01/29/13 The Raw Greenwich Village News Feed

COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR GREENWICH VILLAGE (NEW YORK, NY).

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Oh, yesterday went suddenly _{2013-01-29, 03:00 am}
  How fitting that Richard Blanco chose the sun. A 44-year-old poet raised in Miami, the first Cuban-American and the first openly gay person ever to deliver a presidential inauguration poem, he used the earth star to frame his composition, "One Today," at last week's ceremony before the U.S. Capitol.
• Harmony House Concerts presents Greg Trooper Feb. 17 _{2013-01-29, 01:31 am}
  ... and plainspoken honesty. It's one reason Trooper's music feels equally informed by Memphis soul, Greenwich Village folk and Nashville twang. Trooper has made an impact on the music scenes in all the places he's lived since leaving home after high ...
• The stonewall legacy: ABA commission creates an award commemorating a key moment for LGBT rights _{2013-01-28, 04:40 pm}
  James Holmes: "The beginning of today's equality movement ties to about the time of the riots." Photo by Ben Hider/Getty Images.
• [Read the Rest] _{2013-01-28, 02:19 pm}
  ... Baldwin left Harlem in his twenties after working odd jobs as volunteer preacher, sweat shop laborer, and Greenwich Village artisan. He fled to France where he hoped his homosexuality and African American status would not serve to type cast his ...
• Residential Poised to Push CRE Rates Higher _{2013-01-28, 10:21 am}
  Much like commercial real estate around town, residential properties closed out 2012 in great health, especially on the new inventory front, according to real estate watcher MNS , which announced the findings on Friday in its fourth quarter report on new development in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• Pitts: Can Republicans accept that a new era has dawned? | Jan. 28 _{2013-01-28, 09:33 am}
  A 44-year-old poet raised in Miami, the first Cuban-American and the first openly gay person ever to deliver a presidential inauguration poem, he used the earth star to frame his composition, "One Today," at the Jan.
• Saying Goodbye To Bedford Street's Tireless Collector _{2013-01-27, 07:21 am}
  ... "for animals." The last time I saw Selman was shortly after Superstorm Sandy. I dropped by his tiny Greenwich Village apartment, which is across the street from Elliot's home, to interview him for a podcast I was producing for The Jewish Daily ...
• Gonsalves: Witness to key times in history _{2013-01-27, 02:48 am}
  Yarmouthport resident David Velasco Bermudez and a few of his buddies scraped together enough money for bus tickets and left the Big Apple bound for the March on Washington.
• Kathryn's Texas Kitchen _{2013-01-27, 12:57 am}
  If you're planning to make a special dreamy dinner at home this year, I have a couple of recommendations for your meal.
• Open Table announces 10 most romantic NYC restaurants for Valentine's Day _{2013-01-26, 08:54 pm}
  ... La Femme in the West Village serving Egyptian cuisine. At number 9 is One if By Land, Two if by Sea in Greenwich Village serving up American fare. Cafe Matisse in Rutherford featuring American food comes in at number 8. The seventh restaurant on the ...
• Animal trainer turns homeless into celebrities _{2013-01-26, 03:00 am}
  Chico continues to bark as trainer Bill Berloni reaches down to give him the command to stop by touching Chico's head, part of the demonstration and talk by Berloni at the Waterford Public Library.
• Victor Garber comes out: "Everybody knows" _{2013-01-26, 10:23 am}
  Victor Garber wasn't planning on publicly coming out, but when he was confronted about his sexuality, the Deception actor confirmed that he is in fact gay.
• Oh, yesterday went suddenly _{2013-01-26, 03:00 am}
  How fitting that Richard Blanco chose the sun. A 44-year-old poet raised in Miami, the first Cuban-American and the first openly gay person ever to deliver a presidential inauguration poem, he used the earth star to frame his composition, "One Today," at Monday's ceremony before the U.S. Capitol.
• David Howells/CorbisJay McInerney's New YorkFor many there's no more... _{2013-01-26, 12:19 am}
  ... blocks from where I live now. Mark Twain lived on 10th Street. I live on 9th Street. You know, it was, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh, changed. It's now got, God ...
• History's headlines: Prominent 20th Century Italian-American artist... _{2013-01-25, 09:39 pm}
  ... the almost 100 year old album. With the war's end Salemme returned to America. He settled in New York's Greenwich Village and began to practice his craft. The 1920s were a flourishing time in that enclave of art and artists and Salemme became part ...
• I May Not be a Smart Man _{2013-01-25, 08:48 pm}
  My wife and I spent our 10-year wedding anniversary in New York. During our stay, we saw two shows.
• Grief Isa Sword _{2013-01-25, 03:15 pm}
  This eulogy, and call to action, was delivered at "Spencer Cox: A Celebration of Life," a memorial service held on Sunday, Jan.
• A new safari-in-the-city resort near Nairobi _{2013-01-25, 01:50 pm}
  ... the traffic jams from and to the airport. emakoko.com New York Right away, visitors at the Jade Hotel in Greenwich Village will feel like they're staying in an elegant city home. The 113-room inn, which opens in Feburary, is housed in a ...
• Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman in Inside Llewyn Davis - trailer _{2013-01-25, 08:33 am}
  The film, which stars Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake and John Goodman, tells the story of a young singer-songwriter's attempts to break into the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene in New York.
• Leonard Pitts | Oh, yesterday went suddenly _{2013-01-25, 03:00 am}
  How fitting that Richard Blanco chose the sun. A 44-year-old poet raised in Miami, the first Cuban-American and the first openly gay person ever to deliver a presidential inauguration poem, he used the earth star to frame his composition, "One Today," at Monday's ceremony before the U.S. Capitol.

