Photo by Nick Solares.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
The Halal Guys are now in the East Village
We now have a cart open today in the East Village. It is found on the NE corner of 14th St. and 2nd Ave. It will be open from 11am to 11pm.
— THE HALAL GUYS (@HalalGuys) September 20, 2013
The fellows with the popular food cart on 53rd and 6th have opened an outpost hereabouts... per the above tweet... they announced this back in June.
Reader report: Jazz legend Giuseppi Logan jumped on East 9th Street
EVG reader Bayou talked with a bloodied Giuseppi Logan in Tompkins Square Park... The 78-year-old Logan, a familiar sight in the Park with his saxophone, said that he had been attacked earlier in the morning on East Ninth Street ... He said the assailant(s?) didn't take anything — because he didn't have anything... Bayou brought him bandages and a little something to eat... The soft-spoken Logan didn't provide any other details.
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For further reading in the Times from April 2012:
Giuseppi Logan’s Second Chance
Prepping for the NYC Pizza Run in Tompkins Square Park
Oh. The NYC Pizza Run starts this morning at 11 in Tompkins Square Park.
From the website!
What does participating entail?
Participants will run four laps around the park, counterclockwise. The total distance of the race is 2.25 miles. After lap 1, lap 2, and lap 3, there will be a “pizza station” set up where participants must stop to eat a slice of pizza before they can continue with the next lap. The first person to complete the run will be crowned the NYC Pizza Run Champion!
It costs $50 to enter, which includes an official race bib, the pizza and drinks afterwards at Common Ground. Also! "A portion of the proceeds will also be donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)." And the slices come via Pizza by Cer té – "Manhattan’s first green pizzeria."
Dave on 7th, who took these photos, wonders if the participants will be running by the folks waiting in line for a free meal this morning...
Anyway, if you don't like NYC Pizza Runs, then move to...
Washing day
On the Bowery this morning.
Speaking of 7-Eleven... there is a "No 7-Eleven" rally tomorrow at 1 on Avenue A and East 11th Street...
Friday, September 20, 2013
Come dancing
The Julie Ruin with "Oh Come On" ... the new record from Kathleen Hanna's latest band came out the other week...
EV Grieve Etc.: Mourning Edition
[Avenue C & East 6th Street via Michael Sean Edwards]
More about Stik and his new mural on 9th and A (Artlyst)
The Fab! Festival is Sept. 28 (Off the Grid)
Eating at Kura on St. Mark's Place (The New York Times)
Soundtracks from Tom Waits, Nick Cave, John Cale, Neil Young, Sonic Youth and more (Dangerous Minds)
Check out the film scores of John Zorn (Anthology Film Archives)
Madonna in '83 (BoweryBoogie)
PS 64 creates a dance studio out of a former shower room (DNAinfo)
A look inside Davey's Ice Cream on First Avenue (Eater)
Exhuming Dee Dee Ramone's "Funky Man" (Flaming Pablum)
A $60 million penthouse for the Puck Building (Curbed)
A look at Colony Music today (Jeremiah's Vanishing New York)
... and EVG regular peter radley shared these from 51 Astor the other day ... where he spotted a red-tailed hawk in action...
Gem Spa stunner: Zoltar now has Key Master competition; doomsday predicted
In a sad and shocking power play that has reverberated throughout the neighborhood, Zoltar now has a game-of-chance companion in the form of Key Blaster outside Gem Spa.
Stunned passersby were naturally stunned to see that Zoltar was no longer the only game in town, or at least here on Second Avenue at St. Mark's Place.
"This is like really fucked up and stuff," said EVG reader Jim, who asked that his first name not be used in association with this post mostly because he was swearing. "First, they put the Lottery thing [Play Center] next to Zoltar. Then there is the display of like those Kardashian mags Us Weekly and OK! Are they purposefully trying to take away business from Zoltar?"
As for Key Master, a so-called "prize merchandising game," contestants compete to win such prizes as Macy's Gift Cards, iPhones, iPods [Ed note: Do they still make these?] and iPod Minis [Ed note: Do they still make these?].
You may also win presumably real $100 bills [Ed note: Do they still make these?] ... which might be a bad idea to have on display considering what some roughnecks with skateboards have done here in the past...
In case you've never been on a cruise ship, here's how Key Master works: You use a joystick for horizontal movement and a large button for the vertical alignment. Then! You manipulate a "key" so that it lines up perfectly with a "lock" holding a prize. If you successfully guide the key into the lock, then you win the prize. (OK, I just totally lifted that from this fellow's blog.)
A tutorial. (God, whatever you do — turn down the volume!)
Takeaway: Key Master is dumb! Long live Zoltar!
It's peephole season people!
Oh, what a bad headline! Anyway! Since 2005, East Village artist J. Kathleen White has created a set of peephole dioramas that she displays along the fence in the Ninth Street Community Garden at Avenue C.
And the 2013 edition is now on view, as Bobby Williams discovered yesterday...
Be sure to check them out in person... and here are here dioramas from 2012 ... and 2011...
At the unveiling of the new Joe Strummer mural
[Photo by Shawn Chittle]
Last night, Niagara officially unveiled the new Joe Strummer mural on East Seventh Street...
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[Dave on 7th]
Mick Jones of the Clash was on hand... (as was Strummer friend Jim Jarmusch)...
[Photo by @GreggGreenwood]
Slum Goddess shot this video ... (she has more photos and video here)...
...and Shawn Chittle shot this video...
Welcome back.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Happening now: The Joe Strummer mural is returning! The Joe Strummer mural is returning!
