Artists Won't Be Put on Spot; Vending Rules Go Into Effect

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Villager photo by J.B. Nicholas Robert Lederman protesting in Union Square on Monday morning against the city’s new regulations governing as Ray faces comp expressive-matter vending. Artists won’t be put on spot; from an ‘ice queen’ BY LINCOLN ANDERSON Until last year, NYC ICY The city is baking in a was on Avenue B. But fi ve brutal heat wave with no weeks ago, owners Jonathan Vending rules go into effect end in site. But on Avenue A and Suzie Leeds opened a a cold war is fl aring. Oh yes, pop-up sidewalk store on BY ALBERT AMATEAU Protesting artists on Monday, however, west sides of the southern end of Union it’s an icy war — or a war of the east side of Avenue A A federal judge last Friday denied paid no attention to the medallions. Square Park were dangerous. ices, if you prefer. near Seventh St. — diag- artists a preliminary injunction against They took advantage of the fact that “It shows how little good faith the In one corner, or rath- onally across from neigh- new rules that limit the number and the new rules do not apply to wander- Parks Department has on this issue,” er, near one corner, is borhood institution Ray’s locations of First Amendment-protected ing art vendors who do not stay in Lederman said. the East Village’s peren- Candy Store, owned by Ray vendors in four Manhattan parks: one place any longer than necessary to A spokesperson for the Parks nial provider of summer Alvarez. Union Square, the High Line, Battery transact a sale. The rules also do not Department said the vendor locations refreshment, Ray’s Candy Winters are particularly Park and parts of Central Park. apply to artists who display their art would be reviewed over time with a Store. In the other corner, tough for Ray, a.k.a. Asghar As a result of the decision by Judge but do not sell it. view to adjusting them. or rather near the other Ghahraman. But the sum- Richard Sullivan, the new rules went Robert Lederman, president of Julie Milner, attorney for Lederman corner, is the new upstart, into effect on Monday and will con- A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists’ Response to and A.R.T.I.S.T., said the court case NYC ICY. Continued on page 4 tinue unless the two related lawsuits Illegal State Tactics) and co-plaintiff in “was moving on a fast track.” seeking to permanently enjoin the rules one of the two federal court lawsuits In addition to the 18 expressive- are successful. seeking to overturn the new regula- matter vending locations in Union But more than 100 artists turned tions, promised more demonstrations. Square, the new rules designate 40 EDITORIAL, up in the south end of Union Square “We’re going to stay in this park and more locations on Tuesdays, Thursdays LETTERS on Monday, waved signs and ignored away from the marked spaces. We’re and Sundays when the Greenmarket PAGE 12 the rules legally while police and Parks going to defy the mayor and we’re does not occupy the north and west Enforcement Patrol offi cers looked on. going to defy the Parks Department,” plazas of the park. Under the new rules, 18 loca- said Lederman. In Battery Park the vending rules PAPARAZZO tions in Union Square Park marked Artists also protested that the loca- specify nine vending locations for DIARY by small plastic medallions designate tions of the designated vending spots PAGE 16 where “expressive matter” can be sold. adjacent to the streets on the east and Continued on page 6

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Ray’s business has always been dog Continued from page 1 friendly; he tells a story about how once his store was empty except for five “cus- mers are when he does his best business, tomers” at his counter, and they were all dishing out cooling cones and cups of soft- dogs. serve ice cream and frozen yogurt. This past Leeds cares about local canines, too. winter, with the recession and struggling to Saying she’s concerned about the welfare make his rent, he was on the brink of losing of woofers that live with the young punks his business. But the neighborhood rallied in the park, she always leaves a bowl around him, with fundraisers and loyal cus- of water by her chalkboard of the day’s tomers donating dollars when they bought flavors. In fact, she says she’s currently their Belgian fries and Obama burgers, help- whipping up a new product — a “dog ing him tide it over till the warm season. icy” — still in the experimental stages. Ray weathered the winter, but just when he “We’re probably going to make it thought he could catch a breather, the arrival chicken-broth based, or meat based — of the icy newcomer came as chilling news. and some bits of meat,” she explained, A few weeks ago, Ray admitted to The adding that it will be designed so as not Villager that NYC ICY had taken half his to give dogs the runs. business, and that he planned to respond by Told of Leeds’ new frozen dog dessert, buying an ices-making machine of his own. Ray — who was working one of his mara- Maybe he had been hiding the truth, because thon weekend shifts — paused a second to last Sunday afternoon, he said the situation soak it in, then tipped his cap to her. was even worse. “Oh — she’s a good businesswoman,” “She took 98 percent of my custom- he said, clearly impressed. ers,” he stated. “Every summer, I had Luckily for Ray, Leeds and her icy to order ice cream every day. This year, juggernaut will only have the Avenue A once a week — that means she took away Villager photos by Lincoln Anderson space until Halloween, after which the business.” Ray, left, and John outside Ray’s Candy Store on Sunday morning. Ray had hoped landlord will take it back over. Next sea- Making good on his word, Ray, 77, John would help him sell his ices. son, she hopes to open five pop-up NYC did recently buy a machine to make ices, ICY stores around the city. plus new coolers to store them in. In the “Tell him, I’m sorry — I didn’t know process, though, he burned through more we were at war, because we’re not mean,” than half of his big Social Security payout Leeds reiterated. that he received last month, after having “I’m not at war with her,” Ray agreed, been stiffed by the feds for years. Call though adding pointedly, “She came 36 it a calculated gamble, but Ray — who years too late.” jumped ship from the Iranian navy to find Also, Ray noted, his strength is his his American dream — hasn’t lasted on rock-bottom prices. He said that’s why an Avenue since 1974 by playing it safe. ice cream shop nearby on St. Mark’s Place So last Saturday evening, he was offer- from “Down Under” went under. ing customers samples of his first batch “This guy around the corner, used to of ices, which, he noted proudly, he made be Australian ice cream, he couldn’t com- for a total of just $25. There was healthy pete,” he stated. Leeds’ price for a small, pomegranate, tangy lemon, sweet coco- two-scooper is $2 more than Ray’s. nut and zingy pineapple. His ices are all Leeds said what Ray should do next natural — no chemicals, no stabilizers. spring is just buy her ices. But he said her And the price was right: just $1 for two stuff is too expensive and that he’s made scoops. He hopes to add a tiramisu ice up his mind and that’s it. And so, the icy soon, but is having difficulty finding the cold war (that is not a war) continues… . flavor. Leeds did say she loves Ray’s Belgian “Give me an icy!” a voice called from fries, though, and was recently reading outside Ray’s window. “You got cherry?” about how he couldn’t cook them any- “I give you something better than more until he got a fire-protection system cherry!” Ray answered heartily, scooping Suzie Leeds with one of her triple lemon-icy iced teas. “It’s like crack,” she said. installed. into the pomegranate bucket. “This one In fact, there’s good news for Ray on the going to make you young!” said, though adding, “I didn’t even know also be featuring NYC ICY. fries front. Last Saturday night ﬁ rst saw Two loyal customers, Nick Peat and we were fighting. I didn’t want to step on She eagerly offered sample spoon- him fearing that a contractor he had cut a Barry Kushelowitz, sampled the pome- anyone’s toes, obviously.” ful after sample spoonful of her exotic deal with to install an Ansul system hood granate and were blown away by the new Actually, Leeds said she wasn’t aware icy creations: lemon-basil, spicy Mexican and chimney for his deep fryer had skipped frosty flavored treat. Philip, another long- Ray was now selling ices until The Villager hot cocoa, Thai iced tea, lychee, apricot- out with $3,500 — half the cost of the time Ray’s regular, found one delectable told her. ginger… . The flavors, the spoons, just project — that Ray had given him upfront. while sharing some classic Brian Eno Leeds, who grew up in the Bronx and is kept coming. Ray’s managing agent, Barbara Chupa, has tunes on his iPhone. originally from Korea, explained that she She also has a triple lemon-icy iced been insisting he get the hood. To move his point of purchase to the got interested in icies when her son Noah tea drink. But, before he sampled a pomegran- pavement, Ray had hoped to get a young was found to be lactose intolerant at age “It’s like crack,” she boasted. ate ice, Peat — who helped Ray recently guy named John to sell the ices in front of 4. They started making icies for him then, “What we do is not brain surgery,” she get a three-year lease signed — assured his store starting the next day. But, in a and it just snowballed, or “iceballed.” explained. “We use the best ingredients.” him that the contractor would be start- temporary setback to Ray, John later told Today, they manufacture 300 flavors at a She even has vegan offerings. ing work Wednesday and that Ray would him he had another job. Brooklyn location. 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expressive matter. On the elevated parts of the High Line Park, the rules specify ﬁ ve artist vending spots. Around Central Park south of 86th St. (including in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Columbus Circle) the rules set out 68 expressive-matter vending sites. For Lederman, the current lawsuit revisits familiar ground. In 1994 he and other artists sued in federal court to overturn the rule that all vendors except booksellers had to get a general vendor’s license in order to sell their wares in any public place. It was the ﬁ rst of several similar lawsuits won by Lederman, including one that went to the U.S. Supreme Court, against limits to the vending of expressive matter protected by the First Amendment.

‘We’re going to stay in this park and away from the marked spaces.’

Robert Lederman Villager photos by J.B. Nicholas Robert Lederman, center, led a protest in Union Square on Monday morning against the city’s new rules governing expressive- matter vending.

Lederman last week noted that all of Record on June 18 somewhat expanded the four parks could fi nd ample — if less lucra- ing evidence that the city’s congestion rea- the actions that he eventually won had an number of vending locations that were the tive — alternative channels in “Prospect sons are a pretext or that the rules do not initial setback with a denial of a preliminary subject of a hearing in April. Park, Riverside Park, Tompkins Square Park advance the stated goals. injunction. Lederman and his co-plaintiff, fellow or any one of hundreds of other places in Lederman also claims that the rules tar- The Parks Department established the new art vendor Jack Nesbitt, fi led their federal the city.” get him in particular because of his being a rules after fi nding that, since 2001, the number lawsuit on June 19. On July 7, Diane Dua, He cited a previous court ruling that “The thorn in the side of City Hall for many years. of expressive-matter vendors in Union Square, a member of another artist vendors group, First Amendment does not require that New Lederman and Nesbitt won a cash settlement Battery Park and Central Park tripled over the Artists United, fi led a similar suit. York City permit plaintiff to sell their work from the city upon the settlement of a false- years. The increase, according to Parks, has Judge Sullivan denied the preliminary directly to the public in an ideal venue.” arrest lawsuit in connection with their arrest resulted “in congested conditions…especially injunction, fi nding that the rules are “com- Sullivan conceded that the plaintiff might in November, before the new rules existed, for those seeking to enter a park, as well as pletely unrelated to the content of the expres- eventually be able to win the case by show- for vending their art on the High Line. crowding out other park users.” sive matter being sold.” The judge also In March, the department proposed new accepted the Parks Department contention art-vending locations in those three parks, that the different treatment of expressive- plus on the new High Line park because of matter vendors was based on congestion, its narrow confi guration and winding path- and that the locations promote “a signifi cant ways among planting beds on the West Side government interest.” railroad viaduct. Sullivan also said that artists who miss The fi nal rules published in the City out on assignment to a designated spot in the

Yellow “Artist Power!” signs are ubiquitous on vendors’ tables in Union Square, where new rules restrict the number of artist vendors. July 22 - 28, 2010 7 Stewart’s supporters call new A Compassionate prison term a ‘death sentence’ and

