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AHVs Blasted as ‘Rubber Stamp Permits’

BY SEAN EGAN It’s something that’s becoming a frequent, if not common, occurrence across the city: the abuse of After Hours Variances (AHVs), to the detriment of residents forced to essentially live near construction sites that are active at all hours of the day.

This time, the source of the problem is, arguably, Chelsea’s most powerful resident — Continued on page 5

Community Council Confronts Index, Intersection

BY LINDSAY BU With the unusually warm December coming to a close, the 10th Precinct Community Council held its final meeting of 2015 on the evening of Wed., Dec. 30. Only three local residents showed up to the 7 p.m. meeting.

Despite this meager attendance, Community Council President Larry O’Neill commenced in a friendly and casual tone, as he introduced the 10th Precinct’s Commanding Officer, Deputy Inspector Michele Irizarry, Continued on page 7

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“Stefanie Gutheil: The Home of Mr. Peeps,” an exhibit on view at Mike Weiss Gallery through Jan. 30, is filled with otherworldly landscapes and fantastical creatures. See page 23.

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The right age to shape up: At 73, Vera Konig doesn’t pull any punches, and still works out at X-Fit twice a week.

Ring in the New Year at X-Fit Gym

BY YANNIC RACK Jimmy Fusaro is not your average fitness trainer, and he doesn’t run your average gym either. Walk in the door of X-Fit — just under 1,500 square feet tucked away on the 12th floor of a nondescript building on W. 27th St. — and you’ll be greeted by walls decked in movie posters and signed boxing paraphernalia, with a stack of tires, wrapped in ropes, sitting in a corner. It’s the first of several home-built exercise machines surrounding a far more recognizable, but just as formidable, boxing ring.

And then of course there’s Fusaro, a 53-year-old former professional kickboxer, bald, with penetrating eyes and a no-nonsense attitude that he wears like a piece of clothing — literally. The T-shirt he has on proclaims, “F**k yoga” (with the real letters, not the asterisks we’ve provided).

Fusaro doesn’t mind yoga, he’s quick to explain, but that’s not the point.

“If you’re gonna exercise, or you’re gonna do a sport, why would you do the same sh*t everybody else does?” he

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said. “You wanna try something different, have some fun.”

So what you do is hit a stack of tires with a baseball bat, for example, or try any of the other exercise machines that Fusaro creates at a small workbench behind the reception desk.

There’s a rowing machine mounted vertically on a pipe; a bench with hand-pedals he built after surfing on Hawaii (“I didn’t realize the hardest part about surfing was the paddling out, not standing on the board”); the “push-up gauntlet,” essentially a board with various handles and baseball balls attached to it, to stimulate different muscles doing the same basic exercise; and an umbrella stand fitted with a metal bar and weight handles — which used to include a golf club tied to it with a rubber band and was employed to train the upper-body strength of a golfer.

“I built this gym so that it’s something you wouldn’t see anywhere else,” Fusaro said, adding that many of the

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Artist’s Calligraphy Melds the Modern and Traditional

BY DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC When artist and performer Xu Zi decided to leave China and come to America, she left it to chance where she would settle.

“I [didn’t] know where I should go,” she recalled. “I, by myself, [made a] three-paper lotto: One city is Washington D.C., one city, Chicago, one city, New York. [I] got New York.

I said, ‘Okay, going to New York.’ ” It was 1988 when Xu Zi first moved to Queens and supported herself by teaching Mandarin to children. She eschewed schoolbooks, instead using classic Chinese poetry as her pedagogical tool.

Trained in traditional Chinese arts — calligraphy and music — she decided, after six years, to leave teaching and pursue art again.

“I like doing my arts,” she said. “I like creating new things.”

At her apartment in Greenwich Village, where she has lived for over 20 years, Xu Zi recently talked about her education in the arts, her work, and her current solo exhibition at the Jefferson Market Library.

When she was growing up out-

Photo by Dusica Sue Malesevic

Xu Zi in her Greenwich Village apartment, where she has lived for over 20 years.

side of Beijing, calligraphy wasn’t taught at school. At age seven, Xu Zi learned the art from her father and grandfather. They both thought the ancient art was important, she said, and explained that practitioners initially used feathers, not brushes.

She remembers her teacher’s reaction to her use of calligraphy to com-

plete her homework.

“My teacher hung [it] on the wall,” she recalled. “She said it [was] very unique, special.”

This encouraged Xu Zi, who said it gave her “good energy.” In addition to calligraphy, she also began studying classic Chinese music and instruments.

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However, Xu Zi expanded her repertoire and learned about Western opera. She likes to combine Eastern and Western, as well as modern and traditional styles in both her music and her art — a theme that persists to this day.

While still living in China, Xu Zi traveled to Vienna and Finland to perform her music. She said she was invited to sing because of her unique style. Not only did she sing, but Xu Zi was also a clothing designer.

So when an ABC reporter came to China, he asked her for an interview.

She still recalls the reporter’s words all these years later, as he suggested she should go to America.

Xu Zi has an open, positive outlook on life, as evidenced by her repeated use of the phrase “just do it” during our interview. So naturally, when the ABC reporter said she should move to America, she said, “Sure, why not?”

To leave communist China in 1988 was not an easy task for most, but Xu Zi said it was not difficult for her to

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Ex-Boxer Fights for Chelsea Gym to Go the Distance

Photos by Yannic Rack

Heavy hitter: Jimmy Fusaro has built his gym around ideals of discipline and no-nonsense workouts, with an emphasis on a personally tailored experience.

Continued from page 1 machines were in fact contrived for individual clients.

He credits the creative handiwork to his jobs in construction in the ’80s and ’90s, but the training philosophy behind his gym, which he opened in 2001, owes more to his athletic background.

Fusaro embarked on a boxing career in 1979, at age 18, throwing punches at the YDA (Youth Directions & Alternative), a community center in Huntington, Long Island, where he grew up.

In his third week there, he said, a reporter from a local paper came to the gym to do a story on another guy fighting in the Empire State Games. He needed a sparring partner for a photo-op, and Fusaro was the same size, so they put a pair of gloves on him, shoved a mouthpiece in his face and told him to try and not get killed in the ring.

“They were in the other corner, doing the photos, and the bell rings and he just comes flying and wailing away, ‘Boom, Boom, Boom,’ ” Fusaro recalled, leaning on the ropes of his present-day boxing ring and replaying the fight with his fists in the air. “He stopped for a sec-

Much of the equipment at the gym is built by Fusaro himself, but you won’t have to look hard for standard-issue boxing gym equipment.

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ond, I guess to admire his work, and I punched him right in the nose, ‘Boom,’ he wobbled. And I hit him again and he went down.”

