Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Celebrate Cafe is almost in its fifth month of operation inside the Bowery Poetry Club.  The venture is run by the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and doubles as an entrepreneurial program for youth and young adults.  A nice symbiotic relationship on the Bowery.  We received an email from the owners announcing that today is the [...]

Yesterday, 88 Orchard officially announced its new summertime menu.  The small plates are served daily after 6 pm, and include ingredients sourced from a handful of culinary neighbors – Il Laboratorio del Gelato, Saxelby Cheesemongers, The Pickle Guys, and Formaggio Essex. Also, sangria is now part of their wine list.

Starting tonight, Gallery Bar at 120 Orchard Street will be hosting an exhibition of photography entitled Sampling and Revisions: The LES Deframed.  The neighborhood-centric showcase will feature archival stills from the Tenement Museum collection alongside more contemporary work.  Opening reception is at 7 pm, but the event itself will run through March 24. [Photo via [...]

Later tonight, the 92Y Tribeca is hosting a free screening of four 16 mm film prints from the New York Public Library.  Each of the short films – Bowery Men’s Shelter, Crosby Street, Huberts, Coney Island – captures the essence of New York City during the 1970s.  The event kicks off at 6:30 pm in [...]

From the Bowery Boogie inbox: Books Through Bars is out of money, so we’re playing cheap/fun/awesome Bingo to pay for postage and keep sending packages full of books to folks incarcerated in America’s broken prison system. It’s free to get in, cheap ($1!) to play, and we’ll have beer from the Brooklyn Brewery for sale.  [...]

Looking for a salaciously hellacious Halloween eve of frightening art and bloodwrestling?  Check out the following press release. ABADDON: A HELLACIOUSLY themed Halloween Eve @ ART.LES.STUDIOS NYC Fri. 10/30, 8pm till Midnight 202 Rivington Street (btwn Pitt and Ridge Sts.) RSVP to artlesnyc@gmail.com is mandatory Advance Tickets for Abaddon suggested @: www.abaddonnyc.com On Friday night we [...]