellent photos from last night's storm of the century/decade/year.

Getting into the true spirit of the holidays

At the Post today, V.A. Musetto takes a break from writing about Asian film starlets to discuss three must-see Christmas slasher flicks: "Black Christmas," "Silent Night, Deadly Night" and "You Better Watch Out." As V.A. notes:

John Waters says "You Better Watch Out" is "the best seasonal film of all time." He adds: "I wish I had kids. I'd make them watch it every year and, if they didn't like it, they'd be punished."

And a merry Christmas to you, John.