They stopped the sparring demo when his opponent was bleeding all over the floor, according to Fusaro, because his big fight was later that week.

“That’s when they started working with me,” Fusaro said with a smirk. “I got a crash course.”

A few years later he became a full-time amateur boxer, joining the Suffolk Police Athletic Club and entering the Golden Gloves championship, where he won his first fight with a 54-second knockout.

In the 1990s, he also embarked on a professional kickboxing career — but was sidelined from all competitive sports by a diabetes diagnosis, at age 34.

But the crushing blow to his fighting ambitions also meant his career in the training world kicked off. After a move to Manhattan in 1996, Fusaro found work as a personal trainer, as well as a boxing and kickboxing instructor — first at the New York Sports Club, and later Equinox.

Today he doesn’t like to dwell on his athletic career, even though he still displays some of his trophies on one wall of the gym, along with a framed pair of green trunks signed by world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier.

“What I built here, that’s what I think about every day,” he said. “That’s my source of pride.”

His hands-on approach — he’s the only coach at his gym and offers onehour personal training sessions — has earned him some longtime clients.

One of them, Vera Konig, has been coming to X-Fit for nine years.

At 73, she still leaves her Upper East Side apartment twice a week to train with Fusaro, going through boxing routines and sweating it on the workout machines.

“I’m gonna tell you, I swear by this guy,” she said during a recent morning session. “I also swear at him,” she added with a laugh.

Konig, an avid tennis player, describes Fusaro’s training as “purpose-

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A pair of watchful eyes evaluates your workout, as Robert De Niro stares down from a poster for “Raging Bull” — Scorsese’s kinetic Jake LaMotta biopic. .com

Google Neighbor Searching for Some Peace Continued from page 1 and, indeed, one of the most powerful entities in the world.

Located between Eighth and Ninth Aves., and W. 15th and W. 16th Sts., the Google Building (111 Eighth Ave.) has been abuzz with ear-splitting activity, late into the night and through the early morning hours.

A neighbor of the Google Building, Daniel (who requested his last name be withheld) brought the issue to the attention of Chelsea Now in mid-December, via email. A resident of 305 W. 16th St. (adjacent to the Google Building), he began to notice the noise being emitted from the building after removing his AC unit.

The source of the disturbance was a number of large trucks, situated in the building’s loading docks (right outside Daniel’s apartment), which were being used to get rid of debris from the 10th floor (such as metal rods and pipes).

Some of the trucks also had motorized compactors to crush the debris at the site, further exacerbating the level of noise.

Daniel believes the source of this problem is the site’s AHV — a permit that allows construction to happen at a site after normal working hours (such as nights and weekends), ostensibly because the work wouldn’t be possible (or unadvisable due to safety concerns) during regular times. The AHV for 111 Eighth Ave., which is granted by the Department of Buildings (DOB), allows for construction to go on until 2 a.m. on weekdays, as well as from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays, in order to allow access to the building’s elevators that wouldn’t be possible during normal work hours.

In addition, the AHV form indicates that “all work [is] being done within an enclosed building.” And while most of

the construction is indeed taking place indoors, the loading docks open out into the street, and remain so throughout construction — meaning the noise from the trucks is not at all mitigated. In addition, trucks often spill out from the docks and onto the street proper — all of which does not exactly align with the term “enclosed.”

Daniel shared with Chelsea Now a video of such an occurrence, depicting construction taking place at 11:30 p.m. near the loading docks. It clearly shows one truck, parked on the street just outside the docks, making a racket as debris is thrown in and compressed.

Daniel, who complained about such incidents in early November, also claims that, aside from a handful of days, the work occurred every night for the three months prior to mid-December. One of the days when the work did not occur, he notes, was Dec. 16, the night when DOB reps came to check out the property — something he suspects was too coincidental to be an accident.

Furthermore, the AHV for the work has been renewed through at least Jan. 11 — just as it has been renewed on a near-weekly basis since the spring of 2015.

“It’s not reasonable for them to have rubber stamped AHVs given to them every week, in perpetuity until two in the morning,” said Daniel of the AHVs, which the DOB has been granting far more frequently city-wide recently, as Chelsea Now has previously reported.

“And even if work is to end at 11 or 11:30 [p.m.], that work is still extremely disturbing to neighbors, especially those who need to wake up earlier in the day to get to work.” (Daniel’s job requires him to be awake at 5 a.m.)

To try to remedy the problem, Daniel reached out to the office of Councilmember Corey Johnson, after

Photo by Sean Egan

To the right of the Google building’s facade stretches W. 16th St., where Daniel’s apartment overlooks the disruptive work.

using avenues such as 311 (along with other tenants) and trying to talk to the DOB and representatives from Taconic Management, LLC (which manages the Google Building) yielded no tangible results. Through the efforts of Johnson’s office, John Waldman of the DOB reached out to Benchmark Builders, the contractor doing the work, to address the complaints.

A response letter from Benchmark to Waldman states that “the substantial

demolition activities that were generating the excessive amounts of debris [the 10th floor project] were completed approximately 11/23/15,” and that garbage removal only occurs about twice a week from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Daniel challenges these claims, saying the trash removal work is regularly conducted far later than 8:30 p.m. — and that while the 10th floor may be completed, there’s

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A view of the nighttime work and trucks at the Google Building’s loading docks, located across from 305 W. 16th St. .com

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Broadway Producers Get Big (Tax) Break

BY JACKSON CHEN Investors in Broadway productions are now allowed significant new tax breaks through a recently signed federal law expected to incentivize the creation of more Broadway shows and other live theater nationwide.

The Support Theater in America Growth and Expansion (STAGE) Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 18 and will allow theater investors to claim tax breaks the same year they invest. The more immediate tax deduction would allow investors to recover capital quickly and continue to invest in what they bet will be the next Broadway hit.

“Very simply, if you invest, you should be able to deduct that investment,” said New York Senator Chuck Schumer, adding that investments would be creating more theater jobs.

Prior to the law, Broadway producers would take their risk by investing their money into a play, but were only able to claim deductions as shows incurred matching expenses. That accounting approach tied up producers’ capital for years at a time, and it also meant they might be liable for tax gains on a show’s profits before enjoying their full expense deduction.

“It takes years sometimes before Broadway shows will make a profit,” Schumer said. “It discouraged people from investing and it discouraged people from producing.”

Instead of enduring the waiting game, the STAGE Act allows producers to get same-year tax deductions on their hefty contributions to the creation of live theater.

“It doesn’t cost dollars or tens,” said Jeffrey Seller, a three-time Tony Awardwinning producer, of financing shows on Broadway. “It costs thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands to develop new shows.”

