EDITORIAL
Let Pridefest move to Chelsea
It appears that part of this year’s Gay Pride celebration has just been stuffed back into the closet. On April 27, the Community Assistance Unit (CAU) of the mayor’s office unexpectedly denied an application by the group Heritage of Pride (HOP) to move its annual LGBT street fair, Pridefest, from the West Village to Chelsea to make room for a chunk of the estimated 400,000 people who will descend on New York City the weekend of June 23–24. CAU also refused to let HOP move the fair from Sunday to Saturday to free up volunteers to help keep the event safe and orderly.
Letters to the Editor
Talking Point
Pushing for marriage equality in Albany
By Paul Schindler
Here’s where the LGBT community and its allies stand in the spring of 2007 in the fight for marriage equality. Governor Eliot Spitzer has introduced his bill, Senate Republican Majority Leader Joe Bruno has said he will not move the issue in his chamber, but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Lower East Side Democrat, has signaled that he expects the matter to be discussed in the majority party conference, made up of a whopping 108 of the 150 assemblymembers.
Notebook
An Edwardian death room
By Andrei Codrescu
People report ghosts at the Colonial Burma Hotel and Spa in Eureka Springs, Ark. The lumbering rooming house served as a Civil War hospital, a miracle spa for dying cancer patients from Kansas, a tuberculosis sanatorium, an abandoned building, a losing investment for the St. Louis mafia and, in its present incarnation, a romantic destination for Arkansans and Missourians desirous of rekindling romance through the use of pedicures and herbal wraps.
Police Blotter
Health and Fitness
By Greg Rothman, M.S. P.T.
I mentioned in last week’s column that each spring, people tell me how their New Year’s resolutions fell through sometime in February and ask if it’s too late to get in shape for summer.
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Chelsea Now photo by Jefferson Siegel Paula Martin, director of Bayview Correctional Facility’s Stay’N Out drug-treatment and therapeutic program, talked to Chelsea Now in her office last Friday. At Bayview, Stay’N Out of trouble, going deep Hudson Rail Yards forum draws plenty of critics By Al Amateau Advocates for affordable housing and supporters of the High Line packed a public presentation on Tuesday concerning the city’s and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s guidelines for a mega mixed-use development over the West Side rail yards. By Lincoln Anderson More than 1,500 parents, Little Leaguers and budding David Beckhams — plus a crew hauling a 14-foot-long Whitehall rowboat complete with a sail — mobbed P.S. 41 last Thursday evening for a public hearing on Pier 40’s future. By Barry Paddock Half the flags were America’s stars and stripes at the May 1 Union Square immigration rally, and half were from dozens of other countries, reflecting both the widespread origins of the thousands who attended and their common desire for full participation in American life. Forth in a series on the Hotel Chelsea—past and present
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NEWS Annual Pridefest likely to be nixed Cycle of paintings examines cyclist’s death on path Summer Camps |
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Grief at LastThe third and final installment of photographer and filmmaker Erwin Olaf’s trilogy features narratives and portraits, mostly of women caught in private moments, at Hasted Hunt through June 2. “Rain” and “Hope” are the titles of this series’ first two episodes.
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