Phoebe Snow's success comes after great sorrow Oct 24, 2008
" One was the Bitter End, in New York's Greenwich Village. At that time, the early '70s, the club was presenting people like James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. One night Snow was scheduled to follow a guy named Bruce Springsteen. "He had just been signed to Columbia, and John Hammond, who discovered Bruce Springsteen and so many other greats, was there," Snow says. "Interestingly, Bruce was playing keyboard, not the guitar. I was standing to the side with people who were... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dermot McEvoy's 'Our Lady of Greenwich Village' Oct 24, 2008
Dermot McEvoy's 'Our Lady of Greenwich Village' - International Herald Tribune. Dermot McEvoy's 'Our Lady of Greenwich Village ... Our Lady Of Greenwich Village By Dermot McEvoy. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Alioscopy Establishes Showroom Presence in New York City to Showcase its Advanced Autostereoscopic 3D Technology Solutions Oct 23, 2008
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2008 -- , a leading developer of 3D technology solutions, today announced that , a full service digital, production and live event design facility based in Greenwich Village in New York City, is the site of the company's first showroom on the East Coast. Worlds Away will showcase Alioscopy's award-winning, state-of-the-art, 3DHD autostereoscopic (no glasses required) 3D LCD display technology and allow visitors the opportunity to view content that is well suited... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
EDMOND, 29, AND WAIFE, 31 Oct 19, 2008
Sweet stuff: Cupcakes from Tonnie's Mini's in Greenwich Village. lect. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
In Chicago, Bill Ayers Is Known As A Scholar Oct 18, 2008
In 1970, a Greenwich Village townhouse that the group was using to build a bomb blew up, killing three members, including Ayers' girlfriend. The bomb, Ayers wrote in his memoir, was packed with screws and nails. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
New York Art Scare Oct 18, 2008
For a donation between 50 and 250, anyone can become a patron of the arts and spend a night in Greenwich Village partying with a crew whose stated goal is to "foster and cultivate new works of audacity and risk." Sounds good to us - especially when the party will include an open bar and aerialists from the Circus Arts Academy dancing in the sky. (See stu42. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Mad about Madison Avenue Oct 16, 2008
Come to think of it, maybe you d like to take the rest of the day off and have a tryst with office siren/head secretary Joan in her modest Greenwich Village flat, or roll your eyes at the Beat poets declaiming from the stage of the Gaslight Cafe, where Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg once prowled ... In Greenwich Village, the Esperanto Cafe (114 MacDougal St.) is open 24 hours and makes for a great breakfast spot. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Nuggets of truth in Banksy's New York debut Oct 15, 2008
The Village Pet Store is on show at 89 Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York, until October 31. Go to www. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Book Review: 'I See You Everywhere' Oct 15, 2008
The family had three sons; the twins, Dennis (a veterinarian) and David (a chef), who stayed in Europe with their wives; and the eldest, Fenno, thin-skinned, introspective and gay, who decamped to New York early on and opened a bookstore in Greenwich Village. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Head to a haunted house for Halloween Oct 14, 2008
25), New York's Greenwich Village Halloween Parade (Oct. 31), New Orleans' Voodoo Festival (Oct. (Yahoo News)
Second Cup Cafe: Phoebe Snow Oct 11, 2008
She took on clubs in New York City's Greenwich Village in the '70s with her soulful, soothing, yet folksy sound. It was that very sound that caught the attention of a promotions executive, who signed her onto Shelter Records. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Gibson Cues Up Obama to Refute Ayers, Makes McCain Justify Topic Oct 11, 2008
Three weeks later, at Bill Ayers direction, they were assembling bombs at Greenwich Village in order to attack the officers' club at Fort Dix, New Jersey and they blew themselves up. DOOCY: Right, they blew the nail. (MediaResearch.org)
Gay Jock Meets Girlie-Boy and Bonding Is Awkward Oct 10, 2008
At the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes. (New York Times)
Obama's Weathermen Pals Should Worry Americans Oct 10, 2008
