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How NYC’s Restaurants Give Back East Side’s most charitable restaurants as defined by City Harvest

Manhattan chefs regularly donate food, time and money to City Harvest and food pantries By Joanna Fantozzi

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ity Harvest keeps a list of the most charitable restaurants throughout the city, or the restaurants who give the most to City Harvest, where over 90 percent of the proceeds go directly to feed New York’s hungry. Local, popular restaurants like DBGBs and DirtCandy downtown, as well as Daniel and Fishtail on the Upper East Side, and Shake Shack and Telepan on the Upper West Side top the list. But perhaps no one knows more about helping New York’s needy than local restaurateur and winner of the WESTY award restaurateur of the year, Marc Murphy, owner and chef at Landmarc and Ditch Plains on the Upper West Side. Murphy is the restaurant co-chair of the City Harvest Board, and believes that chefs should do whatever they can to give back to the community. “The chef and restaurant community helps fight

hunger in the city, but it’s also a nationwide thing,” said Murphy. “Whenever there’s a problem, the restaurant community comes together to help.” But what about every day neighborhood restaurants that aren’t headed by celebrity chefs, or haven’t received a Michelin star? Naomi Downey, the director of special events at City Harvest, said that there are lots of ways that smaller restaurants can help give back. “The essential part of City Harvest is through food rescue,” said Downey. “We’re not asking them to create extra food, just for us to pick it up. We aren’t asking them to overextend, because small restaurants don’t have financial capacity to do that. For Danny Mena, the owner of Hecho en Dumbo, the popular Mexican restaurant on Bowery and East 4th Street, one of his favorite ways of giving back is through City Harvest’s mobile markets program, the open-air bi-monthly free farmer’s markets, where chefs and restaurants donate their fresh produce, as well as simple recipes for those in need across the city, in places like the Bronx, Inwood and Bed Stuy. “One week it was torrential rain and we were all struggling to get there on time, but there was still a huge line of people 600 people waiting for

us,” said Mena. “We have a recipe and we try to do something with ingredients that are simple and you can get at the market. Everybody needs to eat and feel the satisfaction of being satisfied and that’s what we do.” As Naomi Downey explained, even donating a few eggplants and providing a simple, healthy recipe with those eggplants can make a difference. One does not have to be a Food Network chef and attend star-studded functions to make a difference, she said. Although many chefs donate their time to City Harvest, they can also participate in their communities. Many food pantries in local churches accept donations from restaurants. Danny Mena has said that he has also worked with The Bowery Kitchen before in his neighborhood. And on the Upper West Side, The West Side Campaign Against Hunger is constantly collaborating with neighborhood restaurants. Stewart Desmond, a representative from WSCAH, said that Jacob from Jacob’s Pickles helped kick start their herb garden for their hungry and homeless guests. He also said that many local

The Transformation of the Whitney The Whitney Museum is half way through the big move from its Upper East Side home to a new facility downtown By Katya Johns

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he Whitney Museum has been house-hunting for years. After almost five decades in its current home, the Marcel Breuer-designed building on the Upper East Side’s Madison Avenue, the famed modern and contemporary art museum is preparing to pack up and move downtown. The move is an answer to some of the problems that have beset the current facility – difficulties expanding or renovating such a unique space combined with resistance from the quiet community and budgetary issues –

and will give the Whitney a chance to spread its artistic wings and start a brand new life cycle. But what’s to become of the Breuer building uptown? And why is the Whitney fleeing its longtime home, in a neighborhood well known for arts patronage? One of the biggest reasons for the move is to get more space for the Whitney’s vast collections. As a spokesperson for the Museum said, “The decision to move was very simple…the building was built in 1966 for a 2,000-piece collection, which has since grown to 20,000.” After years of searching for other places uptown, the Whitney finally decided to go back to its roots in Greenwich Village, where Gertrude Whitney Vanderbilt founded her studio in 1930. The new building will be located in the Meatpacking District, situated Continued on page 13

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CRIME WATCH By Jerry Danzig

Taken for a Ride Two men gave a French tourist a car ride and stole his money. At 4:15 PM on Saturday, July 27, a 52-year-old male tourist from Marseille, France had drinks in some downtown bars and was offered a car ride back to his hotel by two men in their early twenties. The driver of the car stopped the vehicle on Fifth Avenue, possibly between 69th and 70th Streets; the tourist was inebriated and couldn’t be sure of exact events or locations. The Frenchman was riding in the front passenger seat while the second young man sat behind him in the rear passenger-side seat. The man in back then held the tourist’s arms as the driver removed his cell phone, credit card, and $2,000 in cash from the Frenchman’s front pants pockets. Fortunately the man from Marseille suffered no injuries and exited the car. Police searched the area but were unable to find the two bad Samaritans. SacrÊ bleu!

Bald Baddie Someone stole a woman’s purse from a restaurant on Second Avenue. At 11:40 PM on Friday, July 26, a 36-year-old woman from Stroudsburg, PA placed her pocketbook on the back of her chair while dining. At some point, she turned around to check her bag and found that it was gone. The restaurant manager checked the surveillance video and saw an unknown bald man remove her bag from her chair and walk out of the restaurant. Fortunately, there were no charges on her cards. Items taken included a pink Michael Kors purse with a gold chain valued at $250 and $200 in cash, along with various debit, credit, insurance, and ID cards, as well as the woman’s PA driver’s license.

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A man was arrested after using forged and stolen credit cards to make purchases in a luxury department store on Madison Avenue. At 3:27 PM on Sunday, July 28, a 22-year-old man used the suspect cards in three different transactions. He tried to make two additional transactions but was declined. He left the store and got into a yellow cab, at which point he was apprehended and found in possession of two forged cards and two stolen cards. He was then arrested and charged with grand larceny. The items he purchased illegally

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Fit Hit Someone removed a woman’s credit card from the bag she had left in a fitness facility locker. At 5:30 PM on Sunday, May 12, a 24-year-old woman left her bag in an unlocked and unattended locker while she attended class at the fitness facility on East 63rd Street. Sometime after she left the facility at 9 PM, she realized that a credit card was missing from her bag. She called to cancel the card and was told that $16,000 in charges had already been made using her stolen card in the New York City area.

Forceful Foreman A construction worker was injured by the foreman on a job. At 5:30 PM on Monday, July 29, a 35-year-old construction worker got involved in a verbal dispute over work issues with the foreman on an exterior restoration job. The foreman then punched him in the face with a closed fist, causing a bloody nose, as well as redness, swelling, and substantial pain in the worker’s cheek and nose. The worker was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital, while the foreman fled to parts unknown.

