BY TRAV S.D. | In honor of Pride Month, we will be featuring one article per week on a different classic performer, one for each category: L, G, B, T, and Q! With only five weeks in June, that’s our limit. Check back with us next year, as our series picks up with “+” I, […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Katy Pyle, whose pronouns are they/them/their and who identifies as a genderqueer lesbian dancer and choreographer, started studying ballet at the age of three. Teachers at the North Carolina School of the Arts later said they “would have had a great career if [they] had been born a boy.” Pyle graduated […]
This Week’s “This Week in Chelsea” In Order of Appearance: Ballerina Boys: Event listing by our Dance columnist, Elizabeth Zimmer | “Show Up, Kids!” in English and Spanish | Chelsea Farmers Market | Chelsea Green Park gets free WiFi | Vaccine site in Chelsea | W. Chelsea park’s garden club | Hudson Guild online talent […]
BY ARTHUR SCHWARTZ | There is an irony that this year’s Memorial Day falls on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, one of the most horrific events of racial violence in the post-Civil War history of the United States, and until recently, one of its most forgotten. (In part, we have Donald Trump to thank for re-awakening interest, […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, not-so-straight across from The Stonewall Inn, steeped-in-history soul sister The Monster Bar ushers in a new era this weekend, when its Sunday afternoon Tea Dance returns from a long, pandemic-compelled closure. “Join us in the disco for dancing and socializing and bar service and […]
Writing the Apocalypse is a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of Puma Perl, with subject matter influenced by her experiences as a NYC resident during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mornings, Muted | TEXT & PHOTOS BY PUMA PERL The dazzling sunrises have not returned to my window. I surrender my watch and hang new shades and […]
BY TRAV S.D. | One’s first post-pandemic trip to the theatre following a year-a nd-a-half quarantine is a thing not to be taken lightly, and so we didn’t. I placed a cautious bet on Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams, a show whose characters and characteristics all seemed sure-fire: an award-winning play about Tennessee […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER |The Election 2021 candidate whose weekly Community Cleanup events inspire locals to blanket neglected parts of their neighborhood with brush and broom work just expanded the sweeping scope of his support. In a May 25 press release first seen by Chelsea Community News, New York State Assembly Member Richard Gottfried said it […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | In the Election 2021 candidate’s quest for a vote of confidence from organized labor, no asset tracks quite like a stellar track record. Aspiring New York City Councilmember Arthur Schwartz has spent decades as the courtroom advocate of choice for labor, tenants, the disabled, and movement organizations. His presence, and victories, […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | At the very same time the world was observing its first full year since COVID-19’s sheltering in place beget working from home, the company that made it desirable to do business in the digital realm was doubling down, and then some, on its post-pandemic brick and mortar presence. A March 18 […]