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The War on Drugs at BoweryBallroom: Still playing someof the best road-trip mu-sic around, frontman AdamGranduciel and his indie bandfrom Philadelphia are back on

tour with their new album A-+? &)?:8 B58/C, the followup to their

highly regarded 2011 record, 9'/=8 DCE&8)?. 6Delancey St., 9 p.m., $20, boweryballroom.com.

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Former LES resident andaward-winning author GaryShteyngart returns to theneighborhood with a hu-morous yet poignant newmemoir about his Ameri-can immigrant experience.Growing up in Queens af-ter moving with his parentsfrom Leningrad, Shteyn-gart describes his journeytoward becoming a writeragainst his parents wishes

and the battle to survivepublic school as a misfitSoviet Jew in America, acountry once viewed as theenemy. He is joined at theTenement Museum by hisfriend, Suketu Mehta, a Pu-litzer Prize-nominated au-thor. 103 Orchard St., 6:30p.m., free, tenement.org.

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!"#" %&'() *+,-.at Dixon Place: Forging empathic links be-tween wounded soldiers and rescued fighting dogs, performerKevin Augustine premieres his tribe's latest work alongsidea foam-rubber cast of life-sized pit bulls, disabled Americanveterans and a cadre of competing circus clowns, exposing thepostwar legacy of soldiers while raising questions about peace

and healing in our daily lives. Also Saturday, March 15, 161AChrystie St., 7 p.m., $16, dixonplace.org.

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Arun Ortiz Quartet at Abrons ArtsCenter: Critically acclaimed Cubanpianist and award-winning composerOrtiz comes to Abrons with his superbquartet, including Rashaan Carter onbass, Eric McPherson on drums and Da-vid Gilmore on guitar. Enjoy an afternoon

of free-flowing improvisation inspired by a

range of influences, from the impressionist colors ofMaurice Ravel to the rhythms of Thelonious Monk.Part of the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert se-ries. 466 Grand St., 3 p.m., free, abronsartscenter.com.

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Guest music curator Cori Ellison kicks off a series of mu-sical events delving into the possibilities of the operaticvoice by placing it in nontraditional contexts. A quartetof singers performs operatic standards to live accompa-niment while an audience of diehard opera fans and thegeneral public are encouraged to dress up, sing along,dance and throw toast do whatever theyre moved todo. 235 Bowery, 7 p.m., $12, newmuseum.org.

89 :';- *"'-< /5-2?at the Museum ofChinese in America: Bring the kids (bestfor ages 5 to 11) to explore an exhibitionfeaturing photographs of Chinatown res-idences called A Floating Population;

then create your very own small-scale 3Dmodel of a living space in Chinatown. 215

Centre St., 11 a.m., free, mocanyc.org.

Fourth Annual American Human Beatbox Festival atLa MaMa: A variety of beatbox performance styles andforms is showcased in this three-day event that includesan open mic, beat rhyme battles and vocal wars featur-ing some of the leading beatbox artists in America.Curated and hosted by Kid Lucky. Through Sunday,March 16, 74A E. Fourth St., showtimes vary, $15 or twofor $20/advance, lamama.org.

Faye Driscolls /05(2 @"' 9"& *"A;(= atDanspace: Bessie Award-winning choreog-rapher and director Driscoll uses her latestpiece to continue exploring how we expe-

rience ourselves in relation to other bodies,other stories and the spaces we all inhabit, as

a company of performers, designers, supportersand audiences is built around a long-term creativeendeavor. Through Saturday, March 15. 131 E.10th St., 8 p.m., $20/$15 members, danspacepro-

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community

The team proposing a park and culturalspace in an abandoned subway stationbelow Delancey Street is back in thepublic eye this month. The organization,known as the Lowline, has a new exhibitionat the Mark Miller Gallery, 92 OrchardSt., through March 9. Its a collaborationwith students from three Lower East Sidesettlement houses: Educational Alliance, HenryStreet Settlement and University Settlement.Through the Young Designers Workshop, thestudents created 3D models depicting theirideas for the 60,000-square-foot space. In

The developers of Essex Crossing, the largeresidential and retail project coming to theformer Seward Park Urban Renewal Area near theWilliamsburg Bridge, are assembling their designteam. Last month, they announced that SHoP Architectswould create a building at Broome and Ludlow streetsthat will include a branch of the Andy Warhol Museum,a bowling alley and condominiums. Another firm, BeyerBlinder Belle, will be responsible for a parcel at Grand and