BY MARY REINHOLZ Supporters and onetime colleagues of Innovative Surgeon disbarred radical attorney Lynne Stewart are fearful that she may die behind bars now that a federal judge has added nearly eight more years to the 28-month sentence he imposed on her in 2006. She has already served more than eight months at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Park Row after being convicted of conspiring to aid a violent Islamic conspiracy overseas. “It’s absolutely a death sentence because of her health and age,” said Martin Stolar, a lawyer on lower Broadway and former president of the New York Chapter of the leftist National Lawyers Guild. He attended the July 15 resentencing of the 70-year-old Stewart, who is a breast cancer survivor, at the federal Daniel P. Moynihan Courthouse. Stolar believes U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl, a lifetime appointee of President Villager photo by Jefferson Siegel Clinton who had presided at Stewart’s nine- Ralph Poynter was consoled by a month trial in Foley Square, showed “little supporter outside federal court last personal integrity” in giving Stewart 10 week after hearing that his wife, Lynne years. He said the ruling “was worse than a Stewart, had received eight more years 180-degree turnabout.” in prison. Others claimed Koeltl wimped out. “I think the judge just buckled under times as I perceive it.” to the Second Circuit Court,” said William Government prosecutors had demanded Heerwagen, host of WBAI’s “Jazz and that Stewart be sentenced to 30 years — Things.” Heerwagen viewed the resentenc- then recently lowered that to 15 to 30 — as punishment for her 2005 conviction of mate- rially aiding a terrorist plot to kill and and kidnap people abroad and defrauding the ‘The F.B.I. is satisfi ed that U.S. government. She and two Muslim co- defendants were accused in a 2003 super- this serves the interest of ceding indictment of smuggling messages from Stewart’s imprisoned client, convicted justice.’ terrorist Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the “Blind Sheik,” to his followers in a George Venizelos U.S.-designated terrorist network called the Islamic Group, in Egypt. Stewart’s defense team asked that Koeltl’s ing in a fi rst-fl oor courtroom with circuit original sentence stand, calling it “appropri- TV opened to accommodate an overfl ow ate” and “just,” given her age, health and crowd. He was referring to a panel of long service to the poor and unpopular for judges from the Second Circuit Court of little or no fi nancial benefi t. Appeals who dismissed Stewart’s appeal of In his remarks before imposing a new sen- the 28-month sentence in November 2009, tence, Koeltl raised hopes among Stewart’s ordered her to begin jailtime and gave Koeltl supporters when he cited her lengthy “public a mandate to reconsider his fi rst sentence, service,” refl ected in more than 300 let- which one jurist described as “breathtak- ters he had received. In his summation, the ingly low.” judge referred several times to Stewart’s Prominent criminal defense attorney “poor health” and the chance that her breast Murray Richman — known as “Don’t Worry cancer could recur. Murray” to clients ranging from mobsters When Koeltl fi nally announced that he to hip-hop moguls and former Governor would impose “120 months,” his courtroom Eliott Spitzer’s prostitute procurer — said erupted with sobs and shouts of protest. he regards Koeltl as a good judge who “knew But the silver-haired Stewart, garbed in best” about the complications of an extraor- a navy-blue smock over her prison jump- dinary case, but wasn’t given “much room suit, remained calm, telling the judge that to move in.” her lawyers would consider “all available The Court of Appeals ruled Koeltl options to do what we need to do to change was “too lenient” in fi rst giving Stewart this.” 28 months, Richman said in a telephone Stewart earlier told Koeltl that prison conversation. “He did what he perceived had taken a toll on her and that every was expected of him. That’s the system,” day in prison, she “faced the prospect of he added. Richman called the stiffer sen- death.” She tried to explain that her jocular tence for Stewart, whom he has known for decades, “a response to the fear of the Continued on page 25 8 July 22 - 28, 2010 Do you think Puerto Rico should be the 51st state?

Villager photos by Cynthia Romero “I’m actually really excited that Puerto Ricans are going to have the opportunity to “I think it would be a good thing. People there should beneﬁ t from whatever the be the 51st state because it’s just going to present them with more opportunities. government has to offer. They don’t have that, and of course they are going to be Some of my family lives in Puerto Rico. I think for the most part, this is a good taxed now, but I think it would be worth it for them to have more opportunities.” thing.”

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E.M.T. shot dead July 12, was approached from behind in An off-duty Emergency Medical Services the vestibule by two men who asked for E.M.T. was shot to death after an argu- the time and then demanded his money, ment on Sun., July 18, shortly after 5 a.m. police said. One of the suspects told the near Hudson and Vandam Sts. other, “Take out the gun and shoot him,” The victim, Jason Green, 32, and his police said. The victim, 25, gave the rob- girlfriend, Melisa Jackson, also an E.M.S. bers $430 and they fled north on Hudson member, had been suspended for a month St. in a minivan that was parked at the last year and were still under investiga- curb. tion for ignoring a dying pregnant woman in Brooklyn while they were on a coffee break. But the shooting on Sunday was entirely unrelated to that incident, police Traffi c rage said. Police arrested Steven Collado, 19, for Green and a friend had tried to get into hitting a man with a tire iron after chas- Greenhouse, the club at 150 Varick St., ing him through traffi c on the northeast shortly before the shooting, but bouncers corner of Broome and Varick Sts. at 12:25 refused to let them in because the friend a.m. Mon., July 12. The victim, visiting was wearing shorts. Two women friends from Arlington, Va., was not seriously hurt. who had been in the club joined them just Collado was charged with fi rst- and second- before a man came up and began arguing degree assault. with Green. The argument, possibly over a parking space, continued across Varick St. and toward Hudson St. The argument turned into a fi ght when the man and two Shirt thief friends attacked Green. The three were An employee of Urban Outfi tters’ Village getting the worst of it when a fourth man store at 526 Sixth Ave. at W. 14th St., joined them and shot Green in the face, stopped a man trying to walk out of the police said. Green, a Queens resident, was place around 4:45 p.m. Wed., July 14, with taken to New York Downtown Hospital 43 shirts valued at $2,000 that he had taken where he was declared dead on arrival. from the display cases and stuffed into his messenger bag, police said. Carlos Mazzoni, 29, of Queens, was charged with grand lar- Soho House robber ceny and possession of stolen property. Donald Kelly, 18, was arrested shortly before 9 p.m. Sun., July 18, and charged with stealing a BlackBerry from a guest and Pleads guilty an iPod from an employee in Soho House, a Maritza Gonzalez, 38, who was charged private-membership hotel at 29 Ninth Ave. with punching her acquaintance and rob- in the Gansevoort Market district. Kelly bing a DVD from her bag on Avenue D at stole the guest’s BlackBerry from the side E. Seventh St. at 2:15 a.m. Mon., July 12, of the hotel pool and then went to the bar pleaded guilty on Fri., July 16. She was sen- where he picked up the iPod, police said. tenced to 45 days in jail. The employee tried to stop Kelly but the suspect punched him in the face and fl ed. Kelly was running up Eighth Ave. with police giving chase when a passerby stopped Driver beaten, robbed him and held him for police. Kelly was being Police arrested four men for beating held pending a July 23 court appearance on and robbing a cab driver at 3:30 a.m. charges of fi rst-degree burglary and second- Wed., July 14, at the corner of Second Ave. degree robbery. and E. Seventh St. David LaForest, 23; Chad LaForest, 21; Carl Muraco, 22, and Nicholas Menardy, 22, all of Queens, got into the cab and started an argument with Visitor mugged the driver when he told them it would cost A woman, 32, visiting from London was $80 for a ride to Queens, according to the talking on her cell phone on W. 12th St. complaint fi led with Manhattan District at Greenwich Ave. at 3 a.m. Sat., July 17, Attorney Cy Vance Jr. David LaForest when two men approached, punched her in punched the driver and took about $200 the face, grabbed the phone and fl ed, police from his shirt pocket, and the other defen- said. The victim, who appeared drunk, was dants pulled the driver out of the cab and unable to describe the muggers, police said. continued beating him, the complaint says. All the defendants pleaded not guilty and were paroled pending an Oct. 12 court appearance on second-degree robbery and Pizza man robbed third-degree assault charges. A man delivering pizza to 77 Barrow St. near Commerce St. at 1:25 a.m. Mon., Albert Amateau 10 July 22 - 28, 2010 Singer recalls the ‘agony and ecstasy’ of Spector BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK might have a good chance this time around. In April 2009, legendary rock producer “Maybe The Crystals will also have a chance Phil Spector was found guilty of second-degree 47 years later ’cause his ass is locked up,” murder in the shooting death six years earlier Brooks said. The Crystals’ hits included “He of B-movie actress Lana Clarkson, 40. He was Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)” and “He’s a sentenced to 19 years to life. Rebel” in 1962, and 1963’s “Da Doo Ron Ron” During the fi rst six-month trial in 2007, and “Then He Kissed Me.” which ended in a hung jury, the famously reclu- She recalled that when Spector moved to sive Spector gave British fi lmmaker Vikram Los Angeles, as lead vocalist, she was the only Jayanti unprecedented access to his mind and Crystal to be fl own out to record at Gold Star mishegoss, fi lmed at his Alhambra, Ca., über- Studios. All fi ve of the women in the group mansion. The result is the riveting “The Agony were from Brooklyn, and he didn’t want to and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector,” currently being spend the money on airfare. held over at the Film Forum on W. Houston “He put me in tracks with studio singers, St. including Cher, in the background — he didn’t Jayanti (wisely asking questions off-camera) like her voice — but the recordings said ‘The interweaves Spector’s longwinded ruminations, Crystals.’ Sonny Bono was his right-hand man, refl ections, self-pity and self-aggrandizement in and he yelled at him a lot. He had some kind- equal measure with excerpts from the televised ness toward me because I was 14½, but he did fi rst trial and archival fi lm footage — a sequen- show some anger if I didn’t get it. He worked tial magical history tour of his greatest groups us all day without food. I’d have to buy peanuts and hits. and soda at the vending machine to fi ll me up, Spector, 67, in the interviews, with a palsied I was so hungry.” right hand and a watery left eye, reminisces Brooks acknowledged that seeing the fi lm — about his troubled childhood and personal twice — was diffi cult. life, the seminal event being his father’s suicide “I held back tears the fi rst time,” she said. “It when he was 9 years old. He penned his fi rst Villager photo by Bonnie Rosenstock was hard to see and not feel emotionally mixed hit, The Teddy Bears’ 1958 single “To Know LaLa Brooks next to a poster of the new Phil Spector biopic at Film Forum. up, wanting to care about him, and then when Him is to Love Him,” he confesses, inspired by Love, The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and George Harrison (multi-platinum album he speaks stupid, you want to take your foot the epitaph on his dad’s gravestone; the song and Ike and Tina Turner’s lushly orchestrated “All Things Must Pass”). Ever present in the and put it up his ass. When you think emotion- features a 17-year-old Spector on guitar. “River Deep – Mountain High.” fi lm is the white piano that he bought with ally about him, you forget he stole everything From there the fi lm follows the trajectory of Then there was the Beatles period, the “Let Lennon for “Imagine” in 1970. he could.” Spector’s fabled “Wall of Sound,” which pro- It Be” album in 1970, numerous collaborations Spector compares his misunderstood genius The Crystals got $1,000 each when they duced, among others, The Crystals, Darlene with John Lennon (“Plastic Ono Band,” 1970) to DaVinci, Galileo, Bach and Michelangelo. signed in 1962. His animus towards others is unintention- “We were kids, we didn’t know anything ally comical and inexplicable. Of Tony Bennett, and neither did our parents,” said Brooks. whose career revival Spector clearly resents, Only recently did they receive any royalty he notes, “Nobody brings up his coke habit money. and now he’s doing duets with Bono”; regard- “We made a settlement, but it’s so little I ing Martin Scorsese, who used The Ronettes’ don’t want to mention it because it’s embar- “Be My Baby” without permission for “Mean rassing,” she said. “By that time, he had gone Streets” (1973), he says, “The fi lm would be to prison and cried broke. How are you gonna nothing without it” (he later settled for mil- fi ght that?” lions); and on Paul McCartney — “I don’t think The part near the end of the movie that got he was very secure that I went in there for a to Brooks was when Spector said he was so few months and did what they couldn’t do in great he could have done it with any singers. two years with those tapes,” referring to what “It disturbed me, and it wasn’t true,” she became “Let It Be.” said. “You had to have certain voices.” Spector is unsettling with heated statements As for the Wall of Sound, Brooks acknowl- like, “I was just a loner and was always treated edged Spector’s arranger and conductor, Jack with contempt,” and “I wasn’t accepted by the Nitzsche. establishment; certain people never get their “He orchestrated ‘River Deep.’ Phil takes due.” He was inducted into the Rock and Roll credit for what he did. Jack said he treated him Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1989. like s---,” she noted According to LaLa Brooks, a former mem- Did Spector shoot Clarkson? He confessed ber of The Crystals, Spector’s megalomania to his Brazilian limousine driver, “I think I just prevented others from getting in. Brooks, a killed somebody.” But during Spector’s trials, longtime East Villager, was guest speaker for a defense attorneys tried to show that forensic post-movie Q&A at the July 7 sold-out 8 p.m. evidence proved he couldn’t have done it. show and talked about her experiences working “At the recording studio Phil kept a gun on with Spector. A few days later, she sat down his console,” Brooks recalled. “He had a gun in with The Villager for a one-on-one interview. a holster, which he would take out, twirl around Before Spector’s arrest, Brooks told The and fl ip back into his holster. I don’t know if it Villager that the famed producer was on the was loaded but it was real. I ducked because the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Full musicians ducked, them being older than me; disclosure: This reporter and Brooks are neigh- maybe they knew it was loaded. Now I under- bors in the same building). stand why they got down,” she laughed. “He thought so much of himself that he “Because he played with fi re, he fi nally got didn’t want any of his artists to be recognized,” burned,” continued Brooks. “When you have she said. so much arrogance and a fetish for guns, well, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones pushed it could have been an accident, but… . With for The Ronettes, who were inducted in 2007. all the evil he’s done, as Malcolm X said, ‘The Darlene Love, who was passed on last year, chickens have come home to roost.’ ” July 22 - 28, 2010 11 Masaryk Towers sidewalks are unsafe, residents say BY CYNTHIA ROMERO About 40 Lower East Side residents gathered outside the Key Food on Columbia St. on July 12 to protest the shoddy sidewalks around the supermarket. Leading the demonstration was Samuel Vasquez, a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side. It was on this same sidewalk where Vasquez, who wears leg braces on both legs, took a fall during the winter two years ago and sustained injuries to his head. “I was walking home when I slipped on this icy sidewalk. People went by, and somehow I fell. I laid there for a while,” Vasquez said. “After the weather cleared, I came back to inspect how bad the conditions were and they were really bad.” Vasquez opted not to fi le a lawsuit and instead decided to petition the city for safer sidewalks. The cracked pavement borders a retail strip — including a grocery store and several bodegas — which is part of Masaryk Towers, a Mitchell- Lama development. The sight of the towers brought Vasquez to a standstill. “Look at this, look at all the people who have to go around these big holes, yet these businesses remain open and they bring in money,” he said. “So then why have they not been fi xed? Why?” After his accident, Vasquez spoke to the manager of the Masaryk Towers Housing Development Corporation, Edward Kozlowski, to see how the problem could be resolved. “Mr. Kozlowski told me that they were well aware of the problem and that they were waiting for some kind of funding from the city to make the necessary reparations,” Vasquez said. “I later found out that the money they had applied for had been released to them, and none of it had been applied to these sidewalks.” The money Vasquez referred to is $8 million in federal Villager photo by Clayton Patterson funds awarded to Masaryk Towers by the Lower Manhattan The run-down sidewalks outside the Columbia St. Key Food have caused many injuries, residents say. Development Corporation to improve the conditions inside and outside of the development. “These sidewalks are very bad — and it’s just not these two obviously big holes — but along this whole strip, there It takes a Villager are cracks,” he said. “These are all just accidents waiting to happen.” Your local news source Among the protesters were elderly residents who have also fallen on the dilapidated sidewalks and sustained injuries. One by one, they spoke angrily about the pavement’s poor condition and showed off marks and bruises from their injuries. “We are vulnerable and fragile,” said Maria Martinez. “We can’t go very far, and it’s sad that we have these stores available to us and yet we have to struggle to get into them.” Vasquez stressed that he would continue to rally the community until a resolution is reached. “The bottom line is, they got the money,” he said. “Why haven’t they used it? And if they’re not going to do the job, then do a temporary fi x for the time being. This is going to get fi xed.”

