​An interesting story out of the East Village tonight: Millenium Film Workshop, the legendary film collective founded by director Ken Jacobs in 1966 (whose Seeking the Monkey King was just screened at Sundance and won an award from the National Society of Film Critics) is being evicted from the building it has occupied on East 4th Street since 1975.

The cause (a failure to pay rent for "about ten months," according to board member Jay Hudson) is not an unusual one leading to an eviction. Nor would the fact Millenium has had drastic cuts from the New York State Council for the Arts be an excuse a landlord would typically accept for such a large sum of unpaid rent.

But this is somewhat unusual: the party evicting Millenium is not a speculator, nor an investment firm, nor a international bank. In no way do they match the typical description of a profit driven greedy landlord.

Quite the opposite, in fact: the evicting landlord is another not-for-profit: it's La Mama E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club), Millenium's neighbor since it, too, set up on East 4th Street.

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Rosie Gray

A protester's sign at Zuccotti yesterday: "Where is Radiohead?"

​There was a lot of confusion down at Zuccotti Park yesterday, where protesters -- and the media, and about a zillion music fans -- thought that Radiohead was going to come and perform around 4 p.m. They didn't, despite an Occupy Wall Street press conference saying that they would. Nobody was sure of what was going on.

The rumor took on a life of its own. By our count there were at least 1,000 people on the scene yesterday afternoon, though many of them were misguided Radiohead fans. During the group's massive General Assembly yesterday, there were calls of, "If you're here for the concert, go home!"

OWS has released a statement apologizing for the confusion, though yesterday evening consensus still hadn't been reached about what exactly happened. Hero Vincent, one of the men responsible for Occupy's PR, told us that "there were no tricks and no pranks. Just miscommunication." As it turns out, there were all three -- and we've been able to pinpoint the exact source of the mess.

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Rickard Blommengren

​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's memo ordering the NYPD to stop arresting people for low level marijuana possession not in plain view will apply to "all police officers," not just "uniformed members of the service," the Voice has learned.

When WNYC broke the story about Kelly's memo on Friday, there was one glaring term that gave those concerned about marijuana arrests pause: the order applied to "uniformed members of the service."

Was Kelly, drug reform advocates and NYPD insiders wondered, giving himself some wiggle room here? Was this merely a loophole to allow plainclothes narcotics police to continue using stop-and-frisks to arrest New Yorkers for pot?

According to WNYC, the "NYPD did not respond to a request for comment" on Ailsa Chang's scoop on Friday. However, the department responded to a question about it to the Voice on Sunday, and confirmed that Kelly's order does, in fact, apply to "all police officers."

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​This just in: if politics makes strange bed fellows, same-sex marriage makes them all the stranger. Kitty Lambert, one half of the first same-sex couple married in New York State just after midnight Sunday, will be joining Louis Marinelli on the National Organization for Marriage Equality Tour this summer, Marinelli tells the Voice.

Why is this significant? Marinelli is straight, conservative, and was the tech guru for NOM, the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage. As recently as last summer, he was driving the truck and the social media operations for NOM on their anti-gay marriage tour. But during that time, Marinelli tells us, "My heart was changed because I went out and saw people like Kitty, and couples like Kitty and Cheryle [Rudd]. I heard what they had to say, and I saw them as human beings." When he converted to being a marriage equality supporter, Marinelli not only dumped NOM, but became one heck of a knowledgeable defector. He's now founded NOME, and is launching the Summer for Marriage Equality Tour next month in San Diego.

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​The days are numbered for New York City's other alternative weekly. We hear that the New York Press will likely cease publication by the summer's end if Manhattan Media can't sell the title or at least the website.

"Everything is always potentially for sale for the right price," Manhattan Media publisher and CEO Tom Allon told us today. "If anyone has any interest in the paper or the New York Press website, we're all ears."

Press editor-in-chief Jerry Portwood recently left for a job at Out magazine, following culture and entertainment editor Adam Rathe, who also departed this month. Meanwhile, the paper's contrarian film critic Armond White has been named editor of CityArts, a Manhattan Media culture publication. The rearrangement is perhaps a symptom of an uncertain future for the paper, which today named Marissa Maier as editor-in-chief. (Maier works currently as a writer for the Hamptons community paper The Sag Harbor Express.) But her run at the Press, a longtime Village Voice competitor, could be extremely short.

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​You may have heard that someone spilled wine on Glenn Beck's wife Monday evening in Bryant Park. Sara Romanoski, a 25-year-old Manhattanite with a penchant for Hitchcock movies, is the culprit. Surprisingly, though Beck has wept about it and many have written about it, no one has bothered to actually speak to the klutz holding the glass spilled 'round the world.

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​Today, I am suing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Last year, Bloomberg baffled New Yorkers when he appointed publishing executive Cathie Black to be the city's next schools chancellor. Black was an unpopular choice, and for months, responses to her appointment ran the gamut of ridicule, confusion, and outrage.

Black's tenure came to an abrupt end in April, when the mayor asked her to step down from the post after just three months on the job. New Yorkers who opposed her appointment were vindicated, but the question remained: What led the mayor to make such a choice?

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​Troubled clothing company American Apparel is all over the news again. This time, though, the situation seems dire. CEO Dov Charney, who we've spoken to in the past, is being sued for an enormous sum of money by five former employees alleging sexual abuse. Stop us if you've heard this one before (although this go-round is a bit more complicated than usual). Compounding his legal troubles, Charney's company is still on the rocks financially; rumors swirl that AA will have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy sooner rather than later.

Charney agreed to speak with us about his latest adventures, both personal and professional. He refused to say anything on the record about his most recent sexual harassment suits, although we did speak to his lawyer Stuart Slotnick, who told us, "These women have fabricated claims. These claims are a result of their intention to try and cash out at the company's expense with no legitimate basis to do so." Slotnick also confirmed that Charney had indeed had a "consensual relationship" with plaintiff Kimbra Lo after she had left the company.

Charney, who admittedly is a master of spin and has a certain charisma, was open -- in his way -- about American Apparel's financial problems, his "many followers," and the travails of Pee Wee Herman.

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A tipster has sent us graphic videos of the government crackdown on protestors in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. According to CNN, clashes between government forces and demonstrators in Aden yesterday left four dead of gunshot wounds and 26 injured. Protests have been going on across Yemen to demand the resignation of president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

This video shows protestors marching in Aden yesterday. It takes a turn for the terrifying at 1:11 when gunfire breaks out.

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​Just one big, local item on this slushy Friday for the reincarnated Press Clips column: New York Observer media reporter Nick Summers, on the job less than three months after the departure of John Koblin, is returning to Newsweek, where he worked as a reporter until October 29. While at the Observer, Summers wrote extensively about the embattled newsweekly, always with a disclosure as to his previous employment, including news of the merger with Tina Brown's The Daily Beast and her plans to take over as editor-in-chief. At the NewsBeast hybrid, Summers will work as a senior writer in a national correspondent role based in New York. Summers said his constant coverage of the new Newsweek is "probably what attracted Tina."

"It was very flattering," he said. "She'd read all of my stuff."

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