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Whitney on track
The Dia Art Foundation’s recently dropping its plan for a museum on the High Line at Gansevoort St. was disappointing, for the project was an excellent use for the site — currently occupied by two abandoned meatpacking buildings.

Board 2 leads way
It was encouraging when Greenwich Village’s Community Board 2 recently voted — unanimously — to back a resolution asking the Parks Department to re-present to the board next month its Washington Square Park renovation plan.

Talking Point
Art revisionism and the dissing by the dissidents
By Andrei Codrescu
Walker Evans is best known for his black and white photographs of the Great Depression, most notably in James Agee’s book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” He did a lot of other remarkable work, including the wartime “Subway” series, in which he photographed New York subway riders with a hidden camera, revealing the deep anxieties of the age.

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In Briefs
Big night for Burns

Thanks for the Thanksgiving dinner

Parade ground

Simon Doonan’s holiday greetings
By Stephanie Murg

Your Weekly Neighborhood Newspaper | Volume One, Issue 10, December 1 - 7, 2006

*Chelsea Now photo by Lawrence Lerner* Vladimir Laksin jams in his regular spot at 23rd St. and Seventh Ave. as pedestrians pass by. Chelsea Blues Man rocks the nook every day on 23rd By Lawrence Lerner The intersection of 23rd St. and Seventh Ave. is arguably one of the busiest in Chelsea, a blur of auto and pedestrian traffic that would intimidate most aspiring sidewalk musicians for fear of being drowned out. Cyclists, civil libertarians say put brakes on regs By Albert Amateau A Police Department hearing attracted more than 500 people to Police Plaza on Monday to denounce the department’s proposed new rules defining what constitutes a parade requiring a police permit. Community-supported agriculture is producing results By Lawrence Lerner From the looks of the Hudson Guild on Tuesday afternoons, community-supported agriculture, or C.S.A., is alive and well in Chelsea. Preacher prays for possessed post-holiday shoppers By Lori Haught The end is near, the Shopocalypse is coming. Reverend Billy Talen, of the Church of Stop Shopping, tried to spread that message on Black Friday, or as he and his followers called it, “Buy Nothing Day.” Pride Chorus ready to rock too. By Lawrence Lerner Youth Pride Chorus, the first L.G.B.T. youth chorus in New York City, will usher in the holidays with “Queer Hallelujahs,” a rock ’n’ roll musical program.		NEWS Old and low giving way to new, tall on 8th Ave. By Lincoln Anderson Several historic buildings that until recently housed a small but thriving commercial strip on Eighth Ave. are being razed for a new six-story, residential building with upscale retail on the ground floor. Whitney will ride the rails Downtown for museum By Albert Amateau The Whitney Museum of American Art agreed last week to build its satellite museum in the city-owned building on Gansevoort St. at the gateway to the High Line. How to hook up whole High Line Illegal-immigration foes highlight actress’s death By Lori Haught During the day the sky was gray, just like the issue. By nightfall, the sky was black, and passersby and participants in the memorial for Adrienne Shelly only saw black and white where immigration was concerned. Cirque theater, sports complex pitched for Pier 40 By Lincoln Anderson Not too long ago, when people spoke about swingers on the Lower West Side waterfront, they were probably referring to the gay cruising scene on the crumbling former shipping piers..

Arts & Entertainment
CABARET
Broadway didn’t clean up Kiki and Herb’s act
By Todd Simmons
“Ladies and Gentlemen.... I hate puppets!” was just one of the many curious declarations blurted out by notorious lush and cabaret legend Kiki Durane at Joe’s Pub on Monday night.

ART

Talking shop with McKenzie Fine Art
By Shane McAdams
My first meeting with Valerie McKenzie of McKenzie Fine Art was on the occasion of a group show I was curating. I was eyeing one of her artists, Maureen McQuillan, and wanted to see what McKenzie had available.

BOOKREVIEW
A mind-bending work of staggering science fiction
By Orli Van Mourik
British novelist Scarlett Thomas has discovered something many of us right-brainers have been slow to pick up on: contemporary science is the new philosophy.

FILM
Koch On Film
“The History Boys” (+) This lovely and sensitive film, adapted from the play written by Alan Bennett, is reminiscent of the 1930s film, “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” but it packs an additional wallop.
“Volver” (-) This film reminded me of a mediocre Mexican or Argentinean soap opera that might air on an American Spanish Cable TV station.

THEATER

He’s dreaming of a weird Christmas
By Will McKinley
“Thanks for coming out and braving the winter wonderland,” drag performer Dina Martina said to a packed house at The Cutting Room on an unseasonably balmy night at the beginning of the Holiday season. She was being ironic, of course.

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