Hey New Yorkers! Want to support something really cool&aGREAT cause?: St Mark's Place open TONIGHT

[Liberation Angel]

Just a quick note for the new yorkers (NYC) folks.

My good friend whose family is trying to keep their theater (Theater 80 at ST MARKS PLACE) from being destroyed by the economic crisis and the building torn down for MORE NYU HOUSING is reopening and premiering a new indie film TONIGHT in one of the coolest and oldest theater venues in NY.

Check here for the cool premier and brand new Indy film opening there TONIGHT:

http://www.theatre80.org/calendar.aspx

The film features someone I worked in the theater (Phyllis Somerville) with as well as LEON from Curb Your Enthusiasm and a standup who has been a writer for SNL AND one of the guys from THAT SEVENTIES SHOW.

The guy whose family inherited this former speakeasy/theater-for-the-mob (where Frank Sinatra is said to have worked as a waiter when he was a kid) is a human rights activist who worked with me and worked for the late Civil Rights Atty. Bill Kunstler on Native rights issues.

He is struggling to pay the taxes and keep the building going and NEEDS our support for progressive causes, art and culture.

Check out the link above for info on the film (a dark comedy called "Brooklyn Heist") which premiers tonight in the Greenwich Village coolest venue ever.

Trotsky, btw, lived just above the theater before he went to Russia in 1918 or so when he was a journalist in NYC.

[Liberation Angel]

1. Watch the Trailers here and let me know what you think

http://www.thebrooklynheist.com/trailer_a.html

[annabanana]

2. Theater 80 facing extinction?.. say it isn't so..

[Liberation Angel]

3. If they cannot make it work they will have to sell it and developers will buy it

Are you familiar with it?

If you are in the neighborhood you should check it out tonight (the premier) and tell the owner you are a friend of mine on DU (tell him the guy whose dad was in the French resistance and who worked with him on Native and Roma (Gypsy) Civil rights stuff and even reserch on the Nazi gold... He'll know who I am anyway. Ask for Lorcan (or Larry but he prefers Lorcan)

Good man . He's friends with Ron Kuby too who I've had a few beers with a few times.