Lisa Carmona is missing

These flyers are up all over Tompkins Square Park yesterday...

Friday Night Bloodwrestling Fight!: Annual Easter vs. Passover Smackdown at sundown!

From the EV Grieve inbox... tomorrow night...

The return of the live lady warriors (and lads)!

Double Down Saloon, 14 Avenue A

*Our Lady of Perpetual PMS and Referee Mike SOS present new, seasonal characters in their ferocious and hilarious matches! Saloon Stigmata edition, set to punk rock. Also starring The Gorgeous LADS of Bloodwrestling.

Men are recommended to come with a female friend.
MIXED event in the spirit of true fun and sports satire!
Anyone disrespectful or disruptive will be removed, perhaps dismembered.
NO A-HOLES, NO D-BAGS!
Claim your ringside seat by the pool of blood at 7:30 pm for the last half hour of the STELLAR Happy Hour.
Showtime at 8pm.
Latecomers suffer possible obstructed views, ridicule.

Live half-time entertainment TBA!

NO COVER, but donations to our fake blood fund appreciated.
21+, ID required

Satirically Yours,
-Our Lady of Perpetual PMS
GLOB! (Gorgeous Ladies of Bloodwrestling)

Here's the Facebook invite.

It was a little early for the moon to be out

What is it then? UFO? Drone?



Photos from the Tompkins Square Park Dog Run today via Bobby Williams

Reminder: The East Village Film Series starts tonight at Pangea

As we noted Tuesday, the folks at Pangea Restaurant & Bar, 178 Second Ave. near East 11th Street, are launching The East Village Film Series tonight at 8. The series kicks off with A Night of Short Films... showcasing "Nomadique." (Read more about that here.)

NYC-based director Matt K. Firpo is the series founder. He shares more about the vision with us:

"The East Village Film Series is dedicated to giving the community a place to mix and meet like-minded artists. Like the salons of old, the EVFS blends fine art and incredible stories, with a fantastic, comfortable environment, for a great evening of work by award winning New York filmmakers. I think in an age, where more than ever, we as an audience watch our content on the small screen, on computers in the comfort of our own home, we wanted to give people an excuse to come out and share cinema with others. We think there is nothing like the electricity, the buzz, of watching film with a great audience."

Here is the first CBGB movie poster

[Click on image to enlarge]

Via the CBGB movie Facebook page this afternoon... Early thoughts from Alex at Flaming Pablum: "Mark My Words... This movie is going to suck."

You?

The East Village is in the 1st rollout phase of the bike-share program this May, probably for sure

Well! Thanks to Streetsblog, we have an update on the oft-delayed bike-share program. Post-Sandy problems KO'd a full rollout this spring... But there will be a more modest rollout (263 stations instead of the originally planned 420), and the East Village is in the first phase for this spring (May, probs).

The updated bike-share map (above!) shows where the docking/sharing stations will be in the neighborhood. Go here for the interactive edition.

We love you, Blue?

[File photo by Shawn Chittle]

Previously on EV Grieve:
Here are your East Village bike share locations, probably

Report: Citi Bike share back on track for a May debut, probably definitely

A treasure trove of Basquiat in this East Village home

ArtInfo has more about Alexis Adler, a one-time girlfriend of Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1979, he "began transforming" her East Village apartment into "a living installation," including a wall mural featuring Olive Oyl. While the couple broke up a year later, Adler, one of the two supervisors of the Embryology Laboratory at NYU, never painted over his work.

We'll let ArtInfo pick up the narrative:

Obviously that turned out to be a wise decision — as was storing his notebooks, postcards, painted clothes, photographs, and drawings on yellow legal paper. Thirty years later, Adler has now begun to assemble a team of advisors to help sort through the material in preparation for a book on the collection and, in all likelihood, an exhibition and sale. "Part of the issue has been that I am a working biologist who has raised two kids on my own and have not had time or energy to deal with it," Adler said. "Now is the time, however."

Adler, who owns the apartment, is having someone from Fine Art Restoration refurnish and remove the wall... and is enlisting Basquiat’s former assistant, Stephen Torton, to rep her in any possible future sales.

Regardless, Adler is in no hurry. She says she is financially secure and has already waited 30 years, after all. "I just want to show it," she said. Her two children are now grown and she has a boyfriend who lives uptown, which means that these days her cats are the main witnesses to the mural. "And that’s a damn shame," she said, "because it’s a beautiful piece of art."

You can read the whole ArtInfo post here.

Basquiat died in 1988 at age 27.

[Image via Wikipedia Commons]

'No 7-Eleven' street theater meeting planned for Saturday afternoon

From the EV Grieve inbox...

NO 7-ELEVEN MEETING
Bringing together our next event: street theater in Tompkins Square Park. Meeting is this Saturday, March 30, 524 E 11th St., #1 @ 1pm to plan our weekly fun-in-the-park street theater — making masks, signs, props, rehearse our skits and create our COMMUNITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE

(A big neighborhood-wide meeting is planned for the end of April — watch for it!)

We are upping our fight against the 7-Eleven projected on 11th St & A and against all corporate giants (clone stores & banks) taking over our streets, jobs, commerce, community character and future. Here's who we are and what we're about

What we're about here.

Who we are here.

The weather is supposed to be nice Saturday, so if lots of folks come, we'll take it to the park and put it all together there!