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Stringer was right boards is inappropriate. The task force never intended to In our editorial two weeks ago, we took Borough What Quinn should do serve this function. President Scott Stringer to task for suspending his There are still negotiations to be had, conditions to be groundbreaking Community Task Force on N.Y.U. To The Editor: considered, planning principles to be refi ned — in the light Development. We strongly said that the task force is Re “Politicians gave their all” (letter, by Christine C. of real-world options — not the least of which will be a needed, and should remain active to deal with all the Quinn, July 14): plan, modifi ed in the fi nal outcome of a ULURP decision. It pressing development issues concerning New York Christine Quinn, in her letter in your July 14 issue, indi- is right that the task force stand down, for the time being, University and its 2031 expansion plan. cates that she “will continue our push for a new full-service until this air clears. Subsequently, Stringer reached out to us to say that hospital here.” our editorial missed some important nuances. He met It is now time for her not only to “talk the talk” but “walk Zella Jones with The Villager’s editorial board to explain more the walk.” Jones is a founding member, Borough President’s Community fully and clearly why, in his view, the task force must She must request that Richard Daines, the New York Task Force on N.Y.U. Development, and former member, be suspended now — namely, because two critical pub- State Health commissioner, issue an R.F.P. (request for pro- Community Board 2 lic reviews of the project are set to begin: one by the posals) to all New York’s hospitals, asking for a new hospital Landmarks Preservation Commission, and the other at the present St. Vincent’s site. a ULURP (uniform land use review procedure) for Quinn must ensure that the zoning for the present St. N.Y.U.’s two South Village superblocks and the area of Vincent’s complex remains hospital zoning and not residential. Disappointing news east of Washington Square. She should stop touting an ineffectual “urgent-care center.” Stringer said keeping the task force running would And, fi nally, she should scrap pushing for a “needs assess- To The Editor: create a situation rife with potential confl icts of inter- ment” for a new hospital. The need exists. Re “Keep N.Y.U. task force” (editorial, July 7): est. The borough president, in our book, has an excel- I am disappointed with the news that the Stringer task lent reputation regarding addressing confl icts of inter- Mel Stevens force has been disbanded. Citizens dedicated time to meet est — most notably on our local community boards. and formulate a plan designed for transparency on devel- Community Board 2 was basically the poster child for opment of a landmarked area. The big developer, N.Y.U., confl ict of interest when Stringer won offi ce in 2005, paid no heed to any recommendations from the community. and he has turned it around 180 degrees. Task force must stand down N.Y.U. still plans to oversaturate Greenwich Village with In the fall, N.Y.U. will apply to the Landmarks out-of-scale buildings. Preservation Commission to build a 38-story tower To The Editor: A newly landmarked area is their target, complaining that — part faculty residence and part hotel — in the Re “Keep N.Y.U. task force” (editorial, July 7): they “own” the land. But the land carries certain restrictions landmarked University Towers complex at Bleecker St. The Community Task Force on N.Y.U. Development that they assume will expire. and LaGuardia Place. Assuming it gets approval for gathered a broad spectrum of participants to encourage No more empty promises. No building on landmarked the tower from Landmarks, by spring 2011, N.Y.U. planning that would more successfully integrate the needs of sites. expects to be deep into the ULURP process, which many communities with the university’s growth and opera- If N.Y.U. really wants to help improve the neighborhood, takes around seven months to complete, for the entire tions. The task force’s accomplishments are signifi cant and why don’t they buy St. Vincent’s Hospital and start a teach- multi-block project. The full scope of proposed work unique; they have been enumerated already. ing hospital there? That’s a big, unused space, right in the includes a new building on the Coles gym site, plus Recently, though, the task force has lost its breadth of core of the Village. We don’t need another Trump monstros- two new infi ll buildings in Washington Square Village, participants, as well as a macro perspective and citywide ity on Bleecker St. as well as a rezoning east of Washington Square Park reference, in the dominance of local stakeholders and issues. to allow ground-level retail. The tenor has turned less than collegial; members have been Sara Jones As part of ULURP, C.B. 2 will hold public reviews of discouraged from sharing opinions for fear of being branded Jones is chairperson, LaGuardia Corner Gardens the plans and will weigh in with an advisory recommen- “the enemy.” E-mails titled “Task Force” have been sent dation. Stringer, too, will have an advisory recommenda- only to like-minded N.Y.U. opponents. It has been virtually tion on the proposal. impossible to have civil discussion that isn’t leaked as some Stringer’s point is that it’s now time to shift the sort of tangible indictment of N.Y.U.’s disdain for the com- Stringer is no different review of the N.Y.U. plans to the larger public — and munity. As a result, N.Y.U. has been far less willing to offer the mechanism in place to do that is through the com- or consider options in its planning within the task force set- To The Editor: munity boards as part of ULURP. It would represent ting. Our effectiveness has been severely compromised. Re “Keep N.Y.U. task force” (editorial, July 7): a confl ict for Stringer or C.B. 2 members to be taking The pending superblock ULURP application begins with Scott Stringer seems to have become the new King of positions on N.Y.U. development issues under the aegis Community Board 2, where local concerns are supposed to Backroom Political Deals. His promises to the commu- of the task force, and then turn around and weigh in on be heard in the city-mandated process. Inserting the task them at the community board level or elsewhere. Task force between local stakeholders, N.Y.U. and community Continued on page 26 force members would have “privileged information” as a result of attending the task force meetings, and that would present a problem. Stringer argued convincingly EVAN FORSCH that there should not be two simultaneous reviews of the N.Y.U. plans running during this public review period. We accept Stringer’s arguments to suspend the task force during the upcoming public reviews. The task force has set the table for the ULURP to begin, by pushing N.Y.U. to develop a long-term plan prior to ULURP, and by getting the university to sign on to a series of “planning principles.” Now, it’s time to turn the process over to ULURP and the community boards. But we think that the work of the task force, thus far, has been essential, and we encourage C.B. 2 to adopt the task force recommendations as a prelude to what will be a lengthy ULURP process. We also support Stringer’s stated willingness to possibly reconvene the task force after the Landmarks review is resolved and, specifi cally, after the whole ULURP is done. And, if any part of the review process is going awry or concerns start fl aring, Stringer said he could also choose to convene an emergency meeting of the task force. July 22 - 28, 2010 13 Midsummer rant: Bus cuts and garbage in my garden box, this crushes plants and can kill them. I am tempted to in a feeding frenzy. NOTEBOOK get that spiky stuff and put it around the perimeter, so no I realize I feel territorial about my little plot of greenery, one can sit there. but the sidewalk gardens of New York City are very vulner- BY KATE WALTER able. So on behalf of the brave plants that brighten the Maybe the heat is making me feisty, but everything is concrete, this caretaker begs everyone — locals and tourists getting on my nerves. I started cursing out the M.T.A. as — to show respect. I walked from Washington St. to Second Ave. on a hot I realize I feel territorial about my During the warm weather, I’m outside almost evening July Sunday morning. Never mind that I was on my way to watering and weeding. I worry about my fl owers when I church. It was my fi rst time making this trip since the incom- little plot of greenery. go to the beach for a break and check them as soon as I petent agency cut the M8 bus on weekends. return. I had my routine down. I caught the 10:35 bus on W. (When I came back from July 4th weekend in Ocean 10th St. and arrived with time to socialize before the 11:15 The worst offenders are the dog people who let their pets Grove, two plants were dead from being squashed.) service. go anywhere. Before the old containers in front of my complex I put lots of energy into this display of urban gardening, As I trekked along Eighth St., my hatband catching my were replaced a few years ago, they smelled so badly that I as do my fellow volunteers throughout the neighborhood. If sweat, I was still in shock. How dare they cut this bus? Of felt sick when watering on a hot humid night. I guarded the we can’t respect one small square of earth trying to thrive in course, I could have spent $9 for a cab ride (one way), but new ones zealously and exchanged words with a man from my this harsh city, I have to wonder, what are the chances for decided to reserve that option for winter. building whose mutt trotted toward my box. And what’s with our planet? I was dripping when I arrived at Middle Collegiate Church the owners who let their dogs run off the leash? And if the M.T.A. can’t fi gure out how to keep the M8 but glad to be in the air-conditioned sanctuary. Reverend I also want to catch the culprit who dumps birdseed into crosstown bus in service on the weekends, I have to wonder Jacqui Lewis preached a moving sermon about forgiveness, the soil; this attracts pigeons who stomp through the plants what other bad news they have in store for us. but I was unable to apply that concept to the M.T.A. When I started walking back across town, it was so hot, I broke down and hailed a cab. I came home and watered my garden. That always puts me in a good mood unless I spot some garbage in it. For the past eight years, I’ve been the obsessive caretaker of a small sidewalk garden, a 4-foot-by-4-foot planter box on Bethune St. in front of Westbeth. Although I’ve been an urbanite my entire life, I love playing in the soil and chatting with neighbors who compli- ment my green thumb and thank me for my hard work. Like dogs or babies, my colorful fl owers make people smile and stop and talk; they inspire us to drop our city guard and be friendly. This spring, after numerous trips to the Greenmarket, I slipped in seven varieties of showy plants — wild splashes of purple, pink and red — and three different vines that drape over the side. A callery pear tree stands in the middle. As usual, I spoke to my charges as I settled them into the earth, “Have a good life and grow big and strong.” Now let’s get this out there while summer is in full swing: My garden box is not an ashtray, garbage can, park bench, picnic table or a urinal. I don’t want to fi sh out cigarette butts, soda cans, juice cartons, gum wrappers or the occasional used condom. (For that, I wear disposable gloves.) While I’m glad the young couples who frequent the nearby park are practicing safe sex, I don’t need to fi nd out this way. Do people think they are fertilizing when they leave behind their banana peels and peanut shells? My soil is rich enough to host earthworms, and compost dumping encour- ages littering.

