Editorial
Pier 40: Which plan is best for the community?
In 2003, the effort to redevelop Pier 40 at the end of W. Houston St. into a park and commercial complex crashed. Before that happened, however, four years ago, hundreds of engaged Villagers packed public forums at which the development groups presented their plans.

Letters to the editor

Talking point
Barack’s black dilemma: Figuring the funk factor
By Salim Muwakkil
The day after the national celebration of King Day, Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-Ill.) announced he was forming a committee to explore a run for the presidency. Obama’s rapid ascent and the popular draft that has swept him into the presidential race would have amazed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Some thoughts on the General Theological Seminary
By David Ferguson
During the course of the debate on the General Theological Seminary’s proposed Ninth Ave. tower, Dean Ward Ewing argued that, without the Seminary, there would be no Chelsea Historic District.

The Buzz

Police Blotter

Scene

In Briefs

Now, that’s a dandy Warhol

Obituaries

Emmit Noland, 82, financier, Foreign Service officer
By Albert Amateau
Emmit E. Noland, a retired banker and former U.S. Foreign Service officer, died Feb. 8 in his apartment on Perry St. at the age of 82.

Renato DeMaria, school principal, 75
By Albert Amateau
Renato DeMaria, a retired principal of New Dorp High School in Staten Island and a resident for the past 17 years of Christopher St. in the West Village, died Mon., Feb 5, in Lennox Hill Hospital at the age of 75.

Health & Fitness
Achieving a plan for sound nutrition
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
In my last two columns, I wrote about strength training and cardio workouts, two required elements of any fitness program that work together as “synergy” to give you optimal results. Today, we’ll discuss nutrition, the final and most challenging piece of the puzzle for most people.
Your Weekly Neighborhood Newspaper | Volume One, Issue 23, February 23 - March 1, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

High, ho, away we go!
Last weekend, the 22nd Half Moon Sword Ale — or gathering of English sword dancers — was held at various locations throughout the city, including the community center in Building 7A at Penn South co-ops. Here, the team Griggstown Lock from New Jersey performs a rapper sword dance.[more]

Loehmann’s settles human rights complaint with transgender woman
By Chris Lombardi
Jane Garra, a tall, leggy blues guitarist with hair flopping into her eyes, is often interrupted during performances at Brooklyn’s Buttermilk bar and the Ace Café in Manhattan, accosted by young women with a simple question not about her unusual instrument — a dobro guitar, which is used in Hawaiian music and is familiar enough to music aficionados at the CasHank Hootenanny Jamboree, a regular jam session held every month at Buttermilk.

Police seek to expand Nuisance Abatement powers
By Albert Amateau
The Police Department went to the City Council on Feb 13 to support bills to give the department’s Civil Enforcement Unit expanded powers under the Nuisance Abatement Law to close businesses where violent crimes have occurred and to close business that sell false IDs.

Tax help for low-income residents comes to Chelsea
By Chris Lombardi and Brooke Edwards
Bernice Oquendo looked up as the door opened to the Hudson Guild Fulton Center last Thursday evening. A man in his 50s, with a diffident manner, walked up to the desk of the graying but energetic receptionist and said quietly, “I’m here for the tax aid.”

NEWS
C.B. 4 refashions Ninth Ave. at meeting
By Chris Lombardi
As Community Board 4’s Transportation Committee met on Wednesday night in the C.B. 4 offices high above Times Square, members could be heard speaking of Amelia Chiemienti, who was killed on Feb. 7 at the dangerous intersection of Ninth Ave. and 16th St.

Old Homestead lawsuit highlights wage issues
By Lawrence Lerner
The southern end of Chelsea, near the Gansevoort District, has been basking in the glow of its ultra-fabulousness for several years now, as glittery galleries, boutiques, haute couture and chi-chi restaurants push out the last remnants of the meatpacking industry.

Two West Chelsea clubs see-saw through change
By Albert Amateau
Two West Chelsea clubs went through some quick changes in the past week that added up to “Doing Business as Usual.”

Gottfried at odds with gay electeds on marriage
By Paul Schindler
“Tom and I are coordinating with each other on everything on the bill,” Democratic state Assemblyman Dick Gottfried said about his out gay Chelsea colleague, Senator Tom Duane, and their plan to soon re-introduce the same-sex marriage law they have jointly sponsored since June 2002.

For this theater critic, a round of applause
By Nicole Davis
Whether Norman Mailer’s father was a skilled accountant, or whether he wasn’t, by June of 1956, a year after Mailer senior agreed to look after the finances of the brand-new Village Voice, Edwin Fancher’s paper was out of money. So Fancher closed it down, and together with the drama critic Jerry Tallmer, they spent July and August redoing the books.
Arts & Entertainment

Comedy that stands out
By Will McKinley
It’s safe to say that Adam Sank is the only gay Jewish liberal to ever work at Fox News Channel and then quit to become a stand-up comedian. It’s also safe to say that he’s funny. And so are his friends.

Talking shop with Jonathan LeVine
By Shane McAdams
It’s safe to assume that if you’re intent on heading to gallery openings, Thursday evenings from 6 — 8 p.m. is the best time to go. However, there are exceptions to this rule, and Jonathan LeVine’s gallery is one of them.

Fair weather weekend
By Shane McAdams
This past December there were an unprecedented 14 art fairs in Miami. Galleries from all over the world gravitated to the city, taking over bars, hotels and convention centers. Hipster artists and hedge funders mingled with bronzed locals on the beaches and at exclusive nightclubs.

The bitch is back
By Gary M. Kramer
The singer/songwriter known as Bitch sounds sweeter than her name implies. “It’s part of my performance art — the walking oxymoron of me,” she said over the phone from Los Angeles. Currently on tour with her new, solo CD “Make this/Break this,” Bitch will be performing with her girlfriend, Daniela Sea of “The L Word,” at Joe’s Pub on February 27.

Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
“Breach” (+) A superb movie. The acting is brilliant and the story fascinating. It is based on a true episode involving what is described as the greatest incident of traitorous conduct ever committed by an FBI agent.
“Antibodies” (+) This is a version of Hannibal Lecter (“The Silence of the Lambs”) told German style. It is extremely well done, different of course, but just as interesting and tension filled.

Family matters
By David Kennerley
Have you ever stumbled across an old family photograph and wondered, “Who were these people and are they a part of me?”

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Roman myth reinterpreted In conjunction with the Armory Show, Creative Time will present the U.S. premiere of Eve Sussman and The Rufus Corporation’s acclaimed video-musical “The Rape of the Sabine Women,” 2006, at the IFC through February 27. 323 6th Ave. For more information, visit www.creativetime.org.

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