Seller said he expects the new law to incentivize people to pursue funding more shows since they would immediately get the benefit of their deductions.

He invested in several recent theater hits, including “In the Heights” and “Hamilton,” both of which were created by and feature Broadway’s latest supernova, Lin-Manuel Miranda.

“This frees up capital to start developing the next show for all of the different investors who want to take capital and invest in the next Lin-Manuel,” Seller said.

Seller took a big risk in backing the Washington Heights-based musical

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Photos by Jackson Chen

Actor Brad Oscar, in character as Nostradamus from “Something Rotten,” thanks Senator Chuck Schumer for his leadership on the new STAGE Act.

“In the Heights” in 2007, according to Miranda’s father, Luis.

“To put a show like ‘In the Heights’ on stage, it costs millions and millions of dollars,” the senior Miranda said. “For an unknown person at that point, like my son Lin-Manuel Miranda, someone had to take risks and the risks were higher when there aren’t the tax provisions to help that producer.”

Film and television studios and producers were already afforded the benefits the STAGE Act provides, and the new law works to level the playing field by including live theater productions in the breaks provided by the federal tax code.

“Until now, the live theater industry has been severely disadvantaged because of the treatment under the Internal Revenue Code,” said Robert Wankel, chair of the Broadway League. “Our investors who may have been fortunate enough to produce a profitable show faced tax liabilities before they even earn their money back.”

Wankel, who also is the president and co-CEO of the Shubert Organization, said the situation before the passage of the STAGE Act left promising Broadway shows with a predicament.

“When your business model requires you to go out and seek investors to risk their money, that’s an extremely difficult position to be in,” Wankel said. “You have to tell potential backers that in addition to the severe risk involved, they may be subject to tax payments before

Harvey Weinstein, who already enjoys the kinds of tax breaks afforded by the STAGE Act in his film industry work, talks about the benefits it will provide when he invests in live theater.

they even turn a profit.”

The new law, which was introduced

by Schumer, the state’s senior US senator, allows theater investors to claim immediate tax breaks for up to $15 million in their investments in theater productions. According to the law, 75 percent of whatever investors put in must be used for services in the United States to promote the growth of theater-related jobs at home.

Broadway buffs are hoping the new change will boost the expanding industry.

According to the Broadway League, attendance in the 2014-2015 season reached 13.1 million patrons for Broadway theaters. The league’s numbers also showed that Broadway contributed $12 billion to the city’s economy and provided approxi-

mately 87,000 local jobs.

“This is a good year for Broadway, but they’re not all good years,” Schumer said. “In a sense, this is our insurance policy in a bad year, which we hope we never have.”

Longtime Broadway actor Brad Oscar, who is currently playing Nostradamus in “Something Rotten!,” quipped it was not his show but the old federal tax code instead that was “something rotten.” But with the new law in place, Oscar thanked Schumer on behalf of the Broadway community.

“I see high drama and theatricality and it has nothing to do with the Republicans, no,” Oscar heartily joked, in character as Nostradamus. “It’s new shows on the Broadway.” .com

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Continued from page 1 and thanked everyone for making time for the meeting.

Irizarry began by reviewing some crime numbers from 2015. She stated that, regrettably, the community was going to finish the year with more index crimes than the year prior — an overall 4.3% increase.

According to the crime statistics outlined in the CompStat report (made available online by the NYPD’s CompStat Unit), the 1,012 total crime complaints reported in 2014 went up to 1,056 in 2015. This uptick includes a 4.7% increase in grand larcenies, with 704 reported incidents in 2014 rising to 737 in 2015; a 14.8% increase in robberies, with 88 reported incidents in 2014 rising to 101; and a 57.1% increase in rapes, with 7 reported incidents in 2014 rising to 11.

“Of course that’s an alarming figure when you see that we are up 57 percent in rapes,” Irizarry said.

However, she noted that she had also observed a change in the type of rape crimes being reported.

“I actually looked at the rapes for our year to date [2015], and the overwhelming majority of them are not your — I don’t want to say — ‘traditional rape,’ where, you know, someone is accosted by a stranger on the street,” she said.

“It’s more of — ‘I met a guy at a bar, and went back to his hotel or he .com

came back to my apartment, and I woke up and he was gone, and, like, my pants were down, and I think something may have happened.’ Those are the kind of the rapes that we experience here in Chelsea, and I think that’s a result of a lot of the nightlife here, and that’s [the presence of nightlife] not going to change.”

Yet, despite these startling numbers, Irizarry assured the attendees that she and her team have been continuously strategizing ways to improve the safety of the community. In explaining her upcoming plans, she said, “We may tweak some of our deployment, and we’re contemplating adding a foot post along Eighth Avenue, just to see if that has any positive consequences in terms of reducing crime.”

Irizarry also emphasized the success her team has met in the past year, especially at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Artichoke Basille’s Pizza (457 W. 17th St., btw.

Ninth & 10th Aves.) — two establishments that were the repeated scenes of grand larcenies.

After working closely with the Security Director at the Javits Center and increasing security around Artichoke Basille’s, Irizarry stated that she and her team have been very successful in taking the crime numbers down at both locations.

“Even though we’re finishing the year off, we’ve done a lot of work and

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Bad horsemanship Re “Letters to the Editor” (Dec. 31, 2015): To the Editor: I am shocked at the letter in your recent publication by Andrew Alpern and feel the need to address it. It is one thing to have lively debate on an issue [horse carriages], but quite another to allow such nasty and unwarranted gratuitous criticism.

For one thing, please stop using the word “iconic” to describe this losing, cruel business. It is anything but. This was a self-serving phrase that was purposely coined several years ago by the carriage trade to describe themselves. Such an inhumane and cruel business can never be iconic.

It is true that the hack line is just outside Central Park, but why is the writer foolishly defending it? It is a death trap and the site of many accidents. That can never be denied. Try moving that hack line to inside the park and you will see a foot banging child’s tantrum ensuing from the carriage drivers.

The nonsense about pigeons and horses is a stretch. The drivers often allow the horse carriages to run over and kill the pigeons while they are trying to eat the horses’ oats. We have seen this cruelty many times. No good horseman would ever allow contaminated pigeon droppings in his horse’s food, and that is exactly what is happening here. This is yet another reason why this business needs to come to an end. Bad and greedy horsemanship.

This industry could not exist with without lies, union and media support.

Marie Richardson

Please, no free range sex offenders Re “We’re All Sex Offenders Who Haven’t Been Caught” (Talking Point, Nov. 26, 2015): To the Editor: I agree with many of Lenore Skenazy’s ideas on “free range children.” However, I do disagree with much of her article.

