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Trash & Vaudeville Announces New Relocation Date, Will Close Sunday

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(Photo: Youngna Park)

(Photo: Youngna Park)

It’s the final countdown.

Update your calendars if you’re planning to raid Trash & Vaudeville’s St. Marks Place location one last time before it leaves its home of over 40 years. The closing date has been moved up to this Sunday.

With a “Hey Ho Lets Go,” the store announced last week that its last day before relocating would be Monday, Feb. 29, but we’re now told that’s been changed to Feb. 28. The reopening at 96 East 7th Street, near First Avenue, is still slated for early March.

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Lillian Wald Resident Charged in Silver Spurs Slashing

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(Photos courtesy of NYPD)

(Photos courtesy of NYPD)

The teenager accused of slashing a bus boy at Silver Spurs has now been arrested.

Police announced yesterday that they were in custody of the man suspected of entering the Greenwich Village diner in order to solicit donations and then slashing a 25-year-old employee during a subsequent argument. Now they’ve identified him as 16-year-old Domincio Howington, a resident of the Lillian Wald Houses in the East Village. He faces an assault charge and four charges of criminal possession of a weapon.

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Russ & Daughters Opens Uptown; Brooklyn Brewery May Leave Williamsburg

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(Photo: Nicole Disser)

(Photo: Nicole Disser)

This morning a fire at Woops! bakery on Williamsburg’s Driggs Avenue required the assistance of 100+ firefighters. [DNA Info]

Union Baptist Church in Greenpoint, age 160, is in need of an estimated quarter-million dollars in repairs before parishioners can even re-enter the structurally-unsound building, according to the city. [Brooklyn Paper]

Inside the Jewish Museum yesterday on the Upper East Side, LES mainstay Russ & Daughters unveiled its latest outpost. [Bowery Boogie]

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How to Eat 24 Oysters in 29 Seconds: NYC’s New Sultan of Slurp Tells All

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Oysters are no longer as abundant as they used to be in New York, but you can still find plenty of the bivalve delicacies at bars and restaurants on the Lower East Side. That was readily apparent Sunday as a host of local chefs and cooks showed off their shucking skills so that 24 brave souls could prove how quickly they could slurp down a couple dozen. We were there for all the shucking and jiving. Check out the techniques on display in our video– as well as some advice from current reigning champion, Terrence Ruggiero, who managed to eat almost one oyster per second. He finished his plate in 29 seconds.
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Modern Dance Icon Eiko Takes Over the EV, Starting With a Badlands Unlimited Collab

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via Badlands Unlimited

via Badlands Unlimited

As you may have heard, Badlands Unlimited, the irreverent enfant terrible of the publishing world, recently set up shop in Chinatown. Their new digs include an unlikely collaboration with the 99-cent store underneath their office, which now hawks a selection of their books — ranging from steamy erotica to artistic meditations — alongside the lottery tickets and cleaning supplies.

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The Silver Spurs Slashing Suspect Is in Custody

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(Photos courtesy of NYPD)

(Photos courtesy of NYPD)

The teenager suspected of slashing a busboy at the Silver Spurs diner in Greenwich Village is now in custody.

The police say a tip led to the apprehension of the man suspected of cutting a busboy on the cheek during an argument that erupted Wednesday evening after the teen went into the Laguardia Place diner soliciting donations.

Friday, the NYPD asked for the public’s help in identifying three additional teenagers– a man and two women– who were seen in the suspect’s company on the day of the assault.

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Get a Chick or Cock Tattoo — For Animal Rights!

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IMG_0307If you’re a fan of animal rights or Lena Dunham, Gristle Tattoo has a deal for you. Starting today, the Williamsburg shop is hosting a six-day fundraiser for Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue. Fifty percent of funds raised from the vegan ink tats will go toward the New Jersey non-profit’s activities, which recently included saving a cow that escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse.

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4 Talks and Readings: Well-Read Black Girl, Future of Whiteness, and More

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TUESDAY

BetterThanMe pb c.thumbnailBonnie McFarlane + Jim Gaffigan
Feb. 23 at 7:00 p.m at The Strand, 828 Broadway
Bonnie McFarlane has made a career out of opening her mouth when she probably should have kept it shut, making people cringe in places like Last Comic Standing and The Jim Gaffigan Show. Her new book, You’re Better Than Me, follows in the footsteps of the popular genre of female comedian tell-alls (Mindy Kaling etc). With biting and hilarious prose it lays bare “the good, the bad and the ugly” of her life, with chapters covering everything from McFarlane’s childhood as a fish out of water on a Canadian farm, to finding “her people” in comedy. She will be joined by fellow comedian Jim Gaffigan.

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Iggy Pop Covered Bowie, Did Poems Set to Philip Glass at Tibet House Concert

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Iggy Pop and harpist Lavinia Meijer. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tibet House)

Iggy Pop and harpist Lavinia Meijer. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tibet House)

Buddhists were known to be aggressors until they realized that “being violent and domineering was no fun,” said Robert Thurman at the start of Tibet House’s 26th annual benefit concert. Thurman (co-founder of Tibet House US and father of Uma) repeated the words “no fun” and “boring” as if to subtly hype the show’s headliner. But when Iggy Pop closed out the epic evening at Carnegie Hall, it wasn’t with hits like “No Fun” and “I’m Bored” – instead he performed a couple of unusual spoken-word pieces to the music of the evening’s host, Philip Glass, followed by a pair of rousing David Bowie covers.

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William Vale Hotel Opens in April; $756 Pads in Williamsburg

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(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Williamsburg’s William Vale hotel is expected to open in April, complete with third-floor pool. [Curbed]

Time to put in those apps for affordable housing units for as low as $756 per month in Williamsburg. [DNAinfo]

The man who filmed Eric Garner’s death has been arrested following a domestic dispute with his wife in the Baruch Houses. [Gothamist]

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