News presented to you from Greenwich Village

Upset with the city's crusade against it's geese?
Join protesters this Monday August 9th outside of Mayor Bloomberg's mansion at 17 E. 79th Street from 6 to 8pm to fight as they demand the mass slaughter to be stopped and order protection for urban wildlife. The city has been exterminating geese living in parks in every bourough following the incident that led US Airways Flight 1549 to land in the Hudson River. While it may be necessary to decrease the geese population surrounding New York City airports, protesters feel there are many friendlier alternatives than the city's plan to exterminate 4,000 geese.

After three songs of their Friday night concert, the Kings of Leon abruptly left the stage after a pigeon pooped into the bassist Jared Followill's mouth, as reported by the New York Post. Fans were outraged that only three songs were performed and were simply offered an apology on twitter that the conditions on stage were "too unsanitary to continue." When questioned about her motives, the pigeon simply stated "no comment."

The Pigeon Club is proud to announce it's support of The Tumbleweed Collective. You can learn more about the Tumbleweed Collective here.

Last Seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. The Pigeon Club is offering an undisclosed reward for anyone who can safely return Dennis to his owner. Please e-mail thepigeonclub@gmail.com with any leads.

The Pigeon Club would like to commend young Long Island Artist Olivia Bouler for her tremendous effort to raise money for the birds in need in the Gulf Coast by selling her original drawings. Olivia has sold over 500 original drawings and has raised over $100,000 that has been donated to the Audubon Society. You can read more about Olivia's effort here and even purchase one of her drawings.

Longtime pigeon lover Mike Tyson (yes, Mike Tyson the boxer) is set to start filming his reality television show on Animal Planet as early as this spring. According to the New York Post, Tyson will be racing his pigeons for the first time after giving the birds over for training from one of New York's professional pigeon trainers named Vinnie Torrie. Tyson has been well known for years in the pigeon world for his love of birds. You can see the New York Post article here for yourself as well as PETA's issue with it.

Yes folks, you read those zeros right. Bob Barker, America's favorite game show host has donated one million dollars to aid Illinois based animal right's activist group SHARK put an end to live pigeon shoots at the Philadelphia Gun Club in Bucks County. For these shoots, pigeon's are captured from their natural habitat and brought to a firing range with absolutely no chance of survival. Many pigeons are terribly injured and are left to suffer. We want to honor Bob Barker for being so generous and for being such an outstanding philanthropist. He has stated that along with the help of his contribution, he will appear at some of the weekly protests outside the gun club. See you there Bob!

Williamsburg, Brooklyn's lovely and ingenious City Reliquary Museum is in danger of extinction and needs your support! If you have never been to this small roadside gem, now is the time. The museum is located at 370 Metropolitan Avenue and is open on Thursday nights from 7:00 to 10:00 and Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 6:00. The museum is paradise for any collector or enthusiast of the city of New York. It is a nonprofit museum which houses authentic artifacts documenting little known histories of New York City and has rotating exhibits of community collections. Currently the community collections window is showcasing Amanda B. Friedman's unicorn collection and there is a new three month long exhibition titled "Company Journals of the Southside Firehouse." Go see the exhibitions and give your donation to the City Reliquary so that they can meet their necessary $20,000 goal by March 31st to keep the museum open!

Its redecorating season... how about starting it off with some wall color.... perhaps Benjamin Moore's Pigeon Gray? Pigeon approved for your satisfaction.

Continuing on our informative hermit crab video tutorial segment here at the Pigeon Club, we return again to hermit expert Cordell Jacques. In this short segment, Jacques tackles every hermit crab owners burning question.... "how do I sex my crab?" Learn the astounding answer here.

November 9, 2009

Ever wondered how to draw a hermit crab? Watch this quick informative tutorial and you, yes you, will be able to draw a portrait of your own ferocious pet.

UPDATE: if your hermit crab is not being a cooperative model, he/she might be having problems. Please watch Cordell Jacque's informative video to diagnose your pet.

Have you ever seen Zina Saunders Overlooked in New York?
Interesting interviews with lovely people and painted portraits of each one. If you haven't, check out this.

Last night, I stepped into a cab around 10:30. I asked the driver to put on the Yankee game, and after the radio was on, he turned around and handed me a pad of paper and a black ballpoint pen and simply asked "can you make me a painting?"
As the cab ride uptown progressed, we listened to the radio while I drew a picture of a few pigeons standing on each others heads reaching for a carrot on a string, and I got to know this mysterious cab driver, Mr. Fabio Peralta. Fabio moved here to New York from Columbia when he was 18 years old. He drives a cab and is a patron of art from unexpected people and places. He recently had a book printed called The Greatest Taxi which shows a selection of some of the five thousand drawings he has collected from passengers in his cab. His most recent project is a film he is compiling of clips of his passengers introducing themselves from the back seat of his cab. While he wasn't successful at getting me to sing on camera, he did somehow get me to ramble about Jacqueline Kennedy and fur coats. Rehearse your lines now, you never know what type of cab you're going to end up in here.
In other news, look to the sky tomorrow, as the Empire State Building will be tie die in honor of the New York Historical Society's Grateful Dead exhibition.

The Pigeon Project opening on Friday October 16 at 8:00-10:00 pm at the 11th St. Café.
(327 West 11th Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets)
In his first one man show in New York, Robert Covelman, an esteemed film set decorator and fifteen year West Village resident is returning to painting. In this body of work, Covelman is paying tribute to the Pigeon by exploring the endless variety in the what seems to be the Pigeon's limited color palette in ink, gouache, watercolor, pencil, and crayon.

If you can't make it Friday night, the show will be running through the end of November.
Check back here for a review to follow.

The Pigeon Club fully endorses Google's mission to keep young pigeons off the streets and place them in schools and offices. Google is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and all pigeons employed by Google are given sufficient coops, a European statuary for roosting, and a break room stocked at all times with the finest seeds and grain.

Police have barricaded off Bleecker Street in anticipation of the arrival of President Obama tomorrow. The president will be visiting NYU and will presumably be taking a stroll down Bleecker Street. We've asked him to stop by headquarters for a quick hello. We will keep you posted on the president's whereabouts and if you have a message for Barack, please forward it to us here.

August 30, 2009

adam jack ryan washington square park

Next time you're in Washington Square Park, be sure to check out Adam, Jack, and Ryan; the tap dancing and singing trio. Make sure you stick around to hear their rendition of The Monkees "I'm a Believer." It hasn't been done in such harmony since the Monkees themselves.