There are lot of food-related events happening in the neighborhood this weekend. The 7th Annual Dumpling Eating Contest in Sara D. Roosevelt Park tomorrow will probably be the most entertaining. Five-time defending champion Joe “Gentleman” Manchetti is the man to beat. He devoured 66 dumplings in two minutes back in 2008! The contest takes place at 1pm, on the Houston Street end of the park. It’s part of the larger Dumpling Festival, which begins at noon. You’ll be able to sample dumplings from all over the world, including Italy, Malaysia, China and Poland. Check out the festival’s web site for more info.
         
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All sorts of people take classes at the Abrons Arts Center. This month we’ve gotten to know some of them — including a Lower East Side mom and her 8-year old daughter. Today, in our final profile, we meet Timothy (left) and Adam, who have both been part of the Abrons family for more than a decade. Timothy, 20, lives in Brooklyn but he attended P.S. 42 on Hester Street. He’s been involved in theatrical productions, ballet and music. He performed in Nutcracker in the Lower and has been part of Abrons’ immersive Steampunk Haunted House. Adam, 17, is a Lower East Side resident and a senior at LaGuardia High School. His first experience at Abrons was in a piano class and from there he moved on to violin instruction, ballet and dance ensemble. Adam’s also had the chance to choreograph his own performances. Continue reading Sponsored Post: Abrons Arts Center Fall Classes
 Photo via the New Amsterdam Market's Facebook page. Last Sunday, we stopped by the New Amsterdam Market (NAM) to see how the vendors are adjusting to the new weekly schedule (they’ll be at the Seaport every weekend through December 19th). While we didn’t toss off our shoes and partake in the grape stomping (see photo), there were plenty of other attractions to check out, including fresh produce from Breezy Hill Orchard, Saxelby Cheesemongers Porchetta and Rick’s Picks. Continue reading New Amsterdam Market Woos Local Shoppers
 Steve Elson and Friends Playing Klezmer Music at a Prior Year's Sukkot Celebration in M'Finda Kalunga There are all kinds of festivities to take part in this weekend on the L.E.S. Here are a few at the top of our list:
By Traven Rice in Arts, Community Organizations, Events, Food on September 24, 2010 11:47 am |
 0 Comments   Photo by Pat Arnow We begin our Friday with artist Olek’s latest creation. Photographer Pat Arnow captured this image on Elizabeth Street, south of Kenmare. Continue reading Good Morning: Shelly’s One Way Ticket, Baby in the Bike Lane, EV Radio’s Rising Profile
The New Museum will be hosting a big poetry “get-together” in a marathon tribute to Brion Gysin (in connection with their current exhibit, Brion Gysin: Dream Machine) on Saturday in their panoramic Sky Room. Three generations of poets will participate in a daylong poetry reading. Continue reading Gysin’s Ghost: Poetry Marathon at The New Museum
This evening District 1′s Community Education Council (CEC) meets to discuss a number of issues, including the latest test score results. There will be a presentation on the topic from Deputy Chancellor Shael Suransky. Also tonight, the CEC will consider resolutions on test scores, as well as the need for a school on the Seward Park Urban Renewal site. Finally, they’ll discuss new charter schools on the Lower East Side. Anyone in the community is welcome to speak during the CEC’s public session (as long as they sign up beforehand). The meeting begins at 5:45pm at P.S. 20 on Essex Street.
 Both the neon and the taps are off at Aces and Eights. Following up on our story last week about the closing of Aces and Eights, we learned yesterday that the embattled East Village bar, which had been operating off the regulation grid for more than a year, has now lost the one key license it did possess. One of the reasons Aces and Eights succeeded in conducting business without a basic operating permit from the city’s health department was that the previous tenant of 34 Avenue A, Mo Pitkin’s, had possessed a permanent liquor license. That allowed the Aces and Eights management to secure a temporary liquor license and to open its doors (in April 2009) without having to produce any city permits — while its own application for a permanent license was pending. The city shuttered the bar Sept. 14, after finally catching up with the paperwork loophole. Late last week, the NY State Liquor Authority followed suit, yanking Aces and Eights’ right to serve alcohol. Continue reading Follow-up: Aces and Eights Loses Liquor License
 Photo by Joel Raskin. 78 degrees and sunny today. Alternate side parking is suspended today and tomorrow in observance of Sukkah. District 1′s Community Education Council meets tonight to dscuss, among other things, the latest test score results (we will post the full agenda a bit later). Continue reading Good Morning: Aces & Eights Update, Chatham Square Library Temporarily Closing, Keanu in the Hood
 Photo by Patrick Hedlund, DNA Info This morning we made reference to last night’s packed 9th Precinct community meeting, which focused mainly on the murder and mayhem taking place outside the 2nd Avenue bar Sin Sin. Patrick Hedlund of DNA Info has a good summary of the evening’s events, including a tense confrontation between the bar’s owner and the sister of a man shot and killed outside the club last month. We’re going to take a look at one of the big questions coming out of the meeting: is there more police could be doing to deal not just with Sin Sin but with all problem night spots? Continue reading Ninth Precinct Commander Struggles to Balance Nightlife and Neighbors
Lebewohl was shot and killed on the morning of March 4, 1996 outside the NatWest Bank on East 4th Street. Police believe the suspects, at least two men, stole around $10,000, forcing Lebewohl into the back of his van and then fleeing after driving for just about one block.
The Museum at Eldridge has been documenting the final stages of the installation of their new stained-glass window by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans. They will be celebrating the new window (and the culmination of a 24-year, award-winning restoration of the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a New York City and National Historic Landmark) on October 10th from 11a-4p. The artwork will take the place of the tablet shaped windows, installed in 1944, seen above.
You can see a slide show and videos on their homepage here. Their facebook page has lots of photographs, as well. Watch a video of the 300 pound panels being lifted in to place, posted today on YouTube (after the jump). Continue reading Museum at Eldridge Installs Kiki Smith Window
By Traven Rice in Arts, Community Organizations, Featured on September 22, 2010 3:47 pm |
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 Image via White Roof Project's Facebook Page This past weekend, we were over at the Bowery Mission to witness quite a spectacle: dozens of volunteers crawling through windows and climbing up ladders — paint brushes in hand — to paint the organization’s 10,000 square foot rooftop. If you caught Bill Clinton on the Daily Show or Letterman the other night, you might have already figured out what this is all about. Continue reading The Bowery Mission’s White Rooftop
 Gary Z & Rob - 70's Rock and R&B Revue.
This weekend in East River Park, a group of longtime neighborhood residents are putting on a free concert — it’s the third annual “Reunion of the LES Bands.” Among the acts set to perform: Robbie & Gary Z’s 70′s Rock and R&B Revue (pictured), the New Funk Generation with Denis Elmore, Fuzion (a second generation jazz band) and Gospel Flair from Samuel Glendall Wright. Continue reading LES Band Reunion This Weekend in East River Park
There will be activities and culinary delights for all ages, including upstate New York apple producers Red Jacket Orchards proudly presenting countless varieties of apples.
Continue reading NYC Apple Day is Back This Sunday on Orchard Street
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