Three Weathermen fatally blew themselves up in March 1970 while building it in a Greenwich Village townhouse. The Weathermen wanted the nail-filled device to explode at New Jersey s Fort Dix Army base during a non-commissioned officers dance. (Human Events Online)
TERROR VICTIM'S QS FOR BARACK Oct 8, 2008
"The night they attacked our home, they also firebombed an army recruiting station out in Brooklyn and police patrol cars outside of Greenwich Village," notes Murtagh. "Three weeks later, they accidentally blew themselves up. They intended to attack the officer's club at Fort Dix.". (New York Post -- Opinions)
Old gender roles with your dinner? Oct 8, 2008
At the Greenwich Village restaurant Elettaria, where the bound linen dinner menu evokes a diary and elements of the d ... At the Greenwich Village restaurant Cru, decorated in clubby brown tones and distinguished by a wine list that lets high rollers rack up breathtaking bills, I spotted more men than women. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
sundancechannel.com Launches 'Voices On the Election' Oct 8, 2008
Through IFC Entertainment, Rainbow Media also owns and manages the following: IFC Films, a leading distribution company for independent film; IFC Productions, a feature film production company that provides financing for select independent film projects; and IFC Center, a three screen, state-of-the-art cinema in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village. Rainbow Media also operates Rainbow Advertising Sales Corporation, its advertising sales company; Rainbow Network Communications, its full... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Afterschool': A film on being young and out to redefine what's real Oct 7, 2008
Campos, for his part, was confident enough to share with this reporter his first directorial effort, a short he made at 13 called "Puberty." An arty depiction of pubescent life, it features a fantasy tryst behind the concession stand at Cinema Village, the Greenwich Village movie house, and ends with a dedication to "Mother, Father and... Stanley Kubrick.". Despite the troubled parent-child interactions in his films, Campos said he enjoys a good relationship with his own folks (he still lives... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
10 comments Oct 6, 2008
That's in Greenwich Village. In the most bohemian corner of New York City. (Human Events Online)
Palin says Obama 'palling around' with terrorists Oct 5, 2008
Three members of the group were killed in 1970 in an accidental explosion of a bomb in their Greenwich Village basement. While it is known that Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood, served on a charity board together and had a fleeting political connection, it's a stretch of any reading of the public record to say the pair ever palled around. (Anchorage Daily News)
Carrie Bradshaw slept on a fold-out couch Oct 3, 2008
Bushnell arrives for lunch, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, worrying about being seated at an inside table ... She now lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village, with her ballet-dancer husband Charles Askegaard, 10 years her junior, and the couple also enjoy a country house in Connecticut. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hotel discounts up to 35 percent across the U.S. Oct 3, 2008
This quirky Greenwich Village property, originally a hotel for sailors dating back to 1908, features cozy rooms and by cozy we mean about 50 square feet for a Standard Cabin with a twin bed. Captains Cabins, at 150-250 square feet, have queen or king beds. (MSNBC -- Travel)
NBC Jealous? Runs Story on Palin Avoiding Press Sep 25, 2008
He went underground in 1970, after his girlfriend, Diana Oughton, and two other people were killed when bombs they were making exploded in a Greenwich Village town house. With him in the Weather Underground was Bernardine Dohrn, who was put on the F.B.I.'s 10 Most Wanted List. (MediaResearch.org)
Comfort Foods The Gourmet Way Sep 24, 2008
(CBS) John Delucie is an executive chef at the Waverly Inn in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The Waverly has become a very hot table to get. (CBS News -- Early Show)
‘What we can dream’ Sep 23, 2008
Actually that s why when I was a boy, and it s why when I got out of college, I moved to Greenwich Village. But, now I have 15 foreign publishers and could correspond back and forth not only with the publishers, but the translators, I still have still a very old school editor in Knopf and certainly I send him a typed manuscript on which he makes notes. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Manny Farber, former Douglas man, film critic, artist dies at 91 Sep 23, 2008
