Category Archives: East Village

Bowling For Prosperity

February 25, 2016 – 4:24 pm

Back in the 1980s no one other than Rockets Red Glare was fat and these days he might pass for husky. We loved he nightlife. New York was the capitol of the world. Every place else on Earth was second-rate, except for Paris and Pattaya. Both those cities knew sin. However New York could mix […]

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Riot At The Ritz

February 25, 2016 – 3:53 pm

In May 1981 PIL, the front band for ex-Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten was approached by the Ritz in the East Village to fill in for Bow Wow Wow. The band wasn’t into doing the gig but according to Ed Caraballo, the band’s cameraman said to the band, “Wait,they have all this fabulous video equipment there […]

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iPhone love

February 24, 2016 – 2:18 pm

The other night I went to dinner at John’s Italian restaurant in the East Village. The establishment has been serving hearty southern dishes since 2008. The menu was a time machine to my youth and I ordered the meatball and spaghetti. My dinner companion had the tomato raviolis. We ordered Chiantis and converse about friends, […]

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Missing Foundation – 1933 Your House Is Mine

December 28, 2015 – 12:21 am

The East Village had been a refuge for the artistic underclass since the Beatnik era. I moved to the Lower East Side in 1976. It was unlike my native Boston and complimented by the collapsing cities around the USA and decaying neighborhoods of New York. We thought capitalist civilization was on its last legs, but […]

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle (EXCERPT)

October 19, 2015 – 12:52 pm

FAMOUS FOR NEVER is a semi-fictional recounting of the life of a ne’er-do-well living in the East Village during the 1970s, Paris throughout the 1980s, and Asia for the 1990s. Peter Nolan Smith’s pingponging through the world ricochetted him through the ranks of the famous and near-famous such as Jean Michel-Basquiat and Klaus Nomi without […]

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