Graceland

Filipino Thriller Graceland Sketches Good and Evil, Broadly

Schmackary's Introduces Build Your Own Ice Cream Sandwiches

Schmackary's, a cookie eatery in Hell's Kitchen that just opened this past May, will soon be offering custom ice cream cookie sandwiches for $6.25. Flavors include pretty much everything you could want, including key lime, classic chocolate chip, coconut chip, maple bacon, cookies and cream, peanut ... More >>

Q&A: fun.'s Nate Ruess On Self-Help Lyrics, Second Chances, And "Pessimistic Optimism"

fun. has blanketed America with the song "We Are Young," a strange, anthemic, Queen-nodding song that, via Glee and a Super Bowl commercial, is a bright symbol of modern rock being a force in pop. On the first fun. record Aim & Ignite and in his previous band, The Format, singer Nate Ruess made musi ... More >>

Under African Skies

Laura Nyro (10) And Paul Simon (2) Take SOTC's March Madness Tournament Down By The Schoolyard

​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week. Today, all the remaining contenders in the Uptown division battle it out in the Round of 32. Keep up with all the action here. In a stunning upset, No. 10 seed Laura Nyro has upended the brackets ... More >>

Paul Simon (2) Takes On Slick Rick (15) As Round One Of Our Quintessential New York Musician Tournament Continues

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is under way, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. Today we pit Garfunkel's better half Paul Simon ... More >>

So Beautiful? So What: Why The Grammys Shoved Paul Simon Aside And Embraced Skrillex

A good while back, I was envisioning a Grammy-night dogfight between what, at that point, were my two favorite albums of 2011: Lady Gaga's Born This Way and Paul Simon's So Beautiful or So What. (Both ended up on my Pazz & Jop ballot.)I mentioned this to Maura and she said, "No. Adele." Up went my v ... More >>

The Grammys' 53 Record Of The Year Winners, In Order

53. Phil Collins, "Another Day in Paradise" [1991] 52. The 5th Dimension, "Up, Up and Away" [1968] 51. Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" [1975] 50. Celine Dion, "My Heart Will Go On" [1999] 49. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "A Taste of Honey" [1966] 48. Bobby McFerrin, "Don't ... More >>

Felicity Jones: Q&A With A Rising Star

Twenty-seven-year-old British actress Felicity Jones gives an enormously appealing performance in Like Crazy, in which she and Anton Yelchin share some college lovin', only to encounter some obstacles, American-style. Felicity won a Special Jury prize at Sundance and is nominated for a Gotham Award ... More >>

Fool's Gold

Paz de la Huerta Pleads Guilty to Harassment, Lotions

Wikipedia​Actress Paz de la Huerta -- the antithesis of the never-nude, the woman who told the New York Times Magazine the ghost of Elvis gave her an orgasm in Graceland -- pleaded guilty to harassment this morning. She also put lotion on her legs. But we'll get to that later. The charge stems ... More >>

Some Notes On Eleanor Friedberger, Ida, And Rebecca Gates, Who Are Playing Tomorrow Night's Excellent Show At Club Europa

by David Raposa ​ Saturday's Northside Festival show at Europa will showcase four well-traveled acts from far-flung corners of the indie-rock diaspora: Eleanor Friedberger, Ida, Rebecca Gates, and Pete Nolan. The bill's highest-profile member is also the only one with an album scheduled to co ... More >>

Download: Skeletons' Road Rage Rumination "More Than The One Thing"

Though originally birthed in Oberlin, Skeletons are a quintessential New York amalgam, guided by a fluttery art-jazz shimmer, a minimalist aesthetic, a grab bag of post-punk grooves and those disjunctive melodies currently turning the underground into a 12-tone headfuck (cf. Dirty Projectors, Tyond ... More >>

EV Grieve Reflects on the Lessons of CB3 Meetings, Superdive, and the East Village as a "Foodie Tourist Trap"

EV Grieve​Although EV Grieve is first and foremost a neighborhood blog dedicated to covering "things that you may or may not be interested in about the East Village and other parts of New York City," we turn to it on a daily basis for restaurant and bar news. In addition to chronicling the c ... More >>

LADYSMITH RETURNS

Joseph Shabalala’s group continues to thrive

Whither the Korean Greengrocer?

Inha Leex Hale/Flickr​Although they may appear ubiquitous, Korean grocers, with their outdoor fruit and flower displays and inventory of everything from Clif Bars to Cup Noodles, are actually far less common in New York City than they were two decades ago.

