Villager photo by Clayton Patterson
Proud, and painful, moment
The late District Leader Armando Perez’s mother, Maria, center, and former City Councilmember Margarita Lopez, right, reacted as a street sign co-naming Ninth St. and Avenue B as Armando Perez Place was unveiled Saturday. Go to article.
Trump Hotel on hold for now, but Trump Hole coming soon
By Lincoln Anderson
The Trump Hotel on the western edge of Soho isn’t being built yet — but the Trump Hole is.
After the fall of The Falls, life returns to 224 Lafayette St.
By Sandra Larriva
The Falls, the dark Soho nightspot where John Jay College graduate student Imette St. Guillen was last seen alive in the early morning of Feb. 25, 2006, closed on July 9 after having given up its liquor license two days earlier.
Soho high school brings its newspaper back to life
By Lori Haught
The students at Chelsea Campus High School are quickly learning that putting out a newspaper is a full-time job. Chelsea Campus is actually in Soho, relaunched The Chelsea Vanguard — the new student paper — that suffered an extended break in publication until this October.
Before condos, an art finale for mystery building
By Lincoln Anderson
For years, the former horse stable at 11 Spring St. has been a hulking mystery on Little Italy’s edge near the Bowery. Its reclusive owner was said to have filled the inside with all manner of ingenious gadgets.
Feathers fly as NEST parents resign from the P.T.A.
By Anindita Dasgupta
First they banded together to help renovate the building at 111 Columbia St.
Armando Perez Place street sign will point the way
By Lincoln Anderson
Friends and family of Armando Perez gathered at the corner of Ninth St. and Avenue B on a chilly morning last Saturday to dedicate a new sign co-naming the street for the late Loisaida Puerto Rican leader.
Arts and Entertainment
Theater
The bridge to Buenos Aires theater
By Harry Newman
Towards the end of the 1990s, a new generation of theater artists began to emerge in Buenos Aires. Mainly in their mid- to late-20s, these writers, directors and actors — and more commonly writer-director-actors — had come of age under democracy.
Noises on, with Anton Chekov
By JERRY TALLMER
Every writer has one, and Anton Chekhov had one too. He called her Murashkina and put her in a short story in which she beseeches an audience with the eminent writer Pavel Vasilyevich, keeps coming back until she doggedly obtains it, pushes her way into his presence, jabbers away with compliments on his achievements — “Every book! Every play!
Film
Koch On Film
“Marie Antoinette” (+) My first movie choice, “Borat,” was sold out at the two theaters I visited. Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” was playing at the second theater so I decided to see it, although I had read mixed reviews about the film. I was pleasantly surprised. “The Prestige” (-) I can’t tell you too much about this film regarding the rivalry of two magicians since that would ruin whatever pleasure you might derive from seeing it.