Clinton streets, where rental apartments, a grocery store and a dual-generation school run bythe Educational Alliance will be housed. A site on the southeastern corner of Essex and Delanceystreets, encompassing a new Essex Street Market, a movie theater and apartments, will bedesigned by SHoP, as well as Handel Architects and Hugh Boyd/Market Ventures. This month, thedevelopment team will begin working with Community Board 3, seeking public input regarding the

design of a park to be constructed on Broome Street. Meanwhile, the city recently notified severalresidents of 400 Grand St., a building facing demolition, that they will be asked to move out byJune. The tenants in the city-owned building and CB3 have struggled for several years to engagewith city officials on a relocation plan. Essex Crossing is scheduled to break ground in the springof 2015. About 1,000 apartments, half of them affordable, are to be built by the time the project iscompleted in the year 2022.

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food

The Lower East Side lost two restaurants last month.Inoteca, the Italian restaurant and wine bar at 98 RivingtonSt., closed after a 10-year run. Owner Jason Denton saidhed decided to return the corner space, one of the bestplaces on the Lower East Side to watch the world go by, tohis landlord. In its final days, loyal customers flocked to therestaurant, whose excellent wine list, consisting of some1,300 bottles, was deeply discounted. In other closing news,Pushcart Coffee gave up its space at 221 E. Broadway lastmonth. Jamie Rogers took over the business in 2011 fromNicole Slaven, who opened Dora in the storefront a yearearlier. Rogers said the community-oriented shop just wasntmaking it in a tough location with minimal foot traffic and

increasing competition. Their landlord declined to reducethe rent, which was $4,000 per month. Rogers and partnerLisa Fischoffhave two other Pushcart outposts, in Chelseaand near Gramercy Park. They are searching for anotherlocation in the neighborhood. Were not quitting the LowerEast Side, said Rogers, a local resident and communityboard member.

crime

A 26-year oldman was con-

victed in con-nection with theshooting two

years ago of apolice officer onthe Lower EastSide. A Manhat-

tan jury found Luis Martinez guilty ofattempted murder. He faces 25 yearsto life in prison. In February 2012, Mar-tinez fired three times at two housing

bureau cops who had approachedhim near the Baruch public housingcomplex. One of the officers, ThomasRichards, was shot but miraculouslysurvived when the bullet hit his metalgun clip. Following the verdict, NewYork District Attorney Cy Vance said,justice was done, not only for theofficers and their families, but for allNew Yorkers who are tired of their livesbeing threatened by gun violence. Atthe time of the shooting, Martinez wasa student at Baruch College.

transportation

Improvements to one Lower East Side street

and one especially troublesome intersection

are in the works this spring. In the first project,an Orchard Street master plan kicked off apublic visioning process organized by the LowerEast Side Business Improvement District lastmonth. Local business owners, property ownersand residents attended a workshop to begingathering opinions about street improvements,including parking regulations, loading zones,benches, trees and bike racks. In recent years,there have been complaints about congestionand concerns about pedestrian and bike safety.One proposal under consideration is a pedestrianplaza. The community feedback will be funneled

into a master plan for the stretch between East Houston and Canal streets. it will be presentedto Community Board 3 during the spring, before being submitted to city agencies for approval. Ina separate initiative, the citys Department of Transportation (DOT) is preparing to make safetyimprovements at the intersection of Bowery and Delancey Street. Statistics show that from 2008to 2012, 63 people were injured in cars there, as well as 14 pedestrians and 10 bicyclists; one bikerider was killed. DOT officials concede changes made in 2008 failed to make it safer. The revisedplan, to be implemented during the spring or early summer, includes reconfigured traffic islands,new turn lanes and through lanes to improve traffic flow and increased time for pedestrian walksignals.

addition to the models, there are severalother interactive exhibits. Visitors can takephotos against the Lowline backdrop and thereare creative writing and drawing stations.A scratch box constructed from recycledmaterials and wooden chopsticks from localrestaurants provides users with the chanceto leave their mark on the Lowline. Membersof the community can visit the exhibit, sharetheir own ideas and talk with members ofthe Lowline organization. The gallery is openThursday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. TheLowlines founders are hoping the MTA, whichcontrols the underground space, will give thempermission for the project this year.

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the long bar that traverses his deep, narrow spaceand dispenses 20 specialty brews at a time. Eachoffering is detailed on a giant blackboard: name,brewer, style, state of origin, alcohol content.Drafts are also available in tasting flights, and into-go growlers. At the rear of the storefront, refrig-erated cases hold more than 600 more varieties inbottles and cans, which you can drink at the bar

for a small capping fee, or take home in custom-mixed six-packs.

Its not just about selling beer, though. Thereare classes about beer taught by experts. A libraryof books about beer-making and beer history linethe shelves, for reference and for sale. Kenny oc-casionally dives into food pairings, including onememorable project with his Orchard Street neigh-bor, Melt Bakery, which last summer combinedbeer with artisan ice cream sandwiches.

Kenny, who lives on the Upper East Side, lefta career with a multinational beer giant to pursue

One day last winter, a large crowd lined upsingle-file down Orchard Street and around thecorner to Broome Street for hours. It was not acasting call or a concert ticket sale. Beer-loversfrom across the boroughs, Jersey and Connecticuthad come to Top Hops, the Lower East Sides two-year-old center of beer geekdom, for the chanceto buy a rare beverage called Westvleteren.

Brewed and controlled by monks in Belgiumand extremely hard to obtain in the United States,the beer costs $85 per six-pack, with a limit of oneper customer--that is, on the infrequent occasionsts available at all.

Top Hops proprietor Ted Kenny had beggedthe monks distributor for as much as he couldget. He got 40 casesmore than all the otheroutlets in NYC, combinedand still sold out in 90minutes, leaving many hopefuls empty-handedon the sidewalk.

A few years ago, such devotion to craft beerwas largely unheard of in Gotham. But right now,small-batch beer is having a moment in New York

City, and Top Hops is at its epicenter.The Lower East Side is growing, every day,

into more of a mecca of the New York City beerscene, Kenny said. This is the up-and-comingneighborhood for beer in Manhattan.

Bells Brewery, a small Michigan companywhose products generate almost as much fer-vor as the Belgian monks, finally ventured into

the New York market last month, to the delightof devotees who regularly crossed state lines tofind it. When Bells owners planned their citywidekickoff, they focused heavily on the Lower EastSide and East Village: Top Hops hosted a packed,standing-room only tap takeover Feb. 11, andbars such as One Mile House, The Randolph andIdle Hands also put on events.

Thanks to the booming interest in craft beer,Kenny says Top Hops first two years have sur-passed even his ambitious vision, which was toestablish a cultural center for beer.

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his dream. So far, he says, its working out just fine.Press coverage in industry publications, as

well as The New York Times and the Village Voice,have put Top Hops on the craft beer map. In nam-ing Top Hops to its list of the 100 best beer barsin America last year (a list it made again in 2014),Draft magazine said: A former Anheuser-Buschdistributor took every guys beer-cave dreams andbrought them to life in this minimalist Lower EastSide tasting room.

On any given evening, the clientele includesa handful of solo drinkers who have traveled fromafar to taste, talk and commune with fellow beergeeks they just met.

Theres usually a healthy contingency of locals,and occasional tourists who wander in from theTenement Museum across the street. If theres onething that has surprised Kenny about the people

who flock to his place, though, its the gendersplit. Considering the glowing reviews in male-targeted media like Mens Health and GQ, heshosted a lot more bachelorette and birthday par-ties for women than he ever predicted, he says.

Theres been another surprising turn in Kennysfledgling business model. Anticipating that craftbeers would be the majority, but not the entirety,of his retail business, Kennys refrigerators hold afew offerings from the big corporate breweries.

We stock them, he said. But they dontmove.

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March 2014

The Neighbors, Polish artist Pawel Althamers career survey at the New Museum, takes the ideaof community collaboration quite literally. As part of the multi-faceted exhibition, the socially activesculptor is running a coat drive on behalf of the Bowery Mission, the New Museums neighbor. Anyone

who donates a mens winter coat to the mission gains free admission to the show, which runs throughApril 13. When the exhibition opened last month, students from New Design High School, on GrandStreet, worked side by side with Althamer in the fourth-floor gallery. The students, as well as museumguests, were invited to draw on the white walls and floors using paint and charcoal. Over the next sixweeks, audio from 50 street musicians performing on the Bowery will be piped into the third-floor gal-lery. Althamer is best known for sculptures he creates of himself, his family and community members. Aprominent part of the show is the Venetians, a haunting group of works created for the 55th VeniceBiennale, a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place in Italy every other year. The pieces, aswell as a series of videos and participatory workshops, highlight the artists passion for social interactionand political engagement.

Suspended from the high ceiling of JudyMoonelis Grand Street studio is an expansive andexquisite sculpture consisting of wire, strands ofglass, metal mesh and clay. The work depicts atype of brain cell known as mirror neurons, which,among other functions, may control humansability to feel empathy. Its one of many thought-provoking pieces displayed in the fifth-floor spacewhere Moonelis has worked for 33 years.

Like many creative people, she came to theLower East Side in the early 1980s because it wasaffordable, but was also drawn to the area forother reasons.

This neighborhood, the scale of it, the his-tory, it just felt like my kind of place, Moonelissaid during a recent interview in the bright andspacious loft that she will soon be forced to giveup. Noting that her grandparents once lived onRivington Street, Moonelis added, I felt like I hadcome home. It has, of course, changed a lot but Istill feel that strong connection.

Moonelis studio is located within the formerRidley and Sons Department Store building, thelandmark-protected property on the southwestcorner of Grand and Orchard streets. It was soldlast year to two firms, Waterbridge Capital andContinental Worsteds; the developers reportedlyplan to convert it to upscale retail and residentialspace. Due to rent increases, Moonelis said shehas no choice but to seek out a new studio, hope-fully on the Lower East Side.

In todays overheated real estate market, itwont be easy to find anything comparable tothe loft Moonelis has shared with another artist,

painter Gail Marks, all these years. The pinkbuilding, portions of which date to 1886, featuresa freight elevator, oversized windows, a skylightand 11-foot ceilings.

Moonelis explained why the studio is so impor-tant to her work. It is precious to me, she said,to have the ability to step back and see [a piece]from a distance, so that I can have a white wall [inthe background] and all these linear forms. Thestudio, Moonelis added, is her laboratory.

During the past three decades, its the placewhere she has created hundreds of pieces, someof which are represented in major national collec-tions, including the Smithsonian Institutions Ren-wick Gallery and the Museum of Arts and Designhere in New York. Moonelis holds a teaching posi-tion at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jer-sey, which has helped sustain her as a New York

City artist.I have always been interested in the human

body, Moonelis said, looking internally as wellas externally. Working with a cellular biologist,she has explored the idea of this inner [molecu-lar] life that is so explosive. Through her work,Moonelis also delves into the concepts of mem-ory and history, and has been commissioned forseveral site-specific exhibitions.

She transformed a former cell block at thehistoric Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia,creating speculative visual models of the brainsof former inmates. Here on the Lower East Side,Moonelis has a permanent exhibition at BroomeStreets Kehila Kedosha Janina, the only remain-ing Greek synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.Its centerpieces are two cone-shaped mixed me-dia sculptures hanging from skylights, celestialstructures representing the heavens. The worksallude to the shared memories of the people ofJanina, a community that was nearly destroyed inthe Holocaust.

Moonelis is sad about having to move, but isundeterred and even optimistic about the nextphase of her creative life. Shes searching for spacethroughout New York City, including in Brooklyn,Queens and the Bronx. In todays Lower East Side,it is, of course, increasingly difficult for artists tolive and work. But Moonelis knows things are al-ways changing in the city, and shes prepared toadapt.

Its hard to be an artist, in general, she said.But for me, theres no choice. This is what I willdo until the day I die. I feel so lucky that I havethis way to discover the world and learn about theworld and share what I see with others.

arts watch

Partake in Pawel AlthamersThe Neighbors

The New Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Thursdays,when it closes at 9 p.m.

If you know of

available studio

space, contact

Moonelis through

her website,

judymoonelis.

com. See her

work at the

museum at Kehila

Kedosha Janina,

280 Broome St.,

Sundays, 11 a.m.

to 4 p.m.

Redevelopment PushesArtist from Pink Building

After Three Decades

By Ed Litvak


Opening night. Photo by Nick Hunt, courtesy of the New Museum.


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