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EDITORIAL
School report cards a step in the right direction
The Department of Education’s first-ever School Progress Reports, with its A-F grading system, sent shockwaves through the city’s educational community last week.

Letters to the Editor

Police Blotter

Mikhaela Reid

Scene

Open House

TALKING POINT

Koch should have dusted off his forgotten notebook
By Ed Gold
Ed Koch, of course, has a perfect right to serve as cheerleader for St. Vincent’s new hospital plan, but it would have been more helpful if he had taken the time to talk to some of the community activists who have raised serious questions about the current proposal.

ON THE STREETS

New regs push filmmakers and photogs to the curb

SPORTS

Tennis prodigy keeps on target in her conditioning

OBITUARY
Norman Mailer, 84, the typo, temper and the talent

Bella Jarrett, stage and screen actress, dies at 81
Bella Jarrett, an actress in regional, Off-Broadway and Broadway theater for 50 years, died Oct. 19 at her home in Greenwich Village.

Fred McDarrah, 81, photographer of Beat Generation

IN PICTURES

Fashion for Action

Volume 2, Number 6 | The Weekly Newspaper of Chelsea | November 16 - 22, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Arthur Donowski Skaters Lynne Haddad and Tyrrell Gene, of Ice Theatre of New York, perform “2:1,” choreographed by David Liu. The troupe, based at Chelsea Piers, put on a series of gala performances at Sky Rink early this month to critical acclaim. Bank Street tenants get crash course on illegal hotels By Chris Lombardi Lisa Solanto, a longtime tenant at One Bank Street, stood to ask her question at St. John’s Church on Monday night. Her actor’s training was evident in her careful tone. New group vies for W. Chelsea Industrial District By Albert Amateau A band of preservation advocates took a walk around a five-block area of West Chelsea between the High Line and the Hudson River last Sunday afternoon to look at a collection of industrial buildings, some of them 100 years old. Ex-HRPT head pleads guilty to tax evasion		NEWS FIRST IN A SERIES Chelsea K-6 schools pinched by progress reports By Chris Lombardi When Robert Bender, principal of the popular William Harris School (K-5) in Chelsea, was given his school’s Progress Report last week, the first thing he looked for was the overall grade. And he was stunned: There, in the middle of the page, was a C. A chocolate incarnate finally makes its debut By Stephanie Cain It’s been a bittersweet month for artist Cosimo Cavallaro. P.S. 41 green roof gets green light Moe Fishman given a fond farewell at Judson memorial By Jefferson Siegel Several hundred friends, family members and comrades gathered on Saturday in Judson Memorial Church to remember the life and times of Penn South resident Moe Fishman. ‘It’s about fairness’: Striking scribes picket at piers

Arts & Entertainment

Ice Theatre of NY offers modern dance with an icy spin
By Alyssa Galella
Before you go to one of the Ice Theatre of New York’s performances, forget everything you know about figure skating.

The wedding crasher
By Leonard L. Quart
The indelible signature of Noah Baumbach’s first three films has been the wryly humorous and perceptively affecting depiction of relationships.

Koch On Film

An epic journey through the life of Jack Kerouac
By Stephen Wolf
Last Friday, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s highly influential novel “On the Road,” the largest collection ever assembled of Kerouac’s manuscripts, diaries, journals, notebooks, photographs, painting, and personal memorabilia opened to the public at the New York Public Library on Fifth Ave. at 42nd St. in an exhibition entitled “Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road.”.

Chashama — creating art where you least expect it
By Raquel Hecker
The block of East 42nd Street between 3rd and 2nd Avenues looks normal enough at first glance. The street is lined with nondescript skyscrapers, stores, and restaurants — exactly what you would expect to see in Midtown — until you pass number 217.

Women artists of the world unite
BY ABBY LUBY
Over two decades ago a group of four women artists squeezed their heads into ape masks, climbed into ape suits and called themselves the Guerilla Girls.

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