Beginning this week, we’ve revamped our listings section and are instead offering The A-List, a discriminate selection of five events that we feel are worthy of special attention. If you have questions, would like to submit information about an upcoming performance, or talk about how you can still get your events listed in Chelsea Now, email sarah@chelseanow.com with the subject “A-List.”
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HEALTHY NOW
Save time, burn more fat with interval training
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
In my last few columns, I introduced the first two parts of any successful fitness program—optimal nutrition and strength training. If you’ve made the suggested changes to your diet, by now they should be habit, so you probably don’t even need to think about them anymore.
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Chelsea Now photo courtesy of Beatrice Moritz
After a resounding Super Tuesday win in the New York Primary, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton stood poised in her push for the presidency at her election night party in Manhattan. The New York senator, who handily defeated Barack Obama, greeted a frenzied crowd of supporters at Manhattan Center Studios on 34th St. near Eighth Ave.
Hillary-mania as Clinton takes New York by storm
By Charlotte Cowles
Before Hillary Clinton even took to the stage to address her jubilant New York supporters following the Tuesday primary win, one woman apparently couldn’t bear the build-up of the senator edging ever closer to a White House run. With excitement buzzing at a fever pitch, the elderly fan fainted just moments before Clinton smilingly greeted the dais and her ecstatic followers.
Tough road for new congestion pricing plan
By Josh Rogers
The road congestion pricing advocates must take to pass it in only eight weeks is long, bumpy and fraught with many obstacles, interviews with state and city legislators from downtown districts revealed this week.
 Dogfight over Seravalli run ends with antis on top
By Lincoln Anderson
A redesign for Seravalli Playground in the West Village was approved by Community Board 2 recently — and it does not include a dog run.
A modest proposal: Presidential Super Bowl MMVIII
By Jerry Tallmer
The too-good-to-be-true confluence of Super Bowl XLII and “Super Tuesday” MMVIII has sprung a gasket in my mind. Call it an epiphany. There is light at the end of the insufferable campaign tunnel. A whole new political game plan. Signals on! And a merciful end to the Clown Car Syndrome.
Mayor’s Fortune Cookies
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NEWS
Zoning plan sees change of skyline citywide
By Patrick Hedlund
A proposed revision to the zoning law that could have an everlasting impact on citywide design has met with both furor and favor from neighborhoods across the New York. Chelsea/Clinton’s Community Board 4, however, has fallen somewhere in between in its assessment, offering both stiff criticisms and innovative suggestions to a proposal that if passed, could redefine the city’s skyline.
 Incomparable Colette living art in Chelsea
By Jason Grant
“I’m a downtown girl who’s moved uptown,” said Colette, the multimedia artist, as she flashed the provocatively coy smile that helped make her a darling of the international set. “Uptown—to Chelsea.” She turned her head and pointed out the window of her apartment, on 24th St. between Ninth and Tenth Aves.
 New staph strain will likely be seen in city
By Duncan Osborne
A strain of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which has spread among gay men in San Francisco and Boston, and was described in a January study, has not been seen in New York City—but a city health department epidemiologist said it will likely be found here.
Schools group gives Trust an ‘incomplete’ on Pier 40
By Albert Amateau
A public school advocacy group based in the school district that includes the Village, Chelsea and Tribeca has called for school space to be included in the redevelopment of Pier 40 at W. Houston St.
Fired employees say Players Club doesn’t play fair
By Jefferson Siegel
On Wednesday night Jan. 30, 18 former employees of the Players Club on Grammercy Park S. protested outside the club. Next to their protest line was one of the large, inflatable rats that are ubiquitous at other labor protests around the city.
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Arts & Entertainment
 The ‘non-belongers’
By Chris Lombardi
“To this moment, I dream about America.” As the last line of “Betrayed,” George Packer’s acclaimed 2007 New Yorker article about Iraqis working for Americans in Iraq, that sentence was moving and near-elegiac. But as Waleed Zulaiter speaks that line on the stage of the Culture Project, ending Packer’s play “Betrayed,” the pain in his voice reaches an audience already in tears.
Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
“Caramel” (+) The acting in this Lebanese film is excellent but the plot lacks heft. In the end, it is a pleasant but uneventful picture.
 Crossing the borderlines of belief
By Debra Jenks
Everyone loves a good hoax, like P.T. Barnum’s Fiji Mermaid or Orson Wells’ alien invasion. These infamous and artful pranksters have something in common with the art and artifice of Xu Zhen. It seems impossible that decades after the advent of television, a supposedly media savvy public could still be hoodwinked. But belief in the calculated claims of Iraq’s connection to 9/11 (so fervently promoted by the mainstream media), and the ever-elusive weapons of mass destruction is proof that some of us can still be fooled.
Lift every voice
By Brian McCormick
Community, spirit, hope, dignity, celebration. No, it’s not a political campaign; Ronald K. Brown and Evidence are back in town. The company’s 2008 season at The Joyce Theater includes two programs — an evening of popular repertory works, and the New York premiere of “One Shot.”
Macabre playwright takes a stab at film
By Steven Snyder
Only in a world created by Martin McDonagh could we segue so seamlessly between a sequence involving suicide and that of a drug binge which culminates in one man using karate against a “midget.”
 Detours on the path to enlightenment
By Jerry Tallmer
Munishree is a guru with a difference. As he spreads flowers and incense around the religious ruin over which he presides, his cell phone rings. When three exhausted travelers arrive at this holy spot in India having journeyed 10,000 miles around the world in search of spiritual solace, he hands them a numbered ticket, as in a deli. “Come up when I call your number,” he says. “Then I punch your ticket. Don’t lose ticket. Lose ticket, you be sorry. Come halfway around the world and then lose ticket?”
The girl next door
By Adrienne Urbanski
The sometimes overwhelming sweetness of “Apartment 3A” comes as a bit of a surprise, considering it was penned by actor and playwright Jeff Daniels, a man whose résumé (“Dumb and Dumber,” “The Squid and the Whale”) would imply a fondness for sardonic wit and sarcasm. Even his first New York production, “Thy Kingdom’s Come,” covered the sort of ground you’d expect from a seasoned Hollywood actor and lampoons the movie industry. “3A,” however, staged by Clockwork Theatre, a group of mostly SUNY New Paltz alumni, is earnest and sincere straight through.
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