Courtesy of Cruisin’ KitchenCBGB will be all over the place this summer, and so will a new truck bearing the name of one of the club’s legends. Marky Ramone’s Cruisin’ Kitchen hit the streets about two weeks ago, and the owner, a former East Villager, plans to feed the neighborhood’s late-night hordes.
Keith Album, a French Culinary Institute grad who has worked in catering, as a personal chef, and most recently at Whole Foods, describes his concept as “worldwide balls,” with Marky Ramone’s signature marinara sauce slathered over the Italian variety.
Not only that: the former Ramones drummer’s name and likeness are plastered on the side of the truck. Read more…
This nugget of news from an online auction house fits right in with the upscaling of The Bowery. City Room reports that a leather jacket once worn by drummer Marky Ramone (of The Ramones, obviously) is currently going for $3,146. An employee at the auction house says that it does not come with any lingering odors of stage sweat. Meanwhile, a more affordable option for Ramones fans: the new Dee Dee and Johnny Wacky Wobblers.
Jay Hukahori Intersection of West Broadway and Grand Street, after the storm.Good morning, East Village.
Three weeks after his attack, Gavin DeGraw talks to AOL Music Blog about what he calls “a rumble in the Bronx but it was Manhattan.” He says, “I guess some people could walk away from [it] and could be like, ‘Forget New York, I do so much targeted toward adding to the New York scene and it didn’t love me back,’ but I really don’t have that attitude about it.”
Neighborhoodr reprints a piece in Italian Maxim featuring Marky Ramone along with Jimmy Webb and Marzio Dal Monte of Trash and Vaudeville.
Bowery Boggie has a look at the latest Chico mural, at 397 Grand Street. Read more…
