Bloodwrestling and sprinkling in Tompkins Square Park today

Another great afternoon in Tompkins Square Park today with Alpha Women Attack the LES ... Here, some photos of the Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling! and the Good to Go Girls ... all photos by Bobby Williams..

Thanks to Our Lady of Perpetual PMS, Jessica Delfino, Mike SOS and THE SHADOW...

Georgia on my mind

Yesterday, we posted that photo of the CBGB exterior that crews for the CBGB movie recreated in Savannah, Ga. ...

Our friend Maura Johnston at the Voice had another shot of the exterior yesterday ...

[Photo by Dylan Wilson]

Meanwhile, via the Huffington Post, a shot of Alan Rickman as Hilly Kristal on the set...

[By ‏@ForrestJim]

Fender bending on Seventh Street and Avenue A

Breaking.

Here we are at Seventh Street and Avenue A... where just moments ago (12:19), a cab and truck collided...

Our man Jose Garcia is at the scene...

Who hit what and first?

Per Jose: "Being hotly debated now. Looks like the delivery truck cut off the taxi. Unless of course it was the other way around."

Chico's plywood reservations

Chico's Kiss mural might be going away outside the former Nice Guy Eddie's...

... but it appears he will be painting the plywood during renovations of the new restaurant opening here on Avenue A and East First Street...

Stage set for Alpha Women Attack the LES today in Tompkins Square Park

A reminder...

ALPHA WOMEN ATTACK THE L.E.S
FREE Rock and Roll Variety Show
Saturday 2-6 p.m.
Tompkins Square Park

LINE UP IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Abby Weitz, Tania & the Revolutionaires, the Jennifer Blowdryer Band, Killer Killy Dwyer, GLOB: Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling!, Hila the Killa (Rapper), Penguin (trans-core punk!), Mindy Raf, The Good to Go Girls (dance!), Faith, Jessica Delfone, Ritz Riot.

More info here.

And now, a little something from Hila the Killa...

New York continues to support the arts!

Booo! This morning on St. Mark's Place at Third Avenue.

Tonight, tonight

Avenue A at East Third Street.

Get a Leg up on your Independence Day

Oh, yes — it's Jugger-nut with "My Sciatica," directed and everything by Nicholas Parish. And catch Jugger-nut's last show at the Bowery Poetry Club late Saturday night (early Sunday morning?) ... at 1 a.m.

God Bless America.

Desperate measures for more shade in the East Village

Even resorting to a BBQ drink umbrella here on St. Mark's Place this afternoon... photo by Bobby Williams.

Alpha Women Attack the LES tomorrow in Tompkins Square Park

From the EV Grieve inbox via our friend Our Lady of Perpetual PMS...

ALPHA WOMEN ATTACK THE L.E.S
FREE Rock and Roll Variety Show
Saturday 2-6 p.m.
Tompkins Square Park

LINE UP IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:
Abby Weitz, Tania & the Revolutionaires, the Jennifer Blowdryer Band, Killer Killy Dwyer, GLOB: Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling!, Hila the Killa (Rapper), Penguin (trans-core punk!), Mindy Raf, The Good to Go Girls (dance!), Faith, Jessica Delfone, Ritz Riot

Plus! Guest speakers, band merch, performances, art, wearable art/jewelry & punk crafts by:
Our Lady of Perpetual PMS, Darren Roberts, Anais L'Amour, & Juggernut.
Plus free DIY literature.

CLOTHING SWAP:
Bring or Take CLEAN women's Spring & Summer clothing ONLY
(no winter clothes please)

HAPPY HOUR AFTER PARTY, 7-9 pmish:
(Party w/PMS & friends, punk by DJ Hollis James)
Beauty Bar
231 E. 14th St.
21 +

The CBGB Festival starts next week , and you can get free tickets here

The inaugural CBGB Festival starts next Thursday and runs through July 8. More than 300 bands will play at 35 venues in Manhatan and Brooklyn... there are also films and conferences and stuff.

