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EDITORIAL
N.Y.U. projections call for a new plan
New York University’s new strategic planning initiative is yielding results — specifically, in the form of concrete projections on the university’s growth over roughly the next quarter century. This is the sort of information for which local residents have been asking for decades — though the findings may not make them particularly happy.
Letters to the Editor
NOTEBOOK
A ‘slow learner’ comes to cry tears of joy at Pride
By Patricia Fieldsteel
At the last Gay Pride Day parade before I left New York for good to live in Nyons, France, I cried. Before I moved to the Village in 1969, I knew nothing about gays or gay life and, I admit, I was slow to learn. In the town where I grew up, there were no lesbians or homosexuals. Never had been. Never would be, if most people had their way. That was how people thought and what they strongly believed.
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Remembering Bayard Rustin with Pride NEWS Dog owners form unified pack on West Side dog run By Tabitha Earp The Chelsea Dog Park Coalition, a newly formed group pressing for changes at the Chelsea Waterside Park dog run, took its case to Community Board 4 last Thursday night at a meeting held by the Waterfront and Parks committee.  At 91, local actress is hardly tilting at windmillsBy Vivienne Leheny When the curtain rises this Friday night on the Hudson Guild Theatre Company’s production of “Don Quixote,” Molly Kanner will realize a life-long dream. And a very long-held one, at that. The 91-year-old thespian is finally performing her first role onstage as “Sancho’s Wife,” the indignant bride of Don Quixote’s loyal squire, Sancho Panza.
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NEWS Gay Heroes  Gary Parker at the helmBy Chris Lombardi His last name is Parker. He’s slender and soft-voiced and sometimes melts into the background. On nights and weekends, he regularly does the impossible for New York’s LGBT people. Rumor has it that, on occasion, he even sleeps. Remembering Bill Silver By Tim Gay Back in the first post-Stonewall decade, there was a whole contingent of nationally operating radical homo ministers who fully expected their faith communities would reach out with love, understanding and acceptance of their queer sisters and brothers—eventually. Remembering Bayard Rustin with Pride By Chris Lombardi Walter Naegle, 58, smiled as he waved toward the living room of his Penn South apartment, talking about the love of his life. Gay History  Losing the Meatpacking District A queer history of leather cultureBy Abby Tallmer To write a recent history of the Meatpacking District for Gay Pride weekend, or any time of the year, is to tell a story about the homogenization of our city and the erasure of a generation of its people and their history. |
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Arts & Entertainment
Oh Life! Oh Art! Oh Glamour!
BY MICHAEL EHRHARDT Leo Lerman was the brilliantly queer Conde Nast editor during its legendary mid-20th century golden age. Lerman was a gay bear of a man, whose unique, Proustian sensibilities appeared in columns and articles in Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Dance Magazine, and Playbill.  Theater company crosses Potomac, arrives in ChelseaBy Jerry Tallmer You might think of Bela Veracek as Candide with a bellyache. Candide believes (or says he does anyway) that everything’s for the best in this best of all possible worlds. He holds to this asininity as he moves from country to country, era to era, evil to evil. Koch On Film By Ed Koch. “La Vie En Rose” (+) The scenes in this biography of Edith Piaf, which flash forward and backward, are not particularly coherent and can be confusing. Yet viewed as a whole, the film’s impact is overwhelming. “Hot Fuzz” (+) This English film, a farce and satire, is very well done.  Curing poverty through conscientious designBy Stephanie Murg iPods, Aeron chairs, Nike shoes, and the animated creations of Pixar might be among the greatest hits of contemporary design, but they’re only household names in the households that can afford them—that is, the richest 10 percent of the world’s customers. |
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Dining AloneDancer Tricia Brouk performs five solos that she has collected throughout her career on June 28, 29 & 30 at the Dance Theater Workshop. Above: Tricia Brouk in “Dining Alone.”
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