What with garbage cans at both corners of my block, Villager photo by Lincoln Anderson there is no excuse for tossing that candy wrapper into my On Saturday night, artist Amy Sanchez put ﬁ nishing touches on the new ices begonias or lobelia. Cigarette butts belong in the curb where sign outside Ray’s Candy Store, at Seventh St. and Avenue A. sanitation trucks sweep or on the sidewalk where mainte- SCENE nance guys hose them away. If people sit on the edge of my

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On Monday, offi cials and park advocates broke ground for renovations at Minetta Playground, on Sixth Ave. between W. Third St. and Minetta Lane. From left were Pari Duloc of the Minetta Block Association; Tobi Bergman, Community Board 2 Parks Committee chairperson; Amy Clare and her son James; Bill Castro, Manhattan borough Parks Department commissioner; City Council Speaker Christine Quinn; and, behind her, Heather Campbell and her daughter, Shelby. The project’s price tag is $1,537,000, with the Council allocating $937,000 and the Mayor’s Offi ce giving $600,000. The construction is expected to last one year. “Minetta Playground has been an eyesore for the families in one of Manhattan’s most vibrant neighborhoods,” said Quinn. “With the ambitious redesign we begin today, this playground will soon refl ect the distinctive tastes and personality of the neighborhood and provide a safer environment ripe for the enjoyment for all of New York’s kids.” The plan includes removal of the existing storage building, upgrades to lighting fi xtures, and the use of open play structures to increase visibility and safety in the playground. To be installed are modern play equipment, swings, a spray shower, new safety surfaces, a play house, a deck pathway, decorative pavements, new benches, game tables, fencing, a bicycle rack, a new drinking fountain and a storm drain- age system. It will take its theme from Minetta Brook, which once fl owed aboveground at the location. Photo courtesy NYC Council

Picking up the pieces of St. Vincent’s — well, one A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held last Wednesday for the Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center, at 325 W. 15th St. In photo at left were two major trustees of Continuum Health Partners, Inc., Beth Israel’s umbrella health network, Lawrence Huntington, chairperson of Continuum’s board of trustees, left, and Morton Hyman, Continuum’s former board chairperson. In photo at right, were Dr. Harris Nagler, president of Beth Israel Medical Center, left, and Donna Park, vice president and executive director of the Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Beth Israel recently bought the facility from the former St. Vincent’s Hospital, which closed three months ago. The same company that was operating the outpatient center before is continuing to do so, with Beth Israel now having oversight. July 22 - 28, 2010 15

Villager photos by J.B. Nicholas Hackers hope that they can just keep on hackin’ On Saturday, The Next HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference was held inside the Hotel Pennsylvania in Midtown. The keynote speaker was scheduled to be Julian Assange, editor in chief of Wikileaks, a Web site that publishes anonymous leaks of sensitive documents from governments and other organizations. Assange canceled, though, because the U.S. government continues to hunt him for his role in releasing a classiﬁ ed gun-cam video of innocent civilians and journalists being mistakenly killed by an American helicopter gunship in Iraq on July 12, 2007. Instead, an American calling himself “Jacob Appelbaum” gave the keynote, in which he sought to rally support for Bradley Manning, the American serviceman being held in Kuwait for allegedly leaking the video, and to condemn Adrian Lamo, a hacker-turned-informer who reported Manning to the authorities. 16 July 22 - 28, 2010

Villager photos by J.B. Nicholas Kim Kardashian drew a crowd of onlookers and paparazzi when she visited Soho on July 1 for some shopping. The art of Kim Kardashian: Actually, she gets it

object of attraction is what being a sex sym- PAPARAZZO DIARY bol is all about, and we’ve had sex symbols about as long as we’ve had sex, right? Or at BY J.B. NICHOLAS least since the Fifties! What does it mean to be an “American” That being said, K² was a pleasure to these days? “work with” in the weird paparazzi way I I’m pondering this weighty thought after mean it. There are stars who make it dif- having caught up with — of all people — Kim fi cult if not impossible to “make art” with. Kardashian the other week. K² and her clan Allow me to explain. As a photojournal- were in town to celebrate Kim’s elevation to ist, I strive not just to capture particular, the Parthenon of wax immortality at Madame poignant moments of time, but to do so in Tussauds, and to shoot scenes for their reality artful manner. Sometimes it can be done, TV show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” sometimes it can’t. What you need in order K², for those of you at a loss, is famous to make art is, if not a willing subject, for being famous. In other words, she’s an one that doesn’t resist too forcefully. You American celebutante who springboarded to don’t have to pose for me, that’s not what pop stardom on the strength of the unique size I want. Be yourself, just don’t try to hide and shape of her ass, to be blunt, as well as a from my lens too much. A little is O.K., leaked homemade sex tape. but too much makes it impossible to adjust Americans, apparently, have a thing for the camera settings in the way they need asses. to be set in order a make art. A picture is It would be easy to conjure cynical, cruel produced, that’s all. things to say about K², but why bother? After following K² around for a day, I get That’s what FOX news is for. Instead, allow the sense that she understood the difference me to take a moment to ponder the idea that between mere pictures and art, that she realized a person, a woman, can become famous, truly taking a few seconds to look up from whatever famous in the traditional sense, simply for it was she was doing for a moment, or to look having an ass that everyone would like to get at me, would make all the difference. I got their hands on, literally. Gone are the time- the sense that she was working with me, in a honored criteria of being honorable, honest, minimal way, not working against me. And it courageous and loyal. In their stead stand was cool. It felt like there was some connection, an equation, 36-24-36, or, worse, misspelled however fl eeting, between us, between my cam- slang, “phatt,” as in “she’s got a phatty!” era and her face. It was the fi rst time I felt that Shoot me now. link, the fi rst time I chased someone around for I guess that’s not really new. Being the a day and made not just pictures but real art. July 22 - 28, 2010 17 VILLAGERARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Cataloguing irrevocable evil ‘Greatest living, breathing English poet’ meditates on hatred

BY JERRY TALLMER

Those who cannot remember the past are THEATER condemned to repeat it. — George Santayana PLEVNA: MEDITATIONS ON Well then, let us entertain some repeti- HATRED and GARY THE THIEF tions: Two poem-plays by Howard Barker Directed by Richard Romagnoli Troy’s bleeding monuments Massada’s intoxicating leaps Through July 31st Syracuse’s innovative deaths At The Atlantic Stage 2 (330 W. 16th St., btw. Vienna’s woods of castration Lucknow’s pond of fragments 8th & 9th Ave.) Sebastopol’s blinded dandies For tickets ($25, $15 for students/seniors), Plevna’s wails among the nightingales call 212-279-4200 Port Arthur’s pulping of peasantries Kut’s boiling clerks Visit www.PotomacTheatreProject.org Leningrad’s sledging to funerals Stalingrad’s death on the assembly line Berlin’s fl ak of little boys “Howard Barker Day” a couple of months Dien Bien Phu’s distance from Paris ago. He showed up — “dressed as a proper Burma’s surgical cinemas English gentleman” — with a critic friend and an actress muse in tow, or vice versa. These are the various placenames of Though he is not, the American actors say, man’s most atrocious deeds of inhumanity as “aloof” and “intellectually arrogant” as his to fellow man (and woman, and child). They photographs may imply, he is “rather formi- are also some of the ruthless, scarifying dable of demeanor” and “ascetic and spare in lines of “Plevna: Meditations on Hatred,” his language.” by 46-year-old London-born Howard Barker In short, this journalist hazards, rather like — to my mind the greatest living, breathing the public, though not the private, Samuel English poet. Beckett. But the writer Barker most resembles — Photo by Stan Barouh If Barker immediately precedes that cata- not physically or anything else, but for frac- L to R: Alex Draper, (performer of “Plevna”) and Robert Emmet Lunney (performer logue of irrevocable evil with a nervous turing and re-welding the English language of “Gary the Thief”) kiss-off about “The poet’s horror at the falli- — is again, to me, Dylan Thomas. bility of words,” don’t worry. Poet/playwright Particularly throughout “Gary the Guard yer bum wants to say, and that’s it. Yet his plays Barker is also the founder and prime mover Thief.” are incredibly actor-friendly, very speakable. of a theater company called The Wrestling Poor diet in the seventh month Some of it is in free verse, some in iambic School — so you can see where he’s at. His deft intrusions The angle of the birth pentameter. The rhythm eludes me, yet I Every few years, something of his zooms His quaking of humble order Exposure to fumes in the pram know it’s there.” across the Atlantic to shake us up on this His swiveling eye sweeping The way the mother bawls Some of “Gary the Thief” is spoken in the side of the pond, and “Plevna: Meditations on The seams of poverty The shards from damaged throats fi rst person. Much else is spoken — presum- Hatred” is now on a double bill with Barker’s Are seized in its liquid stare… A shrapnel of abuse ably — by outside observer or observers. “At no less ruthless, if narrower-focused “Gary Through which the infant crawls one point during rehearsals,” says Lunney, “I the Thief” through the end of the month. Gary the thief said it was like a doppelganger. The actors who embody these pieces — Wears murder like a brooch… This made Gary the thief “Then there is one other character: the perform, speak, be them — are compact, audience. I have no idea how that is going to quiet, intense Alex Draper and tall, rugged I see this Gary as a sort of shambling, At a certain point in the events at CUNY, affect the dynamic.” Robert Emmet (“for the Irish patriot of that cursing, wheedling, whining blot-on-the- Barker was asked about what he was trying For his part, Gary Draper wishes they name”) Lunney. sidewalk Limey version of Walter Brennan to say in his plays and poems. could have had “six weeks of rehearsals and Draper, who says yes, he’s related to Paul as Eddie in the 1944 Hawks/Bogart/Bacall “It all comes down to one word,” he a two-year run. Like The Berliner Ensemble. Draper (the intense, quiet dancer of my own “To Have and Have Not,” if you go back replied. “Conscience.” Then we’d know about the dynamic.” boyhood), does the many-voiced “Pevna.” that far. “Meaning, of course, lack of conscience,” Have any of you guys ever been to any of Lunney does “Gary the Thief” and all the They come to arrest him. says actor Draper. “It’s kind of strange trying the atrocity zones in “Plevna”? voices there. to fi nd people who give a shit about any of Silence. Overseeing the whole thing is director The captors in the hurtling van this stuff. Sometimes we do, but not often.” “I’ve been to Barcelona,” said Draper. Richard Romagnoli, a New Yorker who has Already applaud his wit “So Barker grows progressively more frus- “I’ve been to Brighton, does that count?” long admired Barker and brought us such They laugh trated and desperate,” says actor Lunney. said Lunney. Brighton, Britain’s Atlantic other tough, crazy plays of his as “A Hard They clap The running time of the show is 23 min- City (except that it’s not on the Atlantic), Heart” in 2007. Romagnoli fi rst met Barker They Gary this and Gary that utes plus 23 minutes — “beefy but short,’ is where Howard Barker lives — and where at a rehearsal in London that year. Cigarette son says its director. once upon a time Graham Greene saw mur- Draper and Lunney’s fi rst glance of the Chewing gum “Barker is economical, he really is,” der in a grain of sand. man behind the words was at a CUNY Play yer cards right declares Lunney. “Says precisely what he Howard Barker is his heir too. 18 July 22 - 28, 2010 Audacious ‘Niche auteur’ Solondz back with sorta-sequel ‘Wartime’ boldly updates 1998’s ‘Happiness’

