A good day for Zoltar ... though he did pick UMass to cover the spread against Wisconsin.
Photo by Bobby Williams.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Step right up....
A good day for Zoltar ... though he did pick UMass to cover the spread against Wisconsin.
Photo by Bobby Williams.
Minor Threat at CBGB 1982
If you're interested... head on over to Dangerous Minds, where they have a (muddy) video from this Minor Threat show at CBGB circa Dec. 18, 1982.
This is the good stuff.
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Ahem! Please pause your Saturday. There is a — surprise! — Street Fair ("street fair"?) to report... on Fourth Avenue from East 14th Street down to, oh — who cares! We spotted workers assembling the usual displays of sunglasses, belts and wieners.
Hurry, because you won't have the chance to see this stuff again until tomorrow, when the same people set up on Broadway!
Previously on EV Grieve:
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Street fair! Street fair! Street fair!
Last call for the Odessa Cafe and Bar tonight
Skulikidis tells DNAinfo's Serena Solomon that he was hit with a 50 percent rent hike. (Current rent is $10,000 a month.) He will continue to operate the Odessa Restaurant next door.
But he sounds less than optimistic about the future.
Looking ahead, Skulikidis plans to continue working at Odessa seven days a week and said he has no interest in closing it or making major changes — but eventually he will have to move on.
"Everything is for sale at the right price anytime," he said.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Building that houses Odessa Cafe and Bar for sale on Avenue A
Is the end nearing for Odessa Cafe and Bar on Avenue A?
Former GM from Tribeca's Tiny's & the Bar Upstairs part of team to buy the Odessa Cafe
Reader report: Odessa Cafe closes for good after Aug. 15
Reader report: Odessa Cafe and Bar will remain open through Sept. 6
Friday, August 30, 2013
Imagine a sunny holiday
Always a nice little end-of-summer (sob!) song ...circa 1980... the Marine Girls... featuring Tracey Thorn.
See you back on Tuesday! We're off to Montauk (have you heard of it?) for the weekend. Four more places there where we haven't thrown up yet!
Oh, that's not true. We'll be right here. As always.
Report: Extortion claims highlight Croman suit vs. former Warhol muse
According to the suit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Croman reached a deal with Holzer in December 2012 to buy four rental apartment buildings she owns — 60 Avenue B, 159-161 Stanton Street, 193-195 Stanton Street and 343 East 8th Street — for a total of $40.1 million.
But Holzer is now threatening to rent out 18 empty rent-stabilized apartments in the buildings unless the buyers pay her an additional $2.5 million, Croman claims.
Croman claims Holzer is trying to extort millions of dollars from them.
Read the whole article here.
H/T Curbed
Troubling talk about 128 Second Ave, and the long-term future of the Stage
There is talk about 128 Second Ave. near St. Mark's Place. Word is the building is in contract... A resident with knowledge of the situation here said that the building is being sold "to a group of four relatively young guys" ... who were heard "talking about 'clearing out' the shop in the front — which is the Stage."
The Stage has been serving delicious and inexpensive Eastern European cuisine since 1980... While all this is far from official, the resident remains worried. "I can't stand another one of our wonderful places going down." And if you're a Stage fan, then the resident figures it's time to show them some more love.
[Photo by freelance photographer Michael Seto]
Previously on EV Grieve:
An appreciation: Breakfast at Stage
The street-smart style of Serendipity in Tompkins Square Park
Back in June, we saw the arrival of "Serendipity," the life-sized sculpture of Christopher Gamble's silhouette in Tompkins Square Park. The silhouette is in honor of Gamble, who was homeless for nearly 28 years. Fanny Allié's creation will be in the Park through November.
And throughout the summer, someone saw fit to add a few accessories to the sculpture, from the always dashing caution-tape scarf...
...to the Duct tape waistband-headband combo...
... to the Master Lock choker...
Here today, on Project Runway Season 14 in a year or two...
Photos by Bobby Williams.
Noted
And an incident to report over in Stuy Town... via the Town & Village Blog's Police Watch:
There was not a description of the man provided in the report.
H/T Crazy Eddie
A resident of 310 First Avenue reported that her apartment was broken into last Friday at 4:09 p.m. She told police that when she entered the apartment, she saw a man inside her bedroom without permission to be there. He was also naked in her bedroom and when she went in the room, she saw him putting on her skirt. She said that she was unsure if she had locked the door and there was no forced entry. No arrests have been made.
There was not a description of the man provided in the report.
H/T Crazy Eddie
New business now open on Second Avenue
And to head this off at the pass in the comments, Twister does NOT serve anything in a hoof. So no FroHoHo™. (Frozen Hoboken Hoof.)
Also making headlines, David Schwimmer
And in the last 36 hours or so, there was some media interest in the EVG post about someone painting "Ross is not cool" on the plywood outside David Schwimmer's new home on East Sixth Street. (Supermarket tablet The Globe will have it in its next print edition. Really.)
And because several people asked: We did not receive any compensation for the photo, which came from Marc, a neighbor. (Also, no one actually offered us money for the shot.)
Also, while the story did attract media attention, the number of page views paled in comparison to high-profile posts here that featured topless women. Like this one. Or this one. So, the takeaway? Celebrity sells, but you need boobs apparently.
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