01/21/13 THE COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR GREENWICH VILLAGE (NEW YORK, NY)

• Peter Dreier: Obama Asks America to Learn the Radical Lessons of Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall _{2013-01-21, 09:19 pm}
  ... and other civil rights leaders. Stonewall is the name of a gay bar (the Stonewall Inn) in New York City's Greenwich Village where in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, patrons resisted arrest when police raided the bar, leading to a series of ...
• Obama embraces key movements at inauguration _{2013-01-21, 06:18 pm}
  ... and solidified support for passage of the Voting Rights Act. And Stonewall was a gay bar in New York' s Greenwich Village where in 1969, patrons stood up to harassment in a police raid. The incident became the signature moment of the gay rights ...
• Gay Activists Applaud Gay Rights Inclusion in Inaugural Address _{2013-01-21, 12:00 am}
  ... movement), to Selma (the black civil rights struggle) and then pointedly including Stonewall, the Greenwich Village bar where three nights of protest in 1969 ignited the modern gay rights movement. Obama "rightly exalted the struggle for the freedom ...
• Barack Obama's Stonewall moment: an inaugural landmark for gay equality | Jason Farago _{2013-01-21, 04:00 pm}
  After his first-term ambivalence on gay rights, this was stunning: the president put us squarely in America's struggle for civil rights The best inaugural addresses of presidents past can be reduced to a single phrase or line: "With malice toward none, with charity for all a " ; "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" ; "Ask not what your ... (more)
• The Perfect Cup of Brewed Tea _{2013-01-21, 11:54 am}
  Starbucks gets a lot of credit for raising both the bar for coffee as well as the overall awareness of how good coffee can be.
• Cloisters, High-Line Face Challenges to River Views _{2013-01-20, 02:23 pm}
  ... exposed parts of the park will be surrounded on all sides by large new developments," according to the Greenwich Village Society For Historic Preservation's Off the Grid blog . The only thing left to do there is catch as many rays as possible on the ...
• David Little: Nature nudged out of NYC _{2013-01-20, 04:40 am}
  Work brought me to New York City last week, but as someone who knows how to mix business with pleasure, I wasn't about to let an opportunity slip away.
• Chili Cook Off Presented By Iadventure.Com _{2012-12-21, 05:08 am}
  ... this culinary adventure and if you're just a beer lover, come and enjoy some seasonal craft brews! WHERE: Greenwich Village Country Club 110 University Place (between 12th and 13th streets) New York, NY 10003 WHEN: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 12:00 - ...
• Yetta Kurland and Corey Johnson in Close Race for Quinn's City Council Seat _{2013-01-18, 08:17 pm}
  New records show City Council hopefuls Yetta Kurland and Corey Johnson are neck and neck in their runs to fill the seat set to be vacated by Speaker Christine Quinn.
• Zac Efron Will Be Photographed With Fans, Just Not With Dildos [PHOTOS] _{2013-01-18, 05:24 pm}
  Zac Efron signed autographs and posed for photos with fans after a night's filming on the set of his latest movie Are We Officially Dating? last night in New York.
• 'How to Survive a Plague' takes hard look at uprising _{2013-01-18, 03:00 am}
  ... their community. France's film begins in 1987, six years into the AIDS epidemic, when Act Up formed in Greenwich Village and marched on New York's City Hall in an effort to shame Mayor Ed Koch for his lack of response to what was known as the "gay ...
• Wavy Gravy's 'Hippy Icon, Flower Geezer' _{2013-01-17, 09:58 pm}
  Wavy Gravy's one-man show is an unscripted strut down memory lane - different every night - with plenty of name checks and stories.
• #myjihad in New York: Savage Muslim Gang Beat Catholic Student... _{2013-01-17, 09:21 pm}
  ... r being charged with attempted murder, gang assault and assault. New York Daily News: Well-fed suspect in Greenwich Village beating of Massachusetts man, Hatem Farsakh, enters his Brooklyn home.
• Darren Criss and Chris Colfer Pose for Mags Ive Never Heard of _{2013-01-17, 06:57 pm}
  Darren Criss arrives at the Greenwich Village studio where he'll be photographed for his Essential Homme cover story in thick black Buddy Holly glasses, a t-shirt and salmon colored jeans, his naturally curly hair a bit of a mop.
• Zac Efron freaks over sex shop snaps _{2013-01-17, 06:57 pm}
  ... New York sex shop, a report says. The New York Post carried a photo of the actor in front of the shop in Greenwich Village while filming scenes for his new movie Are We Officially Dating? . "Zac was begging the guy to delete the pictures," an ...
• Old and young bridge age gap in touching - 4000 Miles' _{2013-01-17, 06:09 pm}
  ... heritage and extremely disdainful of the religion." That description fits Herzog's real grandmother, Greenwich Village resident Leepee Joseph, who passed that secular, social justice zeal on to her descendants, including the 33-year-old playwright. ...
• Joe Lhota makes mayoral run official _{2013-01-17, 05:55 pm}
  ... been a go-to destination for people wanting to buy vinyl records and CDs of their favorite music. But the Greenwich Village store open for more than two decades could be closing. Bleecker Street records has been a go-to destination for people ...
• 'Hippy Icon, Flower Geezer' _{2013-01-17, 04:18 pm}
  Wavy Gravy doesn't remember much about his walk around the block with Albert Einstein .
• Dear Abby Abigail Van Buren Photo _{2013-01-17, 04:10 pm}
  ... was another side to Joey Gallo--the ruthless mob leader was also an artist and an avid reader. Living in Greenwich Village with his wife Jeffie, Gallo was inspired by his beatnik neighbors and their counterculture ideas. He also began hobnobbing ...
• Barroom bard _{2013-01-17, 01:32 pm}
  Nels Andrews romanticizes and demonizes getting back on the road and chasing a career as a singer and songwriter with his new album, "Scrimshaw." "The album's themes are more or less my reflections of time spent touring while I unplugged and spent two years at home with my son after he was born," Andrews says.