old looks as if he wandered in from a picnic FILM in the New Jersey suburb he skewered in that work. He speaks thoughtfully, with a halting voice that grasps for accuracy and precision. LIFE DURING WARTIME “My audience is small, a limited group Written & Directed by Todd Solondz of people with open minds,” says Solondz Opens July 23 — apparently at ease with his status as a niche auteur. “It’s because my fi lms are dif- At the IFC Center (323 Sixth Ave. fi cult. People don’t know when to laugh and at W. Third St.) when not to laugh.” Critics have accused Solondz of being a Call 212-924-7771 or visit www.ifccenter.com misanthrope because his daring narratives provoke audiences with stories of sexual mis- conduct, religious blasphemy, racism and gen- BY RANIA RICHARDSON eral cruelty. Horrors in such abundance make In his new black comedy “Life During the stories seem over-the-top and comic. “But Wartime,” independent fi lmmaker Todd life is much harsher than my fi lms. I soften Solondz boldly updates his 1998 fi lm them to make them more accessible.” “Happiness” by continuing the heart-wrench- These characters don’t censor them- ing struggles of three sisters and their extend- selves. Portraying the world through their ed family. eyes, Solondz demonstrates a rare compas- Solondz cast all-new actors for the origi- sion that is often overlooked in the hubbub nal characters (the sisters are played by of his controversial subject matter. “I have Photo courtesy of IFC Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, and Shirley feelings for my characters and they vary with Paul Reubens, as the ghost Andy. Henderson) and moves them to present-day each one. Bill is someone who my heart goes Florida. Through their intersecting stories, out to,” he says of the pedophile psychiatrist have inspired the people in my fi lms is a non- Dylan Baker as Bill and Cynthia Stevenson the writer/director redefi nes the concept of played by Ciarán Hinds. “I could never for- issue.” Now a 27-year resident of Greenwich as Trish Maplewood) — but not before the family by embracing humanity at its worst give anyone who committed the crimes that Village, he is an adjunct professor at both the script made the rounds with a disclaimer — including unspeakable behavior and fail- he had committed, but acknowledge that this Manhattan and Singapore campuses of New warning actors of the potentially career- ings. In doing so, he asks if we should we is a tragic life. A man with a human pulse York University’s Tisch School of the Arts killing, incendiary topic of pedophilia. forgive the ones we love. moves me.” — in the same program he attended after his In 2001 he made “Storytelling” — a It’s not necessary to have seen The family members struggle to relate, undergraduate studies at Yale. movie that incited censors to superimpose “Happiness” to follow or appreciate this Solondz says. “There are a lot of missed “Wherever you live is going to affect your a red box over a couple during a racially “quasi-sequel.” The oddball soap opera fol- signals. The more Trish tries to connect with creativity. That doesn’t say much for New charged sex scene between a writing work- lows Trish — who is raising her family alone her sister Joy, the deeper she digs a hole for York in particular. I feel privileged and for- shop instructor and his student. Next came while her ex-husband Bill (just released from herself. Certainly Bill’s son, at college, does tunate to be able to live here, but if I had to 2004’s “Palindromes,” in which eight differ- prison for child molestation) attempts to struggle to connect with his father. He says, ‘I leave, it wouldn’t be the end of my creativity,” ent actors of different races, ages, and sizes reconnect with his children. Her arrogant sis- have no sympathy for you.’ What he doesn’t he says — peering over a green version of the play the protagonist — a 13-year-old who is ter Helen is caught up in the insular world of say and what the audience knows is that he nerdy glasses he’s been wearing for decades, strong-armed by her mother to have an abor- Hollywood. Third sister Joy sees visions of her loves his father.” that are now in fashion. tion and then goes on a mission to kill the former suitor, Andy — who killed himself (in Casting Paul Reubens as the ghost Andy In 1989, right after fi lm school, Solondz doctor. Each of his stories is audacious, with the midst of discovering the sexual transgres- “brings its own pathos to the role,” Solondz had a dalliance with Hollywood and made the a consistently bleak milieu. sions of her criminal husband, Allen). says — referring to the actor behind the kid- comedy “Fear, Anxiety and Depression.” The “I’m not about to direct someone else’s During a recent conversation held at the friendly Pee-wee Herman character (Reubens experience soured his interest in fi lmmaking work because I have so many of my own Soho Grand Hotel, Solondz discussed his was arrested for lewd behavior in an adult due to a clash of his uncompromising vision ideas — and I wouldn’t write a script for new fi lm as well as his career — which theater and later charged with possession of with the rigid studio system. He then taught anyone else because I’d rather give myself took off when he won the top prize at the obscene material). English to Russian immigrants until he had the opportunity to ruin it,” he says, sounding Sundance Film Festival for “Welcome to Solondz grew up in Livingston, New the opportunity to make “Welcome to the more matter-of-fact than self-deprecating. “I the Dollhouse” (his 1995 fi lm on adolescent Jersey and claims that his characters are not Dollhouse” — in which a high school student think tapping into the unconscious is the key angst). Dressed in a red plaid shirt, chinos based on real people. “My family is proud of is taunted and threatened. After the success to creativity. And letting the characters lead and yellow Converse sneakers, the 50-year- my work,” he says. “The idea that they may of that fi lm, he made “Happiness” (starring the way.”

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seems terrifi ed of breaking the rules of con- FILM REVIEW ventional fi lm grammar, choosing an odd angle, or moving too far from his actors. BY STEVE ERICKSON As a friend suggested to me, “Life In American cinema, being a provoca- During Wartime” feels like it was cut down teur doesn’t pay, although you may see your from a much longer fi lm; “Happiness” ran innovations ripped off by more successful well over two hours, but this sequel clocks directors. Twelve years ago, Todd Solondz’s in at a quick 97 minutes. It’s a disjointed “Happiness” felt like a refreshing breath of assembly, with comic scenes alternating jar- foul air — a welcome riposte to the con- ringly with evocations of despair. Solondz’s servative romanticization of small towns saving grace has always been his ability to and suburbs. Instead of Sarah Palin’s “real leaven darkness with wit, but this tendency America,” “Happiness” showed a hotbed of can devolve into cheap shots at his charac- alienation and perverse sexuality, topped ters’ expense. Like the Coen brothers, he’s off by a sympathetic pedophile. Its original often been criticized for this. distributor dropped the fi lm, but it was a In “Storytelling,” Solondz took on both modest arthouse hit, despite being hated by his critics and the appropriation of his ideas many critics. in “American Beauty.” The results weren’t Solondz’s depressive worldview quick- pretty. “Life During Wartime” glancingly ly grew stale when appropriated by less touches on these issues, but its heart lies talented fi lmmakers, especially “American elsewhere. Heavy-handedly, it brings up the Beauty” director Sam Mendes and writer theme of forgiveness. Characters wonder Alan Ball. The subversion of cliché had whether pedophilia is equivalent to ter- become a cliché itself. By 2003, it seemed rorism and if the 9/11 hijackers deserve as though every other American indie fi lm forgiveness. Unfortunately, these topical was about dysfunctional families and incest. touches practically scream out their own Solondz himself fl oundered — his sub- self-importance. sequent “Storytelling” and “Palindromes” The politics of Solondz’s fi lms function FRANCISCO ROMÁN/ IFC FILMS were so whiny and gimmicky, respectively, best when they work implicitly, as when Ciarán Hinds offers a haunted performance as Bill in Todd Solondz’s “Life During that I wondered what I’d ever seen in his he takes on Middle American mythologies Wartime.” work. about small towns or school, rather than “Life During Wartime” isn’t exactly a when he makes a fi lm explicitly about return to form, but it comes close to being abortion, as in “Palindromes,” or attacks worth taken as seriously as it views itself. some Jewish Americans’ defense of Israel, A sequel to “Happiness,” “Life During as he does here at several points. Wartime” takes place about a decade after- Solondz’s worldview, if not his talent, ward. Its characters return, but they’re suggests a combination of Woody Allen played by different actors this time and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Without around. Joy (Shirley Henderson) has presuming to know anything about his a talk with Allen (Michael Kenneth personal life, it’s fair to say that his fi lms Williams) about his tendency to harass suggest deep personal experience with women on the phone. She also receives depression. However, Solondz often mocks visits from the ghost of her dead boy- his characters and their angst; here, that friend, Andy (Paul Reubens). Her sisters takes the form of adults doing or saying face difficult dilemmas as well. Trish wildly inappropriate things to their chil- (Alison Janney) was married to Bill dren. A mother tells her boy that her date (Ciarán Hinds), a psychiatrist arrested made her wet with horniness, while letting for molesting boys. She meets a new man her daughter raid the medicine cabinet for (Michael Lerner) and romances him, tranquilizers and antidepressants. while his son (Rich Pecci) copes with Sexual anxiety is everywhere in “Life feelings of alienation. During Wartime.” No one’s gay, but every- One of Solondz’s best decisions was one fears that they, or their children, might hiring Ed Lachman as cinematographer. be. In the fi lm’s most genuinely powerful Solondz’s films have never been distin- scene, a boy, terrifi ed by the warnings he’s guished by their visual style, and “Life heard about pedophilia and convinced that During Wartime” is the first one with a a mere touch can lead to arousal, freaks out distinctive look. Shooting on high-defi ni- when his mother’s boyfriend hugs him. tion video, Lachman bathes the actors in There’s a lot to dislike in “Life During light, creating a style that emphasizes its Wartime.” There are also some real strengths own artifi ciality. Even scenes shot outdoors and emotional insights. Solondz’s greatest in the middle of the day look stylized and gift has always been his direction of actors. overly bright. He gets a truly haunted performance out of “Life During Wartime” is essentially a Ciarán Hinds. Bill is often silent, but Hinds’ string of conversations, and Solondz’s deci- body language refl ects a deeply brooding sions about how to frame and edit them nature. His desire to re-connect with the show his weaknesses as a director. Each world after leaving prison rings truer than conversation is depicted in an unimagina- anything in a fi lm that’s essentially a bluntly tive shot/ counter-shot sequence. Solondz artifi cial landscape refl ecting one man’s relies on close-ups and two-shots, and pain and too little else. 20 July 22 - 28, 2010 Please, sir, we want some more TV

Noomi Rapace stars as Lisbeth Salander in “The Girl Who Played with Fire.”

“COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY” (+) Turn Your Mac into a DVR This fi lm received mixed reviews from with Elgato EyeTV KOCH other critics. I enjoyed it immensely and think it is well worth seeing. I would also Watch live TV—and record it—right ON FILM urge you to rent the 2009 fi lm “Coco Before on your Mac. Just plug in your Chanel” (starring Audrey Tautou). That EyeTV, connect it to a cable line, and “THE GIRL WHO PLAYED picture is devoted to Coco’s youth and ends go. The software’s built-in program WITH FIRE” (+) with the death of her true love, Boy Capel guide lets you browse what’s on and This is the sequel to Stieg Larsson’s fi rst — an Englishman who died in an auto acci- novel, “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.” dent. Seeing the earlier fi lm will enhance even schedule recordings. Starting at $119 If you haven’t read that book or seen the your enjoyment of this movie. fi lm, I urge you to do so before seeing this In the current fi lm, Coco (Anna Mouglalis) picture. If you don’t, it will be diffi cult to is now a very attractive, middle-aged woman. follow the storyline — especially when the She attends the premier of “Rite of Spring,” occasional fl ashback is shown. by Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen) — Now, a little recapitulation of the story which is accompanied by a Nijinsky ballet. Bring It to the Big Screen in the fi rst book and fi lm. When Lisbeth The music and ballet are failures and the with a Mac mini (Noomi Rapace) was a young girl, she saw audience boos and walks out. her father savagely beat her mother. In her Coco offers her Paris suburban home The new mini’s got an HDMI port, fury, she doused him with gasoline and set to Stravinksy, his wife Catherine (Elena which means you can connect it to your HDTV to him on fi re. She was institutionalized in a Morozova), and their four children. They see movies, TV shows and video from iTunes and the psychiatric facility as result of her action move in and an affair, initiated by Coco, Internet on the biggest screen in the house. $699 and, upon her release, was provided a guard- soon begins. The poised Catherine, whose ian, Nils (Peter Andersson) — who beat and opinions regarding his music Stravinsky raped her. The fi rst movie dealt with her valued, more than holds her own. She revenge. demands that Igor end his affair or she will In this second story, Lisbeth contin- leave. ues her relationship with Michael (Michael Coco Chanel was a dynamo of creativ- Nyqvist), and also has a female lover, Miriam ity. Her clothing, every object in her home (Yasmine Garbi). Michael (a reporter) and from furniture to wall coverings, and her DMC is in the House his associates are investigating an interna- creation of the iconic fragrance Chanel No. tional prostitution ring. 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She was the prostitution ring. standing at my side and said, “No, Mayor, There is enough action in this fi lm to fi ll it’s at least $200 million with more to 7(.6(59( fi ve movies. Some of the incidents are unbe- come.” She was an indomitable spirit — as New York’s Shop for All Things Mac lievable, but who cares? The movie, which is was Coco. now a worldwide sensation, meets its hype I think you will enjoy this fi lm (which is Mac Sales | Service | iPod | iPad | Accessories | Seminars | Training more than halfway. To say that I was riveted in French, with English subtitles). I saw it Rentals | AppleCare | Data Recovery | On-Site Service Professional Systems for Video, Audio, and the Graphic Arts to the screen would be an understatement. I at the Clearview Cinema in Montclair, New saw the fi lm at the Angelika Film Center. Jersey. 119 West 23rd Street between 6th & 7th Ave Open Mon – Fri 9am to 8pm 2 hours, 9 minutes. Rated R (suspense/ 128 minutes. Rated R (drama/romance). 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Photo: Joshua Albanese Blaine Swen (top) and Martin Wilson battle, THEATER Shakespeare style. IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE 4.48 PSYCHOSIS There’s good news for those of us who think the Bard has August may be a slow news month, but nothing new to offer. Chicago’s Improvised Shakespeare the hot air is positively crackling with new Company is back for what will likely be their last area and exciting arts projects. Contributing to appearance in 2010. You supply the title for a play that has the buzz is The Theatre Project—an artist- yet to be written, and they proceed to create it — Elizabethan driven endeavor dedicated to the concept style! It’s part of The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre’s 12th that an actor is an ever-evolving human annual Del Close Improv Marathon” — a July 30th through being. They debut with their production of August 1st tribute to the godfather of improvisation. The Sarah Kane’s “4.48 Psychosis.” A poetic sprawling event is so big it’ll require the combined spaces contemplation of suicide, it’s the fifth (and of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Hudson Guild last) play she wrote before committing sui- Theatre, Urban Stages and F.I.T.’s Kate Murphy Amphitheater. cide (in 1999) at the age of 28. July 29th, See the ISC on Fri., July 30th, 7 p.m. at the FIT Kate Murphy 30th, 31st, at 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at Amphitheater and Sat., July 31st, 7:15 at the UCB Theatre. The Red Room (85 E. 4th St.). Tickets ($25) For details on how to purchase tickets ($12), visit www.del- can be purchased at the door. For info on closemarathoncom or www.ucbtheater.com. this young, ambitious company, visit www. thetheatreproject.org. BLOW BY BLOW Jean Grillo goes from Photo by Thundahcatz prominent Downtown per- Cloudy days: The Theatre Project debuts with “4.48 Psychosis.” sonage to Midtown Girl when her play “Blow by

