The streaking sky

Photo by Shawn Chittle.

An EV Grieve Election 2012 update

Noted on Second Avenue.

The Bowery Bears (and Bunnies)

On Wednesday, BoweryBoogie noted the arrival of some blindfolded bunnies and bears hanging from power lines on the Lower East Side... He traced these to artist Manny Castro and electronic dance duo HeartsRevolution ...

Anyway, here's another batch from this past week on the Bowery at Great Jones...

In case you are looking to buy a pug French bulldog

You're in luck! Spotted these flyers around Third Avenue and St. Mark's Place this weekend...

Sunset trail

Photo by Bobby Williams.

Fight on the food line

Earlier today on Avenue A outside Tompkins Square Park. Photo by Steven Hirsch. (Follow him on Instagram here.)

At the East Ninth Street Block Party

Always a pleasant neighborhood gathering here between Avenue A and First Avenue... photos by Bobby Williams...

Why we still need Big Gulps and Double Gulps

Handy outdoor urinals, of course... So thank goodness they are exempt in the big soda ban!

For further reading:
Health Board Approves Bloomberg's Soda Ban (The New York Times)

Check out J. Kathleen White's excellent peephole dioramas for 2012

Since 2005, East Village artist J. Kathleen White has created a set of peephole dioramas and displays them along the fence outside the Ninth Street Community Garden at Avenue C ... Her 2012 set went up yesterday, and Bobby Williams took a look... and make sure that you stop by to appreciate them in person...

See her 2011 work here.

Jimmy McMillan will run for NYC mayor in 2013

[EVG file photo]

Catching up on some political news here. Yesterday, the Observer reported that Jimmy McMillan announced that he will run for NYC mayor in 2013. He made his announcement at Tammany Hall on Orchard Street, where he was performing a few musical numbers.

Per the Observer:

Mr. McMillan decided to launch his mayoral campaign at the concert ... after meeting two of the women who were performing in the show at a Dunkin’ Donuts in the Lefferts Garden section of Brooklyn. Dion McKenzie and Erika Buestami, who perform as Kowabunga Tyga, said they instantly recognized Mr. McMillan.

“We met Jimmy McMillan at Dunkin’ Donuts when Jimmy was doing his thing, campaigning and the rent is too damn high,” Ms. McKenzie said pointing towards her bandmate. “She just went up to him like, ‘Hey Jimmy, What’s up.”

He will be keeping with his Rent Is Too Damn High Party line. Before tossing his hat into the mayoral race, McMillan was running a presidential campaign as a Republican. He said that he will now support President Obama.

The Shadow knows, of course

The Damned with "Shadow Of Love" circa 1985.

Opening tonight, Pouring Ribbons on Avenue B, featuring drink matrix

Back in November, we noted that an "artisanal cocktail bar" was in the works for 225 Avenue B, the upstairs space that most recently was home to White Noise and Uncle Ming's. Per Zagat, this new bar, called Pouring Ribbons, (soft) opens tonight.

The bar is by the people at Alchemy Consulting — described on its website as "a firm based on increasing the profitability of bars and restaurants around the country through innovative beverage design." New York clients include Bar Seven Five at the Andaz Wall Street

As Zagat notes about Pouring Ribbons:

Each beverage is plotted on two scales, one ranging from refreshing to spiritous, the other from comforting to adventurous. Booze hounds are sure to go for the Hagar and Helga, the most spirit forward and exciting of the bunch — it's a mix of Linine Aquavit, Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao, cumin syrup and cinnamon bitters.

You can find that drink menu here.

Meanwhile, how many artisanal cocktail bars can one neighborhood possibly support?

[Photo via Zagat]