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May 15, 2008
victory for Union Hall
Long story short, Brooklyn bar and music venue Union Hall won the battle yesterday.
Union Hall is just a few blocks away from Southpaw - where I was last night for the Negative Approach show (May 14, 2008). That's when the above picture was snapped.
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May 13, 2008
UNION HALL vs NEIGHBORS - the action is heating up w/ another meeting, another bar owner & security tapes....
The ongoing controversy over Union Hall bar in Park Slope is tearing apart the local community board as it heads towards Wednesday's vote on the popular nightspot's liquor license amid charges that one of the bar's opponents has a conflict of interest and another opponent made a false 911 call.Basically Union Hall lost round one, and this Wednesday (May 14, 2008) is round two at Borough Hall with more board members and more important politicians. If you're interested in supporting Union Hall, you can show up with signs at Borough Hall (209 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, New York) on Wednesday at 6pm.Infighting has riven Community Board 6 since last week's contentious committee resolution that urged the State Liquor Authority to deny the bar a renewal on its license unless it reduces the alleged noise that upsets many neighbors between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
But one of the supporters of that May 8 resolution, which passed 6-2, owns a bar himself -- and is now facing a conflict of interest charge...... [The Brooklyn Paper]
Even if Union Hall loses round two, they don't lose their liquor license yet. It is then up to the state to decide what happens. Union Hall wasn't allowed to present any evidence last week. This time they can, and their ammunition includes the competing bar owner voting against them, and the Union Hall surveillance video that I've embedded below....
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ANDREW WK playing New Museum, calling New Venue "Santos' Party House", working with Lee Scratch Perry
Something tells me that Andrew WK is just amusing himself by calling the venue fomerly known as SANTA'S Party House, "Santos' Party House", but who knows...
Santos' Party House has prepared their downstairs space for a series of nightly pre-opening parties. Now you can come dance. The upstairs will be open soon.James Murphy says the name will be 100 Lafayette and the logo/URL agrees.Santos' Party House is located at 100 Lafayette Street, one block south of Canal Street, Manhattan, New York City.
Santos' Party House is a two-level, 8000 sq. foot venue, centrally located in the downtown New York City, straddling Chinatown and Tribeca.
Focused on blurring the lines between music and art culture, the venue is designed to function as a concert hall, dance club, and lounge.
Featuring a top-notch, global lineup of weekly residents and one-off events, Santos' Party House has been built from the ground up to rival any venue in the world.
More coming... [Andrew WK]
Andrew WK is playing a 'live solo pianos' show at "Get Weird" @ the New Museum in NYC this Thursday May 15th. More details and stuff below...
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May 12, 2008
Steven Lewis blogs on 100 Lafayette ('the next great club')
Steven Lewis
Larry Golden of Pianos has partnered with Spencer Sweeney and Andrew W.K. for what an insider friend of mine is calling the next great club. They've been trying to get this lower Manhattan (Lafayette Street) venue/club open for about three years now. There's a lot of talent here, so maybe it's true. The space is great. I looked at it with Greg Brier and Arthur Weinstein when it was an art gallery, but the hurdles seemed insurmountable for my clients. I asked my insider if it was going to appeal to the more monied of the Williamsburg hipster crowd and I was told 'better than that.' Surely this crew wouldn't attract a bottle service patron. I was told that the upstairs will be this ultra hip venue and the club downstairs will change life as we know it. Congratulations may be in order for Larry, Andrew, and Spencer and very hopefully for all of us. I could use a great club again and somebody else to run it.Good Night,
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Local H touring, LUNA LOUNGE still closed, NYC show moved
Local H's new album "Twelve Angry Months" is out this week...
"The first single is "24 Hour Break-Up Session," a serviceable "Don't Fear the Reaper"-"Teen Spirit" hybrid, but the real gem is "Michelle (Again)." Bouncing around like an oomphed-out Rick Springfield ditty, it explains away third-party break-up assumptions with brilliant stuff like: "She got what I don't want / What I don't what is always what I got."" [J Feindt for Radar]Local H were supposed to play Luna Lounge in Brooklyn on May 18th, but Luna Lounge is still closed until further notice so that show has been moved to Union Pool instead.
The second song streaming on Local H's MySpace page right now is a nice cover of TV On the Radio's "Wolf Like Me". All tour dates below....
