EV Grieve

Friday, September 17, 2010

More Howl!

Many of the Howl! Festival's high-profile events took place last weekend in Tompkins Square Park... However, there are plenty of other events left this month... all the way to Sept. 30... Check out the Howl! site... and East Village Howler for more details...

Speaking of last weekend... Here are some Art Around the Park photos from Minnie Romanovich... via her Flickr...

...and Stacie Joy captured some of the performers in the Park ...

Vangeline Theatre (Butoh)

Tigger!

Heather Litteer and the Tickled Pinks

Dirty Martini

Brown Girls Burlesque (Grandma Fun and Dame Chuchifrita)

Joey Arias and Sherry Vine

Tigger!

End of show with the whole group

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

No (for now) to Grimaldis at 352 Bowery (Eater)

At arm's length at the World Famous Pee Phone© (Nadie Se Conoce)

A slice of Old Town life (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Remembering the Cheyenne and the Moondance (The Gog Log)

Naked ice cream boy mannequin in Chinatown (With Leftovers)

Smell like Lady Gaga (BoweryBoogie)

I always like Melanie's photos (East Village Corner…Musings By MELANIE)

Slum Goddess channels... Billy Idol? (Slum Goddess)

New fall menu at 6th Street Kitchen (EV Eats)

Why Grand Street will be torn up for five years (The Lo-Down)

Here's a new website to check out — Why Are You on My Train? Telling subways stories (Why Are You on My Train?)

Also, if you need a dog prison... saw this in the trash the other day..."Your dog's home for life"?

A day in the life of First Avenue and 10th Street

Via EV Grieve First Avenue correspondent Blue Glass.

Bedlam brings the stars to 'a relatively dingy, run-down neighborhood'

[Photo via the Voice]

Well, Black Book has a ~~press release~~ feature on Bedlam, the new venture from Eastern Bloc's Benjamin Maisani. Here are some passages for you:

What used to be a dingy, run-down bar in a relatively dingy, run-down neighborhood has transformed into a posh lounge destined to draw crowds to Avenue C. Bedlam, named after the first insane asylum in London, opened its doors this past week, offering a new hang-out spot for those who like to feel old-world in a modern way. Non-crazies Sara Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Anderson Cooper, Solange Knowles, and Alan Cumming made it to the opening fete earlier this week. The new bar and lounge captures the mood of late 19th-century parlor life — think Edith Wharton or Robert Louis Stevenson.

And!

Thankfully Bedlam isn’t a showy, out-of-place jewel box of smartness; the flavor of the neighborhood and the former space is retained with the exposed brick wall and original, red vinyl benches. The back room—slated to host private events—still features 40C’s generous-sized bathroom and skylight (in addition to—surprise!—more animal heads).

And!

Creative cocktails like the Sagamore House — named after Teddy Roosevelt’s country house — will be available for whoever’s feeling fancy, but the average hipster can still order their Bud. The new bar has also plucked some top DJs from well-known establishments like Santos, Heathers, Le Bain at the Standard, and the former Mister Black, so expect — dare I say it — bedlam.

OK! Will take some time to process all this. Meanwhile, you may have some comments.

Previously on EV Grieve:
40 Avenue C getting another renovation

Anderson Cooper's boyfriend opening 19th-century cocktail bar on Avenue C

AWKWORD in 'The People's Champ,' co-starring the Mars Bar

Our friend AWKWORD passed along his new video for “The People’s Champ” shot with DJ Vlad’s Monstar Films team outside the Mars Bar and on Extra Place. (Back earlier this summer when Extra Place still had graffiti.)

Katie Holmes dines at 'Northern Sea Food Co.'

This image and copy came in over the transom from some media outlet:

Katie Holmes and her companion stop off for lunch at Northern Sea Food Co. in the East Village. Katie was flanked by security at all times which left autograph hunters frustrated. The pair were on their way home from the Calvin Klein fashion show in NYC.

Mmmm! Must check out this Northern Sea Food Co. place!

Meanwhile, Katie may want to try Northern Spy at the same location.

Lightning strike at The Ludlow?

Zap! GammaBlog has some incredible video from last night's storm... Did lightning strike the Ludlow? (Top photo from GammaBlog's Flickr; whole thing via Curbed)

In any event, I'm hoping that the Bethenny Frankel statue atop The Ludlow wasn't damaged...

New sidewalk shed at St. Brigid's brings an end to shelter for travelers

Last week, to meet the demands of the continued renovations, workers put in a new sidewalk shed on the Eighth Street side of St. Brigid's... the structure takes up most of the sidewalk now...

During August, before the expanded sidewalk shed, several travelers would camp out here at night ...

Last month, I spoke with several regular East Village travelers... they all told me that the NYPD had suddenly cracked down on them like never before... and, according to them, the police said that this area by the under-renovation church was OK for them to sleep... and that Tompkins Square Park was "strictly forbidden."

There was some talk of increased gang activity... with the travelers being the target of the violence...

By now, though, most of the travelers have already moved on as usual this time of the year... just a handful remain.... In any event, the new sidewalk shed would keep them from sleeping alongside St. Brigid's...

Meanwhile, I keep thinking about this image early one Friday morning in August... I was out around 6:30 a.m., and came across this young woman asleep on the front steps of an apartment building on Seventh Street... In my 10-second assessment, I could tell that she wasn't part of the travelers scene... and she also wasn't someone who got locked out of her apartment... She seemed so vulnerable ... I felt a little cheap for taking a photo... Still, I wonder what the story was...