Friday, January 1, 2010

And now, signs that I'm probably reading into...

Let's start the New Year off with something stupid. Or stupider.

Couldn't they pick another fruit to name a tour company?



Hmm -- hot beer...



This weed sucked...and I don't have a receipt...



A trend to watch? People abandoning their noses...



Get what?



What happens when Baskin-Robbins uses the same ad agency as Toys in Babeland.



Pretty brazen to advertise this...



A kind-of stoned white model? Shouldn't be a problem...



Coned employees?



Screw parking!



There's a Mel Brooks joke here...



These buns are annoyed?



Watching tourists cross the street is an agonizingly slow process...



The men working above are dangerous?



No style...

Sunny and Annie's giving away cute puppy 2010 calendars

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Year-end self serve

There were nearly 2,500 posts on EV Grieve this year. Here are a few of them... And none of these would have really worked without your comments...thanks for being part of this site...



LeSouk has really closed (Nov. 2)



Mars Bar regulars get in the way of a Drew Barrymore photo shoot (Oct. 19)

The Times goes to the Mars Bar with one of those guys who's in "Gossip Girl" (Oct. 17)



Reading reviews of Tompkins Square Park on Yelp (Oct. 15)



Updated! Mysterious, low-flying helicopter returns... (Oct. 12)



The summer of pink shirts (Sept. 23)



Page Six Magazine says the Bowery calls to mind "an L.A. vibe" (Sept. 11)



East 12th Street now home to "THE ONLY REAL FRAT HOUSE AT NYU!" (Sept. 9)



A note for the people on the terrace tossing sandals and doing things that "should be done in private" (Aug. 17)



Observations from last night's noisy bars meeting (Aug. 13)



Aces & Eight GM offers some clarification on previous posts, comments (Aug. 4)



Uh-oh (July 22)



Work on Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre begins at former Two Boots space (July 2)



At Superdive (June 26)

CB3 didn't approve a liquor license for Superdive; "a nice neighborhood Internet café-bookstore" becomes a bar with keg service at tables (June 24)

East Village, please meet your new nightmare (June 18)



The Hells Angels kindly request that hotel guests please refrain from sitting on their bench (June 16)



Residents discuss the problems created by the Cooper Square Hotel: Meanwhile, across the street, a party for a sports car (June 3)



So this guy walks into the Mars Bar in a green shirt with a pink sweater around his shoulders... (May 29)



Pearl Theatre relocating; what's next for 80 St. Mark's Place? (May 28)

Bar threatens to call cops on a Thursday afternoon because some girls were standing in line to get free prom dresses next door (May 21)

Looking at the LES: "Those bridge-and-tunnel places are what made this area better" (March 5)



Why people move away (Feb. 4)

The Chocolate Wars (well, not at all, but we needed something that sounds CONTROVERSIAL) (Jan. 23)



An EV Grieve investigative report: In search of the Penistrator (Jan. 20)

Random photos from 2009 that I don't think I ever posted