Diesel Cafe opening second location in Union Square

[ron_newman]

According to a newsletter that I just received from Union Square Main Streets, Diesel Cafe has begun construction on a second location at 11 Bow Street in Union Square, the former Asian-American Bank building. Also, Zeitgeist Gallery is moving into the second floor of that building.

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[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Well, for show posters, it's a little different and it's SOP to ask permission first. Which was given. It was trying to find a place on the board where they gave me a lot of grief. And god forbid something- my poster for instance- was taped next to the board. Rather than help, all the person there could do was tell me what I couldn't do and culminating in "if you can't fit it on the board, you can't put it up".

We put up 100 posters for the show in various establishments all over Somerville and Boston and the only one that gave us any sort of grief- hell, didn't bend over backwards- was Diesel.

I could see if it was just any old show poster for a band, but this was a friggin' benefit and if the owner of Magnolia's could tell me to put the poster right in the middle of his door on both the inside and outside so his patrons could see it, well.... compare and contrast. There are those who pretend to be liberals and those who are, and when the bell rang, I saw who answered it and who didn't.

Forgive me, this might sound bitchy or petty, but New Orleans means a helluva lot to me and it boggles my mind how anyone could throw attitude at someone trying to help.

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

sounds to me like the lense of your cause was/is coloring things. Diesel is a place where people have *jobs*, get paid by the hour, don't make all the decisions ("If you can't fit it on the board..). I think you are being entirely too harsh.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Damn right it was coloring my cause. At the time of the concert, most of New Orleans still didn't have power, people were homeless, and the folks down there still needed serious help and the airwaves were flooded 24/7 with commercials from the American Red Cross begging with people to contribute. This wasn't some etherial bullshit like a poster for a show like "my vagina feels oppressed by the evil beings with penisis so I'm going to do performance art". This was to help real people suffering real misery in real time.

Like I said, every single other business contacted was fine. Diesel was the ONLY one that gave anyone any sort of grief about putting up a poster. And I am going to assume that the employees I talked to other establishments were also people with jobs paid by the hour and not responsible for all decisions, yet still they helped. Hell, they wanted to help.

Not Diesel.

If they couldn't find it in the hearts to do a small thing like this to help out with 11" x 17" of wall space, why should I give them my business?