01/13/12 Hyper Local Greenwich Village News Reports

COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR GREENWICH VILLAGE (NEW YORK, NY).

• 'Tony n' Tina's Wedding' serves as Conn College lacrosse fundraiser _{2013-01-13, 05:33 am}
  ... never heard before," Lauria says. Corcoran remembers how "Tony n' Tina's Wedding" all began. He lived in Greenwich Village with some of the people who ended up creating the show. "They used to rehearse the show in our apartment. It was a show but it ...
• My Kingston: Marc Goodman _{2013-01-13, 04:15 am}
  I remember nursery school at the oasis of Hillel Academy; going to Cable Hut and the drive-in, and the bleakness of the 70s; garbage and political graffiti everywhere, neither puss nor dog on the street, the shots and helicopter searchlights at night, the empty shelves.
• Free Energy's long and winding road _{2010-09-26, 03:00 am}
  "There's romance now," says Paul Sprangers, the lead singer of the Fishtown rock band, on a frigid afternoon in March at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
• Nuclear plant worker accused of theft _{2013-01-09, 03:00 am}
  ... to protect themselves as the season progresses. A man accused of keeping bomb-making materials in his Greenwich Village apartment told acquaintances he planned to blow up the Washington Arch, the NYPD said. A man accused of keeping bomb-making ...
• More _{2013-01-09, 03:00 am}
  ... to protect themselves as the season progresses. A man accused of keeping bomb-making materials in his Greenwich Village apartment told acquaintances he planned to blow up the Washington Arch, the NYPD said. A man accused of keeping bomb-making ...
• Queer not Cool Explores Gay Authors, Featuring Christopher Bram Tonight _{2013-01-12, 01:07 am}
  ... m Fellow in 2001. In May 2003, he received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University. http://www.christopherbram.com /
• Ellis Island collection moved due to storm damage _{2013-01-10, 03:00 am}
  ... Thursday that the vessel had a mechanical failure. A man accused of keeping bomb-making materials in his Greenwich Village apartment told acquaintances he planned to blow up the Washington Arch, the NYPD said. A man accused of keeping bomb-making ...
• 5 New Projects At Winter Jazzfest 2013 _{2013-01-11, 04:49 pm}
  ... electric bassist Panagiotis Andreou and drummer Mark Guiliana; and his big band, which started at the Greenwich Village basement club Smalls a dozen years ago. For this new 11-piece band, Andreou and Guiliana sit in the engine room, while Lindner ...
• Did you read about Samsung, sleeping pills, and Snakes on a Plane? _{2013-01-11, 12:54 pm}
  The New York Times Magazine 's role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail"-including not publishing it? -John Dunlevy That the FDA is advising women to cut back on their sleeping pills? - Steve Bogira That Ike Holter's Hit the Wall will be hitting New York ? - Tony Adler This account of an Esquire photo shoot featuring Truman ... (more)
• Critical 5 things to do in NYC: new beginnings, Jan. 11-13 _{2013-01-11, 09:48 am}
  ... drinking while boating is the greatest. The ninth-annual Winter Jazzfest will pack six different clubs in Greenwich Village with the smoothest contemporary jazz artists around. Over 70 different improv pros will take on celebrated venues like (Le) ...