I worked for over 30 years, in my home state of Wisconsin, in the prevention of all types of child abuse, sexual assault, and family violence. I helped change the laws in the state and set up services for victims of various types of family violence and sexual assault. I also counseled victims.

States have different laws governing the age of consent. In general, I believe that in most states a 14-year-old is not capable of giving consent. That was the age of the victim in her article. The perpetrator was 19. In all probability, a jail sentence plus becoming a registered sex offender was not a necessary sentence in this case. His decision to have sex with a 14-year-old was not a wise one. But the sentence was way out of proportion. Perhaps he might have benefited from counseling. This might have helped determine if there was a pattern in the age difference between him and selected sex partners.

Certainly a five-year difference would not have mattered if the difference was between people in their 20s or older. But if he always sought partners in their early teens, this might indicate a problem that needed mental health intervention.

Now as far as the 14 year old giving “consent” — this is meaningless in terms of the law in most states. And there is a good reason for that. Imagine if the perpetrator was in his 20s or older. Or imagine if the perpetrator was in a position of

authority — a teacher, scoutmaster, coach, or religious leader.

What if he or she claimed that a 14-year-old had given “consent?” I suspect most of us would agree that such consent did not matter — whether under the law, morally, or both.

As for perpetrators being kept beyond the terms of their sentence, there is reason for that. There are no uniform laws regarding sexual offenses. Each state has it own laws. I think most of us agree that sexual offenses, such as rape or sexual molestation of a child, are the most heinous of crimes next to murder. Yet many offenders are let out after a few years.

There is plenty of evidence that molesters continue to molest. They may have been caught after actually molesting several victims. They just haven’t been caught or reported before. So the public is naturally concerned that such offenders will continue their crimes, even after incarceration has ended. Frankly, instead of enacting a legally questionable sequestering of the perpetrator after the sentence is served, it would be better to give the perpetrator a true life sentence.

I do agree with Ms. Skenazy, as I said before, that sex between teens should be treated differently than that between a teen and an older offender. Even if there is some evidence that the teen perpetrator does show some indication of being a potential sexual molester, he or she is still at an age where psychological intervention might help, rather than incarceration.

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When That New Year’s Resolution Becomes Toast • Positive I need more butter-slathered toast.

• No! Positive about life! And health! And exercise! Like, I am positively glad I just joined the gym for a full year starting, um, let me check … Saturday?! I’ve already wasted almost a week of this ridiculous, overpriced gym filled with torture equipment and people who look like they should be doing Dasani ads?

BY LENORE SKENAZY Readers: Right about now, you may be feeling bad about the resolutions you’ve already broken, crushed into a million pieces and washed down with a pint of Banana Chocolate Swirl Talenti.

But there’s no need to hate your ice-cream-addicted, never-getahead, willpower-of-a-gnat (who doesn’t exercise) self. No indeed!

A year-long resolution is simply too hard! The trick is to clear your mind and resolve to spend just two hours as the new you. All you need is a new “Post-New Year’s, TwoHours-Only Resolution.”

It’s easy! Here’s how I did it. As of Jan. 4, 9:30 am, I re-resolved that: • I will not eat a second breakfast, right down to the extra buttery toast, with the excuse that, “I get my best work done right after a satisfying breakfast!”

• But…buttery toast. Mmm...

• No, no, no! They say that after you do something for 30 days, it becomes a habit. So if I can just spend the next two hours being good, that’s like 30 days on Mercury, right?

• And then I’ll be trim and healthy and positive! .com

• When all there really was, was me — walking around the exercise room right before New Years, checking it out, imagining me so buff I’m no longer about to pass out on 63rd St., when the escalator isn’t working up from the F train (ahem, MTA). And then I decided, “Yes! I’ll join for the free January and then be stuck paying through the nose for the next 11 months.”

• Okay. Reset. The joyous exercisers are not “them.” They are me. I will become one of them. Hello, yoga for beginners!

• Although, are there actually any yoga beginners left, besides me? I remember trying yoga once so long ago, it was before some cynical yogi came up with the idea of yoga mats — something you have to buy to do something that about a billion people do every day who live on lentils.

Do you suppose they scrimp and save so that one glorious day, God willing, forget about replacing the dead goat, they can buy a yoga mat?

• Or yoga pants?

• Can you believe that stupid gym?

Filled with sweaty hypocrites who can’t stop gulping water, wearing pants that cost more than a microloan that could give the children fresh goat milk every day and lift the entire family out of poverty? No way am I going there! For exercise, I’ll just start getting off the subway one stop earlier.

• A stop with a working escalator.

• I will also quit reading my e-mails when I should be — wow,

this prince in Nigeria needs help securing his insurance windfall!

— concentrating.

• What’s more, I will spend at least part of my day at my desk standing, since sitting is the new smoking.

• Or maybe I just won’t start smoking. Or even vape. Because vaping is the new smoking, too, except no one can agree if it’s going to kill you or just make someone want to kill you because you’re such a poser.

• Question: How hip is it to smell like a grape Tootsie Pop? • Resolve: I will not keep drifting off topic! I will concentrate on eating better, exercising more, and focusing on my toast.

• Work, I mean! Focusing on my work! I will also read more books, call my relatives, write thank you notes and — OMG! Notes!

• I will mail out my holiday cards!

• Ok, yes, yes, I will also write them first. Jeez. And put them in envelopes. What am I, Superman?

I suppose you think I should find a bunch of stamps, too? Which would mean digging through the stationery drawer, which no one has successfully dug through since stamps came in a roll and you had to lick them. They had prices on them, too. Speaking of which, how many 37-cent stamps does it take to mail a holiday card around mid-January?

• Presidents Day is a holiday too, you know. I’ll just say, “Happy Presidents Day” on them. It’s my personal toast to our presidents.

•TOAST!!!

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POLICE BLOTTER GRAND LARCENY: Boozy Bandit’s Bottle Break-in A thief might have been prepping for a high-end blowout of a party on Sun., Dec. 27, at about 8 p.m. That’s when the owner of The Leonora (525 W. 29th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.) noticed that a refrigerator with a lock and latch had been tampered with, to the point where there was enough space for a bottle to squeeze out. And that’s exactly what happened — 16 times, and with a healthy variety of alcohol — as the unknown thief made off with $5,608 worth of liquor. Cameras were present but, unfortunately, not operational.

CRIMINAL MISCHEIF: Snorkel Smasher Stranger Than Fiction Sometimes in New York, reality can be crazier than fi ction. That was the case when an 18-year-old man, clad in sunglasses and a snorkel (and reportedly intoxicated, according to the witness, an employee) entered The Diner (44 Ninth Ave., at W. 14th St.) at about 9:45 p.m. on Mon., Dec. 28 and asked to speak to the restaurant’s manager. The staff (understandably) denied the request, and when the perp refused to leave, an unknown patron escorted him out.