In 1942 he moved to Greenwich Village, where he began his career as critic, writing first about art then movies for the New Republic. There he met writers such as Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, David Bazelon, Walter Evans, Jean Stafford, Bob Warshow, James Agee and Mary McCarthy. (Douglas Daily Dispatch, AZ)
Big Apple Babe: Candace Bushnell Sep 22, 2008
She is also as much a part of the fabric of New York City as the landmarks she helped popularize: Magnolia Bakery, Pastis and her beloved Greenwich Village. Candace insists, though, that while she relates to her characters and their experiences, her books don't comprise a de facto autobiography. (New York Post)
A muddy day on the set on ‘Taking Woodstock’ Sep 20, 2008
The film is based on the memoir of Elliot Tiber, an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer who was running his family s Bethel motel in 1969. Through his efforts the Woodstock music festival came into being. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
An indie hero comes home again Sep 20, 2008
In July, "The Princess of Nebraska" was the opening-night film at this year's in New York, and he met me for breakfast at a cafe in Greenwich Village. (Listen to the interview ). (Salon)
Steve & Barry's closing stores; Arizona's spared Sep 19, 2008
The company will move forward with plans to open a store in New York in the former location of the Greenwich Village Tower Records. But no other new store decisions have been made. (AZCentral -- Business)
Buzz Briefs: Brangelina, Richard Wright Sep 16, 2008
In 1977, producer/composer Jacques Morali, with partner Henri Belolo, couldn't help but notice Felipe Rose dancing in his Indian costume before an enthusiastic crowd in New York's Greenwich Village. Rose's performance, and the response he was getting, made a significant impression on Morali and Belolo. (CBS News)
Sharon Sprung: Solo Exhibition Sep 15, 2008
A graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in Art History, Mr. Shechtman opened Christopher Street Gallery in Greenwich Village in 1966. In the early 70's the gallery moved to Madison Avenue and became known as Christopher Gallery. (AbsoluteArts.com)
BOBB, 29, AND O'CONNOR, 35 Sep 14, 2008
That night, after dinner at Panchito's in Greenwich Village, Bobb and his bride-to-be shared their first kiss. Two years later, the Upper East Side duo wed at city hall and celebrated with a reception at their home. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Kennedy Flick Turmoil Sep 13, 2008
Angus doesn t have one cent in it," she said. She adds: If we could just get him to do these final things. To me, it s where you place things. I come from a staunch Republican family. If you start with an attack on George Bush, and clips of George Carlin, they re going to walk right out. The message is too important for that. Yes, that was the great '60s and '70s crooner Jack Jones in Elaine s Thursday night, with his fianc?e, a friend, and Bobby Zarem. He s at the Algonquin Friday and Saturday... (Fox News)
Old school star returns to vist 'new school' in North Penn Sep 11, 2008
"I met this crazy girl at 3 in the morning in Greenwich Village. I asked her for a date New Year's Eve and she never showed up," Oates said, telling the song's story. At one point, the audience clapped momentarily along to the ballad and "Ghost Town" from Oates' new album, "1,000 Miles of Life." Amid shouts from the audience for "Rich Girl" and "Fall in Philadelphia," Oates played an abbreviated version of the former, slyly dropping in that The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie and Gym Class Heroes... (Springfield Sun, PA)
Delavan woman draws on ‘gift' to create sculptures Sep 11, 2008
I've exhibited in New York at the Pen and Brush Gallery in Greenwich Village and at the Contemporary Arts Center in Peoria. There are a few people who collect my work. (Pekin Times, IL)
Survivors struggle Sep 11, 2008
Her face is subtly different from the photograph on the book jacket, as if reflected in an ever-so-slightly blurry mirror, but still recognizable as the woman her husband called the blond princess of Perry Street, after their Greenwich Village address. Her makeup is subtle, her strappy sandals a triumph (no more high-top sneakers for ankle support). (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Quickie De-Shlumpers Sep 11, 2008
- Mary, 38, Greenwich Village. "I go to Rite-Aid or CVS and buy an eyeliner in the boldest color I can find, like peacock-turquoise or rain-forest frog-green, zip it across my upper eyelid and get a pleasant jolt every time I catch sight of it in the mirror.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
N.Y. park moonlights during Fashion Week Sep 10, 2008
