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Editorial
In lifting Villager’s ideas, the Times dropped its standards
For a while, we had become inured to the New York Times lifting our stories, but we finally got sick of it.
On June 25, we sent to the New York Times over two dozen articles that closely parallel articles previously published in The Villager, and requested a review from senior New York Times management. An investigation by Connie Rosenblum, New York Times City Section editor, ensued, and the matter was referred to one of her superiors, Bill Borders, a New York Times senior editor.
Documentaries help open our eyes to others
Two recently released documentary projects, one a book and the other a film, shed light on two different groups in our community. The first, “Stranger to the System,” an oral documentary of the Tompkins Sq. Park homeless, was compiled by a young teacher, Jim Flynn. The other, “Life on Christopher St.,” a short video project, is from producer Kimberly Gray and director Maria Clara.
Editorial cartoon
By Ira Blutreich
Letters to the editor
Second thoughts
By RICHMOND JONES
Talking point
Mel’s snuff movie
By Andrei Codrescu
Did you know that Mel Gibson is “the Michelangelo of this generation?” So sayeth Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, to the New York Times, in reference to “The Passion,” the $25 million dollar S&M saga about the death of Christ, financed by Mel himself.
Truman diaries dredge up memories of prejudice
By Ed Gold
A painful event for me recently was the discovery of a Harry Truman diary in which he blew his top against the Jews. It may have been a one-time occurrence but it shows, as the New York Times’ Bill Safire noted, how cultural anti-Semitism can rise to the surface when certain buttons are pushed.
Reporter's Notebook
The ‘trannie doorman’ of the West Village
By Lincoln Anderson
His beat is an apartment building lobby and the street corner in front, just south of the Meat Market. He’s 38, a big guy, beefy biceps with tattoos visible if his sleeves are rolled up. He works the graveyard shift.
It really would be pretty dead out there in the middle of the night — except for the transgender prostitutes….
News in brief
Miller allocates $16 million for High Line
Abingdon Sq. activists retain an attorney
Historic ship waits in Brooklyn for go-ahead to berth at Pier 40
Fashion designers recycle fabrics
At last, a spot for small ‘Spots’ to run
Board 2 supports renaming local playground after Anthony Dapolito
Gerson: Howard Stern gag not funny
Tour follows path of L.E.S. history
Bourbon St. meets St. Mark’s
Getting the message out
St. Brigid’s could be nursing home
Hey, remember the riots?
Union Sq. Park gets playground help
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Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert
Saturday in the park
Moritz Mlakar, 3, looked like a cool kid as he enjoyed a frozen fruit bar in Hudson River Park on Saturday. Although the day started overcast, it cleared up and the park was soon crowded with users.
Gephardt eats Bush’s lunch at the Chamber of Commerce
By Albert Amateau
Richard Gephardt, Congressmember from Missouri and Democratic candidate for President of the United States, told the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce this week about the economic policy issues on which he is running for president.
Washington Post: Times ‘lifts ideas’ from Villager
By Lincoln Anderson
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, the nation’s preeminent media critic, took the New York Times to task on Monday for what he called The Times’ “pattern of lifting ideas without credit” from The Villager.
Effort aims to preserve the Bowery
By Megha Bahree
A New York University dormitory on E. Second St. seems out of place next to its more historic neighbors on the Bowery, including Federal row houses from the early 19th century and the “world’s smallest opera,” founded in 1948.
Howl! festival street fair slated for St. Mark’s
By Elizabeth O’Brien
The first annual Howl! festival scrambled to secure a new venue on St. Mark’s Pl. after the city recently turn
Young ‘Studs Terkel’ profiles Tompkins homeless
By Lincoln Anderson
Feeling “fed up with the transparent hipsters on the Downtown bar scene,” as he put it, three years ago, Jim Flynn, a young teacher, decided to search out a more authentic New York. He found it in a place many would shun — among the homeless regulars and drifter punks in Tompkins Sq. Park.
‘Occupation’ near Park Row must end, judge rules
By Josh Rogers
A state judge has ruled that the police have illegally acted like an “occupation” force by taking over a public plaza in Chinatown and has ordered the police to vacate the plaza by the end of the year. In addition, the city has been ordered to complete an environmental study of the effects of the police closure of Park Row by the end of the year.
East Village Fringe Festival expands west
By Davida Singer
East meets west this August, for the 7th annual New York International Fringe Festival. The largest multi-arts gathering in North America, presenting shows by some of the world’s best emerging artists and companies. FringeNYC has expanded west to the West Village this year, and Fringe Central, the festival’s hub and information center, will be located at Manhattan Theater Source on MacDougal Street.
Jones and Weiss create chemistry in “Flesh and Blood”
By Jerry Tallmer
“Chemistry” is a much-used and much overused word in the theater. But if you want to see some real chemistry percolating between two actors, two people, two human beings, their names are Cherry Jones and Jeff Weiss and the play is “Flesh and Blood,” nine times a week through August 24 at the New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street.
Dance company brings the world to Downtown
By Tanya Gingerich Warren
Despite over 27 years in the community, the full scope of the Battery Dance Company is still unknown to many downtown residents. They may be familiar with the Downtown Dance Festival, the free outdoor dance concert the company has produced in Battery Park every summer since 1982. But they may not know about their Dance-in- Schools program for inner-city schools.
From playwright to Ivy League professor
By Jerry Tallmer
There’s almost too much happening right now in a small apartment a half-block off Washington Square. Erin Cressida Wilson is in the process of writing a new movie for director Steven Shainberg, for whom she crafted the screenplay of “Secretary” — about an S&M workplace love affair — from a short story by Mary Gaitskill.
Koch on film
By Ed. Koch
“Hotel” (-) I have previously characterized films as awful, and I may have even referred to one as the worst I have ever seen. All of them pale in comparison with this turkey which is the worst of the worst. I was taken in by The Times film reviewer, Elvis Mitchell, who described this flick as being “never less than fascinating.” Baloney. It is pure crap.
“Seabiscuit” (+) This is a terrific, old-fashioned type film with a great storyline and fine acting by all, including the horse. The script is based on the best-selling novel by Laura Hillenbrand and purports to be a true rendering of Seabiscuit’s career and the people involved with the horse.
Film explores Christopher St. gay youth culture
By Sascha Brodsky
A new film is taking a look at the lives of the young, gay community of color on Christopher St. that has been the source of so much local controversy in recent years.
Village resident, Charles Busch, talks about his work
By Jerry Tallmer
A few years ago, Charles Busch was asked to be guest speaker at a “Women of Theater” luncheon at the Rainbow Room. There he sat, surrounded by a dozen or so of the most celebrated grandes dames of the American stage.
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