The Joe Strummer mural will return
Joe Strummer gets a splash of Niagara
Joe Strummer gets a new look, skyline
Watch the Joe Strummer mural come back to life in 12-plus minutes
[This morning]
Legendary graffiti artist Dr. Revolt started work on the new Joe Strummer mural outside Niagara on East Seventh Street and Avenue A back on Sunday... he put the finishing touches on it yesterday afternoon for last night's official unveiling ...
And now, through the magic of time-lapse video... here's Revolt (who is not Chico!) creating the whole thing in a mere 12-plus minutes... video by Adam Yellin.
Revolt and Zephyr created the original mural back in 2003... after the Clash frontman's untimely death in December 2002.
[Via TruthIsCoolVideo on YouTube]
Can comedy be funny in an East Village apartment?
In recent months, roommates Dan Hurwitz and Drew Miller have been hosting sorta secret monthly comedy shows in their East Village apartment (East Seventh Street and Second Avenue ... above Standings) with some real, live comedians ... they recently debuted a LIVE @ THE APT YouTube channel with clips from their first few shows.
They're starting Season No. 2 tonight from a location in Williamsburg (the horror!), though the show will return to the East Village, Miller says.
Anyway, all this sounded interesting enough... so we asked Miller a few questions via email about LIVE @ THE APT.
What inspired you to start LIVE @ THE APT?
We both are huge comedy fans and after seeing a show one night where our host, Charles Gould, was performing, we just thought, why can't we put on a show ourselves? We recruited Charles to host and then the only thing missing was a venue. I had one of those kitchens that attach to a living room so we took the couch apart and created a makeshift venue. It was just cheaper and more fun to do in an apartment anyway.
Any challenges of doing something like this from an actual real East Village apartment?
Oh yeah, plenty. For one, the space is entirely way too cramped to the point where we've had people sitting in the sink to watch the show. We did a show in the summer and it was so hot even with two air conditioners going the place was a sweatbox. One of our comedians got locked out during one of the shows cause the front door was broken. Basically everything you'd expect in an East Village apartment, which is what we think makes the show different and fun in a way.
How would you say the first shows have gone?
They have had their challenges definitely, but have improved with each show. The positive feedback we have been getting tell us we must be doing something right (hopefully). This is a pretty new experience for all of us so we learn as we go. We did our last show up on a roof, which went really well — probably cause people weren't sweating in an apartment. We haven't been evicted and our neighbors and landlords haven't complained so I would say that's a good measure of success for putting on comedy shows in an apartment.
Generally speaking, what can people who show up expect?
Some of the best up-and-coming comedians in NYC for one. People may or may not have to sit on up-side down milk-crates or there is standing room in the kitchen. We also like to offer an inclusive environment and open our place to the public but since the apartment is a little small we just ask people to follow us on Twitter @liveapt to get the address/invite. Oh and also free beer.
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Charles Gould is the host, and tonight's show features Sarah Tollemache (NBC's "Last Comic Standing"), Kevin Barnett (MTV's "Guy Code") and Josh Rabinowitz (voted Comedy Central's "Comics to Watch" and one of Just for Laughs "New Faces")
Doors open at 9:30 pm, show starts at 10:30 pm. The show is free.
For further reading on EV Grieve:
Watch Steve Buscemi and Mark Boone Junior at the Gusto House on E. 4th St. in 1988
Tomorrow is the Annual 9th Street A-1 Block Association Block Party
From the EVG inbox...
Annual 9th Street A-1 Block Association Block Party!
(9th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A
Saturday, September 21, 11 am – 5 pm (no rain date)
Live Music (from 12 noon - 4pm) featuring
Bluesco
Navivan
Supersilk
Ruckus
and more!
Resident artists, crafts people, and photographers will be showing and selling their work, and residents will be selling a la "stoop sale" — antiques, bric-a-brac, clothing, accessories, music, jewelry, etc.
Raffles for gifts, discounts, or coupons from block businesses
Block businesses include:
Boutiques and Antiques: Bridal Veil Falls, ChiroFit, Cloak & Dagger, Devorado, Delto Meest, Dorian Grey Gallery, Dusty Buttons, Enchantments, Flower Power, Grey Era, Ollie's Place, Pink Olive, Polytima, Pork Pie Hatterie, Puppy Love Kitty Kat, Reason Outpost, The Upper Rust, Wineshop
Restaurants: Cagen, Dirt Candy, Good Beer, Whitman's, Zucker Bakery
Hair Salons/Barbers: Lovemore & Do, Maria Mok Salon, Neighborhood Barber
Also tomorrow: Block for the First Street Children's Park
Don't have any other info at the moment than what's on the flyer...
The former L'asso EV is for lease on First Avenue
L'asso EV closed here back in July on First Avenue between East Sixth Street and East Seventh Street... the "for lease" sign is up on the space now, though we haven't spotted the listing online at Tower just yet. It's an ample-sized space — 1,800 square feet (with basement) ... plus two wood-burning stoves... sounds perfect for... ? Another pizzeria?
Memorial tonight for LES Jewels in Tompkins Square Park
[December 2011, by Walter Wlodarczyk Photography]
We don't have a lot of specific information... other than it is happening in the Park tonight at 8 ... and if the Facebook invite is any indication, then a good number of people are going.
Previously on EV Grieve:
RIP LES Jewels (74 comments)
Thursday, September 19, 2013
This morning in East Village docking stations without any Citi Bikes
We've heard from a few people who mentioned that several docking stations around the East Village were without any actual Citi Bikes, like the one on East Seventh Street at Avenue A shown at (gulp) 6:18 a.m. (The bike in the photo was out of commission.)
Others mentioned an unusual lack of bikes for the morning hour, when people may be needing them, at 13th and A, Ninth and C, and Second and B.
Meanwhile, a little after 10, a truck toting a stash of Citi Bikes pulled up to Seventh and A ... where there were two immediate takers for bikes...
[Photo by Derek Berg]
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