BY SCOTT STIFFLER | “It was not conceived as a ‘Gay Sway Lake,’ ” said choreographer/creator Matthew Bourne, of the overly simplified buzz phrase bestowed upon Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at the time of its 1995 premiere in London, and during its 1998 Broadway run (nominated for five Tony Awards, winning for Best Choreography, Best […]
BY ELIZABETH GREY | Poetry and I are uneasy friends. I find some of it moving, and some of it beyond my pay grade. I grow annoyed with poems that try too hard to be good; or even words, important. I am exasperated by metaphors that sound like they were fretted over for days. I […]
Saturday, February 8, 11am-1pm: Reusable Bag Giveaway | New Yorkers use 9.37 billion carryout bags per year, the vast majority of which are not recycled. That’s why beginning on March 1, state law will prohibit businesses from distributing plastic carryout bags to customers. On Saturday, from 11am to 1pm, NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s team will be at […]
BY PUMA PERL | In mid-October, 2019, Gina Healy, her daughter, Simone Wolff, and her mother, Mindy Rinkewich, set off on a trip to Eastern Europe. Rinkewich, age 90, had been invited to be a featured reader at the 3rd International Poetic Conference in Poznań, Poland; Gina and Simone were to accompany her. Gina and […]
BY PAMELA WOLFF | Located at 346 W. 20th St. (btw. 8th & 9th Aves.), St. Peter’s Chelsea—the Episcopal church founded in 1831 by Clement Clarke Moore, architect of the Chelsea neighborhood—has been running a food pantry for many years. In 2019, they distributed food to 32,559 clients. Of those, there were 1,359 children and […]
DEADLINE EXTENDED to Fri., Feb. 14, for Applying to Serve on Your Local Community Board | For info, see the below flyer. Through Sun., Feb. 2: Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater | Complexions Contemporary Ballet (CCB) opens its 26th season at essential Chelsea dance destination The Joyce Theater, via three dynamic programs over […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Most people’s minds conjure “the water” (aka the Hudson River), when asked to name Chelsea’s westernmost point. But when the conversation turns to its crosstown counterpart, there’s no clear winner. That’s what we found, during some informal, totally unscientific polling of local residents and business owners. People were split pretty much […]
Having opened Jan. 9 at Fountain House Gallery in Hell’s Kitchen, We See You explores the milieu of the Gallery, its parent organization (Fountain House,) and the wider neighborhood. Fountain House Gallery and Studio provides an environment where artists living with mental illness can express their creative visions, exhibit their work, and challenge the stigma […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Lily Dare is a lady who’ll elicit all the laughs you rightfully expect from the man playing her—but this female lead from the creator’s considerable catalog might also move you to tears. From the cast to the costumes to songs to the set, pleasures abound in The Confession of Lily Dare, the […]
PHOTO AND COMMENT BY PAUL GRONCKI | The scaffolding finally down, after five years of building at the Einhorn-developed, prison-like luxury tower at 124 W. 16th St., over the French Evangelical Church. (Note: Groncki is president of the 100 West 16th Street Block Association.) Chelsea Community News is made possible with the help of […]