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Nabe News: July 3

Posted: July 3, 2009 at 3:50 pm

Flower picker caught red-handed in Sara D. Roosevelt Park near East Houston [Curbed]

Work just started on the new Upright Citizens Brigade Theater which is scheduled to open at the former Two Boots space [EV Grieve]

Brian Jones, founding member of the Rolling Stones, died forty years ago today. He drowned in a swimming pool while under the influence of drugs and alcohol [Hunter-Gatherer]

Jeremiah has one last meal at Joe Jr.’s last night. A man at the counter said that the diner actually “had the lease, but the landlord backed out at the last minute.”

Chico checks in with The Villager regarding a possible Michael Jackson mural, saying that if he was still in the neighborhood, he would love to slap a Jacko over his latest Aventura piece on East Houston. The venerable street artist recently moved to Tampa to be with family, but still wishes he “was over there [in Loisaida].” [The Villager]