Volume 76, Number 32 January 3 - 9, 2007
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Villager photo by Q. Sakamaki
Double your New Year’s fun
Bartenders Tracy Hartman, left, and Jaimie Foley helped usher in the new year at the Double Down Saloon on Sunday night. Among the revelers at the 10-month-old Avenue A watering hole were Aron “Yippie Pie Man” Kay, a group of former East Village squatters and actor Jeff Branson of the soap opera “All My Children,” Foley’s boyfriend.
 Speaker and nightlife owners toast new safety agreements
By Bonnie Rosenstock
With among the highest concentration of student residences in the city — carved out by such institutions as New York University, The Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, New School University and New York Law School — the East Village is turning into the Village of the Dormed.
Arts and Entertainment
 The Conversation
By Nicole Davis
Family members often figure in Jenny Perlin’s art and films, but for her latest installation, which opened at The Kitchen last weekend, the relative who inspired “Transcript” happens to be one she never met.
Inside The Writers Studio
By Jennifer DeMeritt
Twenty years ago, Philip Schultz started a writing program for a small group of poets and fiction writers in the living room of his apartment on Charles Street.
Sports
 Metabolic testing for athletes and couch potatoes
By Judith Stiles
During the holiday season, yummy Christmas cookies, roast beef, plum pudding, Hollandaise sauce, fruitcake and chocolate truffles certainly delight taste buds around the world. However, they leave many a waistline in a woeful bulge, prompting new year’s resolutions galore.
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NEWS
 East Village seems dormed; Landmark will be converted
By Bonnie Rosenstock
With among the highest concentration of student residences in the city — carved out by such institutions as New York University, The Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, New School University and New York Law School — the East Village is turning into the Village of the Dormed.
Heckle, Jekyll and Hyde: How to avoid ‘going Kramer’
By Lawrence Lerner
Bobby Slayton calls himself the pit bull of comedy. Judging from his stand-up set at Chelsea’s Gotham Comedy Club two weekends ago, that title is apropos.
Koch on film
By Ed Koch
“The Painted Veil” (-)
This is the third time that W. Somerset Maugham’s novel of the same title has been brought to the screen.
“Letters From Iwo Jima” (+)
This is surely one of the great and historical depictions of World War II in the Pacific. It rivals the opening scenes of “Band of Brothers” in showing the beginning of the Allied onslaught against Nazi Germany on June 6, 1944 — D-Day on the beaches of Normandy.
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