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Asphalt Green Protest Campaign Under Way Asphalt Green, the recreational facility on East 91st Street, has formally launched a campaign to protest the construction of the E. 91st Street Marine Transfer Station (MTS) in Yorkville, a facility that could become its new neighbor within a few years. Asphalt Green is developing a direct mail and outdoor ad campaign that highlights the health risks of the MTS. The campaign is based on independent scientific research that they say projects future diesel and exhaust emissions could reach dangerous levels, in violation of EPA standards, for children playing at Asphalt Green. The campaign targets residents who live between 59th and 116th streets and from Fifth Avenue to the East River. Asphalt Green’s Board of Directors will match gifts to the campaign up to $200,000. The ‘anti-dump’ campaign aims for $500,000 for its August launch. According to the sports and fitness center’s numbers, 31,000 children utilize Asphalt Green’s facilities every year. Overall, the center serves 56,000 children, senior citizens, and veterans annually from all five boroughs. The proposed MTS station bisects the Asphalt

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Green facility. It is expected to be ten stories tall, with its access ramp 11 feet from Asphalt Green’s entrance. Andrew Nussbaum, chairman of Asphalt Green’s Board of Directors, said “Our campaign is a call to action for all New Yorkers to learn the truth and to join the more than 20,000 other New Yorkers who have already voiced their opposition to this dangerous dump. We have spent a great deal of time and resources to research the impact of the dump and to get an independent analysis of its health and safety implications. There has to be a better way to deal with the trash, to support borough equity and to improve the air quality in low-income neighborhoods everywhere.” Said Carol Tweedy, executive director of Asphalt Green, “No child in any borough should be exposed to the levels of toxic exhaust that will be spewing only feet from a sports field used by children of all socioeconomic backgrounds from all around the City. We strongly urge a detailed reevaluation of the MTS station and a comprehensive review of how environmentally hazardous waste haulage impacts all children in the City. There are laws against putting a private trash facility this close to schools and play areas. The City should not be able to do so either. Simply put, dumps don’t belong where children play – in any borough.”

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Pity The 2013 Political Candidates By Tom Allon

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t’s hard enough braving the wilting summer heat and standing at subway stations each morning shaking hands and passing out flyers. Then there’s the endless public events and candidate forums that occupy every waking moment - when you’re not on the phone with potential donors pleading for money. But perhaps the greatest ignominy heaped on the good citizens of New York running for public office in 2013 is that they are all being virtually ignored while the traveling Anthony Weiner circus - and the occasional Eliot Spitzer caravan - sucks all the oxygen out of the political season.

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fascinating mix of geographically diverse candidates: Upper Manhattan Councilmember Robert Jackson, Lower Manhattan’s former Community Board Chair Julie Menin, West Side Councilmember Gale Brewer and East Side Councilmember Jessica Lappin. Each has represented a different slice of Manhattan and each has particular strengths that would make them worthy successors to current Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Here, too, the media and the public don’t seem to be paying enough attention yet to an important race. The Manhattan borough president has important landuse powers, as recently exhibited by Stringer’s conditional endorsement of Mayor Bloomberg’s bold rezoning of the midtown commercial district. I have met, and in some cases worked closely with, these eight fine public servants and they deserve our attention and our respect during this important election season. They care about the important issues facing us in the years ahead - how we fix our public school system, how we save our city hospital system, how we balance the need to build and develop residential and commercial space while improving our infrastructure in a growing city, how we improve mass transit, and other pressing issues. These two races - unlike the mayoral and comptroller races - have been free of personal drama and I find that refreshing. No one is speaking about sexual pecadilos, failing marriages or other largely irrelevant topics when judging our leaders. Perhaps this is because six of the eight candidates in thes two races are women? I hope over the next month my colleagues in the media give these two races the ink, airtime and digital space they richly deserve. Issues and vision and management skills should trump personal issues and self-destruction when we decide who to vote for in September. Tom Allon, the president of City and State, NY, is the former Liberal Party-backed candidate for Mayor.

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There are two other pretty important - and very competitive - races going on citywide and in Manhattan: for public advocate and for Manhattan borough president. The public advocate is technically the second highest office in the city and akin to the Vice President’s role in the federal government - if the mayor dies or is incapacitated, the public advocate ascends to be mayor. As the first Vice President John Adams famously said: “Today, I am nothing. Tomorrow, I may be everything.� Same is true of public advocate, an otherwise toothless job with very few staff. Tom Allon Some people, however, like Mark Green and Bill DeBlasio, have used the office in the past to be a thorn in the mayor’s side and as a jumping off point to launch a later campaign for mayor. This year, four relatively unknown people are vying for this office: Brookyln Councilmember Tish James, State Senator Daniel Squadron and two non-elected candidates, Reshma Saujani and Cathy Guerriero. Their debates and public policy ideas have largely been ignored by the mainstream media; all four are thoughtful and intelligent people who want to be one of the three top citywide officials in 2014 and it behooves us to start paying close attention. One of them could, through succession or future elections, become mayor, although unless Bill DeBlasio wins in November, no public advocate has yet moved up the ladder in city government. In the Manhattan borough president’s race there is a

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CORRECTION In a story in the Aug. 1 edition of Our Town, “Will York Avenue Ever Become One-Way?� Betty Wallerstein’s name was spelled incorrectly. We also stated that a traffic study was issued by Sam Schwartz LLP in 2007. However, the information that we received from former members of Community Board 8 and Rockefeller University was incorrect. The study was never funded, and therefore never commissioned. However, Sam Schwartz has confirmed that if the study had been commissioned, his traffic engineering firm would have studied several traffic mitigation options, including making York Avenue a one-way avenue. We regret the errors.

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Brunching in Packs Some of the best weekend mid-day meals for groups By Helaina Hovitz

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unday brunch in New York City is like a religion. If you take your weekend services seriously, you’ll want to hit up these three downtown locales — these eats will have you picking off of each other’s plates in no time.

Sugar Factory (46 Gansevoort Street): It doesn’t get much sweeter than this. Round up the girls and get ready to unleash your inner ten-year-old for a meal so indulgent you’ll worry that you’re gonna get caught. The Banana Split Waffle is exactly what it sounds like, as are the S’mores and Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate Crepes. The list goes on, much of the same variety, mountains of sugary, chocolatey, fruity goodness. If you opt for eggs or chicken fingers, there’s an impressive variety of sundaes, chocolate fondues, and milkshakes like the Cookie Jar and Make A Wish (based on birthday cake) awaiting your arrival at dessert. Numerous candy and dessert inspired cocktails include Orange Chocolate Truffle and Red Velvet Martinis, and 60oz “Goblets” feature floating gummy worms and lollipops. I definitely don’t condone the consumption of 60oz Cosmopolitans, but, honestly, if you’re here, you’ve already tossed moderation and inhibition to the wayside, so you might as well go nuts. Please, don’t tell your mother about this one. You’ll give her a heart attack — or worse, she’ll want to tag along next time.

