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Here are musician Ken Beasley’s top shows of the week:
 Josh Mease
JOSH MEASE – Rockwood Music Hall – Thursday, April 1 When you listen to the music of Josh Mease, a million images orbit your mind, and none of them will ever hurt you. It’s as if you’re sleepily floating towards a framed watercolor wilderness, slowly approaching, closer and closer, until you finally enter it and become one with swirling streams, grassy meadows, and frolicking bunnies.  
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has appointed 88 new members to the 12 community boards he oversees. A news release from his office highlights the emphasis on increasing the diversity of the all-volunteer boards. “In Community Board 3 alone,” the release says, “the Asian American representation increased from 12 percent to 20 percent of the board in comparison to last year.” Continue reading Stringer Announces Community Board Appointments
Continue reading DOE Vows to Fight Complaint From LES Parents
Was the New Museum’s “Skin Fruit” worth the trouble? (WNYC). The Lounge at Dixon Place has its official opening April 8 (Broadway World). Painkiller now has what every good tiki lounge needs, a bad ass logo! (Black Book).
A few hearty souls on Orchard Street yesterday weren’t about to let a downpour deter them from making the right choices at Laboratorio del Gelato! We appear to have survived the monsoon. There could be a few main showers this morning, but we might just see the sun this afternoon. Today’s high: 58. 67 and mostly sunny tomorrow!
It’s hard to believe, but election season is once again upon us. One of the neighborhood’s most influential political organizations, CODA (Coalition for a District Alternative), is holding a Democratic candidate forum Thursday night. U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney and her District 14 challenger Reshma Saujani have been invited to participate, as well as U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez and her District 12 opponent, Bruce Hirschfeld. State Senator Daniel Squadron (District 25) and Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh (District 74) have been invited, as well. They are running unopposed. The forum will take place at 535 East 5th Street, at 7pm.
Victor Papa of the Two Bridges Neighborhood Council is fond of saying that Italians and Chinese in Lower Manhattan have enjoyed more harmonious relations than any ethnic groups in the city. Living side by side in Chinatown and Little Italy for generations, they’ve always (literally and figuratively) found common ground. It was this fact that led Papa to push for state and federal designation of the two neighborhoods as a single historic district. Continue reading Neighborhood Organizations Plan Marco Polo Weekend
 Lydia Ransom at last month's Book Club Burlesque at Parkside Lounge If you aren’t planning on attending the “Rescue Me” Fireman Singles Party at R-Bar tonight, there are a couple other lascivious events happening that might pique your interest: Inbred Hybrid Collective is back at Parkside Lounge with their “Bookclub Burlesque“. This evening’s variety show, “Geek Chic,” takes inspiration from Katherine Dunn’s 1989 novel, Geek Love, about a traveling circus-freak family. 8pm. $5. Shim MamSir Productions will present Ballad of the Bad Bad Girls, the second in a series of “unauthorized staged readings of plays, films,TV movies, sitcoms and after school specials — all presented with a drag twist,” tomorrow night at the Bowery Poetry Club. What type of “bad girl” will they be paying homage to? Think: Ilene Warnos, Amy Fisher and Squeeky Fromme. 8pm. $10.
 Cooking class at the Grand Street Settlement Several girls gather around a large chef’s table, as Alicia Sanchez explains the finer points of making tortillas from scratch. On the menu today: fresh fish tacos. Sanchez, owner of the Sugarplum Bakery in Brooklyn, comes to the Lower East Side four times a week to work with students in the Grand Street Settlement’s after school program. Her cooking classes are popular – and effective. These kids are enthusiastic and engaged. They’re learning to cook nutritious meals, and picking up some valuable life skills along the way. Continue reading Grand Street Settlement Prepares for Taste of the LES
Denied “Race to the Top” funds, New York is once again under pressure to raise the charter school cap (NYT). Albany votes to extend rent subsidies in Lower Manhattan, a measure pushed by Sheldon Silver and Daniel Squadron (Observer). The New Museum’s architects, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, win the Pritzker Prize (L Magazine).
 The Beekman Tower: under construction and shrouded in fog. You don’t need us to tell you it’s not nice outside. The rain and wind won’t let up until sometime tomorrow. Today’s high 49 degrees. Alternate side parking rules are suspended today, due to Passover. But you’ll still have to pay the meters. Seems like a good morning for matzah brei. However, in a cruel turn of events, the Doughnut Plant is ushering in spring today with strawberry doughnuts!
The controversy over the expansion of the Girls Prep Charter School lives on. This morning, parents from the Lower East Side announced they have filed a formal complaint with New York State’s education commissioner. In a news conference on the steps of City Hall a short time ago, they argued the DOE violated state law by failing to outline how other district schools would be impacted and by disregarding required procedures — and they insisted the decision must be annulled. Continue reading LES Parents File Complaint Against Dept. of Education
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