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EDITORIAL
Gay marriage bill is a proud accomplishment
When he ran for governor, Democrat Eliot Spitzer pledged to enact marriage equality legislation. As it looked to the new legislative session that began in January, the Empire State Pride Agenda, a leading statewide LGBT civil rights organization, said it would get a State Assembly vote on same-sex marriage rights this year.
NOTEBOOK
The pussy book
By Andrei Codrescu
I promised a friend in Romania that I’d write a book about a cat. I even told her the title: “Bill Gates’ Cat.” My friend is an editor at a publishing house, and she said that if I wrote “Bill Gates’ Cat,” she’d publish it.
Pride in all its glorious colors
Healthy
Buying local, eating healthy
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
In my column two weeks ago, I followed up six weeks of summer exercise programming by introducing some ideas to help you add healthier summer eating to your overall fitness plan.
On The Record
Chef Tom Colicchio continues to work his craft
By David Gibbons
Tom Colicchio insists he’s just a regular guy from Elizabeth, N.J.—and his straight-talking, enthusiastic, jovial manner does nothing to dispel that notion.
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Chelsea Now photo by Paul David O’Hanlon Amanda McDonald Crowley, executive director of Eyebeam, the media arts center and exhibition space in Chelsea New media powerhouse Eyebeam now a decade old NEWS NYCHA officials meet skeptical tenants at budget forum By Chris Lombardi Last Monday, in an auditorium at the Fashion Institute of Technology, a panel of 20 top administrators from the New York City Housing Authority lined the stage. Facing them were about 150 residents of NYCHA’s 300-plus complexes, most of them waiting to line up at the microphones on each aisle.  Foundling Hospital gets a makeover from area volunteersBy Jefferson Siegel A Chelsea social services agency received a cosmetic touch-up and an emotional boost recently from a dedicated group of lawyers, volunteers and a rebuilding group. Barry Benepe, Greenmarket founder, gets Jacobs Award By Albert Amateau Barry Benepe, West Village resident and co-founder of the city’s Greenmarket program, is one of two winners of the 2007 Rockefeller Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Medals and $100,000 prize awards.
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NEWS
Gay Anglican leaders bridge continents and stand united
By Andy Humm Out gay Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire and Nigerian gay Anglican leader Davis Mac-Iyalla, who are at the center of the schism of the U.S. Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, shared their stories and messages of gay liberation last Tuesday night at the Church of the Holy Apostles, in Chelsea. |
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Arts & Entertainment  When Authors Must Let GoBy David Kennerley Writers, especially authors of best-selling, culture-rattling novels, have the dubious reputation of being a smug, proprietary bunch. Egomaniacs, even. So when literary luminary Michael Cunningham shared the stage with Susan Minot at Lincoln Center recently to discuss his screenplay of her epic 1998 masterwork, “Evening,” I expected sparks to fly. A bloody township in the war of the sexes, caught on film By JERRY TALLMER It was, Norman Mailer would some years later tell D.A. Pennebaker, “the night Jill Johnston turned my hair gray.”
‘10 Million Miles’ hits a few bumps on the way
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