Todd’s Mill (162 Orchard Street): Get ready to take a pretend day-trip to the country. The rustic-chic restaurant features artfully distressed woodwork, cream-colored exposed-brick walls, an open kitchen, a big, fancy patio, and linen napkins that add an extra touch of warmth. A casual neighborhood joint serving deceptively complex food, their menu changes seasonally. The focus: local foods prepared

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simply. Crowd-pleasing dishes include the Breakfast Sandwich served on a buttermilk biscuit and stuffed with fried eggs and spicy cheddar sausage, a very manageable and neat — but filling — Chorizo & Egg Burrito, and Crispy Sweetbreads (Swedish waffle) with Tabasco maple butter that are almost too pretty to eat. The Brioche French Toast is a strawberry-covered, crème frais-topped dream. Co-owner Michael Dempsey made me a special “mocktail,” a spicy, alcohol-free watermelon lemonade, and I was in heaven. Everyone claims to do great cocktails, but it looks like these guys have got it down pat.

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This new upscale Italian eatery is the first of its kind to land in the immediate neighborhood, and is also the first solo venture of executive chef Roberto Deiaco, formerly of Armani Ristorante on 5th Avenue. He’s brought all of his elite clientele with him, so keep your eyes peeled for Justin Long, and get ready to feel fabulous. “My husband is out to prove a point, that you can have fine dining in the East Village,” says manager and co-owner (and wife) Giselle Deiaco. I’d recommend the Insalata de Polla, a fresh, neat take on chicken salad, combining sliced grapes and walnuts with curried shredded chicken, the Strapazzato alle Ciliegie, puffy pancake pieces tossed with caramelized cherries and served with glazed Macedonia fruit salad, the fresh Gazpacho with yellow tomatoes and Burrata, or the Spaghetti Chitarra Carbonara, made with bresaola, bacon, eggs, and Parmigiano. Their signature drink, the Sgroppino, is a neater take on the popsicle-in-martini, combining Prosecco with watermelon, green apple, or orange sorbet. All of their breads, pasta, and sorbetti are prepared daily, from scratch, on the premises. The space feels like a trendy hotel bar, the glass and steel façade windows are perfect for people watching, and tiny details, like straws that look like sticks of bamboo, are irresistible. It’s easily worth the few extra bucks.

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Kellner Loses Some Support Over Harassment Claims After sexual harassment claim, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, local city council candidate, retains party support while losing some key endorsements By Joanna Fantozzi and Dan Fitzsimmons

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ccusations of sexual harassment against Assemblyman Micah Kellner (D-76) have eroded support he once had in his bid for city council. Over the past two weeks, since the New York Times reported the harassment claims which allegedly occurred four years ago between Assembly Member Kellner and a female staff member, several of Kellner’s political supporters have dropped their endorsements, the first of whom was current City Council Member Jessica Lappin. Lappin called his behavior “clearly wrong and inappropriate” when withdrawing her official support for the seat she currently holds. Kellner has not denied the allegations, which occurred in 2009 over Gmail Chat, according to the Times. The story reported that the conversations included unwanted advances from Kellner, who was 31 and not married at the time, to the female staffer; one such statement was, “I hired you because you were cute during the interview.” The staffer complained to her supervisor, an aide to Kellner, but the complaint apparently stopped at the desk of assembly lawyer Bill Collins in 2009 and no investigation was conducted at the time. No formal complaints or charges have been filed against Kellner. The Assembly Member, who has represented the Upper East Side in Albany for the past six years, refused to speak to Our Town for this story, but gave the following statement to media organizations: “Over four years ago, for a few weeks while I was still single, I exchanged instant messages with a female member of my staff that were flirtatious. It was inappropriate. I was wrong and it was stupid. When I was told that my staffer felt the messages were unprofessional, I immediately stopped and regretted placing her in that position. I was sorry then and I am sorry now.” He added: “If I had been aware that documents pertaining to me had been submitted to an Assembly counsel four years ago, I would have immediately requested that the Assembly Ethics Committee commence an investigation. I welcome such an investigation now.” Kellner has lost some significant support

from colleagues, including Borough President and candidate for comptroller Scott Stringer, who also rescinded his endorsement. NOWNYC, the National Organization of Women’s New York chapter, has recently endorsd Benjamin Kallos, Kellner’s competition and fellow candidate for City Council District 5. Yet despite the general sense of disapproval from elected officials, local democratic leaders want to make it known that they still support Kellner. A letter to Kellner, signed by Trudy L. Mason, State Committeewoman, 73rd AD, Lexington Democratic Club and 48 other democratic leaders from the Lenox, Lexington and East Side Democratic Clubs expressed that “we reaffirm our support and endorsements of your candidacy in the upcoming Democratic Primary for New York City Council.” Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney issued a statement last week expressing her concerns over the allegations but stopped short of pulling her endorsement. But in literature handed out by the Kellner campaign on Monday, Maloney’s name was whited out. When reached by phone Tuesday morning, Maloney said that after a great deal of consideration she is continuing to support Kellner. “I have given it a tremendous amount of thought, I have spent a lot of time talking to him, I have - in a sense - taken him to the woodshed, and I have a clear understanding from him that he has learned a lesson, that it will never, ever, happen again, and that he understands that for the rest of his life he’ll be under heightened scrutiny for everything he does because of this,” said Maloney. When asked about Kellner’s campaign literature in which her name is missing, Maloney said, “Let’s talk about going forward.” “I really struggled with this, and I truly believe that he wants to do the right thing and will do the right thing, so the best course of action is for me to continue supporting his reelection,” said Maloney. “I believe that he will work for the right policies for New York and work effectively to put these policies in place.” Adam Bailey, a lawyer and Upper East Side resident who had previously donated to Kellner’s campaign said that the incident has only made him support his candidate even more. “Micah has done an incredible job for our community, and he has been extremely important in getting results for things people care about,” said Bailey. “He should not have propositioned an employee but I put his career and his importance to New York above this non-defensible claim. Many politicians have done much worse than he has.”

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THURSDAY, AUG. 8 The Wild Garden, a hands-on exhibition illuminating the history, ecology, and management of the woodlands; 10 AM-5 PM; Dana Discovery Center (inside the Park at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox avenues); tour guide by appointment for groups of 10 or more; call 212-860-1370 for more information; repeats every day until 09/01.

FRIDAY, AUG. 9 August Film Series at NYPL-58th St. (between Park & Lexington avenues) screening October Sky this week.

SATURDAY, AUG. 10 Saturday “Summer Streets” -- 6.9 trafficfree miles from Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park for walkers, joggers, and cyclists to enjoy activities, food and fun; 7 AM – 1 PM; contact summerstreets@dot.nyc.gov.

