Friday, March 27, 2009
Reminder: "Home Grown LES" and "Captured" Monday night
Special screening of Clayton Patterson's "Captured" — 8 p.m. at Collective Hardware, 169 Bowery
Benefit for Collective Hardware’s “Home Grown L.E.S”
Here's the trailer:
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
Kurt Anderson on the end of excess (Time)
Scary Carrie to have kids in SATC sequel? (Us)
P.S. 64 becoming a goddamn dorm? (The Villager)
Remembering the City Orphanage in the East Village (Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts)
Fight the cuts (Save the Lower East Side!)
Tour the new Yankme Stadium (News Radio 88)
An interesting storefront on Bleecker (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
Iggy has a new record due in May (Hunter-Gatherer)
Robyn Hitchcock is coming to town (Brooklyn Vegan)
Fun with hipsters: Watch it with the Sonic Youth! (BuzzFeed)
How many homes does Lenny Kravitz have for sale? (The Real Estalker)
What took them so long?: Madoff the movie (Runnin' Scared)
Ken's on the LES (Greenwich Village Daily Photo)
In the dark: Observing Earth Hour tomorrow (Gothamist)
Art finds its corner in the East Village (Columbia Spectator)
The makeover at Zips continues: Now the graffiti is gone
As I noted last Friday, the former Zips Deli on Avenue B at Fifth Street is getting a makeover
The hot rumor — which means it's wrong — is an upscale diner-type place. (As long as it's not another cafe-bakery-small-plates-type place. Or a bar. Or yogurt. Or...)
Anyway, while on the way home from work, I noticed the paint job...and removal of the graffiti...
This will not make the Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve very happy.
Meanwhile, the work permit made an appearance the past week.
The hot rumor — which means it's wrong — is an upscale diner-type place. (As long as it's not another cafe-bakery-small-plates-type place. Or a bar. Or yogurt. Or...)
Anyway, while on the way home from work, I noticed the paint job...and removal of the graffiti...
This will not make the Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve very happy.
Meanwhile, the work permit made an appearance the past week.
The Haunting of the East Village
"The Haunting of Connecticut" finally opens today...Hoorah! I'm tired of seeing these ads around the neighborhood showing what looks like a young man....
who spent too much time at happy hour....
who spent too much time at happy hour....
Tough Love
I stood outside one of the windows on the East Seventh Street side of the former Love Saves the Day store. I wish I could describe the noise coming from the inside.
It was like hundreds of tiles were being smashed...it almost sounded frenzied, as if someone handed rowdy teens a few cases of Sparks and some sledgehammers and said, "you won't get into trouble."
Anyway, as Jeremiah reported, the space will become the neighborhood's 300th ramen joint. Not much left inside.
Still not used to seeing this space so, well, empty.
[Photo via Newsday by Damion Reid]
It was like hundreds of tiles were being smashed...it almost sounded frenzied, as if someone handed rowdy teens a few cases of Sparks and some sledgehammers and said, "you won't get into trouble."
Anyway, as Jeremiah reported, the space will become the neighborhood's 300th ramen joint. Not much left inside.
Still not used to seeing this space so, well, empty.
[Photo via Newsday by Damion Reid]
Where is Karen?
Speaking of Loves Saves the Day...what happened to Karen? Despite LSD closing, she told me on Jan. 24 that she would continue with her flea market in front of this location — or on the other side of the street, whatever they're calling the former location of the Kiev.
However, I don't recall having seen her lately...Has anyone spotted her around the neighborhood...or know what happened to her?
For further reading and viewing:
Love Saves the Day is Closing, Karen wants to remain here in the East Village (YouTube)
Karen Saves the Day (Jeremiahs's Vanishing NY)
Last Trip to LSD (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
End Comes for Outpost of East Village Counterculture (New York Times)
However, I don't recall having seen her lately...Has anyone spotted her around the neighborhood...or know what happened to her?
For further reading and viewing:
Love Saves the Day is Closing, Karen wants to remain here in the East Village (YouTube)
Karen Saves the Day (Jeremiahs's Vanishing NY)
Last Trip to LSD (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)
End Comes for Outpost of East Village Counterculture (New York Times)
One more thing: No more pay phones at the old LSD spot
Back on Jan. 13, I wondered how long the pay phones outside the former Love Saves the Day store would last...
I have my answer: They were removed this week.
I have my answer: They were removed this week.
Does Duff have junk in the trunk?
We continue to follow what will likely be the most important story coming out of the East Village this year. Runnin' Scared had the following tidbit about Hilary Duff's junkie turn on "Law & Order: Special Guest-Star Unit" from Monday:
In the scenes, we are elsewhere informed, Duff is looking to "score" some "stuff," and acts all mouthy to Ice-T, who says something "street."
Word!
