Friday, October 31, 2008
Now for something really scary
The horror: 14th Street and Ninth Avenue late on a Saturday night. A Chelsea resident chronicled the "intolerable noise." Indeed, what a horror show.
About that Obama/Luke Skywalker vs. McCain/Darth Vader video
Four weeks ago (Christ, where did October go?), I had a post on the Obama/Luke Skywalker vs. McCain/Darth Vader battle in front of the NYSE on Wall Street. It was obviously some pro-Obama propaganda. Sure enough, someone involved with the project sent along a note telling me that the final product was ready. So now you can watch the two light-saber battle (can this be a verb?) their way around some familiar NYC landmarks:
This is all fine. But, as an ethical journalist, I can't allow a pro-Obama bit to go by without hearing from the other candidate. I need to put my politics aside and be fair. So, in that spirit:
This is all fine. But, as an ethical journalist, I can't allow a pro-Obama bit to go by without hearing from the other candidate. I need to put my politics aside and be fair. So, in that spirit:
From coffee to compost
The former Alt Coffee (later Hopscotch) at 137 Avenue A will be the new home of Sustainable NYC...who's relocating from up the block at 147 Avenue A...Wonder if Sustainable NYC will have the "No OD's Allowed" sign in the bathrooms like Alt Coffee.
For one brief moment...
I saw the "Salsa" sign illuminated at Burritoville on Nassau Street yesterday. First time I've seen it on since the whole Burritoville empire shut down. And I got a little excited -- maybe they reopened!
Uh. No.
Uh. No.
Baby it's you
Rosemary's Baby begins a one-week run today at the Film Forum. Will McKinley writes an appreciation of the Roman Polanski classic in this week's issue of The Villager. As for me, I love the intro...
Revisting a classic (movie, not post) for Halloween
I posted this, uh, post originally on July 31...it seems more approprate now for Halloween:
A CLASSIC! (And it's APPROVED by Bela Lugosi's estate!)
Here's how allmovie descibes this 1942 CLASSIC:
Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot like Berkeley in the exterior shots!). When not enlightening his students — most of them buxom Monogram starlets — Brenner is engaged in charitable work, running a mission in the Bowery. In truth, however, the kindly professor is a fiend in human form, who uses his mission as a front for a vast criminal empire. When Judy (Wanda McKay), one of Brenner's students, stumbles onto the truth, she's targeted for extermination by the Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde prof.
Can't wait for the remake, in which the kindly NYU instructor is a fiend in human form who uses his mission as a front for a vast condo/hotel development! (I shouldn't joke...)
Anyway, someone on YouTube was nice enough to upload the entire 60-minute movie, though they disabled the embed function. So you'll need to go here to watch some of it. I highly recommend that you do.
A CLASSIC! (And it's APPROVED by Bela Lugosi's estate!)
Here's how allmovie descibes this 1942 CLASSIC:
Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot like Berkeley in the exterior shots!). When not enlightening his students — most of them buxom Monogram starlets — Brenner is engaged in charitable work, running a mission in the Bowery. In truth, however, the kindly professor is a fiend in human form, who uses his mission as a front for a vast criminal empire. When Judy (Wanda McKay), one of Brenner's students, stumbles onto the truth, she's targeted for extermination by the Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde prof.
Can't wait for the remake, in which the kindly NYU instructor is a fiend in human form who uses his mission as a front for a vast condo/hotel development! (I shouldn't joke...)
Anyway, someone on YouTube was nice enough to upload the entire 60-minute movie, though they disabled the embed function. So you'll need to go here to watch some of it. I highly recommend that you do.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
John Penley update
John Penley hasn't left town just yet...just saw him at City Hall.
THURSDAY OCT 30, 2008
3:00 to 4:00 PM
NYC CITY HALL
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COME TO THE STEPS OF CITY HALL DOWNTOWN NYC NEXT THURSDAY
YOU MUST HAVE AN I.D. TO GET ONTO THE CITY HALL'S STEPS TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THIS VILE ACT OF POLICE BRUTALITY.
SPEAKERS: DANA BEAL, RANDY CREDICO, JOHN PENLEY AND MORE TBA
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MICHAEL MINEO, AGE 24, OF BROOKLYN WAS ATTACKED BY THE COPS FOR ALLEGEDLY SMOKING A JOINT. HE AND HIS LAWYERS REPORTED THAT THE COPS RAPED HIS RECTUM WITH A POLICE RADIO ANTENNA IN BROAD-DAYLIGHT IN A SUBWAY STATION. THE COPS CLAIM THEY OBSERVED HIM SMOKING A JOINT AND THAT HE SWALLOWED THE JOINT AS HE WAS RESISTING ARREST.
ORGANIZED BY THE AD-HOC COALITION AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
"Improbable arrests" continue at Blue Door Video
Are cops entrapping gay men at Blue Door Video on First Avenue in the East Village? Gay City News has the story today.
Blue Door was closed in June under the city nuisance abatement law after vice cops made ten prostitution arrests there in January and February. The criminal complaints in those arrests were filed as part of that lawsuit. In every case, it was police who first mentioned money.
Two men were a couple, one was 36 and the other was 43, who gave a Central Park West hotel as their address and appeared to be out-of-town visitors. The couple, the police alleged, agreed to be paid $20 each to have anal sex with an undercover cop.
Russell Novack, a senior staff attorney with Legal Aid who handles thousands of prostitution cases each year, said he has seen European gay men prosecuted for prostitution in Blue Door.
"I really don't think that European tourists are coming down to the Bowery to be prostitutes," Novack said. "The police send undercovers in there to solicit guys."
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