Upon his ousting, he threw an empty helium tank through the window, and fled the scene on foot.

GRAND LARCENY, CRIMINAL MISCHEIF: Break Me Two Times, Baby Police are eyeing the same suspect for two W. 17th St. car breakins on Mon., Dec. 28. The first happened to the 2010 gray Toyota Corolla owned by a 22-year-old Nassau County woman visiting the Highline Ballroom (431 W. 16th St., btw. Ninth & 10th Aves.). Upon returning to her car at 7:30 p.m., which was parked outside 333 W. 17th St., she found her rear passenger window broken (damages valued at over $250), and $160 worth of stuff stolen — including gift cards

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Eighth & Ninth Aves.) broken as well (again, over $250 in damages).

Apparently, the criminal thought a nightcap was in order after a night of break-ins, as he also took five bottles of wine (valued at $150) with him when he left.

PETIT LARCENY: Candy Criminal Caught It seems as though a 50-year-old man’s sweet tooth had a hand in doing him in. Just after midnight on Tues., Dec. 29, at a Food Emporium (452 W. 43rd St., btw. Ninth & 10th Aves.), security witnessed him attempting to remove about $226 worth of merchandise from the shop: five packages of Dove soap at $9 each, two containers of Folgers Coffee ($14), and a whopping $160 worth of Godiva chocolate. The man was promptly arrested, before he could enjoy any of his ill-gotten goodies.

ASSAULT: New Year’s Brawl Hopefully, the new year will only get better for an unfortunate Westchester County man, whose 2016 got off to a violently inauspicious start when he tried to hail a taxi at about 4:50 a.m. on Fri., Jan. 1. The 23-year-old was entering a cab in front of 225 W. 14th St. (btw.

Sixth & Seventh Aves.), when he got into a verbal altercation with a couple. The situation escalated to the point where the male perp, 33, repeatedly struck him with a closed fist (causing bruises and swelling) and then wrapped his arms around the victim’s neck (causing him to fall unconscious). Meanwhile the female perp, 24, struck him with her stiletto heel, lacerating the victim so badly that he required 14 staples to mend the wound. Fortunately, police canvassed the area and ended up arresting the two, after a witness positively identified them.

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The AHV most recently renewed by DOB, with Benchmark’s name on it, as well as the permitted work hours.

Councilmember Cites Agreement to Curtail Days, Hours of Google Building Work Continued from page 5 work plans for the building well into 2016, and their noise had been disturbing beyond Nov. 23.

For their part, Taconic stated they were unaware of any issues related to the site more recent than the November complaints. Chris MacArthur, Senior Property Manager of 111 Eighth Ave. for Taconic, told Chelsea Now that following the complaints in November, they moved up the time when the debris removal began, and reiterated that the 10th floor project was completed around Nov. 23. He also stated that while there is still work going on in building, he was unaware of the other interior work that was causing noise disturbances, or any other complaints beyond the November work.

He also noted that Taconic itself was not the entity that filed for the permits and paperwork for the job, including the AHV. That fell on the contractor doing the work, Benchmark Builders. The most recent AHV renewals for the site corroborate this claim.

Furthermore, Corey Johnson’s office has had contact with Taconic in hopes of remedying the situation.

“It’s a big building and there’s a lot they have to manage,” Daniel conceded of Taconic, “but there’s a certain level of courtesy and care that should be taken, especially in Chelsea.” He also decried the DOB for giving out permits carelessly in the first place, and noted the “city

doesn’t have really good control over what’s going on.”

In a statement on the situation, Councilmember Corey Johnson said: “Residents have a right to the quiet enjoyment of their homes. Construction work should not take place in the evening, and exceptions should be made only in special circumstances, when it is unavoidable. I’m encouraged that the management of 111 Eighth Avenue has agreed to curtail the days and hours that work takes place, and I look forward to working with them and the building’s neighbors to ensure that this happens.”

While it’s heartening that it seems progress is being made on the issue, the situation boils down to this: For a few months, the terms of the AHV and the meaning of “enclosed building” have been interpreted quite liberally by the contractor — and the DOB, as well as the building managers, did not address the issue sufficiently while the work continued. The ones suffering are those who live in the surrounding area, forced to listen to construction noise. To Daniel, and indeed many across the city, it’s an upsetting trend.

“It’s such an incredible city and an incredible neighborhood with a lot of history that has really good quality of life for its residents,” Daniel observed, lamenting that it may “become severely deteriorated because of these rubber stamp permits that are being issued, without the care, and then lack of consideration for their neighbors.” .com

Xu Zi’s ‘Pop-ink’ on View at the Jefferson Market Library Continued from page 2 get a visa to America because she was in no way political. Her application was accepted, and she made the leap, despite not knowing any English.

“I like America,” she said. “I think America [has] much better freedom than China.”

She also likes living in New York City, which she said is unique and multi-cultural, as well as a center for art.

In 1990, she met her future husband, who worked on Wall St. at the time. She said she didn’t really care that he worked in finance — which was always the government’s purview in China, not an individual’s, she noted, recalling how people made 35 renminbi (equal to $6) for a month’s pay.

After she stopped teaching, Xu Zi set up in Battery Park (now known as The Battery), and created calligraphy for tourists and natives alike. She met

people from many different countries, and word about her work spread.

Nine years ago, enforcement of the rules about artists working in parks changed, and Xu Zi was kicked out of The Battery. She said she now only goes to work in the parks when the weather is nice.

“I just miss the customers,” she said. “Customers miss me. I miss the smiling people.”

Now, Xu Zi sells her work through her website. People from 69 countries — including Canada, Germany, England, Australia, Argentina — have bought her art.

She said customers participate in her creative process. For example, a person may write a poem or a line, and from that Xu Zi creates a sample work. She does something very interesting: she uses English words, but makes them look like Chinese characters. When the customer approves the design and agrees on the price, she creates the work and sends it to them.

Courtesy of the artist

As a street artist, Xu Zi has taken poems or phrases from customers, to create works using English words made to appear like Chinese characters.

Xu Zi also creates other art, and her solo show at the Jefferson Market Library is titled “Pop-ink” — a reference to Andy Warhol’s influence on her and the show.

Like most of her oeuvre, the show will demonstrate how she mixes the modern and traditional. One piece called “Musings on the Era of Super Speed” displays the word “muse,” but with the letters almost on top of one another, evoking Chinese calligraphy.

The @ symbol obscures and floats

around the letters.

Xu Zi said she is very happy to have her work displayed at the historically significant library.