Continue reading "Local H touring, LUNA LOUNGE still closed, NYC show moved"
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100 Lafayette is a new NYC venue (not Santa's Party House)
It looks like they're shelving the name "Santa's Party House" for the much classier "100 Lafayette" (look at the logo!). This new NYC venue that is partially owned by Andrew WK is officially opening soon with a wide range of events including rock shows and dance parties. Supposedly there will even be bottle service (yuck).
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Special Disco Version is a new DFA party @ 100 Lafayette
Pat Mahoney and James Murphy
James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem/DFA Records) posted the following message on the DFA board (thx all)...
ok, pat and i are starting a new party here in nyc. it's a dfa party, sure, somewhere between my old apt party (which was very fun) and the dfa parties at studio b. it's called special disco version and it'll have it's homebase at a new club my friend has in manhattan called 100 lafayette at, well, you guessed it, 100 lafayette street. we're also taking the show on the road.Hercules & Love Affair (also part of the DFA family) play Studio B this week.
the new spot isn't open yet, but there are some gigs a-coming up.and here they are:
may 13th we're on beats in space
may 15th pat's in dublin (details to follow)
may 16th pat's at fabric in london
may 16th i'm at webster hall in nyc
may 30th pat's in austria at the urban artforms festival
may 31st pat's in belgrade
june 10th we're playing together at MOMA
june 13th & 14th there'll be some form of specialdiscoversion party in vancouver and torontoso there.
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May 9, 2008
"Maybe Brooklyn isn't the best place for someone who has a life-threatening allergy to bar noise?"
David Cross & Eugene Mirman @ Union Hall, July 15, 2007 (Bryan Bruchman)
The title of this post is part of a quote Euguene Mirman gave Gothamist to follow up on the earlier pissed off neighbors post.
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Ohbijou & Takka Takka play Union Hall tonight (May 9)
Eugene Mirman plays Union Hall almost every Sunday, and he will be performing at a benefit at Southpaw on June. Southpaw is in the same Park Slope neighborhood as Union Hall. Southpaw is where Zombieville is tonight. The neighbors claim they feel like zombies from the lack of sleep they get by living hear Union Hall.
The Instruments play their instruments at Union Hall later this month (hopefully not too loud).
Delta Spirit are playing Union Hall in June.
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Union Hall, Mirman & Showalter vs. Park Slope residents
Eugene Mirman fighting for Union Hall, May 8, 2008
Late last month some residents of Park Slope secured themselves a Community Board meeting with CB6 to air their complaints about Union Hall, and attempt to stop their liquor license from getting renewed. The meeting took place last night, lasted more than two hours, and to everyone's surprise -- the board voted against Union Hall. The vote of six to two (with two abstentions) means CB6 will advise the State Liquor Authority (SLA) against renewing the liquor license of Union Hall.The article goes on to say that although Union Hall lost this fight, the neighbors are still unlikely to get the bar shut down.The meeting was mostly an open forum for the Board to hear voices in favor of and against the bar/venue's presence in the neighborhood. The voices against were predominantly residents of the Union Avenue block Union Hall is located at, led by community activist Jon Crow (aka "Old Man Crow"). The supporters of the bar consisted of patrons, employees, and regular performers at the venue including Michael Showalter and Eugene Mirman.... [Gothamist]
Ohbijou & Takka Takka play Union Hall tonight (May 9)
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May 8, 2008
LA venues: Conga Room & Largo are moving to new spaces
Largo, which will shutter its 120-seat Fairfax Avenue location after a final comedy show Monday (May 5th), will open June 2 at the Coronet Theater space on La Cienega. Aimee Mann, who will release an album June 3, will be the first performer.Photos from Largo's final Fairfax night can be seen on Flickr.The Conga Room, which presented Latin artists for 8½ years in a mid-Wilshire location before closing in May 2006, has Nov. 14 circled for its opening in the L.A. Live complex across the courtyard from the Nokia Theater. Jimmy Smits, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Rodriguez and Sheila E. are still among the co-owners of the venue, which will boast a 1,000-capacity club and a 100-seat restaurant in addition to a VIP lounge. [Variety]
ALSO: "A movie about Largo is scheduled to come out in 2008, directed by Flanagan and Andrew van Baal. It features the musicians Colin Hay, Grant Lee Phillips, David Garza, and Aimee Mann, and the stand-up comedians Paul F. Tompkins, Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, Louis C.K., Greg Proops, and Sarah Silverman.", says Wikipedia.
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