Esperanto does not negotiate with terrorists.
The Amelia Earhart effect
In celebration of its ten-year anniversary, East Village sleeper Esperanto is throwing a Brazilian-themed bash tomorrow night. Feijoada, a meaty stew, will be on the house, and caipirinhas are free from 8 to 10pm. Sounds like some forethought went into planning this sure-to-be-packed party, which is more than can be said of the invite. Above, find two versions of the document: We received the first on October 28; the second was sent earlier today. If you see something, say something?
Sixteen Candles, a John Hughes classic
Just when you were getting bored of drinking for MJ, another pop culture icon kicks the bucket. Angels & Kings was ahead of the curve this time, beating the serial exploiters at the Village Pourhouse to a Hughes tribute night, featuring two-buck domestic beers and screenings of some of the writer-director’s films. It’s happening on Thursday at 8pm. and there’s no cover. Because, you know, charging a cover is in really poor taste.
City Winery’s Michael Dorf may have been quick on the trigger with his controversial MJ tribute event, but the question of taste seemed to have at least occurred to him. The same can’t be said of the Village Pourhouse group, which fired off an e-mail chockablock with hee-hawing Jacko references this morning about its upcoming King of Pop pub crawl. This is parasitic gutter PR at its most vile.
Read the entire e-mail after the jump—at peril of encouraging any undue patronage, we’ve redacted the locations of the crawl. Read more »
