Reverend Billy Steps Up for Ray's
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But now he also has a force of nature on his side -- anti-consumerist preacher and former mayoral candidate Reverend Billy.
"Ray has been a north star of kindness from our childhoods," says the Reverend, and "the East Village will do whatever it takes to defend Ray's dignity." To this end he's helping out with a new benefit for Ray's at Theater for a New City on Monday. EV Grieve has details. Among the performers, along with the Rev and his Life After Shopping Gospel Choir: "Ms. Marilyn singing her smash hit 'My Man Ray!'"
Ray's is sufficiently an institution that it has a Wikipedia entry, as well as a Facebook and a MySpace page.




























