Saturday, October 27, 2012

Bomb Pop closing party tonight at Bullet Space


Between Avenue C and Avenue D... Costumes are encouraged for the party too.

There will be bloodwrestling tonight...

Via our friend Our Lady of Perpetual PMS and The Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling...


A few highlights:

7 pm: freaks & fiends mix & mingle for the last hour of the fantastic, cheap happy hour! Grab your poolside seat in the splatter zone!

8 pm: Showtime! Live bloodwrestling with ridiculous characters and vendettas, set to punk rock!

9 pm: Costume contest! Get creative or get bled on.

*Live half-time entertainment by JESSICA DELFINO, the Lower East Side's Queen of The Obscene & original dirty folk rock queen.

And per the invite:

NO COVER, NO ASSHOLES or DOUCHEBAGS!
This is a mixed event. Anyone interfering with the true spirit of fun and sports satire of our underground-themed events will be removed, possibly dismembered.

[Updated] Stray cat on East Seventh Street needs a home

A message from an EVG reader on East Seventh Street...

I have the sweetest cat hanging around my garden for a few days. Do you know anyone who would be interested in him? A young male... let's you rub his tummy and a real darling.



Serious inquiries only to the EV Grieve email

Updated 10-28

Per Dave on 7th: "The neighbor who was going to take the cat in for the storm took him to a vet ... and the vet found a chip with owner info on it." And the kitty and owner have been reunited...

Today in the El Sol Brillante Jr. Garden


Friday, October 26, 2012

Come to the light and dark side



Love And Rockets with "Yin And Yang The Flowerpot Man" circa 1986

Arcane back open tonight


An EVG reader notes that the French-Caribbean eatery at 111 Avenue C near East Seventh Street has reopened for tonight. On Wednesday morning, the body of co-owner Christine Ebel was discovered in a construction lot on East Seventh Street adjacent to the restaurant. Read more here.

This weekend: Tompkins Square Halloween Punk Concert

From the EV Grieve inbox...

Join us for a two-day Halloween festival on Saturday + Sunday, from 2 pm - 6 pm. Lots of bands, poetry and performers ...

Here's the latest line-up for Saturday, from 2 pm - 6 pm:

• The Purple Hearts (home-grown rockers, fronted by Joff Wilson)
• Gabriel Don (kick ass poetess with her poet posse)
• Rucjus Interruptus (old school LES rockers)
• Blue Berry High Heels (female rockers)
• Crusty P (female punk rapper)
• The Cynz (female punkers)
• And, we've got NICO (formerly of Leftover Crack + Star Fucking Hipsters)

Brought to you by The Shadow...

Last Unicorn tonight at the Pyramid


The third installment of Last Unicorn, an "artisanal dance night." (And maybe it will be the last with Sandy on the way...doom!)

Why yes — you can buy a $600,000 ticket to see the Rolling Stones in New Jersey

As you may have heard, The Rolling Stones — a popular music combo from England — are playing two dates in December at The Prudential Center in New Jersey. Tickets went on sale today at noon.

We talked to one EVG reader who was shut out of the sales.

But! Don't fret! There are plenty of tickets available on StubHub...


...where you can pay $600,000 for one General Admission seat.

Or, you could buy this cute little one-bedroom co-op on East Fifth Street with a private garden for $589,000...


Tough call?

Kitty almost kornered

We've noted the cat who has been living/hanging out in Tompkins Square... (here and here)...


Anyway, yesterday, two women attempted to lure the cat into a have-a-heart trap...


Bobby Williams, who took the photos, notes that the pair was not successful.

Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen facing eviction again on St. Mark's Place

Scoopy brings the troubling news in his column at The Villager this week: Whole Earth Bakery and Kitchen on St. Mark’s Place is facing eviction.

Owner-baker Peter Silvestri told Scoopy that business was down this past summer. And so, he fell behind in rent. The landlord sent him an eviction letter two weeks ago.

Part of the cause?:

It doesn’t help matters that the block is now lined with bars, 14 between Avenue A and First Ave., said Silvestri. “It changed the block. People come here for the bars now,” he said.

EVG favorite Whole Earth Bakery has faced eviction several times before. You can read the back story in this article from The Villager from 2007. Whole Earth has been at 130 St. Mark's Place since 1991. How much longer, unfortunately, seems in doubt.

Memorial grows for Christine Ebel outside Arcane on Avenue C


Here's the scene outside Arcane early this morning outside Arcane at 111 Avenue C. Arcane co-owner Christine Ebel reportedly died Tuesday night after falling from a balcony adjacent to the restaurant that she ran with her brother, Benjamin Alter.

Previous posts here ... and here.