NYU alums and other lovers of Gotham’s rock ‘n’ roll history scramble to save the Bottom Line, one of the most venerable nightclubs in Greenwich Village. If you get a chance, please take a moment to check out the site and/or sign the petition. It’d be a tremendous shame if such a classic New York institution was destroyed for the sake of a dorm and a few classrooms.
Tag: NYC
Tricksy! False!
Alas, I completely missed out on Tolkien Trilogy Tuesday tickets this past Thursday – The NYC show was sold out before they ever made it online, and I couldn’t make it down to line up due to sections. Hope some of y’all out there had better luck.
Mutombo to MSG?
The Sixers appear to pass on Mutombo, meaning he’s probably Knicks-bound as rumored. Well, since the Post thinks this will actually facilitate the Van Exel trade, I’m all for it. Update: It’s official…Deke’s a Knick.
Start Spreading the News.
The Voice releases its annual Best of NY guide for 2003. Time to start explorin’.
Seeking Deke.
With their earlier designs on Nick Van Exel apparently stalled, the Knicks plan (once again) to try for Dikembe Mutombo. Hmm. I guess having Mutombo around would help the height-challenged Knicks…but if we were looking for a 40-something center, why’d we ever trade Patrick Ewing in the first place?
ABT Returns.
It’s that time of year again. ABT revs up for its City Center schedule at the end of the month [All dates/Gill’s dates.] Gillian is also featured prominently in the advertising campaign for this fall’s run, as indicated by the pic at right (now gracing brochures and subway stops around the city.) Get your tickets before they sell out!
Buried, but not Dead.
New York prepares for a mass re-burial of over 400 Colonial-era slaves in the spot where they were found 12 years ago. Perhaps this ceremony will help to encourage more formal and historic recognition of the city’s relationship to slavery. (As the article notes, Gotham once held more slaves than any other city but Charleston.) And as New York, so too the nation — While the Holocaust Museum serves as an important and necessary reminder of how nations ostensibly grounded in Enlightenment ideals can go terribly, terribly wrong, it’s a bit glaring that we have such a fine museum in Washington dedicated to Germany’s most grievous sin, without any comparable historic institution focusing on our own. A National Museum of Slavery is well past due, and, Civil War importance aside, it should really be on the National Mall, not in Fredericksburg.
Bicycle Races.
Hey y’all. I’m still feeling a bit burnt from the All-Night Bicycle Ride that’s a famous centerpiece to Kenneth Jackson’s History of NYC course (for which I’m TA’ing at the moment); nevertheless, updates here should now resume the regular schedule.
Gotham Reprieve.
Isabel bypasses New York. Hopefully everyone is safe and sound down South…I still haven’t been able to get through to the family in Chesapeake, but I presume all is ok, give or take some felled trees and power outages.
Red Skies and Bluegrass.
Hey y’all…busy weekend over here in these parts. Aside from a final orgy of TIME-reading to put an end to my summer research work, I also went to go check out the Creative Time fireworks show, where I spent most of the 4-and-some-odd minutes trying to prevent Berkeley from having a coronary (Lousy judgment on my part bringing him…I thought he might enjoy night in the Park, but he clearly thought he was back on Hill 243.) And I got to see St. Felix Station, my friend’s great bluegrass band over at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg (and was delighted to find said candy store has a weekly trivia night…booyah.)