& Lexington avenues) for weekly showing of Masterpiece Classic’s Downtown Abbey; this week’s episode is the Season 3 finale: Christmas at Downtown. 2 PM. Monday Fun Days at NYPL-67th Street (near First Avenue ); Summer craft fun: spool, knit, and make a colorful “book” worm; ages 6-10; 4 PM; to pre-register, call 212-734-1717.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Resources for Life after Cancer presents an LGBT Cancer Survivorship Support Group to discuss posttreatment emotional and physical concerns. 641 Lexington Avenue, Library Room 7027. 5:30 PM; open to individuals who have completed treatment and are in the follow up and monitoring phase; to register, call 646888-4740 or email RLAC@mskcc.org.

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The 92nd St. Greenmarket (92nd-93rd Street at Lexington Avenue) offers the best in local produce, baked goods, seafood and more; bring household batteries, Britta filters, corks, printer cartridges and old eye glasses for recycling; every Sunday until Nov. 24th, 9 AM – 4 PM.

The East 79th St. Neighborhood Association ongoing association committees will be working through the summer on various projects; next meeting, Thursday, Sept. 12 at 430 E. 80th St (between York and First avenues.), 6 PM.

The East 93rd St. Neighborhood Association is collecting signatures for its Pledge 2 Protect mission to stop the city’s plan to build Marine Transfer Station on East 91st Street; sign the online petition by going towww. pledge2protectnyc.org.

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New York International Fringe Festival

Performing in 20 different downtown venues. (Weekdays) 2 p.m. - 12 a.m. (Weekends) 12 p.m. – 12 a.m. www.FringeNYC.org. $15 in advance, $18 at the door. This year, the FringeNYC will offer over 1200 performances by 185 of the world’s best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies from 13 countries and 17 U.S. states. The festival presents works covering a wide range of disciplines including drama, comedy, dance, performance art, children’s theater, spoken word, puppetry, and multimedia. Attendance at last year’s festival topped 75,000 people – help them beat their record. Call 866-468-7619 to learn about special discount passes to multiple shows.

FREE: Kenny Chesney on GMA Rumsey Playfield, enter Central Park on 72nd St. and 5th Ave, centralparknyc.org, 7-9 a.m., free Start your day off with some casual celebrity spotting and concert-playing during this week’s filming of “Good Morning America.” Viewers interested in attending the live performance (and possible appearing on camera) are encouraged to arrive at 6 a.m. when the Park opens to the public.

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New Silent Series 235 Bowery, New Museum of Contemporary Art, newmuseum.org, $12 The series will include screenings and performances every second Friday of the month, as well as critical conversations that will bring together leading scholars, artists, and public figures to illuminate the complex interactions between technology, culture, and creative practice. Call 212-219-1222 for more information.

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Amazigh Film Festival

Pier 26, Hudson River Park. 25 North Moore Street, ticketmaster.com, 5:30 p.m., $39 in advance, $42 at the door OneRepublic will perform live on the starry banks of the Hudson River to present their third full-length album, Native, which took them to Paris, Greece, London, Seattle and Vancouver while it was still in the making. Described as a bold and boundary-pushing follow-up to 2009’s Waking Up, Native promises to deliver a surge of stadium-sized rock that fiercely beat-driven yet ethereal and intimate.

45 Bleecker St. at Lafayette, The Culture Project Auditorium, azettausa.org, 2-7 p.m., $20 The festival celebrates the rich Amazigh culture of North Africa with film and music. The Amazigh Cultural Network in America is coming to the East Coast to present some of the newest and most interesting Amazigh documentaries and film available with English narration or sub-titles. Refreshments will be served during intermission. For more information, call 857-277-2681.

Two Gentlemen Of Verona: A Swashbuckling Comedy!

32nd Annual Downtown Dance Festival

CSV Flamboyan, C.A.G.E, ticketweb.com, 5:30-7:30 p.m., $15 As part of the 17th annual New York International Fringe Festival, C.A.G.E. Theatre Company presents “Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Swashbuckling Comedy!” an action-packed re-imagining of Shakespeare’s early play about two young men discovering both love and adventure for the first time. Starring Michael Rehse and Steve Walker as the two gentlemen. Adapted and directed by Michael Hagins, who also does the fight direction.

Battery Place and State and Whitehall streets, Battery Dance, 12 – 5 p.m. The Downtown Dance Festival (DDF), one of lower Manhattan’s most highly anticipated summer events, showcases great dance companies from around the world as well as the best New York City has to offer, all free-of-charge to the public. This year, BDC will expand the festival beyond lower Manhattan’s outdoor plazas and parks, to new locations in the Financial District, attracting a diverse audience composed of office workers, passersby, tourists and dance aficionados who come to watch the show during the lunchtime breaks.

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The Acorn Theater, 410 West 42nd Street, 8 p.m., $69.95 via TeleCharge 212-239-6200; tickets available at box office 30 minutes prior to showtime for $30 for those under 30 years old This Off-Broadway comedy is inspired by a true love story about a man, a woman, and his “banana,” Sergeant Johnson. When the layers of the relationship are peeled back, Gus tries to split from his girlfriend Alexis, but the Sergeant stands firm.

138 Sullivan Street, Soho Gallery for Digital Art, sohodigart.com, 6-10 p.m. Last year, Jason Scott and Rachel Lovinger shot a documentary about DEFCON, the hacker conference, in its 20th year. This year, they will be showing it at DEFCON, before screening it in their hometown at the Soho Gallery for Digital Art from August 12-13. The evening starts at 6:00, the movie will begin playing at 7 p.m. and a discussion will follow afterwards. Please note: this movie contains adult content. Check out the trailer on YouTube.

126 Crosby Street, Bookstore Café. housingworks.org. 7 p.m., $8 at the door. Ten stories, three teams of judges, one winner. Sign up to tell a story, volunteer to be a judge, or just sit back and enjoy story-time, filled with well-constructed under 5-minute stories about a true interference, however contestants choose to interpret it. Arrive early as there is limited seating.

Punk: Chaos to Couture: Last Day on View!

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1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street. Metropolitan Museum of Art, metmuseum.org. The MET’s spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, examines punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition includes original punk garments, period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques for an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience that spans seven galleries.

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Broadway in Bryant Park 41 East 40th St, bryantpark.org, 12:30-1:30 p.m., free Last day to see and hear songs from some of Broadway’s most memorable shows performed in the great outdoors for free. Today’s selection includes clips from Motown the Musical, Once, Mamma Mia! and Forever Tango. This Thursday, enjoy your lunch with a healthy side of laughs and lyrics.

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Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Beethoven & Rossini Columbus Ave. & 65th Street, Avery Fisher Hall, mostlymozart.org, 8 p.m. The celebrated Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda makes his debut with the Festival Orchestra directing a five-member chorus in Beethoven’s buoyant Symphony No. 2, and Mostly Mozart’s first performance of Rossini’s dramatic, lyrical Stabat mater. This performance is approximately two hours and five minutes, with intermission.

