Noted

Looking at the weekend box-office report...

Sex and the City 2 notched an estimated $32.1 million on approximately 6,100 screens at 3,445 locations, bringing its total to $46.3 million since its Thursday debut. That's a huge step backwards from the first Sex and the City, which bagged $57 million on its first weekend. Distributor Warner Bros.' exit polling indicated that a whopping 90 percent of Sex 2's audience was female, and 54 percent was under 35 years old. By comparison, the first Sex's opening weekend audience was 83 percent female.

Meanwhile, the SATC2 sign vandalism continued around the neighborhood....





BoweryBoogie has pointed out some SATCII vandalism on the LES...

Neighborhood watch

The flyers hanging on First Avenue and Third Street tell the story...

The cost of a carboard ogre

On Avenue A. This morning!



Flashback to yesterday around the same time...

Avenue C, 4:12 p.m., May 30

At the Loisaida Festival, Avenue C.

At Bike Noise 3 in Tompkins Square Park

Bike Noise 3 continues

Bike Noise 3 continues in Tompkins Square Park. Morning Glory, Team Spider, Sewage, Wombat in Combat to come.

And buy a T-shirt. More details here.

New Cooper Square Hotel fence tagged

On Wednesday, workers finished putting in the Popsicle fence at the Cooper Square Hotel... a tempting canvas for street artists... and sure enough, in what will be the first of many, I imagine... someone tagged the fence last night... and thanks to EV Grieve reader Ryan for snapping this shot early this morning of the Cooper Square Hotel Anti-Graffiti Team going into action...



I took this shot a little later...




...and just up the way at the new Cooper Union academic building...



Anyway, why did the Coop Hotel clean the tag? I thought they wanted to "fit in with the edgy local art scene?"

Avenue A, 9:10 a.m., May 30

You can say this about ConEd: They don't skimp on the barricades

First Avenue near First Street.

Reminders today: The Loisaida Festival on Avenue C

And I'm a little late in telling you this... but in case you parked on Avenue C and didn't see the signs...

Avenue A, 6:39 p.m., May 29

Into the sunset

Outside Billy's on Houston...

Noted

Outside Aces & Eights on Avenue A.

Meanwhile.

Lost

This morning in Tompkins Square Park

Thanks to Ted Roden for passing along this shot taken early this morning in Tompkins Square Park...apparently someone decided to overturn every trashcan in the Park...



He has two more photos here. No theories. Random drunks? Bored kids?

The Bowery, 9:33 a.m., May 29

And I've seen this car before...

The oil zone

Around 6 this evening, protesters took to the BP gas station on Lafayette and Houston ... (which was conveniently closed in advance) to condemn BP's involvement in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster (read more about the protest here via Gothamist) .... here are a few photos from the protest ... (BoweryBoogie was also there... you can read his report here.)

Crank it up

Nice to see the Chrome Cranks back in action.... tonight at Cake Shop and tomorrow at the Knitting Factory...

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

Memorials as street art — I love these too (The Gog Log)

Last seedy "gentlemen's club" in Times Square shuttered (Grub Street)

Gateway to the East Village circa 1983 (Flaming Pablum)

EV Heave spotted something gross outside the Coop (EV Heave)

Shepard Fairey's mural makes a fine backdrop for an 1980s photo shoot (BoweryBoogie)

A beautiful luncheonette in Greenpoint (Greenwich Village Daily Photo)

New York Moviefone Mashup (Patell and Waterman’s History of New York)

More memories of St. Vincent's (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Sailors on St. Mark's (East Village Corner…Musings By MELANIE)

Fancy toast and an omelette at the new Trump SoHo Hotel via room service = $55 (The New York Times)


BaHa mentioned these a few weeks back... and I came across them myself on a trip to Chelsea Market....

"SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman ... and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car"

I made a vow not to discuss "Sex and the City II." At least more than I already have. But Jeremiah's post today got me all riled up. Anyway, among other things, he points us to Foster Kamer's rundown on the best SATCII slams here at the Voice. (Thanks Esquared!)

Meanwhile, Scott Lamb at BuzzFeed has a hilarious post this morning titled Don’t See Sex And The City 2. Here, you'll find some more blurbs from SATCII reviews. Like this one from Roger Ebert:

These people make my skin crawl.

However, arguably the greatest review is by Lindy West at The Stranger:

“SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human—working hard, contributing to society, not being an entitled cunt like it’s my job—and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car. It is 146 minutes long, which means that I entered the theater in the bloom of youth and emerged with a family of field mice living in my long, white mustache. This is an entirely inappropriate length for what is essentially a home video of gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls.

And!

If this is what modern womanhood means, then just fucking veil me and sew up all my holes. Good night.

[Silence]



[Top image via BuzzFeed]