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Editorial
Get all the High Line aboard the park plan
The High Line park has been hailed as one of the most stunning and revolutionary urban-design projects of our time. And it’s a project that almost everyone is firmly behind — from west Chelsea gallery owners, to residents and park advocates, to the Bloomberg administration, to landlords who stand to reap the windfall of increased property values.
Notebook
Driving without wine with Homer
By Andrei Codrescu
An ancient Greek audience listened all night to Homer. In the morning, minds full of Calypso’s sinuous hips, Circe’s beguiling sigh-songs of globular delight, the clang of terrible weapons, and, most of all, a world-classical hangover, your typical Homeric audience straggled home through the dew-fresh grass of the Aegean hills, transformed into believers in epic poetry.
My fast track to E.R. purgatory at St. Vincent’s
By Michele Herman
I went away recently for a few days — far, far away. When I came back, Abingdon Square was bright with mums, the monarchs were flying through, and the bus shelters wore brand-new billboards.
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Alan Brownfeld, owner of Brownfeld Auto Service, at 29th St. and 11th Ave., in Chelsea, offers his own interpretation of how Santa will arrive this year.
In Briefs
Duane’s podcast is ‘total garbage’
Chelsea Now photo by Meryl Meisler
Magnificent morning
A sunrise viewed from the photographer’s “sky studio” at 28th St. and Eighth Ave.
Peaceful, healthy night rider
Obituary
Joannie Chen, 37, photographed for medical and corporate clients
By Albert Amateau
Joannie M. Chen, a freelance photographer whose work included special events and corporate and medical subjects, died Dec. 2 at the age of 37.
Sports
Young Olympic hopeful swimmers are making a splash
By Judith Stiles
For Dexter Brierley, the power food of choice before one of his big swim meets is a simple sweet potato. Perhaps this carb adds an element of luck as well, because the firey color of the food matches a roguish red-haired mop that frames his handsome face.
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel Avalon, the former Limelight disco, was closed on Wednesday night since there was no party. The club has been closed a lot lately. Twilight for former Limelight, as owner shops mini-mall idea Guild gets funding for Fulton senior center renovation project By Albert Amateau The Hudson Guild has received commitments totaling $350,000 from Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Congressmember Jerrold Nadler to renovate the Guild’s Fulton Center. Lawsuit is filed in the ongoing dogfight at Penn South co-ops By Albert Amateau A Penn South resident with a dread of dogs has filed a lawsuit demanding that the Chelsea co-op enforce its no-pets policy  Turning the banal into the sublimeBy John Ranard Alan Klotz has turned his gallery over to showcase the photographs of one collector, who over the past 30 years assembled a world-class photography collection on a comparatively shoestring budget.
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NEWS
Young Muslim designer is balancing her faith and fashion
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Arts & Entertainment ART  The ConversationBy Nicole Davis Family members often figure in Jenny Perlin’s art and films, but for her latest installation, which opened at The Kitchen last weekend, the relative who inspired “Transcript” happens to be one she never met. He was Marshall Perlin, a lawyer who unsuccessfully sought a stay of execution for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the Americans accused of supplying the Soviets with atomic-bomb secrets.  Talking shop with Nick Lawrence of Freight + VolumeBy Shane McAdams An art gallery as a business is unlike any other commercial enterprise. Whereas a more conventional undertaking like, say, a plumbing supply store, exists to sell gaskets and drain covers at enough of a profit to sustain themselves — and possibly pass the business on to their children — art galleries are often labors of love, and many art dealers are so integrally involved in the selection and curation of the art they represent that they are functionally artists themselves. Art books for pockets deep and small By Stephanie Murg If bookstores were people, Barnes & Noble would wear sensible shoes, The Strand a tweed jacket rundown at the elbows, and Taschen — well, Taschen would rock a Victor & Rolf runway sample and smell slightly of sin. |
FILM Boyle played two monsters; One was named Joe By Jerry Tallmer The movie “Joe” came out in 1970, a couple of years after hardhats on construction projects in or around Wall St. started beating up peace marchers making their way through that terrain. Koch On Film “The Good German” (-) Although this film was slammed by other critics, I decided to see it. I was hoping to see Berlin in the ’60s, when the Soviets erected the wall dividing the country, and hoped even more that the movie would create the intrigue of “The Third Man,” starring the genius actor and director Orson Welles. “The Secret Life of Words” (+) Though occasionally inexplicable, this film, written and directed by the Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet, is on the whole very poignant and rewarding. THEATER Playwriting by her own rules By Jerry Tallmer Sarah Ruhl writes plays that are different. They are different from anybody else’s plays, and different, as she writes them, one from the other.  ‘Apple Tree’ stands tall among this year’s revivalsBy Scott Harrah The Roundabout Theatre Company is one of finest resources in New York theater because they revive lesser-known musicals from yesteryear and introduce them to a new generation. |
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