50 Shades of Grey Musical Parody 339 W. 47th St., Actors Temple Theater, livingsocial.com, 8 p.m., $49 Created by improv masters the Pushers, Cuff Me plays on select dates through August and puts a new spin on the popular, steamy series of books. With musical numbers satirizing pop favorites like “...Baby One More Time” and “Like a Virgin,” this hysterical send-up will hit you with laugh after laugh as classic characters come to life on the stage.

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Summer Music & Wine Pairings: “The Music Of Woodstock” 155 Varick Street, City Winery, citywinery.com, 7:30 p.m., $35. Everyone loves music, especially with a good glass of wine. In this series, City Winery will be presenting every night a different pairing of 21 classic tunes and 9 different wines, accompanied by tasting notes explaining their expert choices.

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Faith, Hope and Cinema Makhmalbaf’s new masterpiece explores religious need By Armond White

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he secular tendency that dominates today’s movies makes the spiritual inquiry in The Gardener even more remarkable. It is the bold new film by one of the great international moviemakers, Iran’s Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who typically, transcends genre; here mixing the religious feeling of Biblical epics like Frank Borzage’s The Big Fisherman into a rigorous documentary about the appeal of the Baha’i sect. Makhmalbaf ’s semi-historical tale fronts a very modern proposal: “Why not use the power of religion to promote peace?” he asks his adult son, Maysam, who appears with him on screen as they both--cameras in hand-track down contemporary religious devotion. Pere et fils contradict the mainstream media’s post-9/11 skepticism that blames religion as the cause of war. Makhmalbaf, once an Iranian radical imprisoned for his 1989 film The Peddler, here states “I am an agnostic filmmaker.” Yet, attempting impartiality, he cites the ironic contemporary distrust of Christianity and caution about Islam, then through interviews, historical clips and assorted pageants, grants the beatific evidence of Baha’i believers: “The Bahai faith is Hope actualized” says a devotee and Makhmalbaf presents people standing in tree poses. Awe takes the place of proselytizing. Bypassing Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam proves Makhmalbaf ’s sophistication about conflicting religious doctrine. Not bogged down in differences, he finds universal serenity in the metaphor of a garden (“We are all flowers of one garden, the leaves of one tree”) and the parable of a gardener (“He is not

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only gardening, in a way he is praying. It is a kind of meditation, he is educating himself to be like a gardener to society.”). Through the example of teaching his own craft to his son, Makhmalbaf demonstrates a divine fatherly allegory and the idea to “Love people not for themselves but for God.” The Gardener is so visually rapturous (the various gardens the Makhmalbafs visit suggest color versions of that striking geometrical park in Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad and luminous versions of Bela Tarr’s bleak windswept roads) it leads to father-son contemplation about cinema (“If what is only important is perception, why make movies?”). Everything’s loosely structured yet ideas (philosophy and doctrines) develop and beauty and humanity are found. Thanks to Makhmalbaf ’s poetic perception of reality, this method is also fundamentally political-

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-highlighting that Baha’i started 170 years ago in Iran yet “it does not contradict any of today’s human rights principles.” Through humorous, whimsical style (like in his masterpieces The Silence, Gabbeh, Salaam Cinema, A Moment of Innocence), Makhmalbaf exposes how most documentaries are ruinously structured along Communist dialectic or godless propaganda. It’s a reminder of how Iranians first broke through Western strictures of cinematic structure. The Gardener’s profundity recalls what Maureen Mullarkey (a frequent CityArts contributor), wrote in a recent issue of First Things on the tradition of the Icon; she cited art historian Daniel Siedell: “Western viewers and critics tend to consider the religious or secular works of art to be a text, a visual illustration of a philosophical truth or a theological worldview that needs to be

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‘read’…[The icon] is the artistic practice of the Church. The icon is not something to be ‘decoded,’ ‘read,’ or a symbol for something more important. It is an event that is to be contemplated, internalized and experienced. This recognition is not foreign to artists in the West, both religious and secular. Yet many theologians and philosophers often dismiss such experience as romantic self-indulgence and naïve mysticism. What these artists might have been bumping up against is an aesthetic that is, in fact, Nicene.” In Makhmalbaf ’s Iconography, cinema experience is what counts. The testimonies shown are guileless, articulate and can be felt: “Without religion would I have been able to overcome hatred?” “Religion releases the unleashed forces of the heart in the way that science cannot because science addresses the reason and yet the human needs the heart and the reason.” Each face blooms in close-ups that radiate humanity and this makes the powerful difference from hectoring films by desiccated propagandists who castigate religion like the atheist antagonism of Bill Maher, Sacha Baron Cohen, Larry Charles, Carlos Reygadas, even recent episodes of The Simpsons--all equally puerile and spiteful. Makhmalbaf understands that this hostility signifies ignorance about religion, faith, belief, diversity in the human realm. With The Gardener, Makhmalbaf also challenges new philosophies--as in his retort to his skeptic son, “You’re turning technology into a new religion. You are creating from Steve Jobs a Moses, a Jesus, a Mohammad. Was it not technology that led to Hiroshima?” Makhmalbaf is Iran’s greatest filmmaker because he is its poet/gardener and in The Gardener Makhmalbaf flaunts his article of faith at sunset, holding his video camera silhouetted against the sky like a tree, but also like an antenna sensing mankind’s deepest political-spiritual needs. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair

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t first glance the pairing of Andy Warhol and Edvard Munch seems an unlikely coupling. However, as expertly explained by the curators at Scandinavia House, these two artists shared a startling number of common interests. The exhibition, “Munch and Warhol, and Multiple Image” is an important one in the scholarship of both artists. A lavish catalogue and a full schedule of public programming throughout accompany the show. The exhibition is centered around a commissioned but never released suite of 32 large Warhol silk screened prints entitled “After Munch.” Completing the work between 1982-84 Warhol, eventually bought back the rights to the work and it disappeared into the vast Warhol universe. The curators have mounted an elegant installation that begins with the original Munch prints on which Warhol based his suite, setting the stage for this fascinating journey into the nature of portraiture, reproduction, and the art marketplace. By all accounts Edvard Munch was an extremely savvy businessman. He developed a market for his prints, knowing that it is easier to sell an editioned print than a oneof-a-kind painting. He was also known to alter the prints, releasing different versions to satisfy the tastes of collectors. For example his controversial print Madonna is shown here in several states, some including a small fetus in the lower left corner, some without, some versions have a bit more of the “sperm” decorative motif than others. This allowed Munch to reach a wider group of collectors than he might have with a single version of the image.

