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.