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EDITORIAL

Silver, don’t jam up mayor’s traffic plan
Opponents of congestion pricing in Manhattan are busy setting up roadblocks in Albany. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is not opposing the mayor’s proposed three-year traffic plan, but his recent statements indicate he is leaning against it.

Letters to the Editor

NOTEBOOK
Slap shot: A Downtown dyke in a Midtown sports bar
By Kate Walter
We were three gay women surrounded by a ring of testosterone in an Irish pub in Midtown. The Rangers were on TV playing the Sabres in the semifinals taking place down the street in Madison Square Garden. Grown men sat at the bar in team jackets and hats and cheered the onscreen action. Maybe they couldn’t get tickets. What was I doing here?

ON THE RECORD
Reflecting on Chelsea through the eyes of a sociologist
By David Gibbons
David Halle, a congenial, understated Englishman, lives in Manhattan and commutes to Los Angeles, where he is Professor of Sociology at UCLA.

IN PICTURE
The flowers of romance
State Senator Tom Duane, left, and his partner, Louis Webre, looked at flowers in the Union Square Greenmarket on Saturday afternoon. “He’s the green thumb,” Duane said of Webre. “I just admire them.”

HEALTHY NOW
Leaning toward supportive nutrition
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
In my last six columns, I’ve discussed a summer fitness program and some ideas for taking your training out of the gym as the summer weather heats up.

Scene

Open House

MIkhaela Reid
Volume 1, Number 39 | The Weekly Newspaper of Chelsea | June 15 - 21, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

At City Hall on Tuesday, workers for the New York City Housing Authority protested the agency’s recent budget shortfall, which is threatening jobs and affordable housing in the city.

Unions come out strong against NYCHA budget cuts at City Hall
By Chris Lombardi
New York City Housing Authority employees from Chelsea and other neighborhoods descended on City Hall on Tuesday to protest the housing agency’s latest budget shortfall and demand that the federal, state and city governments adequately fund public developments to preserve jobs and affordable housing.

G.T.S.’s Tutu Center to give jobs to local youths
By Lawrence Lerner
Fulton Houses Tenants Association Vice-President Miguel Acevedo has been lobbying for neighborhood jobs for years. He moved one step closer to that goal recently when the General Theological Seminary pledged to hire area youths to work in its soon-to-open Desmund Tutu Education Center.

Holy Apostles chorus offers a home for every voice
By Tabitha Earp
Doris Leone, at a youthful 92, could barely keep her feet still on Monday night as she lifted her voice with those booming around her. Sitting among a sea of blue chairs cascading down the altar’s steps in five horizontal rows, Leone peered through her wire-rimmed glasses at the sheet music placed on the stand before her, dressed in a black skirt and lavender top, her bleached-white hair pinned back on each side.

NYC Condoms campaign is on a roll in Chelsea and beyond
By Lawrence Lerner
When the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene unveiled its NYC Condoms initiative back on Valentine’s Day, it hoped to make it all the way to second base. Four months into the campaign, it appears the department has hit a home run.

NEWS

Denied Pridefest permit, HOP pickets Gracie Mansion
by Duncan Osborne
As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn enjoyed beer and barbecue under a tent outside of Gracie Mansion on Tuesday with hundreds of invited lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered guests, a handful of Heritage of Pride (HOP) members endured a soaking rain nearby as they protested the city’s refusal to grant that group a permit to hold its annual PRIDEfest in Chelsea.

Outer-borough residents say Glick doesn’t play fair
By Albert Amateau
Members of the Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods from the South Bronx, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Staten Island, West Harlem and other waterfront neighborhoods, demonstrated on Tues., June 12, in front of Assemblymember Deborah Glick’s E. 14th St. office.

NYC comptroller sees dollars in gay weddings
BY PAUL SCHINDLER
As gay marriage equality advocates scramble to win a vote in the state Assembly prior to the Legislature’s recess later this month, City Comptroller William Thompson is offering an important argument to buffer their case.

Gay rights group tallies rights, regs related to marriage
BY PAUL SCHINDLER
The Empire State Pride Agenda, which is working the corridors of the Capitol in Albany tallying votes in support of Governor Eliot Spitzer’s marriage equality bill, has also been tabulating numbers of a different sort.

Marriage ambassadors push for gay-nuptials equality
By Chris Lombardi
Greenwich Village resident Edith Windsor, 77, has vivid memories of a rally at the LGBT Center on February 7, 2005. It was three days after a state judge had ruled in Hernandez v. Robles that New York City was violating the state constitution by refusing to marry same-sex couples. Mayor Bloomberg was instructing the city to appeal the decision instead of issuing marriage licenses to gay couples such as the 100 or so that filled the LGBT Center room that day.

Arts & Entertainment
Whoa Nellie!
BY WILL McKINLEY
If you were a kid in the 1970s you probably watched “Little House on the Prairie.” Girls loved Laura Ingalls, the freckle-faced heroine who wrote the books upon which the TV series was based. But boys watched “Little House” for an entirely different reason: a pigtailed villainess named Nellie Oleson.

The Strokes’ Albert Hammond, Jr. strikes out on his
By Todd Simmons
When Chelsea Now reached Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr., on tour in Flagstaff, Arizona, he admitted he was feeling “a little exhausted and nauseous.” The source of his fatigue was not Flagstaff, however, but rather the endless work schedule that he seems to have immersed himself in since the fall of 2005 when he began work on his first solo album “Yours To Keep.”

Koch on Film
“Knocked Up” (+)
When I saw this film, the audience consisted mostly of 20- and 30-year-olds who were in stitches and obviously enjoyed it. I did not find it particularly amusing.
“Ocean’s Thirteen” (+)
I did not see the original “Ocean’s Eleven” film starring Frank Sinatra nor did I see “Ocean’s Eleven” or “Ocean’s Twelve,” featuring George Clooney. I have a hunch, however, that while they were probably somewhat amusing, they had little impact on the viewer, which is how I felt about this latest movie.

From rock bottom to rock musical
By Lee Ann Westover
Last Thursday night, The Village Theater took on a character more like the Back Fence at happy hour than that of an off-Broadway venue. Men in pleated Dockers mingled with Village eccentrics and hipsters.

Summer playlist
Feisty tunes, Rufus croons, and American roots in translation

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Courtesy of The Kitchen
Caption: (the efflorescence of) Walteris Ralph Lemon’s multimedia exploration of the cultural history and future of the American South. The exhibition revolves around the artist’s long-standing collaborative relationship with Walter Carter, a 99-year old former sharecropper from Yazoo City, Mississippi. On view at The Kitchen through June 23. Above: Installation shot from “(the efflorescence of) Walter.”

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