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Mr. Warhol was also a savvy businessman particularly in his use of graphic media. Warhol created a massive business in the print market, portraying his collectors and media stars in flattering modes, often customizing the color to meet his client’s wishes. Both artists were fascinated with mortality and the loss of beauty, and one can clearly see Warhol’s kinship with Munch in his appropriation and reinterpretation of the four iconic Munch images in this show. Madonna, The Scream, Self-Portrait, The Brooch, and Eva Mudocci change radically in scale and color when placed in Warhol’s hands. But their underlying sense of desperation and loss are unchanged--if anything they’re heightened by Warhol’s application of hysterical color onto Munch’s imagery. The most successful and moving of this series is Warhol’s cobbling together of SelfPortrait and Madonna. There are six giant versions of this couple in the middle room, and they are simply stunning. For all of the hype about Warhol’s coolness towards his work and subject matter, we see here an example of real passion. Madonna and SelfPortrait are joined together into a single image that portrays true horror and beauty. The range of color changes in each one highlights differing parts of this shock show- a hit of neon blue in one, sickly green in another. This show is one of the most thoughtful and provocative--in the best sense of the word— of the summer.

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Creative Capstone The monumental El Anatsui exhibition at the Brooklyn By Caroline Birenbaum

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he fifth floor rotunda of the Brooklyn Museum is used to great effect as the entrance to “Gravity and Grace: The Monumental Works of El Anatsui,” a memorable exhibition of works by El Anatsui. The Ghanian-born artist has taught and worked in Nsukka, Nigeria since 1975, when he was about 30 years old, and in the past decade or so has gained international renown with his immense fabric-like constructions made from bottle caps. His breakthrough to contemporary art stardom came when he was featured in the 2007 Venice Biennale. Anatsui’s works are now in major museum collections; fine examples are on display at MOMA and the Met. This is his first solo show in a New York museum. Being in the presence of so many wondrous pieces at once is magical—a different order of magnitude than experiencing them individually. Excellent videos in which the artist discusses his life and his work provide information and context without intruding on direct engagement with the objects. They are excerpts from films by art historian Susan Mullin Vogel, whose informative book on the artist is available for consultation in the gallery and on sale in the museum shop. Throughout his career, Anatsui has used handicraft techniques and worked with local, found materials to make art from discarded objects that have outlived their original purpose. He likes materials that already embody a history, and his approach is in keeping with African traditions of spiritual transformation. Plentiful, inexpensive materials free him to experiment without size limitations. Anatsui had worked masterfully in a number of traditional media before he turned to metal detritus. While not a full-fledged retrospective, the exhibition includes various precursors to the bottle-cap series: free-standing wood sculptures; scrap wood wall reliefs; sculptures that resemble gigantic papier-maché grocery sacks, constructed of thin metal printers’ plates discarded by a local newspaper; and gleaming flexible sculptures made of lids from cans of powdered milk. Anatsui sends his work out into the world to be arranged and displayed to suit the occasion and the site. Since the metal pieces can be stretched, crimped and draped, they take on different appearances in each venue. How the bottle cap series began: There are several distilleries in Nsukka. While the liquor bottles are reused, the aluminum caps are melted down. One auspicious day, Anatsui came across a bag filled with colorful bottle caps, which he took to his studio, sensing they might find some way into his work. Fiddling around, he separated some circular tops bearing the brand logo from the tubular collars, which were printed in color on the outside and bare metallic silver or gold on the inside; cut open and flattened the tubes into strips, and began arranging the uniformly sized pieces into a pattern. He made holes near the edges and joined pieces with twists of copper wire. Voilà, he had created a segment of malleable metal fabric.

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Thus began more than ten years of creative ferment. Once he realized that this mode of work was more than a brief experiment, Anatsui arranged to purchase his bottle cap supplies, and organized studio assistants to assemble blocks of metal fabric that can be laid out on the floor and manipulated into complex designs under his direction, likening his method of pushing color around to the way that painters compose. He then photographs the initial design, uploads the images to a computer, and employs cutting-edge technology to refine the composition and archive his studies. It takes 20 or more people three or more months to assemble a large hanging. The color palette is determined by the decoration of the caps. Mostly red, black, yellow and white, they are printed with decorative patterns and logos that add variety. (I counted some 50 different brands represented in just one gallery of the exhibit.) He has invented more than a dozen different shapes and configurations of flattened, folded, crushed, and twisted tops and collars, and lately fashioned incredible mesh-like curtains from the rings that remain on the neck of the bottle after the cap has been twisted open. The exhibition opens in a large, bright space segmented by immense examples of those mesh curtains suspended from the very high ceiling at varying angles. You cannot help but engage with them both imaginatively and physically. Are you on a stage set, in a foreign country, or perhaps in a waking

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dream? The installation invites you to move around among the hangings, and approaching one for a close-up view, you discover that the entire piece is constructed of coin-size rings of colored metal joined together with bits of twisted copper wire. What beckons you as soft and pliable is actually sharp and dangerous, just one of many dichotomies inherent in Anatsui’s work. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a baronial hall where stupendous, vari-colored, mostly opaque hangings are arrayed on the walls. Of course, association with African kente cloth is inevitable. Many other possibilities also come to mind. Are these tapestries in a medieval court; an homage to Italo-Byzantine mosaics; princely robes; opulent fabrics for turn-of-the-century Viennese fashionistas; theater curtains; or contemporary paintings? You can have a wonderful time playing make-believe in their presence. At the same time, the centuries-long cross-cultural exchange among Africa, Europe and the Americas is a powerful underlying theme of the liquor bottle-cap series, counterbalancing their surface glamour. The exhibition invites return visits and has remained on view long enough to accommodate them. If you haven’t been yet, go now before it’s too late! “Gravity and Grace: The Monumental Works of El Anatsui” at the Brooklyn Museum through August 18.

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t's tough to control calories during grilling season. Nutritionists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have cooked up a few tips to keep calorie counts in control. "There are plenty of tricks and tips that offer alternatives to full-throttle calorie binging,� says Lona Sandon, a clinical nutritionist at UT Southwestern. Among the best tips for controlling the calorie count: ■Eat a lower-calorie meal just before going or a salad prior to higher-calorie selections so you already feel full. ■Drink water instead of other drinks to help you feel full during the party. Add a little flavor with a squeeze of lime, lemon, or orange. ■Drink water instead of beer when eating salty foods. Remember moderation when it comes to alcohol: one drink for women, two drinks for men. One 12-ounce beer equals one drink. ■Eat smaller portions of favorite foods Instead of depriving yourself. You’re less likely to binge eat if you don’t feel deprived. Wait 15 to 20 minutes before going back for seconds or dessert. Ask yourself if you are still hungry. ■Think Tapas. Take a small sampling of the items you would like to taste. ■Make your selections, then move away from the serving table rather than stand nearby and eat continuously without thinking. ■Ask for a smaller plate, allow yourself one serving. Don’t pile on more food than fits on the smaller plate. If going back for seconds, pick the veggies: grape tomatoes, celery sticks, red pepper sticks, baby carrots.

