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Three recent pieces by avant-garde filmmaker Ernie Gehr’s “Lower East Side Trilogy” is screening online at MoMA. Autumn (completed 2017), Aproposessexstreetmarket (2018), and Circling Essex Crossing (2018). MoMA describes the trilogy as a sequel to Gehr’s Essex Street Quartet, currently screening in an installation on the Museum’s fourth floor. … 
Artist Timothy Goodman created this mural, “2020 In Memoriam” on Orchard Street (at Broome St.) to honor some of the big names we lost in 2020. On his Instagram page, he notes: “Some were tragically murdered because of racism, some are gone because of cancer, and some died of natural causes. Their deaths impacted us in profound ways…” … 
The Public Theater’s experimental festival, Under the Radar is moving online this year, and is being offered for free. As with most theatrical and … 
“Downtown 2021,” a new show curated by Sam Gordon at La MaMa Galleria opens tomorrow. A collection of work by local artists who have … 
Hester Street Fair is moving their online Gift Guide to the brick and mortar gallery at 22 Ludlow for an extra week of New … By Traven Rice in Arts, Business, Fashion, Shopping, small business on January 3, 2021 2:27 pm |  Comments closed 
Monthly ceremonial fires, organized by Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet at Abrons Arts Center will continue this spring, centering Indigenous protocol and knowledge with … 
This week’s snowstorm meant a return of everyone’s favorite, Chinatown’s Giant Snowman. We missed him last year, because it was such a mild winter. … 
A free conversation and book talk with rising star and recent National Book Award winner, Charles Yu, will be online at Chatham Square Library … 
A new mural honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by street artist ELLE, is gaining fans far beyond the Lower East Side. The mural, on the former Obey Giant wall at the corner of 1st Ave. and 11th Street, has become so popular, the street artist is now selling prints … 
Longtime Lower East Sider and founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Miguel Algarin Jr. has died. He was 79. A poet, playwright, activist and professor who created the famous spoken word salon in his living room on the Lower East Side, Nuyorican Poets Cafe continues to thrive on East 3rd Street … By Traven Rice in Arts, Community Organizations, Featured on December 3, 2020 3:34 pm | Comments closed 
Tompkins Square Library is hosts the Fourth Annual East Village Arts Festival Friday, December 4 — Saturday, December 12, 2020. As with almost all … 
Friends of Corlears Hook Park announced a holiday tree decorating event for the whole family. They write: Our holiday tree has arrived. Join us … By Traven Rice in Community Organizations, Kids, Parks and Recreation on December 3, 2020 2:15 pm | Comments closed 
A crowd gathered on Essex Street between Grand and Hester streets (above Delancy Car Service) last weekend for an inspired performance by local musician Jill Fiore. She’s been getting some attention by keeping people dancing with her warm-hearted and creative pandemic work-around, by performing live on her fire escape. … 
Thanks to Amy Robinson for sending along this sunset photo from East River Park, Thanksgiving, 2020. … 
Sweet Pickle Books, a used bookstore and pickle shop, opened at 47 Orchard Street this week. Offering used books and homemade pickles, the shop also “buys books, libraries, records and weird things … By Traven Rice in Arts, Business, Kids, small business on November 21, 2020 1:05 pm | Comments closed |
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