Ms. Artale, who is not disabled, named the club after the Van Gogh painting and decorated the space herself, making the storefront a warm, and inviting space with bits of Americana found at yard sales and flea markets and on eBay.
Last weekend, a second \eks\ outlet began dispensing yogurt in Manhattan, inside a Beard Papa's cream puff shop at 740 Broadway, near Astor Place, making the storefront one of New York's many centers of Asian-dessert-youth-pop-culture.
From the moment of inception Conenna was determined to make the agency known from the storefront's enormous sign to his 1980 Pontiac Sunbird hatchback which bore the Venus Travel logos on both side-doors.
Potted fig trees, Meyer lemons, hydrangeas, geraniums, lantana, heliotrope, sages and rosemary are only a few of the jungle of plants that make this storefront a green oasis.
At its storefront office on Roosevelt Avenue, Make the Road sits surrounded by small businesses, most of them owned by immigrants.
While perhaps best known for his surrealistic music (his most recent album was Ole! Tarantula, which featured a song inspired by Magnum Force), he also has a track record of collaboration with the film-maker Jonathan Demme, with whom he made the concert film Storefront Hitchcock.
Thompson pioneered the use of frameless windows to thrust those settings through the storefront, "making the store part of the street, and bringing the street inside," Segal says.
The rest of this cast does fantastic work (I must call out a favorite Chicago actress of mine, Tara Sissom, who plays sassy streetwalker Pearl. With this production, Sissom makes the shift from scrappy storefront spaces to the fancy world of high-end equity theatre).
A year ago Mr. Marra, 33, was running a local coffee shop with his father and making sculpture in the storefront window when time allowed.