Nutritional trade-os for grilling season feasts There are plenty of options for cutting calories as well as substitutes for some of the more high-calorie options. “Not everyone is going to be satisfied with the salad bowl," says Sandon. "If you’re not ready to replace your entire plate with healthy alternatives, you can still significantly cut down on calories and fats by blending your favorites with some lower-calorie options and alternatives." Be realistic, she added. Fat free does not necessarily equate to lower calorie intake and the lack of flavor of some substitutes might actually lead people to want to eat more. Offer taco salad bowls instead of burgers,

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Upper East Sider Declares for City Council Only Republican in race building platform on opposition to marine transfer station By Daniel Fitzsimmons

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pper East Sider David Garland has declared his candidacy for the city council fifth district seat currently held by outgoing Councilwoman Jessica Lappin. Others running for this seat are: Assemblyman Micah Kellner (NY-76), Ben Kallos, and Ed Hartzog, all Democrats. David Garland, 43, is running on the Republican and Independent Party lines and said his experience in management consulting in the government and private sectors make him an ideal candidate. Garland most recently worked for a NYCbased management consulting firm named Protiviti, but right now is solely focusing on his campaign. He said he’s raised $8,000 so far in the campaign and has met the threshold to receive matching public funds. He earned a master’s in business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. “At the top of my agenda is my opposition to the transfer station,” said Garland. “The facility would be an unmitigated disaster for our community, which is the densest residential neighborhood in all of New York City.” Garland said the building site is adjacent to parks that would be impacted by noise and waste pollution, environmental and safety concerns, and infestation. “As a resident of that neighborhood, we

need to be sure to support candidates at all levels of government who will work to find a better solution,” said Garland. “We’ve identified viable alternatives for the station in industrial areas in Manhattan and elsewhere and the present location simply makes no sense.” Garland said his team would fight the marine transfer station project by proposing alternatives to the East 91st Street site. “One of the things that is key is putting forth a viable alternative,” said Garland. “There are alternative locations that are nonresidential, that are primarily commercial and industrial, that make a lot more sense than this location...which is the densest part of New York City.” Garland said his team will be unveiling their alternative locations at a press conference in the near future. “There’s been a lot of complaining about moving forward, but not a lot of pursuit of alternative solutions that make more sense so that’s going to be our primary focus,” said Garland. He supports the Cornell Tech project on Roosevelt Island, but said infrastructure limits on the island need to be addressed and upgrades need to be built into the project’s budget. Garland said the long-term impact of the Second Avenue subway project is beneficial, but it’s taken too long to complete. “Clearly, this project should not have taken the decades that it has, and the noise, pollution and disruption has had a devastating effect on people and businesses in the area,” said Garland. “There seems to have been a lack of leadership by our elected officials. In addition, the delays in the most recent resurrection of the project have led to huge cost overruns.” In 2012, Garland went up against longtime

State Senator Liz Krueger in a bid for the 28th district seat. Although he lost, he was happy with the effort put forth by his campaign and said he received between 25 and 30 percent of the vote in that election. “I was actually quite pleased,” said Garland. “We had a good team, we put up a good fight, it was our first run.” Garland said he declared his city council candidacy in May, but didn’t get his campaign staff up and running until June. He submitted his petitions to the NYC Board of Elections in July. Garland is unlikely to face an opponent in the primary as no other Republican or Independent Party candidate has come forward. While he recognizes that he has an uphill battle for a highly sought after seat in a heavily Democratic area, he believes an imbalance in political power can lead to a sense of immunity in elected officials who think they’ll be elected no matter what. “I think that that, at its very root, is bad for the city,” said Garland. “I think it leads to a lot of waste, misdeeds, and a growing belief that political office is just a right rather than a privilege.” Garland said his status as a Republican doesn’t mean he strictly adheres to party lines, nor does it have to in a place like Manhattan. “Coming from the nondominant party in the city, there’s always this sense that you have to be more careful about making sure that you’re acting with the utmost integrity, that you’re always being of service to your constituents because it’s a much tougher row to hoe being a nonDemocrat in Manhattan...There’s almost a guarantee that somebody is going to be working a lot harder to maintain that position.”

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restaurants, like Murray’s Sturgeon Shop on Broadway and 89th, La Mirabelle on 86th Street and Celeste on 84th Street, take out ads for WSCAH’s spring luncheon. “For people in the food industry, hunger is something they understand,” said Desmond. “In one way or another, they’re all involved in giving back.”

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right next to another modish construction, the High Line, overlooking a priceless view of the Hudson River. Well, not exactly priceless. In 2009, the museum signed a contract with the city’s Economic Development Corporation to buy the city-owned site at Washington and Gansevoort Streets for $18 million. Mayor Bloomberg agreed to cut a 50 percent discount to insure the establishment of “a major cultural anchor for the new park.” Designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano (of the Centre Pompidou in Paris), the downtown museum promises to be a sleek-and-sophisticated facility. As the artist explains on the Whitney’s website: “Here, all at once, you have the water, the park, the powerful industrial structures and the exciting mix of people, brought together and focused by this new building and the experience of art.” By building six floors of cascading terraces, Piano will increase the Whitney’s gallery space by 60 percent and triple its current total space. The 200,000 square foot property includes 50,000 square feet of indoor galleries, 13,000 square feet of outdoor exhibition space, an additional 18,000 square-foot gallery for temporary exhibitions and a lobby gallery—not to mention a contemporary artists’ project space on the top floor and an entrance plaza doubling as a “public gathering space.” The new home doesn’t come without a price, of course. The building construction alone costs $422 million, while building its “capacity” (for artistic and educational programming) is another $113 million. It didn’t help that the economy crashed just after the contract was signed. Yet the project has already raised 77 percent of its total goal. More than 80 percent of that has come from fundraising, requiring the Whitney to sell off only $95 million in real estate assets. The rest has come from an unforeseen benefactor with great expectations for the Madison Avenue building. The Metropolitan of Museum Arts has agreed to ease the Whitney’s untenable financial burden of maintaining two museums by taking over the Breuer building in 2015 for a period of eight years, at which point the lease on the Piano building also comes up for renewal. The spokesperson from the Whitney says that it is unlikely that they would undo the swap, which presents a win-win situation for both museums. The added exhibition and event space will allow the Met to enlarge its presence in the modern art world, and the Whitney to ensconce itself in the world of local artists, students and tourists downtown. The Breuer building is here to stay for an “extended [if unspecified] period of time,” as Leonard A. Lauder, emeritus chairman of the museum, stipulated in his $131 million donation to the project. What happens next is future history, but the spokesman confirms that they are more than half-way finished and “everyone is looking forward to it.”