The Kati Roll Co., which also has a branch in Greenwich Village, serves its Indian flatbread wraps from mutton to paneer cheese to chicken and eggs, all under $6 to Midtown-worker mobs during weekday lunch hours, but is calm on weekends. And just down the block is Szechuan Gourmet, which won an unlikely two stars from the New York Times in July. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Book Review: 'A Freewheelin' Time' Sep 9, 2008
A Freewheelin' Time A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties By Suze Rotolo 371 pages ... Or worse: for Suze Rotolo, dating a young Bob Dylan even contributed to a "crackup" she describes in "A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. One night in the early 1960s, when Dylan came home drunk, she writes, he accidentally dropped the contents of his wallet on the floor. Rotolo, then a teenager, picked up his draft card and was shaken. His last name wasn't Dylan; it was... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The eye of the storm Sep 6, 2008
The front door of her Greenwich Village brownstone leads into a front room strewn with clothes, where two young people are holding the clothes up and putting them in piles. I imagine they must be putting together bags of cast-offs for the op shop before moving out but then I realise they are just sorting the washing on top of everything else. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Jane Jacobs on Urban Development Sep 4, 2008
Jacobs lived in Greenwich Village in New York City, a neighbourhood she regarded as a model worth emulating. Possessing a range of buildings, from three and four storey tenements to low-rise, more expensive residential buildings, the area had also a diversity of uses: a locksmith, laundry, bakery, etc. (Suite101.com)
BUSHNELL: 'City' never sleeps in Bushnell's work Sep 4, 2008
City' never sleeps in Bushnell's work - USATODAY.com. City' never sleeps in Bushnell's work. (USA Today -- Life)
Jabs 'right-wing nutcase' who recorded him... Sep 1, 2008
6 March 1970 bomb factory located in New Yorks Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members die. (The Drudge Report)
Lykke Li, Live In New York, By Kurt Loder Aug 30, 2008
NEW YORK Swedish pop phenom and possible Stateside star-to-be Lykke Li played the second date of a U.S. minitour on Thursday night, a sold-out show at a Greenwich Village nightclub. The crowd seemed very NYU, and many of them were. (VHI.com -- Music News)
A Chinatown Fairy Tale Aug 29, 2008
At the Angelika Film Center, Mercer and Houston Streets, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes. (New York Times)
Artist Farber's career a celebration of details Aug 25, 2008
By 1942, when he had relocated to New York's Greenwich Village, Farber's career as a critic started to take shape. At The New Republic, he wrote about art and then movies. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Sundance Channel Dedicates Monday Nights to Election-Themed Documentaries for Five Weeks Leading up to Presidential Election Aug 24, 2008
For three days in 2004, hundreds of Americans in Greenwich Village were invited to talk to the White House's comment line ... Through IFC Entertainment, Rainbow Media also owns and manages the following: IFC Films, a leading distribution company for independent film; IFC Productions, a feature film production company that provides financing for select independent film projects; and IFC Center, a three screen, state-of-the-art cinema in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village. (PR Newswire)
Judge OK's $163M Steve & Barry's Bailout Aug 23, 2008
However, the turnaround firms also plan to add new stores, including a location in Manhattan at Broadway and West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, sources said. The new owners also are mulling a high-profile outlet in Las Vegas. (New York Post -- Business)
TRENTONIAN EDITORIAL: Radical chic Aug 22, 2008
An especially vicious explosive device they were constructing - a nail bomb - accidentally discharged in a Greenwich Village townhouse, killing, among others, Ayer's then girlfriend. Ayers took up with one of the surviving radicals, Bernadine Dohrn, and the duo married during their time on the lam. (The Trentonian, NJ)
FDNY: Radio training needed after deadly WTC fire Aug 21, 2008
Edward Carmen, left, Jimmy Beddia, center and Susan Olson, display a memorial plaque for their brother, fallen firefighter Robert Beddia, during a plaque dedication ceremony at the Greenwich Village firehouse where he was stationed in New York, Monday Aug. 18 , 2008. Beddia and Joseph Graffanino died in a fire at the former Deutsche Bank tower l Aug. 18, 2007. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Experiencing New York City when Favre’s arrival was announced Aug 16, 2008
