The Gift of Literacy

The Gift of Literacy

BY LAYLA LAW-GISIKO (candidate, NYS Assembly District 75) | My mother was born in Tunisia, a small North-African country, slightly smaller than the state of Kansas. She was the fifth child and the third daughter in a family of nine children. My mother’s two older sisters did not go to school. My grandmother was illiterate. […]

This Week in Chelsea: Week of June 13-19, 2022

This Week in Chelsea: Week of June 13-19, 2022

In This Week’s “THIS WEEK IN CHELSEA” The Big Mix / Stop Neighborhood Destruction Rally / West Side Community Fund Grants / The Tribeca Film Festival  / Down to Earth Farmers Market Chelsea / Early Primary Voting  / Events From Earlier in the Week: Understanding Monkeypox / Stargazing on the High Line / The Big Mix […]

Tribeca Film Festival Presents LGBTQIA+ Shorts: See Me, Feel Me

Tribeca Film Festival Presents LGBTQIA+ Shorts: See Me, Feel Me

BY WINNIE McCROY | The Tribeca Film Festival (June 8-19) opened last week with a slate of short films, including a collection of seven LGBTQIA+ Shorts called See Me, Feel Me. The shorts deal with issues of gay intimacy, relationships, S/M, racism, cross-dressing, coming out, self-harm, and intersectional queerness. Although they are all quite different […]

Anahid Sofian Celebrates 50 Years of Dance on West 15th Street

Anahid Sofian Celebrates 50 Years of Dance on West 15th Street

BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | Anahid Sofian opened her Oriental dance studio on West 15th Street in 1972, and is celebrating that auspicious occasion on Sat., June 18, with a night of dance, music, and libation. Billed as an Atelier Orientale, it will feature performers who were her students or teachers at her studio at one […]

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