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CELEBRITY PROFILE

Dancing with the Star on Broadway is the only thing that’s important, nothing else.

The celebrity dancer on diversifying his resume, being an older brother, and the tango

Were you surprised your Broadway run was extended? They asked me right away for a five-week run and we agreed to three because I didn’t know how we were going to work with Karina. It wasn’t like I was testing her out or anything, but there’s always a little bit of like, “Well, it might be a miserable experience.” I knew it was not going to be. Literally first day of rehearsal, the producers called and asked if I wanted to extend it and I said, “Absolutely.” It was a done deal then.

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hen Maksim Chmerkovskiy walked into the Starbucks on Broadway, he was momentarily unrecognizable from his usual tanned, costumed, and sometimes shirtless self on Dancing with the Stars. Wearing sunglasses, a tank top, and carrying a duffel bag, he made his way to a table for our interview. Then it was back to the Walter Kerr Theatre for the matinee of Forever Tango, where he is the leading man. The Ukrainian-born thirty-three-year-old worked tirelessly for the fame he now enjoys. There was a time when he would spend 365 days a year in his family-owned New Jersey dance studio. Now, he co-owns Dance with Me studio in Soho, and even with his busy schedule, still plays a creative role there. Although he lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey, he calls New York home, and acknowledges that the audience here expects a certain caliber of dancing from his Broadway performance. “It’s a little bit of pressure.” he says of having to perform the Argentine tango at “the highest level.” Although those of us who have seen Chmerkovskiy on stage find that hard to believe. He always seems to be dancing at the highest level.

You said you’ve danced the tango many times before, but are really only learning it now. What does that mean? Because we never studied tango or Argentine tango. It’s very specific. It’s like a trained ballet dancer all of the sudden doing a number in tap. You can dance, move, and be coordinated, but the set of rules and little nuances are completely different. What makes the dance are those nuances. We’re very good at faking it for all these years.

Faking it on Dancing with the Stars you mean? Yeah. The first time the producer said we’re going to do Lindy Hop, Bollywood style, and all of that, we all looked him like, “What in our resume told you we know how to Bollywood dance?”

Well you fool the audience because we just think it comes naturally to you. Yeah I know, they fool us too. Listen, YouTube goes a long way. Some of our pros actually have production send them an

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Do you miss Dancing with the Stars? expert because they don’t know what to do themselves.

Who do you see when you look out into the audience? I see little kids and adults. Little kids bring flowers to the stage. My grandma’s coming for the third time today.

You have said that your audience on Broadway is more critical than those who watch Dancing with the Stars. Dancing with the Stars’ audience is reasonable in a sense that they’re just fans. They like whatever they see - for the most part. No disrespect; I’m just saying people tune in season after season because they get attached to either the dancers, or come with the fan base of the celebrities. When you’re a fan of someone, that person can do no wrong by you. On Broadway, people come - the nonfans- because they see the name of the show and the description. If the description says it’s Argentine tango and I’m a fan of it, when I get there, I’d better see some Argentine tango on the highest level, worthy of Broadway.

What was the rehearsal schedule like for Forever Tango? We just had two weeks before. We work with the couple in the Playbill, Juan and Victoria. Juan has been with the show for nine years; he’s sort of our dance captain. And Luis Bravo came in and was working with us too. He’s not a dancer; he just gives his creative vision.

Your partner is Dancing with the Star’s Karina Smirnoff. Why is one’s partner so important in the tango? Because it’s not a dance, it’s a storytelling and it’s only in relation to a relationship. Tango has nothing to do with anything else. You don’t dance tango, you don’t move around - you have to have a connection. The partner

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No.

Why not? Because I think I’ve done it long enough. I think there’s nothing there for me to prove. I’m at the point where I need to set up my future. And if I don’t do it now by cutting the cord and trying to reinvent myself, I may never be able to after this comes to an end, which at one point it will. Or I’ll get old and won’t be able to dance. And at that time I want to be able to fall back on something that I’ve built. I want an extended career in this industry just because I can, unless someone tells me that I can’t. That’s why we’re trying my hand in acting. I’m curious to see how that’s going to work. It’s fascinating to study and learn a new skill.

coming home; I just wanted a brother, and he was staying a pupil. So we had a bit of a transitional period maybe four or five years ago, and since then, we’re just best friends.

You co-own Dance with Me, which besides being in Soho, has locations on Long Island, in New Jersey, and Connecticut. How often are you in your studios? I try to be there as much as I can, but I’ve been a studio owner since I was 17, so I kind of paid my dues. We worked 365 days. No exaggeration. During New Year’s Eve, I stayed at the studio. Whoever came in, I taught. Then at 10 p.m., when the studio closed, I locked it and then went to celebrate. We did that for seven years. Now we created a company, a system. My job is no longer in day-to-day operations. I’m more of a creative, where-Iwant-the-company-to-go type of person. My dad’s more hands-on every day, but he’s not a dancer. Between myself, Val, and sometimes Tony [Dovolani], we allow ourselves to venture out. Our growth and the studio’s growth go hand in hand, so it’s a win-win situation for us.

What are you favorite places in New York?

I hope you didn’t. But the point is that I’m not missing Dancing with the Stars because I think it’s unnatural for me to miss it. I’ve been there for 13 seasons. It’s been eight years. How long can I do this thing and miss it? If I did it once and never again, I’d miss it.

I live in Fort Lee, New Jersey, but I call New York home. I just love New York. New York has an energy about it. We have a lot of friends who own clubs and restaurants. Mostly it’s Soho, Meatpacking District, maybe the Lower East Side. I don’t really do the Midtown part; it’s a little crazy. My life is always around people, so I don’t want to be around people on my night off. I want to be around my people we have a crowd - but it’s people I miss seeing and love hanging out with, whether it’s at a restaurant or just chilling at their house.

So will you go back to DWTS one day?

What are your future plans?

If they guarantee me a winner and the trophy’s mine, I’m going to look at it and go, “I don’t know if I have it in me to stay with somebody for three months and be into it the way I’m supposed to be.” And I don’t want to be unfair and jeopardize someone else’s chances.

Just to be happy and successful. Our dad is very big on phrases. There’s one we grew up with, “It’s all about the end result.” I may change my profession drastically and become a venture capitalist. Broadway’s not going to buy me a jet, but it’s definitely a stepping stone. This show is not for money. This if for, “I did that.” We live in an era where everything is well documented. I have a responsibility for my kids to look and say, when they Google me 20 years from now, “That’s my dad.” I’m not going to be telling them stories. I’ll show them the video.

I saw you on All My Children.

Your brother Val also dances on the show. What’s it like being an older brother? It’s a lot of responsibility, but I went from him being my student first. He was my best pupil. And it’s not like I have to say it. He was never a teacher’s pet. He was in his familyowned studio and never jumped out and was always part of the class. The problem was

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