Blow” debuts as part of BORING MASTERPIECES FILM the 11th Annual Midtown More fun than watching paint dry (but International Play Festival. every bit as time-consuming), Anthology Specifi cally, it’s part of the Film Archive’s “Boring Masterpieces” series Festival’s annual Short screens films whose running time far exceeds Subjects Division. But why Photo by Joy Zhu the normal — and challenges its audience to split hairs? All you need Dara O’Brien as Isabella experience a meditative epiphany before they Blow. to know for sure is the either go insane or fall asleep. Case in point: Andy THEATER play’s based on the life of Brit style icon Isabella Warhol’s 8-hour “Empire” shows at 1:30 p.m. on Sat., Blow — the former editor of British Vogue and July 24th. Anthology assures us “Those who heroically a genuine pop culture train wreck whose life endure the entire film will be awarded with a special story hasn’t become any less interesting since prize.” One can only hope it’s a large packet of NoDoz, her death in 2007. Jen Forcino Directs. Sat., July to be used for other flicks in the series (which plays 24th, 7 p.m. and Sun., July 25th, 1 p.m.; at the July 24th, Aug. 7th-8th and Sept. 2nd). At Anthology Jewel Box Theatre (312 W. 36th St.). For tickets Film Archives (32 Second Ave.). Call 212-505-5181 or ($15, $12 for students/seniors), visit www.mid- Photo courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum Ready, set, watch…and watch…and watch… visit www.anthologyfilmarchives.com. townfestival.org or call 866-811-4111. 22 July 22 - 28, 2010 PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION NAME OF FOR. LLC: NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- NAME OF LLC: 19TH 14 WEST 29TH STREET, OF JSR CAPITAL, LLC. 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Purpose: To Practice DE 19958. Cert. of Form. fi led Vil 6/30-8/4/10 10022. SSNY designated as Vil 7/7-8/11/10 GIVEN TION OF OAK CLIFF NOTICE OF FORMATION The Profession Of Medicine with DE Secy. of State, 401 agent of LLC upon whom pro- that a license, #TBA has been YACHT CENTER, LLC, OF JEWLR.COM LLC. Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE NOTICE OF FORMATION Vil 7/7-8/11/10 cess against it may be served. NOTICE OF FORMATION applied for by Steelbar 180 a foreign Limited Liability Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. 19901. Purpose: any lawful OF RIZARO MANAGE- OF 40 BROAD 14B, LLC. Company (LLC). An Applica- Of State of NY (SSNY) on activity. SSNY shall mail process to Incorporated d/b/a Percy’s. to MENT LLC. NOTICE OF FORMATION Arts. of Org. fi led with NY sell beer, wine, and liquor tion for Authority was fi led 4/13/10. Offi ce location: NY Vil 6/30-8/4/10 c/o Corporation Service Co. with the Secretary of State Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. OF DENIM AND TEXAS, Dept. of State on 2/8/10. at a retail restaurant. For County. SSNY designated of State of NY (SSNY) on (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, Offi ce location: NY County. of NY on June 30, 2010. NY as agent of LLC for service NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- LLC, Sec. of State designated as on premises consumption Offi ce Location: NEW YORK of process. SSNY shall mail 12/23/08. Offi ce location: NY NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of under the ABC law at 210/212 TION OF EIG FUND XV County. SSNY designated as a domestic LLC. Arts. of agent of LLC upon whom County. Secy of State is des- process to: 12 E.46 St. 4 Fl., Avenue A, aka 503 East 13th ignated as agent upon whom PARTNERS, LP. agent of LLC upon whom Org. fi led with the SSNY on LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville process against it may be New York, NY 10017. Pur- Authority fi led with Secy. served and shall mail pro- Street NY, NY 10009. process against the LLC may pose: Any lawful activity. process against it may be 01/27/2010. Offi ce location: Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE Vil 7/14-7/21/10 be served. Secy of State shall of State of NY (SSNY) on served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mintz, Levin, et al, Vil 7/14-8/18/10 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with mail a copy of any process 06/14/10. Offi ce location: NY cess to: c/o Steven E. Plotnick, NY County. SSNY has been P.C., 666 Third Ave., NY, NY County. LP formed in Dela- designated as agent upon DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal 10017, Attn: Jeffrey Moer- NOTICE IS HEREBY against the LLC served upon NOTICE OF FORMATION Esq., 950 Third Ave., 25th Fl., him/her to DAVID R HALLI- ware (DE) on 05/26/10. SSNY NY, NY 10022. Purpose: any whom process against the dler, Esq. Purpose: any lawful GIVEN OF SOMEDAY THIS PRO- St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: purpose. WILL, 410 PARK AVENUE, DUCTION ONE, LLC. designated as agent of LP lawful activity. LLC may be served. SSNY that a license, #TBA has been Any lawful activity. Vil 7/7-8/11/10 SUITE 530, NEW YORK, Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. upon whom process against Vil 6/30-8/4/10 applied for by BLT Grill NYC NEW YORK 10022. Purpose: it may be served. SSNY shall shall mail a copy of process of State of NY (SSNY) on Vil 7/7-8/11/10 LLC. to sell beer, wine, and To engage in any lawful act mail process to Attn: Robert to: 147 West 122nd St., Apt. NOTICE OF FORMATION 06/29/10. Offi ce location: NY NOTICE OF FORMATION liquor at a retail restaurant. or activity under Section 802 L. Vitale, 1700 Pennsylvania C, NY, NY 10027. Reg Agent: OF 40 BROAD 14G, LLC. County. SSNY designated OF ROTH & SONS MAN- Arts. of Org. fi led with NY For on premises consump- of the Limited Liability Law of as agent of LLC upon whom Ave. N. W., Ste. 800, Wash- AGEMENT LLC. Jean Spencer, 147 West NOTICE OF FORMATION the State of New York. ington, DC 20006. Name and Dept. of State on 2/8/10. tion under the ABC law at process against it may be OF JJ PREFERRED SER- Vil 7/14-8/18/10 addr. of each general partner Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. 122nd St., Apt. C, NY, NY Offi ce location: NY County. 123 Washington Street NY, served. SSNY shall mail are available from SSNY. DE of State of NY (SSNY) on 10027. Purpose: Any Lawful VICES, LLC. Sec. of State designated as NY 10006. process to Pryor Cashman 3/12/10. Offi ce location: NY agent of LLC upon whom Vil 7/14-7/21/10 SIBILLA CAPITAL MAN- LLP, Attn: W. Wilder Knight addr. of LP: c/o Corporation Purpose. Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Service Co., 2711 Centerville County. SSNY designated as process against it may be AGEMENT LLC. II, Esq., 7 Times Sq., NY, NY agent of LLC upon whom Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on served and shall mail pro- NOTICE IS HEREBY App for Auth fi led with SSNY 10036-6569. Purpose: Any process against it may be cess to: Mintz, Levin, et al, on 02/19/2010. Off loc: NY lawful activity. 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with 3/5/10. Offi ce location: New GIVEN Secy. of State of the State of served. SSNY shall mail pro- TOBY RESTORATION P.C., 666 Third Ave., NY, NY County. LLC formed in Dela- Vil 7/14-8/18/10 York County. SSNY desig- that the license # 1243986 DE, John G. Townsend Bldg., cess to: The LLC, Steven E. CO., LLC 10017, Attn: Jeffrey Moer- ware on 10/12/2010. SSNY 401 Federal St., Ste, 4, Dover, Plotnick, 950 Third Ave., 25th nated as agent of LLC upon dler, Esq. Purpose: any lawful has been applied by Mon- designated as agent if LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION Fl., NY, NY 10022. Purpose: Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. purpose. fongo Del Valle Corp. the upon whom process against OF R W KERN I, LLC. DE 19901. Purpose: Any law- whom process against it may ful activity. any lawful activity. of State (SSNY) 5/24/2010. Vil 7/7-8/11/10 undersigned to sell beer and it may be served. SSNY shall Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. Vil 6/30-8/4/10 Vil 6/30-8/4/10 Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY desig. be served. SSNY shall mail wine at retail in a Restaurant mail process to the LLC, 1700 of State of NY (SSNY) on Broadway, Suite 2100C, New agent of LLC upon whom process to: Joshua D. Kaiser, NOTICE OF FORMATION under the alcoholic beverage 06/28/10. Offi ce location: NY ASTER DENTAL CARE, NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 40 BROAD 21D, LLC. control law at 3324 Broad- York, NY 10019. DE off. Addr.: County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: process may be served. 37A Bedford Street, #44, New 3411 Silverside Rd. #104, PLLC OF JILL SEASIDE, LLC. Arts. of Org. fi led with NY way NY, NY 10031, for on R.W. Kern, Inc., 211 W. 56th Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. SSNY shall mail copy of York, NY 10014. Purpose: any Wilmington, DE 19810. Pur- St., 20J, NY, NY 10019. SSNY Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. Dept. of State on 2/8/10. premises consumption. pose: any lawful activity. of State of NY (SSNY) on process to 16 Sutton Place, designated as agent of LLC of State (SSNY) 3/26/2010. lawful activity. Offi ce location: NY County. Vil 7/14-7/21/10 Vil 6/30-8/4/10 Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY 6/3/10. Offi ce location: NY NY, NY 10022, which is also Sec. of State designated as upon whom process against County. SSNY designated as Vil 7/7-8/11/10 it may be served. SSNY shall design. Agent of LLC upon the principal business loca- agent of LLC upon whom NOTICE IS HEREBY NOTICE OF FORMA- whom process may be agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be mail process to c/o Corpora- tion. Purpose: Any lawful GIVEN TION OF E53 PHYSICAL served. SSNY shall mail copy process against it may be NOTICE OF FORMATION served and shall mail pro- tion Service Co., 80 State St., that the license # 1244744 THERAPY & CHIROPRAC- Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: of process to Corporation served. SSNY shall mail purpose. cess to: Mintz, Levin, et al, TIC, PLLC. process to: Ira Meislik, Esq., OF GC FUNDING GROUP P.C., 666 Third Ave., NY, NY has been applied by DA Real estate holdings. Service Company 80 State St Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Art of Org. fi led w/Secy. Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Meislik & Meislik, 66 Park LLC. 10017, Attn: Jeffrey Moer- ROOM “El KUARTICO” LLC Vil 7/14-8/18/10 St., Montclair, NJ 07042. Pur- dler, Esq. Purpose: any lawful the undersigned to sell full of State of NY (SSNY) on Any lawful activity. NOTICE OF FORMATION Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. 5/12/10. Offi ce location: NY Vil 6/30-8/4/10 pose: any lawful activity. purpose. liquor at retail in a Restaurant NOTICE OF FORMATION Vil 6/30-8/4/10 OF ECHO LAKE LLC. of State of NY (SSNY) on Vil 7/7-8/11/10 under the alcoholic beverage County. SSNY designated OF FRONTIER MEDICAL as agent of LLC for service SERVICES PLLC MK GROUP PRODUC- Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. 6/7/10. Offi ce location: NY control law at 2650 B Briggs of process. SSNY shall mail TIONS, LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- Avenue, Bronx, NY 10458 for a professional service of State of NY (SSNY) on County. SSNY designated as process to: 80 State St., Alba- Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. OF FFP SOLUTIONS LLC. on premises consumption. limited liability company 06/23/10. Offi ce location: NY TION OF NEWLEAD ny, NY 12207. Purpose: Any (PLLC). Articles of Organiza- of State (SSNY) 3/25/2010. Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. agent of LLC upon whom Vil 7/14-7/21/10 lawful activity. tion fi led with Secretary of Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY of State of NY (SSNY) on County. SSNY designated HOLDINGS (US) LLC. process against it may be Vil 7/14-8/18/10 State of New York (SSNY) design. Agent of LLC upon 5/11/10. Offi ce location: NY as agent of LLC upon whom Authority fi led with NY Dept. NOTICE IS HEREBY County. SSNY designated as served. SSNY shall mail pro- of State on 2/5/10. Offi ce loca- on 4/29/2010. Offi ce location: whom process may be process against it may be GIVEN NOTICE OF FORMATION NY County. SSNY has been served. SSNY shall mail copy agent for service of process. cess to: c/o Stroock & Stroock tion: NY County. LLC formed served. SSNY shall mail pro- a License Number (PEND- OF HUDSON GREEN designated as an agent upon of process to The LLC 330 SSNY shall mail process to: & Lavan LLP, 180 Maiden in DE on 10/23/08. NY Sec. CRAFT LLC. 325 W.45 St. #504, New York, cess to Corporation Service of State designated as agent ING) for on-premises Liquor whom process against the West End Avenue #5B New Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. PLLC may be served. The York, NY 10023. Purpose: Any NY 10036. Purpose: Any law- Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY Lane, NY, NY 10038, Attn: of LLC upon whom process has been applied for by the ful activity. against it may be served undersigned to sell liquor at of State of NY (SSNY) on address to which SSNY shall lawful activity. 12207-2543. Purpose: Any Mark A. Levy. Purpose: any 5/12/10. Offi ce location: NY mail a copy of any process Vil 6/30-8/4/10 Vil 7/7-8/11/10 lawful activity. and shall mail process to: retail in a Restaurant under lawful act or activity. Mintz, Levin, et al, 666 Third County. SSNY designated against the PLLC is to:11 the Alcoholic Beverage Con- as agent of LLC for service NOTICE OF FORMATION Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Ave., NY, NY 10017, Attn: Todd Gavin Road, West Orange, LONSTEIN SERVICES, trol Law at 3924 Broadway, of process. SSNY shall mail NJ 07052. Purpose: To MPFP LANDSCAPE Mason, Esq. DE addr. of LLC: LLC; New York, NY 10032 for on process to: 7014 13 Ave. engage in any lawful act or ARCHITECT PLLC NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Arts. Of Org., fi led with premises consumption.Anti- #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. activity. art. of org. fi led Secy. of State TION OF ARTIO GLOBAL NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) of Org. fi led with DE Sec. of ka Pizzeria Inc. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Vil 7/14-8/18/10 3/17/2010. Offi ce in New NY (SSNY) 5/10/10. Off. loc. INSTITUTIONAL TION OF ANDROMEDA Vil 7/14-7/21/10 Vil 7/14-8/18/10 in NY Co. SSNY designated State, 401 Federal St., Dover, York County; SSNY desig- SERVICES CAPITAL LLC. DE 19901. Purpose: any law- NOTICE IS HEREBY nated agent for service of as agent of LLC upon whom NOTICE OF FORMATION GIVEN Authority fi led with Secy. ful activity. MNC DIVERSIFIED LLC process with copy mailed to process may be served. LLC. Authority fi led with OF NEW PALTZ 3 LLC. that a license # (pending), Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. Attn: Kenneth A. Schulman, SSNY shall mail copy of pro- Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) of State of NY (SSNY) on has been applied for by CCH cess to original member: Rick of State (SSNY) 7/1/2010. Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. Esq., Pryor Cashman LLP, 7 on 06/16/10. Offi ce location: Of State of NY (SSNY) on Management Inc, dba Zen A Parisi, 5 Macarthur Dr, Old 6/21/10. Offi ce location: NY NOTICE IS HEREBY Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Times Square, New York, NY NY County. LLC formed in 4/27/10. Offi ce location: NY Palate, to sell wine and beer, 10036; All lawful business Greenwich, CT 06870. Pur- County. LLC formed in Dela- GIVEN design. Agent of LLC upon under the Alcoholic Beverage Delaware (DE) on 08/15/07. County. SSNY designated purposes. pose: practice the profession ware (DE) on 4/6/10. SSNY that a license, #TBA has been whom process may be as agent of LLC for service Contol Law at 663 9th Ave., of Landscape architecture. SSNY designated as agent served. SSNY shall mail copy Vil 6/30-8/4/10 designated as agent of LLC applied for by YB Tapas, Inc. of process. SSNY shall mail New York City, NY 10036, for Vil 7/7-8/11/10 of LLC upon whom process to sell beer and wine at a retail of process to The LLC 114 E process to: 7014 13 Ave. on-premises consumption. NOTICE OF REGISTRA- against it may be served. upon whom process against restaurant. For on premises 90th St Ste 8B NY, NY 10128. #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Vil 7/22-7/29/10 NOTICE OF FORMATION consumption under the ABC TION OF BEYS, STEIN & SSNY shall mail process to it may be served. SSNY shall Purpose: Any lawful activity. Purpose: Any lawful activity. MOBARGHA LLP. OF SYRACUSE FUND law at 234 East 4th Street NY, Vil 7/14-8/18/10 Vil 7/14-8/18/10 NOTICE OF FORMATION c/o Corporation Service Co. mail process to: National Ctf of Reg. fi led with Secy. HOLDINGS LLC. NY 10009. OF 100 WEST 82ND of State of NY (SSNY) on Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, Corporate Research, Ltd. Vil 7/14-7/21/10 WRIGHT CAPITAL, LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION STREET LLC. 3/31/2010. Offi ce location: NY of State of NY (SSNY) on NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of (NCR), 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., Articles of Org. fi led NY Sec. OF NAKED FAITH ENTER- Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. NOTICE IS HEREBY County. SSNY designated as 6/18/10. Offi ce location: NY LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Center- NY, NY 10016. DE address of of State (SSNY) 6/3/2010. TAINMENT, LLC. of State of NY (SSNY) on Co. SSNY designated as GIVEN agent of LLP upon whom ville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilming- Offi ce in NY Co. SSNY Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. 