Photo by Shawn Chittle.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
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...
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...
Saturday, September 15, 2012
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)
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.
See her 2011 work here.
Jimmy McMillan will run for NYC mayor in 2013
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.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Opening tonight, Pouring Ribbons on Avenue B, featuring drink matrix
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]
What you have to do sometimes to get back into your own locked apartment
Go to the deli on the corner, borrow that cherry-picker thing, and retrieve your keys through the open window. Starring artist-musician-all-around-folk-hero Paul Kostabi.
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
More about the proposed East Village nightlife district (The Villager)
The Landmarks Preservation Commission hears plans for proposed hotel on East Fourth Street (Curbed)
A history of the East Village in 10 objects (Off the Grid)
New additions to Jeremiah's Dreams of the Vanishing New York website
New look for TeaNY on Rivington (BoweryBoogie)
Final hearing for SPURA next week (The Lo-Down)
Photos of the Feast of San Gennaro in recents years (The Gog Log)
... and too late for you to attend the VIP event, but you can still smell like Lady Gaga...
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