EDITORIAL
It’s time to pull the plug on Imus
There’s comedy and then there’s callous insensitivity. The latter was recently displayed by radio “shock jock” Don Imus when he made ugly, inappropriate and blatantly racist comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team after their loss in the N.C.A.A. tournament championship game.

TALKING POINT
The pier’s a park, not a parkway
By Tobi Bergman
Picture a fine evening in June in the waterfront park. It’s 7 p.m. and the tail end of rush hour traffic is inching toward the Holland Tunnel. The heat of the day is yielding to a river breeze and the Greenway is jam-packed: cyclists and runners, skaters and strollers, commuting, exercising, grooving.

The racial reality of marijuana arrests
By Nathan Riley
Since Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s era began in 1994, New York City has aggressively enforced the prohibition against MPV — law enforcement shorthand for Marijuana in Public View. Although it is the lowest level crime — a B misdemeanor — smokers are arrested, fingerprinted, detained for hours (that is, jailed!) before they are brought before a judge, at which time they are routinely released.

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Health & fitness
Working those abs
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
In last week’s column, I discussed some of the most common exercise mistakes that I see people making again and again. This week, I’m going to talk about the most common mistakes that people make in their quest for a flat stomach or ‘six pack’ abs (really it’s an ‘8-pack’).
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Not your garden variety art installation
A staff member from Garden in Transit, a non-profit project that fuses art with education, loaded painted vinyl decals into wooden crates earlier this week. The decals, painted by local residents, are en route to California, where they will be weather-proofed before returning to New York City to adorn Gotham’s entire fleet of 13,000 taxis beginning Sept. 1.[more]

C.B. 4 ok’s Covenant House hotel, with reservations
By Chris Lombardi
Last Wednesday, the former Chelsea home of Covenant House, the nation’s largest child-welfare nonprofit agency, came one step closer to becoming a luxury hotel building in its entirety when Community Board 4 approved a new hotel chain’s conversion plan for part of the space, much to the chagrin of some board members and area residents.

N.Y.U. support for new historic district goes south
By Lincoln Anderson
Four years ago, when New York University expressed its initial approval for creating a South Village Historic District, there was an understandable incredulity among local community leaders and preservationists. N.Y.U. endorse designating a new historic district?

Chelsea Rx raises funds for local canine
By Kristin Edwards
A sign posted near the cash register at New London Pharmacy in Chelsea features a picture of a dog dressed like a doctor. Though the sign may appear cute and humorous at first glance, it is soliciting donations for a dog in Chelsea in need of cancer treatment.

NYC Grows takes root in Union Square

Let the garden grow
By Maria Rapetskaya
From Sept. 1 through the end of the year, New York City’s entire fleet of nearly 13,000 taxis will be transformed into a kaleidoscopic mobile exhibit.

Weighing in on the Gansevoort billboard
By Esther Martin
As you walk south on Hudson Street in the Meatpacking district, you can’t help but notice that most of the architecture follows a common theme of low-rise brick facades.

NEWS
Chelsea fire claims life of elderly woman
By Jefferson Siegel
A 96-year-old woman died when a fire broke out in her Chelsea apartment just before noon on Wednesday.

Intrepid sailor set to voyage around the world
By Alyssa Galella
On Saturday, April 21, former Chelsea resident Reid Stowe will embark on the voyage of his dreams—a trip around the world in 1,000 days without seeing land. A lifelong sailor, Stowe has been planning this expedition for almost 20 years.

Guild reaches milestone

At Alger Hiss conference, gay debate gets red hot
By Ed Gold
The Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers battle of the last century showed continuing staying power last Thursday at New York University’s Vanderbilt Hall during an all-day conference. But the stress was on an added and controversial issue — homosexuality.

C.B. 4 and 5 introduce newly appointed members
By Albert Amateau
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s appointments on March 26 to Community Board 4, which covers Chelsea and Clinton, includes a mix of people in business and in public and private social service agencies.

ON THE RECORD
A helping hand for LBT cancer patients
By Christopher Murray
At 41, Cristina Moldow is, in many ways, an almost stereotypical New York lesbian. She lives in Park Slope and plays for the Jaguars team in the Prospect Park Women’s Softball League. But Moldow is also a healer, a social worker, and an acupuncturist, who has spent a significant amount of her professional and personal life fighting a little talked about aspect of lesbian life — cancer.
Arts & Entertainment
‘Curtains’ delivers old razzle dazzle
By Scott Harrah
This much-anticipated musical by John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (who died in 2004) probably isn’t going to be a classic like the duo’s blockbusters “Chicago” and “Cabaret,” but it still has all the elements of an entertaining hit: clever one-liners, lavish costumes and choreography, infectious songs, a serviceable plot and a great cast.

Crossbreeds — collage and paint mix it up Artists combine genres in a trio of April shows
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Like a crazy quilt’s patchwork of hand-me-downs, showy stitches and ad hoc structure, collage is open to everything. It also recycles the cast-offs of our existence — ticket stubs, faded labels and wrinkled transfers — to reasse

Out on screen
By Christopher Murray
Hector Canonge, the founder-director of the city’s only monthly queer film series, CINEMAROSA, calls himself a citizen of every borough of New York.

Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
“The Lookout” (+) This movie is interesting but not very memorable. It plays on a motif brought to its height by the film “Memento” starring Guy Pearce. 
“Black Book” (+) This film on the Holocaust is seriously flawed and occasionally ridiculous. Nevertheless, the subject of how such evil could dominate so much of Europe continues to hold our attention.

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Joseph A. Rosen
New York Blues In its first New York-inspired photography exhibition, Gallery 225 presents black and white images by professional and fine art photographers Martin Kornfeld and Joseph A. Rosen through May 5. Above: Rosen’s “James Brown,” c.1983.

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