Looking downtown from the East Village via Bobby Williams...
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Take a Walken on the wild side
Just noting the recent arrival of "Christopher Walken Rex," the 16-foot creation in First Park... it's the work of some local teens. They have a blog, which you can find here. BoweryBoogie wrote about this back on Tuesday and has more details on how this all came to be.
The sculpture will be making the rounds in local parks around the city... so catch it here while you can...
[Sorry about that headline too. Been listening to a lot of Lou Reed this past week]
These adorable cats and kittens need homes
[Benny]
The folks at Social Tees Animal Rescue on East Fifth Street shared some news of new arrivals...
We rescued 10 kittens and cats from the euthanasia list (at Animal Care & Control) a few nights ago, and half of them arrived Thursday night! More are set to arrive. THESE KITTIES NEED HOMES!!! We are also pretty desperate for foster homes for cats and kittens. Fostering lasts a week or two, and for every animal we place in a foster home we can take another out of the kill shelter.
325 East 5th Street
5-7 pm weekdays; 12-4 pm weekends
And Social Tees is doing an adoption event today with cats/kittens at the Petco in Union Square from noon to 4 p.m.
Among the new arrivals...
[Harmony]
[Julie, Jazmine and Jackie]
Friday, November 1, 2013
Reader mailbag: What was that rooftop concert about last night on East 13th Street?
We've heard now from a few readers who want to know:
Another resident said that it was a band playing atop a building on East 13th Street.
Not that it was all bad.
Anyone know what this was all about?
Any intel on what that concert was last night around 11:30? I'm on 13th between A and B and it sounded like it was coming from everywhere. Louder than anything I typically hear from Tompkins Square.
Another resident said that it was a band playing atop a building on East 13th Street.
"Heard blaring music start at like 1130ish and on for easily 20-30 mins. I heard several other people from other buildings yelling shit at them but the band played on...
Not that it was all bad.
"Good music but I was super surprised the cops didn't show up...or if they did it took em a while."
Anyone know what this was all about?
No biscuits from Empire Biscuit until Sunday
Empire Biscuit opened for business Wednesday. And business was apparently good.
A sign on the door yesterday noted that they'd be back at it today.
But! There's a new sign noting that they won't return until Sunday...
[Via Facebook]
Per the sign, they'll need these extra days "to hire and train additional staff and ramp up production." The 24-hour schedule will then go into effect Tuesday.
Eater has more on the opening here ...and as Eater said about this: "Apparently owners Yonadav Tsuna and Jonathan Price were just not prepared for the white hot frenzy that biscuits can incur."
A sign on the door yesterday noted that they'd be back at it today.
But! There's a new sign noting that they won't return until Sunday...
[Via Facebook]
Per the sign, they'll need these extra days "to hire and train additional staff and ramp up production." The 24-hour schedule will then go into effect Tuesday.
Eater has more on the opening here ...and as Eater said about this: "Apparently owners Yonadav Tsuna and Jonathan Price were just not prepared for the white hot frenzy that biscuits can incur."
Mid-afternoon Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black break
Kembra Pfahler and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black perform "Alaska," live at The Bowery Electric, for Halloween 2013.
Video by Walter Wlodarczyk. Find photos from the night here. (Slightly NSFW)
Take a load out tomorrow
Via the EVG inbox...
Tomorrow (November 2, 2013) Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) will host its seventh Load OUT! — a twice yearly "riot" of repurposing and recycling activities. FABnyc will gather gently used materials from arts organizations and other donors throughout the East Village/Lower East Side for this one-of-a-kind extravaganza, taking place at 11 East 3rd Street from 12-3PM.
Load OUT! is specially designed to showcase creative thinking about sustainability and the arts. Artists and art students are welcome to take home any of the costumes, props, and furniture they need for their artistic endeavors, free of charge.
Community members and non-artists can also attend Load OUT! for a small entrance fee of $5 and may take away materials free of charge. Everything remaining will be repurposed or recycled responsibly by GrowNYC, Wearable Collections, The Lower East Side Ecology Center, Film Biz Recycling, and the NYC Department of Sanitation.
Additionally, Load OUT! includes clothing, textile, and e-waste community collections — open and free for everyone 12-3PM. FABnyc will collect e-waste, and GrowNYC
will collect clothing and textiles. A list of accepted donations is available here.
Load OUT! will also feature "Latch/Attach," a growing hook-rug project that turns old t-shirts into yarn, producing a colorful, patchwork made from these up-cycled materials. This activity is designed to engage individuals of all ages in a shared conversation about consumption while creatively making art from recycled materials.
FREE admission for artists/art students
$5 admission for the general public
FREE drop off for e-waste & textile collection by GrowNYC & The Lower East Side Ecology Center
Location: 11 East 3rd Street, between Bowery & 2nd Avenue
Image via FABnyc
Banksy's Nazi-doctored landscape raises big bucks for Housing Works
As you may have seen, Banksy donated a thrift-store-style painting to the Housing Works store on East 23rd Street ... it was a painting that he apparently purchased earlier for $50. But he added the Nazi solider sitting on the bench ... and titled it "The banality of the banality of evil" (an homage to the writer/philosopher Hannah Arendt).
For their part, Housing Works, which has operated scatter-site housing, harm reduction services and a supportive residence and primary care clinic for homeless NYers with HIV/AIDS since 1991, put the work up for auction.
The auction ended last night. The winning bid? $615,000.
"100 percent of the proceeds will go to provide housing, health care and other life saving services to homeless NYers living with HIV/AIDS," East Village resident Andrew Coamey, senior vice president for Housing Development and Chief Financial Officer at Housing Works, told me.
Meanwhile, Banksy Month in NYC is over. The Vulture ranks all his work during his street residency.
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