• Rory Block gives back to those who gave her the blues _{2013-01-10, 03:00 am}
  ... soul, Rory Block has lived a life most of us can only dream. As a barely teenage daughter of a bohemian Greenwich Village sandal maker, Block grew up learning guitar at the feet of legendary bluesmen, including Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi Fred ...
• 1970 Rover 3.5 Litre Coupe Classic DriveTranscending Type: Sampling thea _{2013-01-11, 06:22 am}
  Concord,Massachusetts, served as the Greenwich Village/Haight-Ashbury of the early 19th century, a hotbed of counter-culture intellectualism and free thinking led by one Ralph Waldo Emerson.
• Yoram Kaniuk, reluctant soldier in 1948 _{2013-01-11, 05:29 am}
  Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930. After his experience in Israel's 1948 War of Independence, Kaniuk moved to New York where he became a painter in Greenwich Village.
• NYPD: Suspect targeted NYC arch _{2013-01-11, 03:16 am}
  A man arrested on suspicion of possession of an explosive substance allegedly told people he planned to blow up the iconic arch in New York City's Washington Square Park, authorities say.
• A barroom bard _{2013-01-10, 05:46 pm}
  Nels Andrews romanticizes and demonizes getting back on the road and chasing a career as a singer and songwriter with his new album, "Scrimshaw." "The album's themes are more or less my reflections of time spent touring while I unplugged and spent two years at home with my son after he was born," Andrews says.
• West Milford storage facility searched in connection with NYC bomb plot probe _{2013-01-10, 08:51 pm}
  ... in December after police, acting on a tip, seized bomb-making materials, weapons and ammunitions from his Greenwich Village apartment. No contraband was found during the search at the Storage Station, at 11 White Road in West Milford 's business ...
• Owner of 'Pizza Goat' Accused of Sexually Assaulting Drunk Woman _{2013-01-10, 07:15 pm}
  Fakroddin and his pet goat named "Cocoa" became famous when he would take Cocoa on strolls around New York City, where the goat was spotted, among other expeditions, dining on pizza at Famous La Famiglia in Midtown last year, as tweeted by a DNAinfo reporter.
• Hit the Wall Begins Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre, 2/19 _{2013-01-10, 06:57 pm}
  ... a contemporary light on the legacy of Stonewall. The Barrow Street Theatre is located in the heart of the Greenwich Village and mere steps away from the site of the riots. For over 40 years, millions have gathered annually in that iconic New York ...
• NYC man planned to 'blow up' park arch _{2013-01-10, 06:51 pm}
  NEW YORK: Police say a man accused with his girlfriend of keeping bomb-making materials in their Greenwich Village apartment had told acquaintances he planned to blow up the Washington Square Park arch.
• Stonewall Riot Drama Hit the Wall to Play Off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre _{2013-01-10, 06:31 pm}
  Ike Holter's Stonewall Riot drama Hit the Wall will receive its New York premiere at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre.