While EV Grieve points out that there will be a mass in honor of Bob Arihood tomorrow at the Most Holy Redeemer Church on East Third Street, messages posted just minutes ago at Neither More Nor Less and Nadie Se Conoce indicate that someone (it’s uncertain who) has stepped up to maintain the late blogger and photographer’s two sites: “The site will be preserved in a static state,” reads one of the posts. “Comments wont be allowed, but all the old existing comments will be retained and viewable.”

Some drama coming out of our own Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute today (or at least, what passes for drama in our world): The Local’s co-creator Jay Rosen responds on his PressThink blog to a “sting” operation by conservative activist James O’Keefe. With the apparent help of an operative posing as a potential student, Mr. O’Keefe covertly taped one of the NYU professor’s classes in an attempt to show an elite liberal bias at The New York Times. Mr. Rosen calls the result “incoherent, context-less and, frankly, boring.”

Lauren Carol Smith

The Guardian writes about Goldman Sachs withdrawing $5,000 it gave to the 25-year-old Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, where many in the Occupy Wall Street movement have started banking. After the not-for-profit bank on Avenue B put Goldman Sachs’s name on an invite to a dinner honoring Occupy Wall Street, a representative of the investment bank told the credit union that it would “never get another dime from any big bank,” according to one of author Greg Palast’s sources.

Police have found the man they believe robbed Le Basket at gunpoint last week. According to the Post, Jed Cappelli is also charged with flashing a gun at a bodega on Avenue A and East Third Street early Monday morning. DNA Info points out that the Bronx resident has not been linked to a similar robbery at 131 Second Avenue.

The Wall Street Journal talks to Mink Stole. Best known for her roles in John Waters movies, she’s now starring in an adaptation of a Tennessee Williams comedy, “Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws,” at La MaMa. Read more…

Speaking of jewelry: New York magazine photographed Vera Balyura, the jewelry designer who owns VeraMeat, for its Look Book column, and she says she’s “going to dress up, like, all week long.” Guess we’re not the only ones looking forward to Halloween. For more on Ms. Balyura, check out The Local’s chat with her last year.

Eater talks to Taavo Somer and William Tigertt a year after the opening of their Bowery restaurant, Peels, which recently got a visit from Chuck Close. Mr. Somer reveals they plan to add a downstairs bar, which has been “taking a long time.”

Daniel Maurer

Think its rainy near you? Not as rainy as it is on a block of East 10th Street (between Second and Third Avenues) that has been closed to traffic for the filming of a Comcast commercial. The Local stopped by just minutes ago and watched a high-grade sprinkler shower water onto one of the company’s trucks during one take. All very dramatic, but what’s a Comcast truck doing in the East Village? It’s about as fishy as a subway stop across from Veniero’s. Indeed a call to Comcast customer service confirms that Time Warner is the block’s cable provider. As if we didn’t know that. But who knows, maybe the folks at Comcast are hoping to pass the St. Mark’s Historic District off as brownstone Brooklyn?

Courtesy of Sakura Halloween nails (not Beyoncé’s).

So, did you see those paparazzi shots yesterday of Beyoncé Knowles leaving Sakura Nail and Spa on East First Street, near Second Avenue? They even reached England! Maybe, like us, you found it hard to believe that the 18th most powerful woman in the world (per Forbes) would get a mani just a stone’s throw from the old Mars Bar. Surely the tabloids and gossip sites were confusing Sakura’s East Village location with the Upper East Side original. Actually, no: Earlier today, Fumiko Kano, the technician who did Beyoncé’s nails, assured us it happened right here in the neighborhood. Read more…

Daniel Maurer

A crowd of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to Union Square in a show of solidarity with their counterparts in Oakland. The Local caught up with the crowd of about 300 people around 11 p.m., as it marched up Broadway near 11th Street, on the sidewalk as well as in the middle of the street, against oncoming traffic. At that time, police cars and vans had amassed around the perimeter of Washington Square Park, apparently expecting action there, and only a few police officers were seen escorting the march up Broadway as protesters chanted “Oakland!” and “Who’s streets? Our streets!” At Union Square, one speaker yelled out a slur against the police as about 50 officers amassed around the perimeter of the park. Within half an hour or so, after some short declarations in support of “our brothers and sisters in Oakland” and against police brutality, the marchers dispersed, many of them heading back to Zuccotti Park amidst chants of “occupy the subway!”

Though NY1 reported at least 10 arrests earlier at a march to City Hall, the march to Union Square seemed relatively uneventful, and there was even a moment of comic relief when a “human mic” announced, “There were just 400 cops waiting for us at Washington Square Park.”

We’re a little late to notice this (Runnin’ Scared caught wind of it the other week), but it’s so cool we just had to share. Someone has affixed strips of tape to the posts of a fence outside of 42-44 Bond Street, and the result is a rather amazing three-dimensional time-lapse tribute to Steve Jobs. Check out the video to see what we mean.

Next time you see something like this, let The Local know by e-mailing us and posting photos to our Flickr pool.

A couple of updates on two of the neighborhood’s more notorious police officers today: Kenneth Moreno, who was acquitted of raping a woman in her East Village apartment but convicted of official misconduct, told a Brooklyn Family Court judge that he’s trying to get into radiology school, according to the Daily News. That paper also reports that Anthony Bologna, the Deputy Inspector who was docked 10 days of vacation after pepper-spraying women during a protest, has been transferred to Staten Island, where he lives.

Scott Lynch

Good morning, East Village.

DNA Info and the Daily News report that, at a meeting with the St. Mark’s Bookshop yesterday, the vice president for finance and administration at Cooper Union’s arts and engineering school offered the store a deferral of a month’s rent, and also offered to work with it on selling more Cooper Union course books. But that isn’t enough for the Bookshop’s owner Bob Contant, who tells DNA Info, “They’d be willing to help us, just not financially. Our need is financial. We don’t have the money, and they’re not putting up the money.” The shop will meet with the school’s president tomorrow and the final decision will still come at the end of the month. Meanwhile, EV Grieve reprints some letters of support, including one from Salman Rushdie.

According to DNA Info, the police have identified a suspect in the shooting of Donovan “Keith” Salgado: Hockeem Smith, 24, is described as 5 foot 6 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds.

Bowery Boogie interviews Hunter Fine, part of the team behind the “hipster traps.” These days, he’s creating miniatures of buildings that are infested with bed bugs – including a couple of addresses in the East Village – and leaving the tiny “Bed Bug & Breakfasts” outside of their real-life counterparts as a public service.

Photos: Noah Fecks.

As you can see from the slideshow above, Forcella has come a long way since The Local last glimpsed inside about a month ago – owner Giulio Adriani told us today that he’s ready to open for lunch and dinner at 334 Bowery on Thursday. He describes the décor here as “more fancy” and “more Manhattan-oriented” compared to the rustic décor of the Brooklyn original, but he assures us the menu will remain the same, and will include “authentic Neapolitan pizza” made from homemade mozzarella as well a “Montanara” pie inspired by his grandmother – it’s flash-fried and then finished in a wood-fired Acunto oven that was imported from Napoli.

Have a look at the menus here. Forcella will be open from noon till 11 p.m. from Sunday through Thursday, and noon till midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, with delivery ranging from Broadway to Avenue A and from 10^th Street to a bit south of Houston Street. Until the wine and beer license comes in, it’s soda only.

Brendan Bernhard

From all of us here at CVS,
Welcome to Death.
Please pay for your medications
underneath the skeletons.

Whether a foot from the grave,
or a perky teen,
God Speed! God Save!
There’s nothing like Halloween!

Khristopher J. Brooks

Don’t be too quick to believe Internet chatter about the possibility that Cooper Union might decide the fate of St. Mark’s Bookshop during a meeting today. Jolene Travis, a public relations officer at the college, told The Local that while the board of directors is still expected to come to a decision by the end of the month about whether or not to lower the book store’s rent, it won’t necessarily do so today. Another spokesperson went a step further and told Runnin’ Scared that there was no meeting of the board today.

According to Joyce Ravitz of Cooper Square Committee, the meeting is actually scheduled for tomorrow in the afternoon. “Tomorrow we’re going to hand in the petitions,” she told The Local. “I called for an appointment — we want to give them to Cooper Union officially.” She added that she hasn’t yet received a response from Cooper Union about a formal hand-off.

The petition now boats over 43,600 signatures.

Update | 1:40 p.m. Jolene Travis said over the phone that no board meetings are scheduled this week, and reiterated that “there are ongoing conversations with the board of trustees and the financial committee and a decision will be made at the end of the month in regards to St. Mark’s Bookshop.”

With the Bowery now added to the State Register of Historic Places, The Local got hold of the registration form that architectural historian Kerri Culhane and the New York State Historic Preservation Office prepared in order to nominate it. The 171-page document, sponsored by The Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, describes the Bowery as a “Main Street for the Irish, German, and later Chinese immigrant wards that surround it”; “the nexus of many labor and social movements, and a meeting place for labor unions, socialist, anarchists, Nativist organizations, proimmigrant groups, and innumerable others”; and “the center of New York’s working class theatre and entertainment in the nineteenth century; the reputed birthplace of American minstrelsy and adopted home of vaudeville; and home and inspiration to songwriters, including Stephen Foster and Irving Berlin.” Read more…

Scott Lynch

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Emily Canal Residents enjoy Tuesday night t.v. on a roof deck at 10th Street and First Avenue.

Today at 10 a.m., residents of 515 East Fifth Street – with the support of Councilmember Rosie Mendez, Good Old Lower East Side, and others – will protest an addition to their building that was deemed illegal by the Board of Standards and Appeals in November of 2008. In a press release reprinted by Curbed and EV Grieve, they say the Department of Buildings has yet to decide about the matter.

Is this a sign of the apocalypse? “Handsome Dick” Manitoba has declared Pat Buchanan a “likeable fellow.” The punk rocker turned bar owner writes about an encounter with Mr. Buchanan on his Tumblr: “Told him I was a liberal, Jewish, NYC Democrat, who disagrees with MOST of his politics, but I find him likable, well-spoken and entertaining.”

The Post names B&H Dairy one of the best greasy spoons in town. But we already knew that. Read more…