Memphis Has The Dumbest and Ugliest People in America

​The city, not the Broadway show. According to a survey on TravelandLeisure.com, which rated 35 cities, Memphis came in dead last for both "Attractive People" and "Intelligent People," though it came in first for "BBQ". Gosh, you'd think if the folk are hideous, at least they'd be smart--and ... More >>

Sunday Evening Link Dump: R.I.P. to Barbara Billingsley and Bad News in Iraq

Sundog​It feels a little like Fall outside in New York City and the news wires are mostly calm this Sunday evening. Football is dominating, as it tends to do this time of year, with the Jets on in Denver and the Giants holding on to beat Detroit, though Cablevision customers in the area missed all ... More >>

Update: The Last Miner Is on His Way Up! And Other Chilean Miner News

​Hey, what's going on with the Chilean miners right now? Because you know this is all you're going to be talking about at that cocktail party/dinner at home/after-work drinks sesh with your buds. Be the one with the info that matters!

CB3 Denies Liquor License to Frank Prisinzano's "Simple Italian Cafeteria"

Wither the fate of Graceland?​It looks like Frank Prisinzano's plans to open a "simple Italian cafeteria" in the former Graceland space on Avenue A and East 2nd Street have been thwarted, at least for the moment: his application for a liquor license was denied at CB3's full board meeting last ... More >>

Some Wordy Neighborhood Opposition to Frank Prisinzano's Proposed "Simple Italian Cafeteria"

The late and lamented Graceland, courtesy of Google Maps.​Frank Prisinzano may be one of the East Village's reigning restaurant kings, but that doesn't mean that the owner of Supper, Lil Frankie's, and Frank is going to have an easy time opening the "simple Italian cafeteria" he recently propo ... More >>

Avenue A Probably Won't Get a Fishmonger, But May Get "A Simple Italian Cafeteria"

DMahendra/FlickrAvenue A's fishmonger is now sleeping with the fishes.​Community Board 3 held their SLA committee meeting last night, and from the sounds of it, it was quite a rough ride for many restaurant and bar owners. EV Grieve attended, and has a thorough account of the epic struggle mee ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Sleigh Bells, LCD Soundsystem, Nas and Damian Marley, Obies, and More

Sleigh Bells' Alexis Krauss, meeting her public. Photo by Santiago Felipe​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla attempts to describe the planet-obliterating joys of Sleigh Bells, Zach Baron on LCD Soundsystem's sardonically devastating This Is Happening, and Sean Fennessey explains why th ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: The 2010 Obie Awards

​Every year, The Village Voice holds their own awards ceremony for theater free from the pomp, circumstance, and promotional intent towards profit that most other Dog and Pony extravaganzas do: The Obies. And the awesomeness that was this year's was no exception. Voice theater critic and Obie ... More >>

Graceland Tells an Unfinished Story; Gabriel Recycles Old Ones

Ava Luna

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Bar Paya; Goodbye to Graceland

Restaurants, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Burger At Its Best has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, following a lawsuit brought on by former employees over labor law violations. [Crain's]​ Graceland, the Avenue A gourmet deli, ha ... More >>

Nicky's Still May be Moving, But Only a Couple Blocks Away

Robert K. Chin/www.nychinatown.orgNicky's: banh mi, Simpsons.​A couple of weeks after reporting that East Village banh mi stalwart Nicky's would possibly be leaving its East 2nd Street home, EV Grieve has an update. Per a reader who spoke with a member of the Dang family, which owns the shop, ... More >>

An Interview With tUnE-yArDs: 'Get People's Attention or Die'

An occasionally embarrassing chat with the one-woman feral folk sensation

Michael Jackson vs. Elvis Presley

Paul Bergen, Redferns via Michael Ochs Archives, Getty Images​According to a press release: "When celeb-biographer Mark Bego signed on as editor of the one-time magazine REMEMBERING THE KING: MICHAEL JACKSON's FINAL TRIBUTE, little did he realize he'd be in the center of a firestorm between El ... More >>

Here We Go Magic

Why Michael Jackson's Past Might Be Gary, Indiana's Only Future

Grizzly Bear's Mellow Gold

Brooklyn quartet goes quietly, grandiosely epic

Throw Down Your Heart Places Banjo, and Béla Fleck, in Africa

Live: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel Reunite at the Beacon Theater

Paul Simon Beacon Theater February 13 Consider the slack, orgasmic vagueness that invades Paul Simons face as, down below, his right hand twitches, by reflex alone, into the first four chords of "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"--a song that appears, even when being played by the man who wrot ... More >>

Letters 9.10.08

Paul Simon at BAM: Will and Grace

The crossover king of Queens and a global armada make a triumphant return trip to Africa

Paul Simon: Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes

Grizzly Bear, David Byrne, and host of others join the April BAM residency of New York's quintessential songwriter

Please Ignore This Band

Why Vampire Weekend’s high-society fetishizations can’t help but drive you to Black Flag

Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu

More deep spirituality from Paul Simon's favorite vocal group

Hugs and Kisses 23: Vampire Weekend Bassist Chris Baio on His Favorite Records

No Context: Revenge of the Book Eaters, 08.26.07

Dracula in Disneyworld

Vampire Weekend's goofy charms

Raw God, Tiny Nun

In a memoir of spiritual quest, Darcey Steinke tries to divine her soul

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