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EDITORIAL
New interfaith project inspires faith in N.Y.U.
A year ago, New York University announced it wasn’t interested in acquiring the N.Y.U. Catholic Center property at Washington Square S. and Thompson St. One had to view that statement, though, in the context of the university’s recent building efforts on the south side of the square — Kimmel Center and new Law School building — and the firestorm of angry opposition from the community that these projects engendered.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
NOTEBOOK
Native Americans of the Mississippi
By Andrei Codrescu
The Dakota people on Prairie Island, between Minnesota and Wisconsin, are proud and rich and have made a life-saving raft of their history—or, at least of the history they were able to recover from all the fragments left behind by the white man’s attempts to eradicate them from earth.
SPORTS
Healthy Now
Taking on nutrition with fitness clients
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
Last column, I talked about how to choose a gym or fitness club, outlining the wide range of clubs out there, while emphasizing how important it is to match your needs with the club’s offerings, and to do your homework before signing a contract.
BRIEFS
Chelsea Market holds emergency blood drive
House passes bill to fund Hudson River Park
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Members of the Hotel Breslin Tenants Association broadcast their intentions recently at the association’s one-year anniversary gathering. First In A Series Housing & Real Estate Second in a Series Rosa Maria de la Torre: dancing her revolution By Chris Lombardi When Rosa Maria de la Torre starts talking about dance, she doesn’t bother mentioning the oft-quoted Emma Goldman line: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” But over lunch at Chelsea’s Café Rafaella recently, the coordinator of the Chelsea Housing Group made it clear to Chelsea Now that she finds the two inseparable. A cinema paradiso looms high above the city By Jefferson Siegel Each year when the warm weather arrives, people crowd drive-in movies and outdoor film screenings because there’s nothing quite like watching a movie under the stars.
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NEWS
Yet another subway plan fans fears in Mulry Sq.
By Albert Amateau Villagers are bracing for another construction onslaught from New York City Transit, which intends to build an emergency ventilation plant at Mulry Square to serve the Eighth Ave. and Seventh Ave. subway lines. Ruslan crafts shoes the old-fashioned way By Tabitha Earp At the back of a tiny Chelsea store named Ruslan a few weeks ago, a balding, barrel-chested man in jeans and a sleeveless black T-shirt carefully swayed side-to-side in front of 50-year-old Russian machinery, his rough hands holding an alligator-skinned boot as he delicately finished the edges and securely attached the soles and heels. Antiwar leader Sheehan says it’s war with Pelosi By Lincoln Anderson Two days after announcing she will run against Nancy Pelosi because the House speaker won’t impeach President Bush, Cindy Sheehan was in Union Square to help kick off a new “wear orange” campaign to protest the Iraq war. On the Record Tickling the ivories while revitalizing the soul By David Gibbons Gerald Busby, who has called The Chelsea Hotel home for the past 30 years, is a survivor and a living, breathing link to several bygone eras. As a teenager in the 1950s, he played piano in the revival tents of his native East Texas, discovering the emotional power of music. N.Y.U. covets the Catholic Center but in humility would build small By Lincoln Anderson A year ago, when the news broke that the Catholic Archdiocese planned to demolish its Trinity Chapel at New York University, the university was quick to quash any speculation that it was interested in the prime property on the south side of Washington Square Park. |
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Arts & Entertainment  From the island of Faro, a strange and unforgettable languageBy Jerry Tallmer James Agee, a film critic writing in disregard of p.c., at a time when p.c. had yet to sprout among us, said that watching the films of D.W. Griffith was like watching the invention of the alphabet, or the wheel. Gluck Triumphant By Eli Jacobson Orpheus was called by the poet Pindar “the father of songs.” Certainly in the world of opera his legend has fathered many sung dramas starting with Claudio Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo.” KOCH ON FILM By Ed Koch “The Camden 28” This documentary is about a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1970s who broke into a government building and destroyed draft-board records. They were apprehended after an FBI operative, who had infiltrated the group, turned them in. Existing in anxious times By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright Between oblivion and mortality, there is a void we can imagine through art. This void can be expressed as a dislocation in time or as a pattern in chaos. Such is the arc projected between agitation and repose in the show of the same name curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ at Tanya Bonakdar. |
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