Deb and I were wrapping up a whirlwind five-day visit to the Big Apple, which featured our own personal tour guide former News Advertiser sports editor and assistant managing editor Michael Falco, now a master s student at The New School in the Greenwich Village. He finishes in December and loves it there. (Creston News Adertiser, IO)
Catholic Memorials road scholars visit New York City Aug 14, 2008
They spent time at the St. Joseph s House in Greenwich Village, where the Catholic Worker movement feeds the homeless each day. Guest speakers such as author Paul Elie and teacher Dino Murphy gave the students insight on the changing demographics of the poor in New York City. (Rsolindale Parkway Transcript, MA)
Any way you slice it, N.Y. bagel business is going strong Aug 13, 2008
Typically, bagels are made with all-purpose flour, but Adam Pomerant, owner of Murray's Bagels in Greenwich Village, has seen a 20 percent increase in whole wheat and multigrain bagels, both introduced in 1999. Pomerant has also noticed many requests for scooped bagels. (Boston Globe)
Spend a little or a lot in Manhattan Aug 12, 2008
Try the 70-room St. Marks Hotel in East Greenwich Village. Rates start at $140 for a double bed; $150 for a queen. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Lost in the gulag Aug 10, 2008
Living in Greenwich Village, the heart of Bohemia, he became friendly with other young intellectuals who believed that workers around the world would unite and overthrow capitalism. He broke all ties with his increasingly bourgeois family in Connecticut. (Boston Globe)
New Hit: $25 For Aisle Aug 8, 2008
MY column the other day about Lee Israel, the merrily unrepentant forger whose book "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" is the summer's best read, caught the eye of Gary Combs, an autograph dealer in Greenwich Village. He writes. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
ManhattanPackers bar ponders idea ofBrett the Jet Aug 8, 2008
"Daley began bartending at Kettle of Fish, in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan, in 1983 and has owned the bar since 1998. That s the year he turned it into a Packers bar after buying it from his former boss, a New York Giants fan."We re the only real Packer bar," Daley said. "We re dedicated to the Packers. We re not a bar that shows the Packers amongst other games. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
PHOENIX BLOCK's "Future Calling" #1 Most Added on ACQB Radio Chart Aug 8, 2008
The two made a go of it in New York City, playing in bands like Stretch Vinyl and Son of You in Greenwich Village and on the Northeast college circuit. Bassist Tony Catania was born in Sicily, Italy and studied classical guitar, flute and piano at the Music Conservatory Vincenzo Bellini. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A New Dawn for Hair Aug 7, 2008
" It certainly looks right at home in Central Park. The stage is grass, and the actors emerge from the wings or over a back fence and are able to climb in and out of the audience with a single bound. A couple of new songs have been added (unused material from earlier versions of the show, says Rado), some lyrics have been updated, and the book has been streamlined and pared down. For audiences crowding into the early previews, it's clear that Hair has not just been revived; it has been... (Time.com)
Out there in la-la land Aug 5, 2008
The great Pete Hamill introduced us at the Lion's Head in Greenwich Village a million years ago. Or was it John Hamill. (Boston Globe)
Girl survives 15-story chimney plunge... Aug 2, 2008
THE MIRACLE KID OF GREENWICH VILLAGE ... A 12-year-old girl miraculously survived a 15-story plunge after she climbed into the chimney of a historic Greenwich Village building last night, authorities said ... The imposing, 383-unit Greenwich Village building, which has been open to artists for 40 years, was once the Bell Labs Building. (The Drudge Report)
In China, a hundred galleries bloom Jul 28, 2008
It's SoHo and Greenwich Village with Chinese characteristics. Chief among those traits are jackhammers and construction dust. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Media Ignore John Edwards' Hotel Hookup Jul 28, 2008
The liberal pair resides in a chic part of Greenwich Village. Three blocks away is St. Vincent Hospital, which is purportedly in need of larger facilities. (Newsmax)
Woodstock folk stalwart Artie Traum dead at 65 Jul 22, 2008
Artie Traum, a beloved Woodstock songwriter and guitarist who came out of the famous Greenwich Village folk scene of the '60s, is dead ... Traum was born and raised in the Bronx, and relocated to Woodstock in 1969 after getting a phone call from another veteran of the Greenwich Village folk scene. (Albany Times Union)
