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On With the Show, Online: The Irish Rep Adapts and Evolves

BY SCOTT STIFFLER, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY HIBA SOHAIL |…

Notes from the Truro Woods, Part 2

TEXT & PHOTOS BY PAMELA WOLFF | July 4, 2020:…

A Misfit Gay Reveals: What’s it Like to Not Fit In With Your Community?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I’ve always assumed the role of…

This Week in Chelsea: Week of July 6, 2020

Hudson Guild Presents “The Breathe Project” | This initiative is…

Save Chelsea, Plan Proceeding, Determines to Extend the Chelsea Historic District

BY WINNIE McCROY | The preservationist coalition Save Chelsea has…

My CoviDiary: The July Entries

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, find the latest diary entry, then other…

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On With the Show, Online: The Irish Rep Adapts and Evolves

BY SCOTT STIFFLER, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY HIBA SOHAIL | Since putting down roots in Chelsea in 1994, the Irish Repertory…

Posted on July 10, 2020No Comment

Notes from the Truro Woods, Part 2

TEXT & PHOTOS BY PAMELA WOLFF | July 4, 2020: First, we are well. It has been most of seven weeks…

Posted on July 9, 2020No Comment

A Misfit Gay Reveals: What’s it Like to Not Fit In With Your Community?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I’ve always assumed the role of an outsider, and that’s tended to help my journalistic career. Getting…

Posted on July 9, 20201 Comment

This Week in Chelsea: Week of July 6, 2020

Hudson Guild Presents “The Breathe Project” | This initiative is meant to foster dialogue about how to rectify racial injustice in…

Posted on July 6, 2020No Comment

Save Chelsea, Plan Proceeding, Determines to Extend the Chelsea Historic District

BY WINNIE McCROY | The preservationist coalition Save Chelsea has announced their determination to extend the current borders of the Chelsea…

Posted on July 3, 2020No Comment

Arts

On With the Show, Online: The Irish Rep Adapts and Evolves

BY SCOTT STIFFLER, WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY HIBA SOHAIL |…

Posted on July 10, 2020No Comment

Writing the Apocalypse: Explosions

“Writing the Apocalypse” is a weekly series featuring the poems,…

Posted on July 9, 2020No Comment

Writing the Apocalypse: Quiet Like the Cat

“Writing the Apocalypse” is a weekly series featuring the…

Posted on July 3, 2020No Comment

Writing the Apocalypse: The Taste of Rebellion

“Writing the Apocalypse” is a weekly series featuring the poems,…

Posted on June 26, 2020No Comment

This Week in Chelsea

LGBTQ+

A Misfit Gay Reveals: What’s it Like to Not Fit In With Your Community?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I’ve always assumed the role of an outsider, and that’s tended to help my journalistic career. Getting access to all kinds of creative and…

Posted on July 9, 20201 Comment

NYC Pride, Reclaim Pride Coalition Events Champion LGBTQ and Black Lives

BY HIBA SOHAIL | New York City is often hailed as the city that kickstarted the modern LGBTQIA+ liberation movement, with the Stonewall Riots being of massive importance,…

Posted on June 22, 2020No Comment

Tom Judson Talks Turkey About His Trendy Tees

Graphic Artist/Entrepreneur seems a fitting encore, when your resume already includes Broadway actor (Cabaret), musician (musical director for Charles Busch), composer (Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan), house flipper, political activist,…

Posted on June 21, 2020No Comment

“Disclosure” Delivers Dimensioned Depiction of the Transgender Experience

BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | It will be impossible for me to review Disclosure objectively, because it is a resoundingly authentic documentary about transgender actors in the film and…

Posted on June 21, 2020No Comment

Opinion

My CoviDiary: The July Entries

EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, find the latest diary entry, then other July content. Click here for the June entries.…

Posted on July 3, 2020No Comment

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Hoylman’s “Make-A-Mask” Competition Faces Reality, Creativity

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Hey, in times like these?…

Posted on May 13, 2020

‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers a Blizzard of Delights

BY CHARLES BATTERSBY | When Slava’s Snowshow first came…

Posted on December 2, 2019

For the Kids: The November Edition

Film Forum Jr. | This series of classic…

Posted on November 7, 2019

For the Kids: The Fun, Fun, Fun Fall Edition

ATLANTIC FOR KIDS PRESENTS “THE BIG ONE-OH!” | Atlantic…

Posted on October 6, 2019

A Misfit Gay Reveals: What’s it Like to Not Fit In With Your Community?

BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I’ve always assumed the role…

Posted on July 9, 2020

NYC Pride, Reclaim Pride Coalition Events Champion LGBTQ and Black Lives

BY HIBA SOHAIL | New York City is often…

Posted on June 22, 2020

Community Contacts

This page contains contact information for, in this order, Community…

Posted on April 21, 2019

Mask Distribution, Graffiti Mitigation Among 10th Precinct’s COVID-Era Efforts

Normally held on the last Wednesday of the month,…

Posted on May 28, 2020

10th Precinct Leader Notes Pandemic’s Impact on Protocols, Public Safety, Crime Stats

Normally held on the last Wednesday of the month,…

Posted on April 29, 2020

10th Precinct Community Council Notes Uptick in Robbery, Larceny Crimes

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Confrontation risks escalation; windows have…

Posted on February 7, 2020

Police Blotter

OBSTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION: Bad Behavior Was on His…

Posted on May 24, 2019

Enter ‘Exit’: Peter Michael Marino Goes Online with Tale of $6 Million Musical, Made & Unmade

Desperately Seeking the Exit: Online Live | In 2007,…

Posted on March 29, 2020

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice &… Blah

BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney…

Posted on February 6, 2020

Instagram-Worthy ‘Nutcracker’ Offers Immersive Experience Through Jan. 26

BY CHARLES BATTERSBY | If you sill have a…

Posted on January 13, 2020

‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers a Blizzard of Delights

BY CHARLES BATTERSBY | When Slava’s Snowshow first came…

Posted on December 2, 2019

Theater

Enter ‘Exit’: Peter Michael Marino Goes Online with Tale of $6 Million Musical, Made & Unmade

Desperately Seeking the Exit: Online Live | In 2007, American actor/writer Peter Michael Marino wrote a musical based on the Madonna film Desperately Seeking…

Posted on March 29, 2020No Comment

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice &… Blah

BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre is a long, narrow, terraced space with seating on three sides; performers practically…

Posted on February 6, 2020No Comment

Instagram-Worthy ‘Nutcracker’ Offers Immersive Experience Through Jan. 26

BY CHARLES BATTERSBY | If you sill have a few nuts to crack in 2020, the Immersive Nutcracker Cocktail Fête is running through Jan.…

Posted on January 13, 2020No Comment

‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers a Blizzard of Delights

BY CHARLES BATTERSBY | When Slava’s Snowshow first came to New York, back in 2004, American culture had little representation of clowning outside of…

Posted on December 2, 2019No Comment

Community Activities

Rev. Christine Lee Makes History, at Historic St. Peter’s Chelsea

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Steeped in history, St. Peter’s Chelsea—the Episcopal church founded in 1831 by Clement Clarke Moore, architect of the Chelsea neighborhood and author of A…

Posted on January 8, 2020No Comment

Profiles

Donna Aceto Photo ‘Retrospektiv’ Serves History with Your Coffee

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | The walls of a new coffeehouse located on a marquee corner of Chelsea are…

Posted on August 18, 2019

Support Small Businesses

Tom Judson Talks Turkey About His Trendy Tees

Graphic Artist/Entrepreneur seems a fitting encore, when your resume already includes Broadway actor (Cabaret), musician (musical director for…

Posted on June 21, 2020

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Our writers and reporters are so great, every one of them deserves to be the first one mentioned.…

Posted on April 18, 2019