“Pop-ink” is on view through January, in the Little Underground Gallery at the Jefferson Market Library (corner of Sixth Ave. & W. 10th St.). Library hours: Mon– Thurs., 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Sun., 11 a.m.–5 p.m. For info, call 212-243-4334 or visit nypl. org./locations/jefferson-market.

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X-Fit Marks the Spot for Sweat and Results Continued from page 4 ful.” Last year she had both her knees replaced, but was back in the gym less than two months after the surgery.

“He helped me through it,” she said.

“And he’s helped me age gracefully.”

Fusaro will train anyone with the will to put in the work, and he also teaches boxing, American rule kickboxing, and Muay Thai. At one point he coached parole officers as a defensive tactics instructor — one of the dummies he built for them still leans in a corner — and his current client roster includes the likes of David Rhodes, president of the School of Visual Arts, talk show host Carson Daly, and celebrity chefs April Bloomfield and Mario Batali, to name just a few.

Nonetheless, Fusaro fears this might be his last year on the mat — with so many competitors opening up all around him, business is often hard to come by.

“There was nobody here but me, in this whole area. Now, if you go from this corner to Seventh Avenue, you got SoulCycle, there’s a Thai boxing guy, there’s a couple of spots that do oneon-ones, the two buildings on the end each have gyms,” he said, pointing in all directions.

“It’s just that the market is saturated.

The Equinoxes, the Planet Fitnesses, the small little gyms that open up left and right. It’s just killing the business.”

He also thinks there’s a generational gap to blame. “The millennials, if they can’t do it in a group, they won’t show up,” he said, launching right into a related anecdote from when he went to a fight a few weeks ago — and was baffled by the attitude of the young boxers there.

“Even the kids who lost were doing all these selfies on their iPhones,” he said. “They just got their ass beat, but it’s going on their Facebook, their Instagram, their Twitter, their Snapchat.”

For anyone looking to get in shape for the New Year, he recommended taking up a sport — or at least doing some research first.

“Start with an easy workout and work your way into it,” he said. “I always recommend a smaller workout, three basic exercises: pushups, crunches, body-weight squats. Do ten of each, three times. If you don’t mind doing that — and you can do it right in your own apartment — then you should think about joining a gym. Don’t just go .com

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Konig has been coming to work out with Fusaro for the last nine years, and can be seen here sweating it on one of the trainer’s self-engineered machines.

Between the movie posters and signed boxing paraphernalia on the walls of his gym, Fusaro also keeps some remnants of his own career in the ring.

without figuring out what you wanna do, because a lot of times you’ll be disappointed and never go back.”

He couldn’t resist throwing in a Jimmy Fusaro-style piece of advice, however.

“The thing about New Year’s resolutions is, don’t make ’em,” he said.

“If you don’t make the resolutions, you don’t have to worry about breaking ’em.”

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Grand Larceny Sites Get Special Attention Continued from page 7 there’s a lot more work to be done in 2016. We’re looking forward to the challenges,” Irizarry said. “We’re going to make sure that the citizens of Chelsea are safe, and that our communities are getting the services that we have promised them.”

Before closing the meeting, Irizarry opened the floor to the public and asked if anyone had questions or concerns to be addressed. One resident, who introduced herself as Phyllis from Penn South, explained that it took three years for her neighbors and herself to get a split-phase light installed on the corner of W. 25th St. and Eighth Ave. “I want to thank the Tenth Precinct for your help in getting the split-phase light,” she said. “But there is an issue with this light, and the issue is that what should be a green direction [signal] for the cars to turn left to go west is like a yellow. What’s also going on at the same time is that there is a bike lane between the turning car, and [the

bike lane’s] light is still green. So we’ve been told by a couple of people driving at one mile an hour and making this turn, and a bike shooting out. This is an accident waiting to happen,” Phyllis said.

Irizarry then assured her that there would be a solution to this issue, perhaps by working out the wiring of the lights. “This is a problem that the DOT [Department of Transportation] needs to fix, and it seems to be an easy fix, once we give them a phone call,” she said.

Lt. Peter Benekas, who stood near Irizarry, also stated that he would look into the light the next day.

At the conclusion of the meeting, O’Neill reminded everyone that the next meeting — the first of 2016 — would be held at the 10th Precinct station, on Jan. 27, at 7 p.m.

“Bring your friends, please,” he emphasized. “This is your opportunity to be heard, and we look forward to having more people. That being said, it’s been a pleasure working with everyone, and seeing everyone at the end of every month,” Irizarry said.

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Do Androids Dream of Village East?

Fest brings Philip K. Dick’s themes to the screen

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The Mongolian Emperor becomes obsessed with the Sea of Tranquility in “Genghis Kahn Conquers the Moon.”

BY SEAN EGAN While most may only know Philip K. Dick for the plethora of big-budget spectacles based on his writings — often loosely, and inconsistent in quality (see “Blade Runner,” “Minority Report” and both versions of “Total Recall”) — he has long been a titan among science fiction fans, and for good reason.

“I was absolutely taken aback,” Daniel Abella recalls of his first time reading Dick’s work. “Something about Philip K. Dick almost hit me as sort of a gnostic sci-fi writer, someone trying to answer the fundamental questions that, basically, many western philosophers have tried to deal with for all these thousands of years.”

After Abella’s fandom inspired the organization of a small screening in 2011 that was very warmly received, and after he realized Hollywood adaptations never quite captured the heart and themes of the author’s work, he recalls thinking, “Well this is an opportunity to show the other side of Philip K. Dick.”

The result was the Philip K. Dick

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Science Fiction Film Festival, of which Abella serves as Festival Director. Now in its fourth year, the four-day fest boasts 80 films from all over the world.

While the content and format of these features, shorts and documentaries vary wildly, there’s an underlying ideology to the selections.

“We like films that are not just splashy and visually attractive,” says Abella, “but with a story — particularly, stories that really challenge and ask who we are as humans, where we’re going.

It’s not just about action films, and Tom Cruise jumping from rooftop to rooftop. It’s about something more interior, more internal, a little bit less dramatic, but nevertheless very important. This is what really gives us a sense of purpose.”

This much is clear in a number of short films on the schedule. “The Future Perfect,” a time-travel narrative, is able to prod at questions about love and the value of human life by using little more than one on-screen actor, a sparse, futuristic set, and the disembodied voice of Zachary Quinto (putting his

Spock monotone to good use). The central figure in “Requiem for a Robot” is a robot constructed primarily from cardboard boxes, but manages to consider artificial intelligence and interpersonal relationships seriously.

Meanwhile, even those that have more of an emphasis on visual effects use them as an aid to exploring headier ideas, as is the case in “Bears Discover Fire” (based on the Terry Bisson story), and the at-once loopy and meditative “Genghis Kahn Conquers the Moon.”