Previously on EV Grieve:
[Updated] More from the anti-7-Eleven front on Avenue A and East 11th Street

Avenue A's anti-7-Eleven campaign now includes arsenal of 20,000 stickers

'No 7-Eleven' movement goes global with BBC report

7-Eleven fallout: East Village groups propose resolution 'to restrict corporate formula stores'

Avenue A 7-Eleven construction update

On the topic of the incoming 7-Eleven on Avenue A and East 11th Street ... we haven't looked at its progress in ... three whole weeks! (The last update was here.) As you can see, workers have removed the shanty-like plywood roof...

Flashback!



We are also curious about what kind of 7-Eleven signage will represent the store here. Not entirely sure, but we did spot this on the DOB website, in the standard ALL-CAP DOBese...

ERECT NON-ILLUMINATED NON-ADVERTISING AWNING ON WALL. 12 SQ FT COPY TO READ STRIPE 7-ELEVEN STRIPE. NOT WITHIN VIEW OF ARTERIAL HIGHWAY OR PUBLIC PARK. NO CHANGE IN USE, EGRESS OR OCCUPANCY.

As for the end of renovations/construction, the sign on the plywood points to a July 31 end date...



In other 7-Eleven news, BoweryBoogie has an update on the franchise opening on Grand Street here.

DOH temporarily closes Blue Owl on Second Avenue

The DOB temporarily closed Blue Owl on Second near East 12th Street Tuesday after an inspection yielded 49 violation points, according to city records.

Among the violations at the basement cocktail lounge/tapas joint: "Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred."

Good Friday blues explosion at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery

From the EV Grieve inbox...

Tony Award winner and Grammy nominee Ann Duquesnay joins historic St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery to tell Good Friday story through blues music

WHAT: St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery provides worshippers with a unique, spiritually moving Good Friday experience with its annual Good Friday Blues. The service uses American blues music to recreate the Passion story of Jesus. Framed by powerfully rendered blues and gospel music, Good Friday Blues tells the story of the betrayal and death of Jesus as written in the Gospel of John.

WHEN and WHERE: Friday, March 29 from noon to 3 p.m. at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, located at Second Avenue and East Tenth Street.

This year’s performance marks the 12th year of this liturgy, a collaboration between The Right Reverend Catherine S. Roskam, Bishop Suffragan of New York; Otis, and the St. Mark’s Choir.

WHO:Duquesnay and composer-guitarist Ana Hernandez will join the talents of the St. Mark’s Choir and the Good Friday Blues Band. Liturgy dancers include Dawn Crandell and a dancer from the Vissi Dance Theater. Co-narrating the Passion are Vinie Burrows and Amelia V. Anderson. Leading insightful and thought-provoking meditations throughout the service will be the Rector of St. Mark’s, The Rev. Winnie Varghese and The Rev. Richard Witt and Nell Gibson.

Billy Hurricane's is expanding, and looking for 'tattooed bartenders'

Spotted this link over at The Lo-Down yesterday ... apparently Billy Hurricane's on Avenue B is opening (or re-opening?) a new outpost in the area... and they are hiring bartenders... specifically via a listing at ShiftGig:

Tattooed Bartenders Wanted!
Job Description
Upcoming Lower East Side / East Village Bar w/ Kitchen Looking for some New Staff for New Location!
Bourbon... Beers... Burgers... Blastin' Rock!

What we are looking for...

>> Male or Female
>> Age 21- 31
>> Professional, Reliable & Punctual
>> Experienced (Mixology a Plus)
>> Outgoing & Fun
>> Tattoo'd ( not a unicorn on your ankle kind of tattoo)
>> Non-Complete-Alcoholic
>> Social Media Savvy
>> Possible Following of Friends / Fans

Previously.

On the April CB3/SLA docket: A billiards hall for Red Square; move for the Living Room; new partners for Boca Chica?

CB3 just released its schedule for April meetings... and there are some interesting applications on the SLA docket. We'll have more about the meeting, scheduled for April 8, later... for now, here are the more intriguing applicants:


[Boca Chica from several weeks ago]

Applications within Saturated Areas
• Golden C Hospitality (Golden C Hospitality), 13 1st Ave (op)

This is the address for Boca Chica, which, as Serena Solomon at DNAinfo first reported on Feb. 26, closed while the remaining owner looked for new partners. Perhaps she has found some.

New Liquor License Applications
• NYC Billiards Club Inc, 250 E Houston St (op)

Well. This address is for the shops along Red Square between Avenue A and Avenue B ... and there's a big fat vacancy ever since Blockbuster closed last year. Interesting... seeing as Soho Billiards closed several blocks away late last year.

• The Living Room (ACP Project), 173 E 2nd St (op)

Back on the docket after withdrawing last month. The acoustic-music venue is hoping to take over the Klean & Klenaer laundromat, as we previously reported.

• Goats (Goat Brothers Inc), 213 2nd Ave (op)

This is the address for the Nightingale Lounge. Anyone know what's going on here?

• The Nugget Spot (Uncle J's Inc), 230 E 14th St (wb)

Hmm. Quite a name. This is likely going in the former Walid Menswear space. They closed last fall.

I loved their storefront.

[Photo by James and Karla Murray]

Corporate Change with Complaint History
Cafe 81 (81 E 7th Pastry Shop Corp), 81 E 7th St (op)

New life for the bar that has been closed since the fall?

Free clothes up for grabs as East 10th Street laundromat closes

The laundromat (Chow & Lam Corp.) here at 204 E. 10th St. near Second Avenue has now apparently closed, victim of a large rent increase. EVG regular Steve Carter passed along these photos from today...



Mimi and her son Antony worked steadily here for many years. Mimi opened the Laundromat with her husband Peter, who passed away in May 2000.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Rent hike KOs East 10th Street laundromat