Anyway, the CBGB Festival folks, with a big hat tip to East Village Radio, passed along some free individual full-combo passes to the fest for EV Grieve readers. Gives you access to the film, music and conference panels. You're on your own with the booze and bath salts.

Thanks everyone! We gave them all away.

So we have six individual passes to give away.

In lieu of a contest or telling us about your favorite CBGB bathroom moment ... the first six people who email us can can have them... or at least the info about how you get them.

Oh, and you can use the EV Grieve email here. And it is for ONE pass — good for access to the whole festival. (Not two passes for each person.)

And you must be 21... and plan on actually going and not forgetting about it later...

[Image via the CBGB Facebook page by one of our favorites, Danny Hellman.]

CBGB lives! (in Savannah)

[via Facebook]

The CBGB biopic starring Alan Rickman as Hilly Kristal is filming in Savannah, Ga., both on Broughton Street (on Paula Deen's block!) where we think the bar's exterior above was created... and in a studio ... the crew replicated the inside of the bar in Savannah's Meddin Studios, where all the interior shots will take place...

A merger and new stairs for St. Brigid's

[Early last evening]

There's news to report about St. Brigid's, the under-renovation church on Avenue B and East Eighth Street. Good scoop in the current issue of The Villager, where Albert Amateau reports that St. Emeric’s Church, built in 1950 at 740 E. 13th St. at Avenue D, will close and merge with St. Brigid's.

A few passages:

Joseph Zwilling, archdiocese spokesperson, said he hoped for a September opening of St. Brigid and St. Emeric but he was not able to give a definite date.

Father Lorenzo Ato, priest in charge at St. Emeric for the past four years, will be the pastor of the new parish and has already moved into the rectory. Ato, a native of Peru, will also continue to serve as assistant director for Hispanic media for the archdiocese.

Zwilling said there was no decision yet on the disposition of the St. Emeric’s church building or the two-story parochial school built in 1952 next door on E. 12th St. and Avenue D.

[St. Emeric via Google]

Read the full story here.

Meanwhile, yesterday, the work continued at St. Brigid's... where Bobby Williams took shots of the new front steps going in... (being poured?)...

And Dave on 7th noted how the cross looked at sunset...

...and a shot of workers carry a window frame for one of the towers...

UPDATED: Expect the howling to continue at former Aces and Eights space

[June 5]

Well, perhaps the looooooooong saga about a new bar-restaurant for 34 Avenue has finally come to a close.

As we've repeatedly cut-n-pasted from past posts, CB3 has rejected all the recent plans for a bar-restaurant-performance space here. Aces & Eights, the last tenant here, closed in October 2010.

Anyway, a tipster hears that a dog-grooming business is opening here. A little fishy seeing as the rent was upwards of $15K for the main floor, but it has been empty for some time...

Last August, Patrick Hedlund at DNAinfo reported: "We don’t think you can get a liquor license at this point because of so much negative history,” said ... a broker for Coldwell Banker, noting her client is growing desperate to bring in a new tenant."

The address showed up three consecutive months on the CB3/SLA docket this year ... and the mystery applicants were a scratch all three months.

The listing at Living New York says that the space has been rented.

And the for rent sign is down...

Updated 11:02 a.m.

We heard from Danny Frost, who confirmed the rumor. He said the space will be home to Ruff Club, "a social club for dogs."

"We think of it as an updated take on 'doggie daycare' with an eye toward the unique tastes and lifestyles of our East Village neighbors," said Frost, an East Village resident. "A major piece of our concept is a dog-and-human-friendly space in our clubhouse where members can socialize, create stuff, or maybe even get a little work done."

Subject to licensing, they do intend to offer grooming (and eventually boarding) services. By the way, they are taking the first floor and basement. The karate kids will stay as the tenants upstairs...

And, for the record (based on those comments to this post!): "We do not intend to offer food or drink."

And they have a website where you can query them for more details.