In addition to shorts, the festival includes the NYC premieres of three narrative feature films: “The Incident,” starring Raúl Méndez (of Netflix’s “Narcos” and “Sense8”); “Chatter,” a film concerning a Homeland Security agent monitoring a couple’s video chats and discovering their home is haunted; and “Counter Clockwise,” a dark comedy/mystery involving time travel and familial murder. Three feature documentaries will also be shown, including one on Philip K. Dick himself. The judges of this year’s films are sci-fi lumi-

naries David Brin, David Hartwell and Paul Levinson.

“The central focus of the festival is film, but then we also have panels and new media,” notes Abella — one example of the latter being a demo of the Dick inspired video game, “Californium.”

“One of the things that ran through Philip K. Dick is [that] reality is not as solid as it appears to be,” observes Abella — and the first-person game gets to the heart of this, as players control a writer navigating a shifting, 3D California landscape. “It’s not just a game where the objective is body count,” Abella notes. “It’s about entering multiple realities.”

The idea of a fluid reality and multiple points of view extend to the festival’s panels — which have, in previous incarnations, included discussions on ethnic diversity in science fiction and a talk on time travel from University of Connecticut professor Dr. Ronald Mallet.

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Just Do Art The festival-focused edition

BY SCOTT STIFFLER

THE STEM FEST How do you wrap your head around the weighty topics of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics? Well, first, you give it an acronym — STEM — and then you challenge experts in each field to deliberately expose themselves to the show business bug. The result is a noble, if somewhat unpredictable, experiment known as the STEM Fest, in which said number crunchers and lab rats collaborate with storytellers, comedians, playwrights, and musicians.

On the fest’s opening night, Jan. 7, “Long Story Long” (7 p.m.) has teacher, host, and STEM educator Eli Reiter expanding the slice-of-life narrative format you’ll find at showcases like The Moth into 30-minute storytelling sessions. Joining Reiter for half-hour endeavors of their own will be Jeanne Garbarino, a Ph.D. in metabolic biology who serves as Director of Science Outreach at Rockefeller University, and Herman Pontzer, a professor of Anthropology at Hunter College who lists “drinking beer” among his interests (when he’s not investigating energy expenditure among Hadza hunter-gatherers in northern Tanzania). At 10 p.m., “This Week in Science: The Kickass Science & Technology Tour” is a stage version of the weekly web and radio show that injects opinion and irreverence into the past seven days’ worth of notable developments in the broad, bold, titular field of inquiry. Kirsten “Dr. Kiki” Sanford brings her doctorate in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology to the table, along with a sassy attitude — and is joined by part-time car salesman and self-proclaimed “opinionologist and science enthusiast” Justin Jackson. Zoologist and giant panda disrespector Blair Bazdarich rounds out the trio. These west coast folks made the trip to NYC just to be in STEM — so be nice, and buy them a drink at the venue’s very own in-theater bar!

Drinks bought in-house are also a must, for the Sat., Jan. 16, 8 p.m. show — when the roving Astronomy on Tap series touches down at STEM, on a mission to mix alcohol-based brain cell murder with grey matter-building infotainment with their “Pop Science!” presentation. It will discuss things like genetic engineering, cybernetics, space explo.com

ration, neuroscience, and microbiology — along with installments of audience favorites, like the sobering Countdown to World Robot Domination. DJ Carly Sagan and MC Tycho Brewhaha reward your knowledge (or at least your spirited participation) with prizes from the trove of Neil Tyson’s Trash Treasures. This tipsy foolishness is all for a good cause: proceeds will benefit Astronomy on Tap’s free NYC events and DonorsChoose.org.

On Sat., Jan. 9, beginning at 1 p.m., the STEM Fest offers a decidedly more family-friendly event. The stage and video educational organization Conservation Theater teams up with Wildlife Theater (The Wildlife Conservation Society and Central Park Zoo’s outreach program) and Jersey City’s Liberty Science Center for a “Cool Kids Conservation Celebration” — a day of live performances about animals, science, and how young audience members can use what they learn to make the planet a better place for wildlife, and our lives.

The STEM Fest takes place Thurs., Jan. 7–Wed., Jan. 16, at The Kraine Theater (85 E. Fourth St., btw. Second Ave. & Bowery). For tickets ($4–$18), visit horseTRADE.info.

Courtesy “This Week in Science”

The “This Week in Science” crew asks big questions about the news you missed during the past seven days — Jan. 7 at the STEM Fest.

GARY BUSEY’S ONE-MAN HAMLET AS PERFORMED BY DAVID CARL Writer and performer David Carl’s adaptation of “Hamlet”— as performed by actor and reality TV star Gary “You Can See the Crazy in His Eyes” Busey — is so very, very much more than an extended stop at the site of a celebrity trainwreck. Of course it’s got plenty of that, as Carl milks every drop of comedic potential out of the inspired premise: Busey mounts a one-man production of Shakespeare’s much-interpreted classic, in a bid to prove he’s survived working for Donald Trump with his “acting chops” still intact.

Focus, though, remains elusive, as Busey uses multimedia, hand-made puppets, beat poetry narration, and song to put a certifiably nutso spin on the melancholy, faux-crazy Dane’s daddy-issues revenge tale. Like some gullible members of the “Hamlet” cast, audiences and critics have been falling hook, line, and sinker for this show — which won the Outstanding Solo Performance

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Photo by Jeanette Sears

David Carl plays Gary Busey playing a Danish dude feigning insanity, in a version of “Hamlet” the Royal Shakespeare Company wouldn’t dare attempt.

Photo by Michele Becker

Deb Armelino and Marc Castle, on the verge of behavior that stays in the titular Nevada town of “Vanya Goes Vegas” — part of the WinterWorks oneact festival.

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They Came From The Cold: Winter A&E Fests Continued from page 19 Award at FringeNYC 2014, and will be touring the world this year to coincide with the 400th anniversary of William “He’d Either be Flattered or Horrified” Shakespeare’s death.

Thurs.–Sat., Jan. 14–16, 10:30 p.m., at the PIT Loft (154 W. 29th St., btw.

Sixth & Seventh Aves.). For info and tickets ($20), visit buseyhamlet.com.

