Art Basel Miami, hailed as the most important contemporary art show in the Americas, took place earlier this month in Miami Beach, Fla., and Chelsea photographer Linda Troeller was there to capture the fun and frolicking. Here, a self-portrait of Troeller (aided by Deborah Desilets), taken at the Versace Mansion party by Paul Hughes, of the China Chair Project. For more photos. HYCAC to Rail Yards developers: No Hong Kong on the Hudson By Chris Lombardi Representatives of the five real estate developers vying to develop the Hudson Rail Yards met a wall of criticism at a forum held by a West Side coalition of community groups at the Hudson Guild last Monday. Pyramid Club may become first ‘drag landmark’ By Patrick Hedlund If the painted pitch-black walls of the famed Pyramid Club in the East Village could talk, they’d also sing, laugh — and likely gag. Dog owners face another scare at local dog run By Rowann Gilman Sophie DiThomas and her son, Simon, do everything together: They share boundless energy and are avid runners, nimble acrobats, and are always up for a good ball game. That’s what Jack Russell terriers are all about.		Landlords push back at City Hall hearing By Albert Amateau A hearing on Monday on a tenant anti-harassment bill drew a crowd that nearly filled the Council Chamber at City Hall. Thirty-four councilmembers, including Council Speaker Christine Quinn, have signed on as sponsors of the bill in the face of a citywide increase in harassment of rent-regulated tenants. Chelton Loft artists dazzle on Xmas cards By Shuka Kalantari Instead of Santa Claus or Frosty the Snowman, this year people can get holiday cards from local artists with drawings of black-and-white tropical islands and rainbow-colored fir trees. The joy of singing Chelsea was alive with the sound of holiday music this past weekend, as the Chelsea Community Church and Church of the Holy Apostles both put on Yuletide choral performances. V.I.D. wants affordable housing at St. Vincent’s By Albert Amateau A group of Villagers are still urging that affordable housing be included in the residential project planned by the Rudin Organization as part of St. Vincent’s Hospital’s rebuilding plan.

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Arts & Entertainment

Shave and a throat cut, two bits
By Steven Snyder
“Graphic Bloody Violence” — that’s the criteria the MPAA used when giving Tim Burton’s gruesome, gratuitous take on the Stephen Sondheim serial killer musical an “R” rating. And ironically, Burton’s eagerness to go darker and deeper with “Sweeney Tood” is the decision that makes the big-screen version somehow both less enjoyable, yet more emotionally rewarding.

Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
“Nanking” (+) This documentary about Japan’s 1937 invasion of Nanking uses a device which in a limited way turns it into a docudrama. Actors are used to read from the historical statements and letters made at the time by westerners residing in Nanking.
“Control” (+) This dour movie about the life of Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), lead singer in the English punk-rock band, Joy Division, will appeal to a small audience. I did not enjoy listening to the type of music they played, but I did enjoy the film.

Stiff? Pretentious? Not the members of this museum
By Ron Sklar
The Chelsea Art Museum’s youth association, lovingly referred to by its go-getting members as YA, strives to be more than just a group of yuppie networkers exchanging business cards and pretending to be interested in art.

Pinter’s power play
By Scott Harrah
Harold Pinter’s classic “The Homecoming” is perhaps his most controversial work, and for good reason. The plot and the characters — a family of working-class North London men and their mysterious, sexually smoldering sister-in-law who’s visiting from America — can easily be seen as misogynist to the uninitiated, and certainly isn’t a play that would ever thrill bona-fide feminists.

Getting (and giving) the Royal Treatment
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Every weekend there’s been a line outside one of the last quaint buildings left in the gallery district. The notoriously secretive Banksy is showing on all three floors of the Vanina Holasek Gallery. The windows are covered in American flags and Union Jacks with Victor rattraps attached.