6/3/10. Offi ce location: NY process against it may be agent of LLC upon whom LLC: NCR, 615 South DuPont that a license, #TBA has been Co. SSNY designated as ton, New Castle Cnty., DE design. Agent of LLC upon of State of NY (SSNY) on served. SSNY shall mail pro- process against it may be Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. applied for by Josephine 5/10/10. Offi ce location: NY agent of LLC upon whom cess to: The Partnership, Attn: served. SSNY shall mail pro- 19808. Arts. of Org. fi led with whom process may be of Org. fi led with DE Secy. of de Beavharnais, LLC. to sell County. SSNY designated process against it may be Keith B. Stein, 900 Broadway, cess to: C/O Crown Acquisi- Secy. of State of the State of beer and wine, at a retail served. SSNY shall mail copy as agent of LLC for service served. SSNY shall mail pro- of process to The LLC 171 Ste. 801, NY, NY 10003, also tions, LLC, Attn: Richard S. DE, 401 Federal St., Dover, State, 401 Federal St., Dover, restaurant. For on premises of process. SSNY shall mail cess to: c/o Davis & Gilbert the address of the principal Chera, 362 5th Ave., NY, NY consumption under the ABC E 84th St. Apt. 6J NY, NY LLP, 1740 Broadway, NY, NY DE 19901-3639. Purpose: DE 19901. Purpose: any law- process to: 80 State St., Alba- offi ce. Purpose: any lawful 10001. Purpose: any lawful law at 40 Harrison Street NY, 10028. Purpose: Any lawful ny, NY 12207. Purpose: Any 10019. Purpose: any lawful activities. activities. Any lawful activity. ful activity. NY 10013. activity. lawful activity. activities. Vil 6/30-8/4/10 Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Vil 7/7-8/11/10 Vil 7/14-7/21/10 Vil 7/14-8/18/10 Vil 7/14-8/18/10 Vil 7/22-8/26/10 24 July 22 - 28, 2010 PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- .NOTICE OF FORMATION NOTICE OF FORMATION PUBLIC NOTICE TION OF ADAPTIVE TION OF TWO SIGMA OF HUNT SLONEM LLC. OF LINK SHAREHOLDER Notice is hereby given, pur- ANALYTICS, LLC. TRADING, LLC, suant to law, that the NYC Art. of Org. fi led w/Secy. SERVICES, LLC. SHERIFF’S SALE Authority fi led with Secy. of Authority fi led Sec’y of Dept. of Consumer Affairs State of NY (SSNY) on 7/2/10. State (SSNY) 9/24/07. Offi ce Of State of NY (SSNY) on Arts. of Org. fi led with NY will hold a Public Hearing Offi ce location: NY County. loc.: NY County. LLC org. in BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION ISSUED OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT, 5/11/10. Offi ce location: NY Dept. of State on 7/2/10. Offi ce on Wednesday August LLC formed in Delaware (DE) DE 9/7/07. SSNY desig. as NEW YORK COUNTY, in favor of BUTLER LUMBER CO., INC., judgment credi- on 9/10/99. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom County. SSNY designated location: NY County. Sec. of 4, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., at 66 tor, and against ANDREW CHANG, ET AL, judgment debtors, to me directed John Street, 11th fl oor, on as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be as agent of LLC for service State designated as agent and delivered, I WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION, by JOHN GAISER, DCA# process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy a petition from Mendered, 0867680, auctioneer, as the law directs, FOR CASH ONLY, on the 11th day of of process. SSNY shall mail of LLC upon whom process served. SSNY shall mail pro- of proc. to Attn: Matthew B. LLC, to establish, maintain, AUGUST 2010, at 10:30 o’clock in the forenoon, at: THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE, 66 process to: 545 W.45 St., 4 cess to: c/o Paul Rudd, Man- Siano, Esq., 379 W. Broad- against it may be served and and operate an unenclosed John Street, 13th Floor, in the county of New York all the right, title and inter- aging Member, 109 Greene way, 5th Fl., NY, NY 10012. Fl., New York, NY 10036. Pur- shall mail process to: c/o CT sidewalk café at 510 La Guar- est which ANDREW CHANG, ET AL, the judgment debtor, had on the 10TH St., #4A, NY, NY 10012, also DE offi ce addr.: CSC, 2711 pose: Any lawful activity. dia Place, in the Borough of day of NOVEMBER 1993, or at anytime thereafter, of, in and to the following the address to be maintained Centerville Rd., Wilmington, Corporation System, 111 8th property: Vil 7/22-8/26/10 Manhattan, for the term of in DE and the principal offi ce DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. 21-23 AVENUE B NEW YORK, NY 10009 two years. Request for a copy address. Arts of Org. fi led fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., agent upon whom process of the proposed revocable METES AND BOUNDS with DE Secy. Of State, 401 Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any NOTICE OF FORMATION Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE lawful activities. may be served. Purpose: any consent may be addressed ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the 19901. Purpose: any lawful Vil 7/22-8/26/10 OF LITMUS MEDICAL lawful activity. to Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Borough of Manhattan, County New York, and State of New York, bounded activities. MARKETING SERVICES 42 Broadway, New York, NY and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the easterly side of Avenue Vil 7/22-8/26/10 B, distant 28 feet northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Vil 7/22-8/26/10 NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- LLC. 10004 Attn: Foil Offi cer TION OF 400 FIFTH RES- Vil 7/22-7/29/10 easterly side of Avenue B, and the northerly side of 2nd Avenue; RUNNING NOTICE OF QUALIFICA- TAURANT GROUP LLC, Arts. of Org. fi led with NY THENCE easterly parallel with 2nd Street, 74 feet 9 inches; THENCE northerly NOTICE OF FORMATION parallel with Avenue B, 56 feet; THENCE westerly parallel with 2nd Street, 74 TION OF PACIFIC GATE Authority fi led Sec’y of State Dept. of State on 06/16/10. NOTICE OF FORMATION INVESTORS, LLC, OF BECKER, HARRIS feet 9 inches to the easterly side of Avenue B; THENCE southerly along the (SSNY) 5/12/10. Offi ce loc.: Offi ce location: NY County. OF RW KERN I, LLC. easterly side of Avenue B, 56 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. SAID Authority fi led Sec’y of State NY County. LLC org. in DE AND COMPANY LLC. Princ. Bus. Addr.: 450 W. 15th Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. PREMISES being known as and by street number 21-23 Avenue B, New York, (SSNY) 6/14/10. Offi ce loc.: 5/10/10. SSNY desig. as Arts. of Org. fi led with Secy. New York. LINDSAY EASON Sheriff of the City of New York NY County. LLC org. in DE agent of LLC upon whom St., 7th Fl. NY, NY 10011. Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/28/10. Offi ce location: NY DEPUTY SHERIFF JULIO LOPEZ 6/11/10. SSNY desig. as agent process against it may be of State designated as agent (212) 487-2673 of LLC upon whom process served. SSNY shall mail copy County. Princ. offi ce of LLC: of LLC upon whom process 6/16/10. Offi ce location: NY CASE# M10-013167 against it may be served. of proc. to Nat. Reg. Agents, County. SSNY designated as R.W. Kern, Inc., 211 W. 56th Vil 6/9-7/22/10 SSNY shall mail copy of proc. 875 Ave of the Americas, NY, against it may be served and St., 20J, NY, NY 10019. SSNY agent of LLC upon whom to Attn: Harry Gunji, 301 W. NY 10001, the Reg. Agt. upon shall mail process to: c/o CT designated as agent of LLC 57th St., 36D, NY, NY 10019. whom proc. may be served. Corporation System, 111 8th process against it may be upon whom process against DE offi ce addr.: CSC, 2711 DE offi ce addr.: 160 Green- served. SSNY shall mail pro- it may be served. SSNY shall Centerville Rd., Wilmington, tree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. mail process to c/o Corpora- DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on 19904. Cert. of Form. on Agent upon whom process cess to: 71 ½ Irving Place, tion Service Co., 80 State St., fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., fi le: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., may be served. Purpose: any Ste. 5, NY, NY 10003. Pur- Find it in the archives Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any Dover, DE 19901. 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The Stewart’s husband, Ralph Poynter, could do 28 months “standing on my head” counsel defending the sheik at his 1995 trial F.B.I. is satisfi ed that this serves the interest reached a day after her resentencing, said he — was a physical impossibility for a 70-year- for a seditious conspiracy to blow up New of justice.” and Stewart had discussed the possibility of old woman in her situation. But Koeltl said York City landmarks, was never charged in the Koeltl did not resentence Stewart’s co- Koeltl sentencing her to an additional fi ve her remarks to the media, including one that case against her. defendants — Mohammed Yousry, an Arabic years. They were also hopeful, he said, that she would “do it again,” showed a “lack of The fact that no one was harmed by interpreter now serving 20 months, and Ahmed she could get “house arrest to deal with her remorse” and warranted a longer sentence. Stewart’s actions is irrelevant, said Assistant Abdel Sattar, a former Staten Island postal medical problems.” He said the couple was Outside the Worth St. courthouse, demon- U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Dember, lead pros- worker and paralegal, convicted of the most “shocked, disappointed and hurt — you name strators held banners and placards with “Free ecutor on the case. He claimed at trial that serious crimes in the case, and now serving the adjective” by Koeltl’s “terrible,” 10-year Lynne Stewart” and other slogans on them, Stewart was motivated by a desire to “over- 24 years. sentence. “But we’re stuck with it and we’ll calling her “The People’s Lawyer.” throw the Egyptian government.” Leftist lawyer Ron Kuby briefl y represent- deal with it,” he said. Deposed University of Colorado professor Stewart said she was trying to ease the ed the sheik after the fi rst World Trade Center Poynter said an appeal “would be Ward Churchill, an author, activist and Stewart sheik’s isolation and keep him in the public eye attack in 1993 with his senior partner, William almost automatic” and that he was talking to supporter, looked angry as he stood among a so he might be transferred to a prison facility in Kunstler, the late civil liberties icon. Kuby said lawyers who have expressed interest. Several group of demonstrators. Egypt. She also claimed that a “bubble” built he was not surprised by Judge Koeltl’s deci- of Stewart’s lawyers have already left the “How does a 70-year-old, cancer-ravaged into the prison rules or SAM’s (special admin- sion, saying he “privately” expected the judge case. woman represent a threat to society?” he istrative measures) gave her, as an attorney, to give Stewart 12 years, instead of 10. “Don’t Worry Murray” Richman is a lawyer asked. leeway to interpret the regulations. Dember “The entire Court of Appeals made it who Poynter said he would be happy to hear Churchill then labeled Koeltl “a lackey and called the “bubble” defense a lie. He did not clear that the vast majority of judges on the from about his wife’s next legal steps as she a worm.” Asked to elaborate, Churchill told dispute Koeltl’s resentencing of Stewart. Second Circuit thought it was O.K. to give her prepares to be transferred within 60 days to a The Villager, “I was being mild. If I were him Later that afternoon, the offi ce of Preet 30 years,” Kuby said. “The government was federal facility in Danbury, Conn. — Koeltl’s and had to look at my face in the mirror, I’d eat Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern lenient in saying 15 to 30, so my guess is that recommendation so she can be close to her a gun. He has no integrity.” District, issued a prepared statement express- Judge Koeltl was going to give her the lowest family. The lanky, longhaired former academic was ing satisfaction with Koeltl’s ruling. sentence he could without being reversed by Richman, reached at his Bronx offi ce, said dressed in jeans, a half-smoked cigarette in “Lynne Stewart broke the oath she swore the Second Circuit. I think the government he was saddened by Stewart’s situation. hand. In 2001, he raised hackles for his essay as an attorney and now stands sentenced in the would appeal anything lower, under double “In most instances, over the years, her heart in which he described the “technocratic corps” system of laws that she betrayed,” Bharara said digits.” has been in all the right places, but I believe at the doomed World Trade Center as “Little in the statement. Kuby said he would advise anyone repre- her judgment was askew” in the sheik’s case, Eichmanns.” George Venizelos, special agent in charge senting Stewart not to seek another appeal of Richman said. “No matter what you think of Nearby, former U.S. Attorney General of the New York offi ce of the Federal Bureau her conviction because of the Second Circuit’s her,” he added, “she doesn’t have an evil bone Ramsey Clark had just fi nished answering of Investigation, said in the same statement record in the case. 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ground” to the point that they never had a true those over age 18 is protected by the First “hit record.” But they were so hip that every- Amendment. If Mayor Bloomberg wishes LETTERS TO THE EDITOR one knew them and the lyrics to their songs. to challenge this, then those arrested must Their hymn-like ode to marijuana was a staple hit the city where it hurts: in its pocket. It surprised me to learn that a woman, on FM radio in the late ’60s and ’70s, and their Reports of these arrests have not dis- Continued from page 12 M.K. Goddard, had printed the original doc- biggest “hit,” “Nothing,” is a perfect example couraged me from shopping for DVDs or ument. We know Betsy Ross sewed the fl ag of how Tuli’s head worked. It is still relevant enjoying them while in the store. I have nity are rarely kept. Just like for his cohorts, — women sew — but don’t think of a woman today and still just as much fun to listen to. a respectable job and have never been a political alliances seem to be more important printer in Colonial times. Congratulations to Fittingly, in the lyrics to “Doin’ All Right,” prostitute. If the mayor is encouraging his to him than keeping campaign promises. Ms. Belloff for making history come to life Tuli wrote: “We’ve got to love one another offi cers to commit libel, I am prepared to It’s a shame there is no way to make our with her project. and we’ve got to die / So rip your panties off fi ght. politicians keep their word once they get and look me right in the eye / You can’t miss Perhaps the greatest irony is that there into offi ce, but we can keep reminding them June Hildebrand Abrams me, I look a lot like Jesus Christ / I’m gettin’ are male prostitutes in some of these when they don’t. mine... I’m doin’ all right.” shops. One could easily recognize them If there was pain, there would be laugh- by their appearance and attitude. I do Jay Matlick ter. That is how Tuli saw life. He took the not accept their services, nor do I believe Tuli was our poet/warrior bad news that that those on the left have that they should be arrested. Yet, police endured for decades, and made us see the offi cers are unwilling to encounter these To The Editor: humor in our own state of being. The right- young men. Article made an imprint Re “Tuli Kupferberg, 86, iconic poet and wingers never got it. Never will. singer of the Fugs” (obituary, July 14): When someone of Tuli’s stature passes Ted Shan To The Editor: I recall the fi rst time I saw ever saw Tuli away the normal quote is “now he belongs Re “Printer makes her own declaration in Kupferberg. It was on a late 1960s poster to the ages.” In this case, the ages belong the Declaration” (news article, July 7): publicizing the fi rst Fugs album. His black- to him. E-mail letters, not longer than 250 Thanks for Cynthia Romero’s article bearded face was screwed up into a devilish words in length, to [email protected] on book artist Mindy Belloff’s Declaration. grin and he held up the back of his hand Lawrence White or fax to 212-229-2790 or mail to The Mindy’s ambitious project is admirable both with fi ngers splayed into a mystical gesture Villager, Letters to the Editor, 145 Sixth for what she learned about this document’s that all of us at the time thought was some Ave., ground fl oor, NY, NY 10013. Please history and for producing a fi ne-print rep- sort of hip secret signal. That poster became include phone number for confi rmation lica of it using handset type, handpress and an icon of the times and Tuli became a front- The right to buy porn purposes. The Villager reserves the right archive paper. As a member of New York line poet/warrior in the struggle for univer- to edit letters for space, grammar, clarity City’s Center for Book Arts, I appreciate the sal peace and just plain having fun. To The Editor: and libel. The Villager does not publish craft and skill involved. The Fugs were irreverent and “under- The right to enter an adult shop for anonymous letters. July 22 - 28, 2010 27