Meanwhile! My Hilary Duff/SVU connection sent along the Duff photos that adorn this page. We thank you for that, Hilary-Duff-photo-e-mailing stranger.
Anyway, I can't wait for the Vanessa Hudgens-Zac Efron remake of "The Wire." (Oops, not yet April 1...)
Noted
There's an ugly Police Blotter item in this week's issue of The Villager about a man who lives on St. Mark's Place. He was arrested for menacing his girlfriend with knives. As the report stated:
The suspect told the victim, “You don’t know who you are messing with. I’m from Detroit,” according to the assault charge filed by the Manhattan district attorney.
From the EV Grieve Holmby Hills, Calif. Bureau
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The widow of producer Aaron Spelling is placing "The Manor" in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood on the market for a jaw-dropping $150 million, making it by far the most expensive home for sale in the U.S.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Noted
"MORRISSEY didn't break from his ardent vegetarianism at Webster Hall last night. The singer, whose second album with the Smiths was titled 'Meat Is Murder,' requested no meat products of any kind be in the building before, during, or after his performance. 'There were no deli sandwiches, sushi, pepperoni pizza or anything else that used to have a face,' laughs our source. 'Even the cleaning staff were happy to do their part by bringing in veggie sandwiches for lunch.'" (Page Six)
Should anyone really be eating sushi during a (rock) concert?
Preservation inaction: Historic building now a parking lot
We've been keeping our eyes on Pearl Street down in the Financial District, particularly the space adjacent to the Rockrose condo that's zipping right along (or up)... So, with the hotel plans for the now-empty lot on hold ... what does one do then with an empty, um, lot?
Ta-da! Make it a parking lot!
For further reading:
Lot still vacant where Pearl St. artists lost homes (Downtown Express)
Ta-da! Make it a parking lot!
For further reading:
Lot still vacant where Pearl St. artists lost homes (Downtown Express)
From Tribe to tapas at First Avenue and St. Mark's Place
A tapas joint will open at the former space of Tribe on First Avenue at St. Mark's, Patrick Hedlund reports in his Mixed Use column in this week's issue of The Villager. According to Hedlund, Danny Rivera, owner of the Crooked Tree around the corner on St. Mark's, will launch the tapas bar in June.
"I'm a guy from the neighborhood; I've lived here for over 10 years," Rivera told Mixed Use. "My plan is to make the place for the community."
As you may recall, Dr. Tara Allmen owns the five-story building that housed Tribe, which closed in late January. As the Real Deal reported in early February:
Allmen, a physician, inherited the building from her mother, Renée Allmen, along with several other East Village properties, and recently completed renovating the four residential spaces in the building. She called Tribe "an eyesore."
"I want a classier place," she said, adding that Tribe "was not going to enhance the aesthetic of the building."
Here's what Allmen told Mixed Use:
"I'm replacing a dive bar with an elegant wine bar and tapas place. Do I think it's a plus to have a higher-class place in the East Village? I would say it's a bonus to have wonderful, quality places in the East Village."
Said Rivera, "It's a neighborhood guy that's going to open up in the neighborhood. It's in the hands of people in the neighborhood. It's not going to be a sushi spot or a bank."
Chewpid
As you know, in this recession, people are buying and, we assume, eating more candy. In turn, companies are spending big money on marketing such delights.
Stuart Elliott wrote about this in the Times on March 3:
OK. I haven't eaten a Snickers since I was 14. But! I have been oddly curious/repelled by the Snickers snads around the neigh-bar-hood. (Sorry.)
Meanwhile, the Feast Village ad keeps eluding me...
Stuart Elliott wrote about this in the Times on March 3:
It was only a year or so ago that the concept of affordable luxury meant a Coach bag, Tiffany bauble or Starbucks latte. Since then, the recession has defined splurging downward to the price level of a can of soda, pack of gum or candy bar.
That is why many marketers of those prosaic products are still spending like it’s 2007 when it comes to advertising. For instance, both Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola recently came out with new campaigns, as did several gum brands, among them Ice Breakers.
Another case in point is the confectionery behemoth Mars, which is introducing a major campaign for its best-selling candy brand, Snickers, that is centered on a make-believe language called Snacklish.
Snacklish is a humorous way of speaking that revises everyday words and phrases for a Snickers-centric world. To underscore their origin, they are printed in the typeface and colors of the Snickers brand logo.
The campaign is also purposely infused with a slapstick, yuk-yuk approach... That tack is meant to appeal to the target consumer for Snickers, defined ... as men ages 18 to 49 with “a bull’s-eye of 18 to 34.”
OK. I haven't eaten a Snickers since I was 14. But! I have been oddly curious/repelled by the Snickers snads around the neigh-bar-hood. (Sorry.)
Meanwhile, the Feast Village ad keeps eluding me...
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