Check out the new EVTransitions--a blog after my own heart. [via EVG]
Visit the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge and its lovely dancers--it recently shuttered after 100 years. [EVG]
On the Bowery returns to Film Forum--don't miss it: 11/19 - 25. [FF]
See BAN's Bowery exhibit on the same day for an all-Bowery afternoon. [GSN]
Remembering when the Deuce was still dirty. [TASOL]
A way-too-large percentage of Gothamist readers prefer today's Olive Gardeny version of Times Square to the classic. I don't get it. [Gothamist]
Quentin Crisp's East Village apartment gets recreated--at MIX.
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a.k.a. The Book of Lamentations:
a bitterly nostalgic look at a city in the process of going extinct
- Jeremiah Moss
- THE BOOK:
"We should all buy Jeremiah Moss’s book, Vanishing New York." --Sarah Jessica Parker
“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and cheap pierogi.” --Vanity Fair
"a vigorous, righteously indignant book that would do Jane Jacobs proud." --Kirkus Reviews
THE BLOG:
"the go-to hub for those who lament New York's loss of character." --Crain's
"No one takes stock of New York's changes with the same mixture of snark, sorrow, poeticism, and lyric wit as Jeremiah Moss." --Village Voice, Best of NY
“Jeremiah Moss…is the defender of all the undistinguished hunks of masonry that lend the streets their rhythm.” --Justin Davidson, New York Magazine
"One of the most thorough and pugnacious chroniclers of New York’s blandification." --The Atlantic, Citylab
"Hyperbolic and combative, tireless and passionate." --Salon
Cool! I've been looking for a Lou Diamond Phillips cake for my next Young Guns viewing party. (Should have seen what we found inside the Charlie Sheen cake!)
ReplyDeleteMy experience was that Times Sq in 1986 was fucking scary.
ReplyDelete@EV Grieve: I want a slice of the Sheen cake! Do you eat it, smoke it or snort it?
ReplyDeleteThat Gothamist poll has 65% voting for the old-school Times Square.
ReplyDeleteshould be at least 85%!
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with this city? Cake shops everywhere! Did you see the dreadful new fancy one that opened on 8th Ave today near 15th Street.
ReplyDeletePass the barf bag.
May I say the current Bruce's in Great Neck is a riot! Excessive quantities of food and the clientele makes me feel like I am in Miami. It actually has a certain sort of New Yorkish vulgarity and the food is pretty good, too. So I would not poo poo this particular news. It is far better than a chain going in.
ReplyDeleteCarol G, your description is what i hoped for--no poo-pooing here, i look forward to seeing C-List celebs as cakes!
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