Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

According to an orange sign hanging in Katz’s, the Travel Channel is producing some sort of program on the iconic deli, and is looking for so-called “superfans.”  The cable station wants “you on camera loud and proud to tell viewers everywhere why Katz’s Deli is the best.”

Filming will be held inside the restaurant on February 21 and February 23.

NBC’s month-long hiatus from the Lower East Side has concluded. Law & Order: Criminal Intent is back on the neighborhood streets, filming select scenes on Rivington today and tomorrow. If we had to guess, the Hotel on Rivington is probably central to the shoot.

It seems like just yesterday that How to Make it in America was filming almost every week in the neighborhood.  The frequency of Lower East Side shoots rivaled that of Law & Order!  Now, barely two months after production wrapped, the HBO series is ready to go.  The series premiere airs on February 14.

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In anticipation of season two of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Post’s Blog Wrap interviewed the drag queen.  Here is a candid response regarding the East Village…

PW: You’ve always been a trailblazer when it came to putting drag on display for the world, what excites you the most about this particular endeavor?

RuPaul: Everyone at [Ru's production company] World of Wonder grew up in the East Village and NYC used to be this kind of place where you’d get this incredible gumbo of different cultures, ideas and aesthetics. But now you have to be a millionaire to live there so you aren’t getting the same cross-section of people. So it’s really fabulous for young people who’ve never experienced this kind of tapestry of people; one who didn’t let societies rules stop them from being fabulous. Because at its core, “Drag Race” is about the tenacity of the human spirit.

Well put.

[photo via E!online]

In an interview with the Daily News on Saturday, Sarah Silverman professed her love for some Lower East Side establishments.

Favorite spots in the city?

So many! I love Veselka diner on Ninth St. I love the Bowery Hotel, Benny’s Burritos and B&H Dairy on Second Ave. — the best soup in NYC. I love the fancy shmancy Reebok Club uptown. I love all the new standup rooms in Brooklyn. There is this bar in Park Slope called Union Hall and they have a really fun standup show in the basement there I like to do … I could really go on forever.

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