Editorial
South Village district’s time has finally come
There is a movement afoot in Greenwich Village that Chelsea residents can identify with. It is the recent proposal for a South Village Historic District, sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.

Talking Point
Bush and crony try to terrorize Gitmo attorneys
By Jerry Tallmer
Charles D. Stimson, the Bush administration’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, would seem to have been reading his Shakespeare. Last week this Orwellian anonymity emulated Dick the Butcher, who in Act IV, Scene 2, of “Henry VI, Part 2,” bellows to his fellow rogues: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers!”

Letters to the editor

Mikhaela Reid

The Buzz

In Pictures

Chelsea Now photo by Wozzy Dias
Just passing the time
On Monday afternoon, West Village residents Miho Ono, a 26-year-old graphic designer, and writer and painter Charlie Wichman, 28, took a few moments together on a bench in Chelsea Park in front of the Department of Health Clinic, which was closed in observance of Martin Luther King Day.

Scene

In Brief

A Surge of Protesters Responds to Bush’s Plan
The day after President Bush, in a televised address, called for sending a “surge” of 21,500 more troops to Iraq, numerous protests were held nationwide to criticize the plan.

Things to Do
The A-List
Your Weekly Neighborhood Newspaper | Volume One, Issue 17, January 19 - 25, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Lawrence Lerner

Urban planner Jee Mee Kim, far left, leads a small-group discussion at Tuesday’s meeting held by Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project.

Gansevoort project group told to think ‘big and crazy’
By Lawrence Lerner
Chelsea and West Village residents got an unprecedented chance to reshape the Meatpacking District Tuesday night at a public brainstorming session held at Fulton Houses Community Center by the area’s newest community group, the Greater Gansevoort Urban Improvement Project.

New push to create South Village Historic District
By Albert Amateau
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation last week dropped an 80-page report, three years in the making, on the desk of Robert Tierney, chairperson of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, in a call for a South Village Historic District comprising 38 blocks and about 800 buildings.

Punk icons replace guitars with T-shirts and booze
By Brooke Edwards
It has been three months since the East Village bore witness to the “death of punk” with the simultaneous closing of the legendary venue CBGB and the end of live music at its younger competitor, Continental, last October. Both names live on — albeit without screeching guitars — through fashion in one case, and in the form of a dive bar in the other.

NEWS
The party is over at West Chelsea’s Club Mumbai
By Albert Amateau
The State Liquor Authority last week imposed a two-year liquor license revocation on the troublesome Club Mumbai – also known as City – and then ruled that the location at 250 W. 26th St. would also have a two-year license ban.

Politicians give postal trucks plan Bronx cheer
By Lawrence Lerner
It is comforting to know that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays United States Postal Service couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But if the Postal Service has its way, more of those rounds will begin at the Morgan Processing and Distribution Center, bringing additional traffic congestion to an area of West Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen already inundated with automobile traffic.

Politicians, neighbors and friends pay respects to Marcia Lemmon
By Lincoln Anderson
Marcia Lemmon’s funeral last Friday was attended by a standing-room-only crowd of 100 people, including local elected officials, former Community Board 3 members, neighbors and friends.
Arts & Entertainment
Drawing outsider artists in
By Vivienne Leheny
Jessica Park’s vividly-hued and perfectly-pitched acrylic rendering of the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew — the architectural behemoth lurking at 86th Street and West End Avenue — captures something essential about the landmark structure. Her detailed and imaginative take on the church’s bell-less tower conjures a sense of divinity at least as persuasive as any sermon delivered from a pulpit.

Talking shop with Jeff Bailey Gallery
By Shane McAdams
Packed snug among a teeming crowd of art junkies at a recent opening at Jeff Bailey Gallery, I realized I’d been attending his receptions regularly, but could not remember my first one. It was as if his space had always been around, and I had always stopped by.

Koch on Film
“Alpha Dog” (-) The title of this movie depicting a sordid lifestyle is misleading.  So far as I am concerned, it should simply be called, “A Dog.” The film, written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, is based on a true incident involving a kidnapping and murder.
“Inland Empire” (-) After reading Manohla Dargis’ New York Times review of David Lynch’s latest film, I decided to see it.  She wrote it is “one of the few films I’ve seen this year that deserves to be called art.”

The kid of comedy
The freshest new face in standup comedy has zits — and talent
By Will McKinley
It’s five minutes until show time at Gotham Comedy Club, and comedian Alejandro Kolleeny is relaxed and confident.

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Richard Bosman, “Ice Climber,” 2006, oil on canvas. From his solo show “Rough Terrain,” through Feb. 3 at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, 529 W. 20th St.

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