The G.V.L.L. 11-and-12-year-olds tournament team, a.k.a. The Villagers. G.V.L.L. goes on tear, nearly makes Williamsport

enced West Side Little League team, 5-0. Michael Schneider and Roger Ehrenberg. and boys in the Greenwich Village commu- SPORTS This set up a rematch on Thursday The Villagers featured an amalgam of nity could not have been achieved without against the team that handed G.V.L.L. its top hitters, accomplished pitchers, sharp the support of everyone in and around the only defeat, Peter Stuyvesant. The Villagers fi elders and smart base runners. The play- community. Continued from page 1 — the name taken by the G.V.L.L. tourna- ers included Ben Crowson, Isaac Davison, “From the parents, to the G.V.L.L. coach- ment team — decisively avenged their only Andrew Ehrenberg, Liam Goldfarb, Elias es, to Tobi Bergman and the coaches at fi nal game, however, the powerful Michael loss by a score of 11-4. This win propelled Goodman, Julian Harris, Justin Holch, Eli the P3 baseball program at Pier 40, we sim- Buczek squad bounced back and defeated Kimbell, Brandon Ko, Terrence Mallon, Jack ply could not have done it without them,” the G.V.L.L. team, 13-4, in the Bronx’s Miller, Alec Morea, Harrison Rottman, Max White said. Kingsbridge to take home the District 23 Schneider and Nick White. Added Manager Saldano, a 15-year title and securing its trip to the sectionals, These all-stars had never Four players on the team hit home G.V.L.L. veteran, “This team had class. while knocking the Village team out of the runs during the tournament — Ehren- They represented Greenwich Village and tournament. played together as a single berg, Kimbell, Morea and White — with G.V.L.L., and every one of them has been a The road to the fi nals was anything but Nick White bashing four home runs during great ambassador for our league.” straightforward for the young Village ball- unit before. G.V.L.L.’s run for the championship. Incoming G.V.L.L. President Daniel players, after having lost their fi rst tourna- There was standout pitching by Ehrenberg, Miller said, “These guys were just hanging ment game, 8-5, to a strong team fi elded Miller, Kimbell, Rottman and Mallon. out with their friends and playing old- by crosstown rivals the Peter Stuyvesant Few believed that such a nascent G.V.L.L. fashioned baseball — the kind of baseball Little League. Given the double-elimination G.V.L.L. into the championship weekend tournament initiative could yield such spec- they learned to play in G.V.L.L. We’ve had format, for G.V.L.L. to win the district, it and its showdown against Michael Buczek tacular results, but reigniting this program tremendous support from the community as would have to win six consecutive games Little League. has been in the works for quite some time. a league and extra-special support from the after its opening loss to Stuyvesant. The G.V.L.L. squad was essentially an Steve White, the league’s tournament wonderful baseball program run at P3 — Rather than licking its wounds, the all-star team made up of the league’s Majors coordinator, said, “Over a year ago, when and the results speak for themselves.” G.V.L.L.’ers went on a tear, winning the next American players who had played against Daniel Miller and I started fi guring out what While the players and coaches did their fi ve games in dramatic fashion by a combined each other for years, but never togeth- it would take to put together a tournament best to bring a District 23 championship score of 65-19. Last weekend the G.V.L.L. er as a single, cohesive unit. They were team, we never contemplated success on the banner to J.J. Walker Field, this year’s strong squad beat teams from Kingsbridge and East led by Manager Carlo Saldana, G.V.L.L. fi eld like we’ve had. Adding this enhance- showing was merely a prelude. For G.V.L.L. Harlem by scores of 13-2 and 23-5, respectively, Tournament Coordinator Steve White and ment to an already successful baseball and and its tournament program, the best is yet then racked up a solid victory against an experi- Coaches Daniel Miller, Wayne Kimbell, softball program that serves around 800 girls to come. 28 July 22 - 28, 2010

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