WinterWorks: A FESTIVAL OF NEW ONE-ACT PLAYS At some point while touring in the 1975 production of “Shot in the Dark” with Patty Duke and John Astin, actors Robert Elston (1934-1987) and Elizabeth Perry made a pact that once home in NYC, they’d form “a workshop where theater artists could expand their abilities, reach into all areas of creativity in the theater, Photo by Chris Jensen and regain the breadth of expression that “Whitman Sings,” starring John Slade as Walt Whitman, is performed at Metropolitan Playhouse’s TranscendentalFest. was afforded ‘a simple player’ before the age of specialization.” Folk singer Susan Reed, old touring chums Astin and Duke, the founding members of The American American plays and performance pieces, Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel ARTC’s WinterWorks 2016 Festival is Hawthorne, Sarah and George Ripley, and Janet Hayes Walker (who would go Renaissance Theater Company. currently presenting 10 works running in Margaret Fuller, and others.

Still active and vital today, with the on to formLeslieLohman_MOD_12-2015.pdf the York Theatre Company) 1 12/8/2015 12:28:02 PM In a program of two short plays, Nina shared their vision — and were among expanded mission of developing new rep — all tackling, from different angles, the theme of transformation during and Davis’ “Leaving Brook Farm” charts after various phases of life. Program A what rises from the ashes after a March, zeroes in on the lines we draw (and cross) 1846 fire devastates a Utopian communito get by. Program B dissects the dynamics ty — while Toni Schlesinger’s “The Fifth of relationships, and Program C takes the Woman,” set in 1870, adds a plus-one theme into comedic, absurdist realms. to Louisa May Alcott’s famed novel by Through Mon., Jan. 18 in The Shop@ tasking an ambitious rookie reporter Cap 21 (sixth floor of 18 W. 18th St., btw. with following a hot tip that leads down Fifth & Sixth Aves). All performances a dark road. Walt Whitman’s work gets 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For put through the prism of gospel, hipthe schedule, visit americanrenaissan- hop and spoken word, in actor/vocalist cetheater.com. For tickets ($16 general John Slade’s “Whitman Sings.” Food for admission, $10 for ages 30 and under, thought as April 18, 2016 approaches $40 for the thee-program package), visit comes in the form of Dan Evans’ “The brownpapertickets.com (keyword, ARTC) Poll Tax Matter.” Set in Concord, MA, or call 800-838-3006. circa 1846, it gives the comedic treatment to Henry David Thoreau’s night in jail, after refusing to pony up money to THE TranscendentalFest AT the state — as, he maintains, a protest METROPOLITAN PLAYHOUSE Having already staged literary against slavery. With a chatty drifter luminary celebrations in the form of a and a young fugitive slave as cellmates, Twainathon, a Poefest, and a (no mosh- Thoreau begins to mull over matters that ing, please!) Melvillapalooza, the East will eventually form the philosophy, and Village theatrical heritage tribute trove practice, of civil disobedience.

Jan. 11–24: Mon.–Sat., 7:30 p.m., Fri. that is Metropolitan Playhouse turns its gaze — and turns over its stage — to & Sat., 9 p.m., Sat. & Sun., 2 & 4 p.m. the works of The Transcendentalists, At the Metropolitan Playhouse (220 E. for this year’s edition of the Living Fourth St., btw. Aves. A & B). Opening Reception: Mon., Jan. 11, 9 p.m. For Literature Festival.

One-acts, full-length works, and tickets ($15-$18, $12 for seniors, $15 for 26 Wooster St, NYC 10013 musical interpretations, all by emerg- full-time students, $10 for children under 212-431-2609 ing artists, take their cue from the 10), call 800-838-3006. For schedule LeslieLohman.org American Transcendentalist Movement, and online tickets, visit metropolitanTuesday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm as lived by the likes of Ralph Waldo playhouse.org.

Thursday 12 - 8 pm

Medium of Desire An International Anthology of Photography and Video

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Courtesy the filmmakers

Courtesy the filmmakers

A family is trapped on a so-called “infinite road” in the Spanish-language feature “The Incident.”

A rural community is rocked when “Bears Discover Fire,” in a Terry Bisson adaptation.

Games, Talks, Flicks Honor and Invoke P.K. Dick Continued from page 18 “It’s a way to not just see a film, but to interact, and get a little sense of what scientists are bringing,” Abella explains. This year, he’s most excited for the panel on UFO experiences, which follows the NYC premiere of “Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton,” a documentary

examining an infamous 1975 UFO abduction.

The panel is a further expansion of the festival’s mission to provide a space for open, mind-expanding dialogue, touching on any and all subjects, no matter how out of the ordinary. It’s the kind of thing that deeply interests Abella, who believes that science is not nearly as cold and calculated as it is often made out to be, but intertwined

with creativity and spirituality, and that examining different planes of existence is a worthwhile endeavor. For freethinkers, as well as those who fear ridicule from a wider public, “Our festival is at their disposal,” he offers.

“We’re looking to create a community of people, of like-minded people,” Abella concludes. “Just bring people together, get a sense of belonging, a space where they can share experiences

without being judged as lunatics, or weird, or strange. But no, this is part of who we are as human beings. I think Philip K. Dick would have felt at home.”

The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival runs Jan. 14 –17, at Village East Cinema (181-189 Second Ave., at E. 12th St.). Tickets: $20 per program. For a full list of programs, visit thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com.

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Images courtesy Mike Weiss Gallery

Installation view of “Stefanie Gutheil: The Home of Mr. Peeps.”

Buhmann on Art ‘Mr. Peeps’ embraces otherworldly landscapes, colorful creatures

“The Home of Mr. Peeps” (2015). Oil on canvas. 74 3/4 x 90 1/2 in.

(190 x 230 cm).

“A Walk in the Forest” (2015). Oil on canvas, 62 x 50 in. (157.5 x 127 cm).

It is one of Gutheil’s key strengths that her language can be easily discussed in reference to the work of Max Beckmann, Alfred Kubin, or the German author and illustrator Annegert Fuchshuber.

At first glance, her works appear playful. Upon closer inspection, however, they reveal an underlying sense of empathy for the mysterious subjects at hand. It would be far-fetched to claim that this Berlin-based artist is seeking to address existential

themes — but her protagonists are not meant to merely entertain us. In fact, they seem to ask something of the audience as well. As their uncensored “otherness” transforms into loneliness, they face us, pleading for acceptance.

BY STEPHANIE BUHMANN In her fourth exhibition with Mike Weiss Gallery (“Stefanie Gutheil: The Home of Mr. Peeps”), the artist invites her audience to dive deep into her imagination. Her saturated compositions frequently embrace otherworldly landscapes that are populated with a colorful array of fable creatures. Stylistically, these paintings can border on the bizarre, perhaps sourcing from German Expressionism as much as children’s book illustrations. .com

Through Jan. 30 at Mike Weiss Gallery (520 W. 24th St., btw. 10th & 11th Aves.). Hours: Tues.–Sat., 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Call 212-691-6899 or visit mikeweissgallery.com.

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