Villager photo by Elissa Bogos Father Eugene Sawicki of Our Lady of Vilnius, making phone calls in the church office, trying to save the church from being closed. Lady of Vilnius and ‘Pretzels’and ‘Provolone’ may lose home By Lincoln Anderson In the latest threatened Downtown church closing, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York is planning to shutter Our Lady of Vilnius, a Lithuanian church on Broome St. in Hudson Square.		NEWS For once, Connor can’t get opponent off the ballot By David Spett Ken Diamondstone, who is challenging incumbent Martin Connor for the Democratic nomination for State Senate in the 25th District, is back on the ballot. Tribeca rezoning goes down to the wire By Ronda Kaysen with Janet Kwon Local residents reached an agreement with developers over a plan to build residential towers along the north Tribeca waterfront, just hours before the City Council passed the proposal Wednesday.

INSIDE
Rebirth, and reunion, at historic Norfolk synagogue
By Jefferson Siegel
The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah centers on the story of a lamp with enough oil for one day that ultimately burned for eight.

Activists geared up to fight new bike, march rules
By Lincoln Anderson
Two hundred people, ranging from Critical Mass bicyclists to civil rights and community activists, turned out at St. Mark’s Church in the East Village last Thursday night for a lively “people’s public forum” on the new parade-permit regulations that were being proposed by the Police Department.

Huh? Old P.S. 64 owner offers to buy St. Brigid’s
By Lincoln Anderson
Crashing last Friday’s benefit to save St. Brigid’s Church was none other than Gregg Singer, the embattled owner of the nearby old P.S. 64. He even contributed to the fundraiser, though, he admitted, it was “not a lot of money.”

Governor candidate Suozzi says he’s in it to win it
By Jefferson Siegel
Tom Suozzi, Nassau County’s executive, brought his campaign for governor to the Village earlier this month. Suozzi strode into the second-floor meeting room at the Sol Goldman 14th St. Y dressed in a gray suit and wearing a Twin Towers American flag pin. He spoke confidently for half an hour, then fielded questions for almost another hour.

Like a ‘barbershop’ for photographers on E. 4th St.
By John Ranard
You will find photography’s best kept secret in a nondescript storefront on E. Fourth St. between Second Ave. and the Bowery. Inside 4th Street Photo Gallery sits Alex Harsley in front of rows of 16-inch-by-20-inch, black-and-white prints hanging salon style from wooden clips, like clothes on a laundry line. The photographs are all taken by Harsley, a few as many as 40 years ago.

Hold the beer, say a prayer; Block bucks trend with 5 churches, (gasp!) only 2 bars
By Lesley Sussman
In a neighborhood where three or more drinking establishments per block is not all that unusual, E. Seventh St. between Avenues B and C doesn’t seem to be in that kind of spirit.

Arts & Entertainment

Gurney takes a page from his life in ‘Indian Blood’
By Jerry Tallmer
You can take the boy out of Buffalo, but you can’t take Buffalo out of the boy. Though sometimes it does take a while for the boy to go back to the boy he was in the Buffalo that was. Like 60 years.

Downtown film captures another side of Julianne
By Jenny S. Halper
Something you should know about Julianne Moore: she has a sense of humor. Yes, there’s evidence in “Evolution,” “Laws of Attraction,” and, if you rewind to her ingénue days in the mid-nineties, the Chris Columbus comedy “Nine Months,” in which the now-New Yorker played a pregnant ballet instructor trying to teach Hugh Grant about commitment.

A gallery without borders
By Steven Snyder
In the art world there always seems to be a new ingenue, but for many artists in recent years, the hot new thing has been the alternative art space. William Smolen, a 25–year–old East Villager with his own lifestyle consulting practice as well as an eclectic background in art (Sotheby’s and MoMA’s Junior Associates Board), business (Goldman Sachs), government (he interned in Britain’s Parliament) and fashion (Armani), is the latest in a long line of curators trying to rethink the concept of the traditional art gallery.

Lights, cell phone camera, action!
By Steven Snyder
We’ve all seen them: Those people who walk around all day wearing wireless headsets, juggling a cell phone and iPod in one hand while typing out an e-mail on a Blackberry in the other. Technology has come to change not only the way we communicate, but the way we think about interacting with those around us. How many now prefer phone calls to face-to-face conversations? E-mails to phone calls? Instant messages to e-mails?

Koch On Film
By Ed Koc
“Half Nelson” (-)
I saw this movie at the Angelika Theater in Greenwich Village where I have lived since 1956. After the movie the writers, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, addressed the audience. They were honest, intelligent, funny and very impressive. Although I thoroughly enjoyed their discussion, I can’t say the same for their film.

What the Santa Fe Opera means to New Yorkers
By Michael Clive
“Yeah, summer festivals. We get the point.” My brother Dave and sister-in-law Gloria have heard me extol the virtues of off-season musical events about a thousand times. With the end of the summer festival season in sight, it was high time I took my own advice and joined them in Santa Fe.