In an arrangement known to few of the club's patrons, CBGB [OMFUG] subleases its spaces at 313 and 315 Bowery from the organization, which shelters 175 homeless people in the floors above the club. In 2001, the organization began efforts to collect more than $300,000 in back rent from the club. Although much of that has now been paid, the club faces eviction over remaining debts of about $75,000, both parties say.

You can't throw us out! We're a punk institution!
- tom moody 3-07-2005 6:04 pm [add a comment]

music and the bowery


- bill 3-07-2005 11:51 pm [add a comment]

"The Republic of the Bowery was a powder keg of pre-political class rage that required only a slim excuse to go off," Luc Sante writes in his cultural history, Low Life. Dressed like a dandy, the Bowery Boy (whose legend calcified over the ages into Hollywood's Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys movies) roamed the neighborhood with his gang, looking for pleasure and trouble, occasionally erupting in bloody riots and battles with rival gangs. The Bowery Boys and Gals introduced plenty of raw-knuckled slang into the American vocabulary (bender, blowout, chum, kick the bucket), and patronized emerging popular-entertainment forms like melodrama, vaudeville, and freak shows."
- bill 3-07-2005 11:58 pm [add a comment]

bowery boy library


- bill 3-08-2005 12:17 am [add a comment]

b'hoys


- bill 3-08-2005 12:33 am [add a comment]