New jack cornball alert! Motion picture sneak preview tomorrow night at UCB East Theater

From the EVG inbox... break out your cargo shorts!

There's an advance screening and Q&A with with writer/director Stuart Zicherman for "A.C.O.D." (stands for Adult Children of Divorce) on Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 9 p.m. at the UCB East Theater on East Third Street. The new comedy stars Adam Scott, Jane Lynch, Amy Poehler, Catherine O'Hara, Jessica Alba, Clark Duke, among others.

Tickets can be purchased here for $5

A quick look at Sarge's, hopefully reopening soon

Happened to be walking by EVG favorite Sarge's on Third Avenue the other day... the 48-year-old deli between 36th and 37th sustained extensive damage following a three-alarm fire last November.

The good news is that owner Andrew Wengrover recently told Eater that he was hoping to be open by the middle of this month... or as late as the first week of October. Per Wengrover: the reopened Sarge's will be the same as it always was. Yes please.

Once more with feeling

Thanks to @EliJGay for sharing this shot this evening from East Ninth Street...

Early this evening in cloud coverage

Photos by Bobby Williams

About that CBGB Music and Film Festival post from earlier today

The piece that we linked to at AdWeek this morning was apparently incorrect ... according to festival publicists, no bands have been confirmed for the CBGB Music and Film Festival. AdWeek has amended their original post. And we removed the subsequent incorrect info about the bands.

Meanwhile!

Find more festival info at the CBGB site.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Bobby Williams]

Police looking for suspect in robbery, shooting on Clinton Street (The Lo-Down)

The bell of St. Brigid's (Ephemeral New York)

Opposition to liquor-license renewal for the DL (BoweryBoogie)

Good news: Pino's Prime Meats saved from eviction (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Back Fence closing on Bleecker (The Villager)

... and now John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Chuck Berry help Mike Douglas with macrobiotic cooking... from February 1972...



Via Dangerous Minds.

A big improvement for (maybe) the worst East Village corner

Whoa. Shocker. That sidewalk bridge that had been on the corner of First Avenue and East 14th Street is finally gone... Oh! So this is what all these businesses look like...



As for this being maybe the worst corner in the neighborhood for general congestion, stupidity, annoyances ... that's subjective... but it really sucks. You may have other least-favorite corners.

Waiting for the rest of Joe Strummer

On Friday, workers removed the remaining sidewalk bridge and scaffolding from 132 E. Seventh St. at Avenue A ... where, you know, the 10-year-old Joe Strummer mural got blasted away... (We heard from Niagara insiders that the mural would return, we just didn't have the confirmation from ownership at the time.)

Well, workers repaired the crumbling wall where the Strummer mural lived...



By Saturday, the wall was being prepped...



And yesterday, as first noted, Dr. Revolt, the original artist, started work on the new mural.





According to a tweet from Malin, there will be a celebration party for the mural at Niagara on Thursday evening.

All photos by Bobby Williams.

When Tompkins Square Park had a Milk House

I'm pretty sure that I've posted these before. Regardless! A few people mentioned these photos after the shots I posted Thursday morning of Tompkins Square Park circa 1904 ...

Details from the photo credit:

Bain News Service, publisher.

Milk House, Tompkins Sq.; hot day

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

Here's another shot...



One reader put the date from July 1911, when a heatwave in the city was blamed for 146 deaths in six days, according to this article (PDF!) in the Times. Ephemeral New York has more on the Milk Houses here.

The Milk House lost its lease the following year and became a Shake Shack.

Photos via The Library of Congress.

Former Affaire space on the market on Avenue B

Affaire, the French bistro and lounge, closed at 50 Avenue B back in August. A venture called Brownstone Bar & Grill, serving "Caribbean/Southern food," was on the CB3/SLA docket for a new liquor license this month. However, this applicant has been scratched from the agenda... and based on the new "for lease" sign out front, we likely won't be seeing Brownstone here.

Before Affaire, the space was home to China 1, which neighbors really hated.

A quick look at Twist, now open on Avenue A

Bill the libertarian anarchist stopped by Twist, the new yogurt shop at 70 Avenue A between East Fifth Street and East Fourth Street...

"I just sampled an organic chocolate yogurt at Twist. Excellent indeed. Jim is the proprietor. He hopes to show art made by local artists. He has a bit of work to do on the walls, but expects to have it done soon."

Till Death Do Us Rock

Today in Tompkins Square Park, Frank Wood marries Johnny Eggz and Christa McNamee. Johnny's band is the Mighty Pragmatics. Wedding party and post-concert tonight at Otto's on East 14th Street ... with bands playing all night...

Photo and details via Steven Hirsch.