June 19th, 2009
Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell. After an eight year respite, performance artist John Kelly has returned to the Abrons Arts Center with his inspired tribute. As the Village Voice noted, even Joni Mitchell said the performance made her cry. You can see it through June 27th.
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June 19th, 2009
Organizers are putting the finishing touches on tomorrow's 3rd Annual New Village Music Festival in Tompkins Square Park. It's a celebration of music, culture and community that was created not only to promote emerging musical artists in the neighborhood but to embrace the organizations that serve the East Village and Lower East Side. The festival [...]
June 19th, 2009
Eater reports an overnight fire broke out at Teany, the tea and sandwich shop on Rivington Street. It was apparently an electrical fire that caused damage to the restaurant and at least some of the apartments in the building. A manager told Eater the destruction is significant, but they hope to reopen in a [...]
June 19th, 2009
The Fourth Arts Block and the LES Business Improvement District are joining forces for the first ever "Pride Goes East" celebration. The two organizations are sponsoring a week full of free entertainment events, nightlife specials, restaurant deals and shopping discounts that stretch across the East Village and the Lower East Side (click [...]
June 19th, 2009
Despite the fact that the city faces a $5 billion loss in revenues and has decided to layoff 2-thousand employees, the City Council has not reduced pork barrel spending one cent. Next year's budget includes more than $48 million in "discretionary spending." Most of this money goes to worthy non-profits, but a lot of people [...]
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