Editorial
Priorities for our new governor
“Day One” has come and gone in Albany and now Governor Eliot Spitzer’s real work changing Albany begins. The new governor has laid out an ambitious agenda that will need deft political skills and public support to achieve.

Talking Point
No mercy, no farewells: The rush to hang Hussein
By Jerry Tallmer
Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster and Graham Greene — those dry-point surgical anatomists of the White Man’s Burden — yes, and Albert Camus too — all of them put together could not have dreamed up the indecent fast-forward termination of the life’s breath of Saddam Hussein as, in fact, it happened and was captured by, of all things, naturally, the video function in a cell phone.

Liberalism, not interventionism, will work in Iran
By Andrei Codrescu
They are not just reading “Lolita” in Teheran. They are also reading Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Jurgen Habermas and Richard Rorty. A Velvet Revolution inspired by Western liberal philosophers is underway in Iran.

Letters to the editor

Scene

The Buzz

In Briefs

A dream in reverse

Mellow yellow

Each ribbon a life

Sports

Metabolic testing for athletes and couch potatoes
By Judith Stiles
During the holiday season, yummy Christmas cookies, roast beef, plum pudding, Hollandaise sauce, fruitcake and chocolate truffles certainly delight taste buds around the world.
Your Weekly Neighborhood Newspaper | Volume One, Issue 15, January 5 - 11, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

Carla Nordstrom, 62, holding a candle at Tuesday’s Chelsea protest against the Iraq War.

Keeping hopes for peace alight at weekly protest on Eighth Ave.
By Jefferson Siegel
Just after Thanksgiving, the U.S.’s involvement in the Iraq War surpassed its involvement in World War II in terms of length. The new year brings the war’s duration to three years and 10 months, hardly the cakewalk the administration promised before the invasion in 2003.
Please don’t go: James Brown’s final Apollo show
By John Ranard
It takes more than practice to play the Apollo; you got to have soul. James Brown had a lot, enough to share and give a little to everyone who came to listen.

NEWS
Does new seminary housing plan have a prayer?
By Lawrence Lerner
The General Theological Seminary added a new dimension to its hotly debated Ninth Ave. tower proposal last week when it announced it would devote unused development rights from the project to the creation of affordable housing in Chelsea.

Nadler tries to cut war funds, bring home bacon
By Josh Rogers
Congressmember Jerrold Nadler said he would try to cut off funds to continue the war in Iraq when the new Congress begins this week. But he’s more optimistic about his prospects of getting federal money for the health of West Side and other Lower Manhattan projects.

Ornette and all that jazz at the National Arts Club
By Jefferson Siegel
At a late-night ceremony on Dec. 14 at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park S., jazz legend Ornette Coleman, 76, was awarded the club’s Gold Medal of Honor for Jazz.
Arts & Entertainment

Love, literally in the time of cholera
By Steven Snyder
“The Painted Veil” is a hard sell of a movie, an Oscar hopeful that so desperately wants to take a story in one direction that it forces its characters to reinvent themselves in a way that seems unlikely, if not outright absurd. And it does so at the expense of another story that could have been equally or even more compelling.

Albums of the New Year
Singer Lee Ann Westover sounds off on six CDS worth hearing

Koch On Film
The Good Shepherd (+) In this terrific spy film about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) has worked for the agency since its inception.
“Dreamgirls” (+) This film is packed with talent and entertainment. The performances of the major characters are first rate and the vocal renditions add to the magic of the movie. 

Forecasting the art season ahead
By Shane McAdams
In profiling art dealers over the last few months for Chelsea Now, my open-ended inquiries of gallerists’ tastes and experience have yielded more than just laundry lists of art exhibitions to see. We’ve gleaned information about the restaurants they frequent following their openings, their preference in pets, movies, even world capitals.

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