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Love and a 45

45 Grave with Evil from 1983.

EV Lambo still alive and well, maybe

... but we're looking for visual confirmation. This could just be a clever case of some Photoshopping, etc. Photo via @EVLambo, natch.

EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition

Police arrest suspect in Tuesday night's Stanton Street shooting (The Lo-Down)

The Best of Manhattan (and Beyond) issue from NYPress (NYPress)

What's replacing the "Hell" marquee at the New Museum (Curbed)

Where you can still shop at Love Saves the Day (Jeremiah's Vanishing NY)

Skeletons! Including a dancing one at Mars Bar! (The Gog Log)

The way it was: "The Punk Rock Movie" (Stupefaction)

And First Avenue Correspondent Blue Glass notes that ConEd continues work on First Avenue at Ninth Street after the underground fire/explosion the other day...

Holy f@cking sh#t! The EV Lambo is dead!?

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Thanks to Chris O'Leary for the tip. Photo first posted on Trottoria.

Previously.

Updated now to include a waste of 48 seconds of your life:

5C Cultural Center & Cafe continues eviction battle

The owners of 5C Cultural Center & Cafe, which opened in 1995 at Avenue C and Fifth Street, continue to battle being evicted by their landlord... As Time Out put it earlier this month: "Sadly, it’s an all-too-familiar story: Another cherished downtown cultural hub is in danger of disappearing."

Here's more from the piece and co-owner Bruce Morris: “'The basic claim is that we violated the terms of the lease,'” explains Morris, noting that he feels 'the landlord’s thought is, How can we harass them enough to get them out?' Based on the landlord’s claims — that they changed the facade, altered a window and didn’t soundproof the space, all of which Morris denies."

You can read the rest of the TONY article here. And Morris wrote about their ongoing landlord troubles in The Shadow here.

Meanwhile, there's a fundraiser tomorrow night at 6 featuring Shoshke-Rayzl on guitar and co-owner Trudy Silver on piano...it's also the birthday of one of their founding directors, Silvia Ravelo.

Via e-mail, Silver told me: "We're back in court on November 10th, ... last court date many students, parents, seniors, musicians and educators showed up in support."

Passion and progress at the new home of the Lower Eastside Girls Club

Big day today for the Lower Eastside Girls Club... they'll be holding a press ceremony for their official groundbreaking for their new home on Avenue D between Seventh Street and Eighth Street .... aside from some local politicians, Rosario Dawson will be on hand...

And there is significant progress here to note....




Meanwhile, Girls Club Executive Director Lyn Pentecost told me about the five murals on their construction fence along Avenue D ... painted by some of the leading women in the graffiti movement: TooFly, Lenora Jayne, Marthalicia and CeCe. (You can read more about it on Lenora Jayne's blog here.)







All very good news...

Jumpin' at the Coal Yard

As we reported back in the summer, the painfully generic Lilly Coogan's shuttered on First Avenue near Sixth Street... And, Molly and Shawn from the International the next block north, have taken over this space....

And the bar is now open... and, we're not ones to fuss, but....



By far the best new bar to open in the East Village of late... simple...inexpensive... full of locals (at least earlier in the business day) ... and no TV (thank you!)...

Video of the attempted child abduction on Sixth Street and Avenue B

Via a report on ABC 7 ...

Meanwhile, on the Second Avenue bike lane...

Two nights ago...on Second Avenue and Seventh Street...



Last evening...on the other side of the Avenue, where this sign was...

Wig stock

Caring for the wigs on St. Mark's Place near Third Avenue.

7B adds a little Megadeath on the jukebox