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Volume 2, Number 1 | The Weekly Newspaper of Chelsea | September 28 – October 4, 2007
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer speaks at a press conference on Thursday to celebrate the city’s first injunction against an illegal hotel owner. To his right is State Senator Liz Krueger.
First city action vs. an illegal hotel hailed as a major step forward
By Chris Lombardi
Signaling a more aggressive strategy on the part of city agencies and the mayor’s office against illegal hotels, the city’s corporate counsel last week got an injunction in connection with its first major lawsuit against a hotel owner.
Mulry clan pans fans as Transit gets earful
By Albert Amateau
Members of the Mulry family — great-grandchildren of Thomas M. Mulry, the early 20th-century philanthropist for whom the intersection at Seventh and Greenwich Aves. was named, have a lot to say about New York City Transit’s proposal to build an emergency subway ventilation plant on Mulry Square.
High Holy Days means ‘Simchat Torah’ for Chelsea-ites
By Diana Britton
On a recent Friday night, amid a hushed crowd of 600 Jewish worshippers ushering in the new year at a Rosh Hashanah service at Town Hall, a middle-aged man made his way down the center aisle toward the large stage serving as the pulpit to take part in an age-old ritual, lifting the Torah and placing it back in the ark, a large wooden archway flanked by an Israeli, an American and a rainbow flag, the latter a symbol of gay pride.
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NEWS
 Protesters thump Trump at condo-hotel rally
By Albert Amateau
Donald Trump was cheerleading at a red-carpet press conference on Sept. 19 for the Trump Soho Hotel Condominium, now at 15 stories and going to 42, while more than 75 shouting and whistling protesters demonstrated across the street.
 Trevor Project helps gay youth with NYC call center
By Diana Britton
One night last Fall, Jeff Teich got a call from Miami. “Trevor helpline, my name is Jeff,” he said. On the other line, he heard the voice of a young teen whose father had recently kicked him out of the house for coming out and proclaiming he was gay.
 Chelsea welcomes NYC’s first LGBT job fair
By Stephanie Cain
“Where else can you get quality candidates with a great fashion sense?” That’s how a recruiter jokingly described the first-ever gay and lesbian career fair in New York, held in Chelsea last Wednesday.
 Cirque du Soleil carves out a new home at the Garden
By Tatyana Shumsky
Cirque du Soleil is about to pitch its tent near Chelsea. The Canadian group’s newest production, Wintuk, is scheduled to premiere November 1 at Wamu Theater, formerly the Theatre in Madison Square Garden.
Advocates press officials to act on HIV housing
By Paul Schindler
Three weeks after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn met with two leading academic experts on the impact that housing asymptomatic people living with HIV.
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Arts & Entertainment
 ‘Feast of Love’ slightly full of itself
By Steven Snyder
For a movie titled “Feast of Love,” there is a conspicuous absence of love in the lives of its central characters. Directed by Robert Benton, who from 1979’s “Kramer vs. Kramer” up through 2003’s “The Human Stain” has chased stories of emotional trauma and turmoil, “Feast of Love” is a movie about supposedly happy people who realize they are anything but.
Koch On Film
 From the vault, a trove of jazz greats
Must adds to your jazz collection: Louis Armstrong Live at the 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival, Miles Davis Quintet Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival, Thelonious Monk Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival, Dizzy Gillespie Live at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival, and Sarah Vaughan Live at the 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival, all recently released by Monterey Jazz Festival Records.
Myth and nature do the wild thing
BY JEFFREY CYPHERS WRIGHT
If there’s one thing Rudolph Giuliani did right, it was castigate the Brooklyn Museum for showing Chris Ofili’s Madonna with dung. It made the British artist of Nigerian descent an overnight sensation. After an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2005, the 38-year-old is back in a New York solo gallery show for the first time in twelve years. As Britain’s rep at the Venice Biennale (and a husband and new father) he’s been very busy anyway as this debut at David Zwirner’s shows. It’s the first exhibition to bring together Ofili’s painting, sculpture, printmaking and graphite drawing.
 NYMF takes on mental illness and murder — with music
By Rachel Fershleiser
ADD. OCD. Mass murder. Tap dancing? The fourth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival is underway, and it’s leaving no topic unturned. Fast becoming the Sundance of musicals, NYMF (affectionately pronounced “nymph”) is a clearinghouse for new voices both on stage and off. This year marked the debut of the program’s 100th show, and while many have never been heard from again, others, like Altar Boyz, Gutenberg! The Musical, and the clever meta-musical [title of show], have gone on to commercial runs, and even Broadway buzz.
From one NYC apartment, a vision of the Korean diaspora
By Nitasha Tiku
Cindy Hwang kneels down to pick up a photograph off the living room floor of her Gramercy Park one-bedroom. The glossy page is marked by a gray line down the center — on the left a full-length portrait of the Korean-American author Chang-Rae Lee, on the right quotes from Lee set into blocks of text. It is one of twenty such portraits of men and women, arranged in even rows of five on a crisp, white bed sheet that Hwang, has laid out on the wooden floor to display her work.
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Courtesy School of Visual Arts
The Big WaveThe School of Visual Arts and the SVA Japan Alumni Association present “Super Phat,” a multimedia exhibition that highlights the work of Japanese alumni and alumni living in Japan. Sept. 12 – 29 at the Visual Arts Gallery. Above: Yuko Shimizu’s “The Big Wave (after Hokusai)” (2002)
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