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Editorial
The Villager endorses Nervo for Civil Court
It’s usually difficult to make an endorsement in a judicial race. First, the candidates often aren’t as well known in the community as political candidates. Second, there are the judicial ethics that surround the campaign process: the findings of judicial screening panels are not made public other than whether the candidates are deemed “Not Qualified” or “Qualified.” In the same vein, candidates are not permitted to speak publicly about their positions on issues that may come before them.
TALKING POINT
Memories of Weathermen explosion on W. 11th St.
By Ed Gold
The parole of Kathy Boudin last week brought a rush of memories going back 33 years. I was sitting in my sixth floor office on 12th St. near Fifth Ave. shortly after noon on March 6, 1970, when a fierce explosion shook the building.
PENNY POST
I have a dream, or, then again, do I?
By Andrei Codrescu
There is a dream deficit in the nation because of sleeping aids such as Lorezapam, which either wipe out dreaming or make people unable to remember their dreams. The first signs of the dream-vacuum appeared at breakfast tables about five years ago when families found that they had no dreams to share. It bothered some people. Telling one’s family what one had dreamt used to be a means of communicating thoughts and feelings that could not find any other way of being expressed. By interpreting each other’s dreams, families reinforced bonds and gained rough guides to the future. In the absence of dreams, the newspaper and the morning news rushed in to accompany the crunching of cereal, a crunch that became, in many households, the only sound of togetherness the family produced.
Editorial cartoon
By Ira Blutreich
Letters to the editor
Second thoughts
By RICHMOND JONES
Police
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Villager photo by Elisabeth Robert
Ethel Eichelberger was one of the giant puppet heads in Howl!’s “Pantheon Parade.”
The united state of the arts: First Howl! festival a success
By Lincoln Anderson
From short films shown under the stars in tranquil community gardens to drag queens strutting in a resuscitated Wigstock in Tompkins Sq. Park, the weeklong, first annual Howl! festival, which wrapped up last night, was a great success by any standard.
The brainchild of Phil Hartman, a filmmaker and owner of Two Boots Pizza, the festival brought together hundreds of events at various venues, mostly in the East Village.
E.P.A. admits to ‘mistakes’ after 9/11
By Elizabeth O’Brien
Representative Jerrold Nadler called on the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake a thorough cleaning of residences and workplaces affected by dust from the World Trade Center collapse after an independent report recommended that the agency take further action against indoor contamination. The agency criticized the report, but acknowledged unspecified “mistakes.”
Council approves Hudson Sq. south rezoning for residential development
By Albert Amateau
The City Council last week unanimously passed a resolution to allow residential development in the south end of the Hudson Sq. manufacturing district.
The zoning measure, which goes into effect this week, allows new residential development and conversions in the area bounded by Spring, Hudson, Canal and Washington Sts. It allows existing manufacturing uses to continue but no new manufacturing development and imposes a 120-ft. height limit on new construction.
Villager and reporter will receive H.D.C. Friend From Media Award
The Villager and reporter Albert Amateau are among the winners of the Historic Districts Council’s Fourth Annual Grassroots Preservation Awards. The awards event will be held Wed., Sept. 10, at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery, at E. Tenth St. and Second Ave., as part of H.D.C.’s 13th Annual Preservation Party. H.D.C. will also honor CitiNeighbors Coalition for Historic Carnegie Hill; Josephine E. Jones; Senator Street 300 Block Association; and the Seaport Community Coalition and Community Board 1.
Tenant activists attack Civil Court judge candidate
By Lincoln Anderson
With primary election day two weeks away, tenant activists are ratcheting up their assault on Shlomo Hagler, one of four candidates running for Civil Court Judge in the Second Municipal Court District.
Former firefighter is Gerson’s primary opponent
By Lincoln Anderson
A former fireman and political novice, Peter Gleason is running against Councilmember Alan Gerson in the Democratic primary election in Lower Manhattan’s First City Council District.
L.M.D.C. returns to Chinatown for second meeting
By Elizabeth O’Brien
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation returned to Chinatown last week to hold an extra meting after protestors criticized the timing and the format of the neighborhood workshop held there three weeks ago.
Ear Inn has colorful history and uncertain future
By Albert Amateau
Keeping a 186-year-old wooden beach house standing and functioning as living quarters, office and pub is no easy task. Especially one condemned as unfit for use back in 1906.But Rip Hayman, owner of the James Brown House at 326 Spring St. gets along, with a little help from friends.
Memories of Weathermen explosion on W. 11th St.
By Ed Gold
The parole of Kathy Boudin last week brought a rush of memories going back 33 years. I was sitting in my sixth floor office on 12th St. near Fifth Ave. shortly after noon on March 6, 1970, when a fierce explosion shook the building.
Examining Catholic taboos at Irish Rep
By JERRY TALLMER
If you ask John Bosco McLane what is the sharpest hunger of all, he will tell you. In fact he will tell you even if you don’t ask, this self-described “crusty bachelor” of 56, in the Ireland of (approximately) 1956 — never bedded a woman, almost never been kissed, and when been kissed, it was once, anyway, just to be made fun of, an object of sport for some bored young barbarians.
Poetry from Berkeley to the Big Apple
By Davida Singer
“Teacher! Teacher!,” Taylor Mali’s upcoming solo performance work at the Bowery Poetry Club, opens with his first being introduced to verse in the womb. His father, apparently, recited a poem to his mother.
Koch on film
By Ed. Koch
FOOD
Sangria and Iberian dishes at Alphabet Kitchen
By Lauren Fouda
In this weather, it’s impossible not to crave sangria. But the perfect summer fantasy isn’t completely fulfilled without a rooftop terrace or a patio on which to enjoy it. So what’s a Manhattan apartment dweller with no roof access to do in this situation?
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