EDITORIAL

G.T.S. détente a welcome sign for Chelsea
The General Theological Seminary opened up a new chapter in its year-and-a-half-long battle with Chelsea neighbors, local elected officials and Community Board 4 on Monday when it abandoned its plans for a proposed 15-story tower on Ninth Avenue.

Notebook
The grapes of wrath, the tuna and, ugh, that voice
By Andrei Codrescu
Overbearing, too loud, nails on blackboard is what I thought the woman behind me on the airplane sounded like. My nerves were a bit rattled from two days in Detroit, admiring urban ruins.

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Mikhaela Reid

Health & fitness

Exercising effectively and without injury
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
As a fitness professional and gym owner, I always pay attention to what’s going on around me when I’m exercising, whether it is at my facility or at other health clubs. In my column today, I’d like to share with you some of the most common mistakes I see people making in gyms, mistakes that could rob you of the results you seek or, worse, cause injury
Obituary

Hartvig Dahl, 83, psychology pioneer
By Albert Amateau
Dr. Hartvig Dahl, a psychoanalytic research pioneer and a resident of the Village for more than 40 years, died March 17 after a long illness at the age of 83.

Aline Greig, 86, children’s educator
By Albert Amateau
Aline Greig, a much-loved and innovative leader of Hudson Guild children’s programs from the late 1950s until she retired in 1986, died March 19 at the age of 86 in her Village home where she lived for more than 50 years.
Your Weekly Neighborhood Newspaper | Volume One, Issue 29, April 6- 12, 2007

Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel

“Omnipotent”...O-m-n-i-p-o-t-e-n-t!
Julia Kamuda, of St. Stanislaus Kostka School, in Queens, takes a moment to collect herself before spelling a word at last Thursday’s Daily News 43rd Annual Spelling Bee, held in Chelsea. [Story].

Seminary back in good graces after scrapping Ninth Ave. tower plan
By Albert Amateau
The General Theological Seminary this week said it would replace its controversial plan for a 15-story residential tower on Ninth Ave. with a seven-story mixed-use building that conforms to current regulations for the Chelsea Historic District.

Pilot program for garbage recycling hits Union Square
By Esther Martin
Last Wednesday, a new recycling program, The Public Space Recycling Pilot, was announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty and Councilmember Michael McMahon, chairperson of the Council’s Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management.


New Jersey Transit unveils ARC plan to mixed reviews
By Chris Lombardi
To Tom Schulze of New Jersey Transit, the agency’s $7.4 billion Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) Project is a logical, long-planned next step. To Lewis Coletti of the Building Trades Employment Organization, it’s a job-generator that’s long-overdue, “probably 10 years too late.”

GALLERY SEEN

Multimedia
By John Ranard
It is one of the ironies of Chinese communist history that the current economic “miracle,” limited largely to urban centers, is carried on the backs of rural Chinese migrant workers

NEWS
New Chelsea shelter a refuge for homeless youth
By Chris Lombardi
They live on the street, in the parks, with relatives who throw them out periodically. They report having been abused, incarcerated, arrested, harassed by cops.

Gay asylee finds a home in Chelsea
By Diana Britton
One day, Fabiola Lemos was walking out of a bakery in Mariana, the oldest city in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region, when she heard a guy say: “Here goes the dyke again. She thinks she can just walk up and down.

Dan’s Chelsea Guitars remains a relic of the Golden Age
By Ed Hamilton
On a hand-painted sign atop an old storefront in New York’s famed Chelsea Hotel, a character in a long white beard and flowing robe reminiscent of Michelangelo’s God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel holds a guitar by the neck, ready to hand it down from heaven into the arms of some lucky mortal.

Chelsea competition spells victory for citywide youth
By Vivienne Leheny
Juelle Clyne tilts her head slightly, thinking. The plastic barrettes on her head are startlingly white in the dim light of the auditorium. She raises her chin toward the microphone, and in a clarion voice confidently repeats the word with her unusual emphasis: “ohm-ni-poh-tent. O-M-N-I-P-O-T-E-N-T. Omnipotent.”

ON THE RECORD
Notes from a native Chelsea son
By Nicole Davis
When Wal-Mart’s Chief Executive H. Lee Scott announced recently that he had discounted Manhattan as a viable home for one of his big-box stores, many New Yorkers let out a collective sigh of relief. Not only is the mega-retailer notorious for its paltry wages and benefits, it signifies suburbia, the antithesis of New York City.
Arts & Entertainment
The evolution of ‘Some Men’
By Scott Harrah
One does not normally expect much from gay-themed plays these days. Why? There hasn’t been a truly illuminating drama about homosexuality since Mart Crowley’s “The Boys in the Band” way back in the 1960s.

The island of Ralph Rucci
By Stephanie Murg
The fashion world has a knack for saving the best for last. At Fashion Week in New York, held in February, the final show in Bryant Park’s largest venue was reserved for Chado Ralph Rucci.

Getting nature to pose
By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
One uses black and white — the other, deep splashy color — and both have some great shots of straight-up, unadorned nature. Chip Hooper’s desolate beaches contrast perfectly with Sally Gall’s full-on blooms of spring in two new shows. Any human presence is refreshingly absent as the artists concentrate on elemental subjects.

Koch on Film
By Ed Koch
“Killer of Sheep” (+) This is a well-done faux documentary. It is not based on a true incident but rather on the recollections of the scriptwriter and director, Charles Burnett, when he was growing up in a Los Angeles slum.
“The Page Turner” (+) This full-length film really depicts a short story, which, while entertaining, doesn’t seem quite complete. Nevertheless, the picture does provide sufficient entertainment to qualify for my (+) rating.

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Courtesy Lariss Goldston Gallery
200 feet worth of rope is what artist Orly Genger used for her colossal installation “Masspeak,” an exploration of contradictory abstract dualities at the Larissa Goldston Gallery through May 5. Above: Genger’s “Masspeak,” 2007, nylon climbing rope.

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