Keep an eye out for a 'homeless' Richard Gere today

Filming continues today for "Time Out of Mind," a drama in which a homeless man (Richard Gere) tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Dakota Fanning).

Crews will be around parts of First Avenue between East Sixth Street and East 10th Street… Oh, just look at the sign for the film boundaries…



And here is just one photo that the Daily Mail had of Mr. Gere from the shoot last week…

Doc Holliday's turning 20 this week

Wow… 20 years for the bar (with two Ls) at 141 Avenue A at East Ninth Street…

[File photo from 2010]

Zoltar caught moonlighting in Gettysburg, PA

EVG reader Dave - everywhere shared this photo from a recent trip to Gettysburg, PA. Despite the accusatory headline, this Zoltar is not the same as our Zoltar outside Gem Spa on Second Avenue. For starters, no tags! And his crystal ball wasn't smashed with a skateboard!

A good sign

At the Tompkins Square Park Greenmarket today. A good sign that maybe spring is here?

Via

Week in Grieview

[Photo by EVG contributor jdx]

RIP ‎Dennis Zentek (Monday)

Tompkins Square Park regular Spike struck and killed by SUV on Third Avenue (Thursday)

How about a Trader Joe's for Avenue A? (Tuesday, 85 comments)

Plans for new 9-floor building filed for Mobil station on Avenue C (Monday)

El Sombrero has closed (Sunday)

Out and About with Pamela Joy (Wednesday)

Virage closed for renovations (Monday)

M8 weekend service is returning (Friday)

Max Fish making an LES comeback (Thursday)

"Dirt dag" Urban Etiquette Sign! (Tuesday)

Plans revealed for 347 Bowery (Thursday)

The conclusion of "Dirty Old New York" (Wednesday)

Former Odessa Cafe & Bar is back on the market (Monday)

Ugh: 98-100 Avenue A lies in ruins (Tuesday)

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (Tuesday)

First look at the all-new 50-62 Clinton St. (Wednesday)

Mod World the documentary (Friday)

Here's the new home for St. Mark's Bookshop (Thursday)

More about the future of the former 7A (Tuesday)

Rain man on 1st Avenue

This afternoon via EVG regular Grant Shaffer…

A few more tags and Zoltar will not be able to see the future

Outside Gem Spa on Second Avenue...

Call Harvey — and tell him someone broke the window

At the former laundromat at 44 Avenue B…

'Dial M for Motherfucker' 25 years later

To mark the 25th anniversary of Pussy Galore's "Dial M for Motherfucker," Nick Hutchings at The Quietus tracks down the band members (Jon Spencer, Julia Cafritz, Bob Bert, Neil Hagerty and Kurt Wolf) to discuss the making of the record.

An excerpt from Mr. Spencer:

Pussy Galore, while we were working on familiar tropes and recognisable forms and genres was very much sort of anti-music or reacting to, kicking against something.

I think that confrontation was a big part of Pussy Galore.

It was an honest to goodness rock & roll band as well. I don't think you'd be doing this interview if there weren't some cool rock songs in there, if there wasn't some meat. If it was just a conceptual affair and it was just confrontation full stop then we wouldn't have mattered as much to people.

According to the always-reliable Wikipedia, a song from the record, "Kicked Out," is played in an episode of the Fox show "House" titled "Games" ... "when Gregory House plays it to annoy Wilson and induce a seizure in a patient."

Heh.

Anyway, here's a live Pussy Galore performance from a few years earlier … 1987… if you want to annoy your neighbors… or just to enjoy!

For all your moving parts

Window shopping on East 14th Street… headline and photo courtesy of Andrew Adam Newman on Ave C.

Cat people

All the way from Syracuse, it's Perfect Pussy, who play at the Mercury Lounge on April 5.

Spring has sprung ... a leak

... at the Organic Grill on First Avenue... heh.

Photo via EVG contributor Derek Berg

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

[Tompkins Square Park the other morning]

Arrest made in shooting of Riis Houses teen (The Villager)

Celebrating 10-plus years of East Village Radio (The Village Voice)

Check out Charles Schick and Regina Bartkoff in "The Two-Character Play" at Bullet Space (292 Theatre)

Soaking up Ukrainian culture in the East Village (The New York Times)

Lucky's wants to stay on East Houston (BoweryBoogie)

Spell checking this street sign (The Lo-Down)

More about The Wash House on East First Street (Gothamist)

The first performance by the Ramones 40 years ago (Off the Grid)

Checking out the Predator on East 7th Street (Scouting NY)

Helping save a beloved shoe-repair business (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)

Tour Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles (Dangerous Minds)

... and tomorrow night at MoRUS on Avenue C via the EVG inbox...

Don't Waste People
Documentary Premiere with Director Julia Waterhous
Saturday, March 29
7 PM

In Honor of Women's History Month, MoRUS Opens its Doors for an Evening with Female Activist Filmmaker Julia Waterhous

"Don't Waste People" seeks to give voice to waste pickers in Delhi against dominant discourse that favors policies that exclude the poor. The film challenges assumptions, cultivates empathy, and encourages inclusivity.

The issues presented represent a global trend, and the secondary goal of "Don't Waste People" is to bring perspective to societies where wastefulness is encouraged by advertisements selling consumption under the guise of prosperity.

Find details here.

March 28

EVG reader Andrew spotted this beaut this morning on East Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B...

While we mentioned the lack of any time stamp to prove that this is from today and not, say, Dec. 26 (is it? Please say no!)... we are allowing this one to stand, so to speak.

You see, under Evidence Rule 901, photographs are typically admitted as demonstrative evidence to illustrate discarded holiday/Christmas trees. When used purely as demonstrative evidence, legal issues regarding authentication are somewhat relaxed so long as a competent witness can testify that the photograph fairly and accurately depicts the tree about which he or she is submitting.