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This just in:
RUN TO HELP SAVE CBGB
Central Park, July 20 - 6 pm
with performances by Joan Jett, The Donnas & others

How about if somebody runs over to Hilly Krystal and bats him over the head for wasting his money on stupid get-rich-quick schemes like the CBGB Pizzeria and the CBGB Record Store (remember those?) instead of buying that building when he had a chance to get it for peanuts 20 years ago?

The CBGB Run is being co-sponsored by Nike, NY Roadrunners, and the city parks & recreation department, all rather weird bedfellows for a club known for fostering decades of unhealthy levels of heavy drinking, smoking, recreational drug use, and lord knows what else. I can't imagine the denizens of CBGB running anywhere for any extended length of time... unless someone found out that a deli down the block had cigarettes for less than $5 a pack.

The ad in the Village Voice doesn't say what the money raised by the race will go towards... CB's escalated rent? Bribes to the landlord? Hilly's 401K? Nobody thinks NYC still needs CBGB (even in its current sad state, with bookings so bad they're beyond redemption) as much as I do. But this is a problem between a short-sighted, greedy old man and a short-sighted, greedy landlord. Running around Central Park isn't going to fix anything.