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Editorial
Searching for safety at 60 Hudson and beyond
This week’s decision by the Board of Standards and Appeals to legalize the illegal storage of diesel fuel at 60 Hudson St. highlights the desperate need for the city to take a first look at how best to regulate telecom buildings. That was the reaction of the Tribeca group that led the fight against the building, Neighbors against NOISE, which is right once again.
Downtown Express photo by Milo Hess
Path of most resistance
This may be the closest thing to biking in the Hudson River without sinking.
The Penny Post
A perfect mirror
Mud Island sits in the Mississippi River outside of Memphis, between Tennessee and Arkansas, You get there by a monorail that snails across the wide river and affords you a view of the vast water and the city of Memphis. On Mud Island is the Mississippi River Museum, a wonder of curatorial ingenuity.
In Briefs
Sports
Racing kayakers go through Hell Gate and high water
By Kaija Helmetag
On Oct. 8 at North Cove Marina in Lower Manhattan, elite kayakers began the first of what they hope will be the water sport equivalent of the New York City Marathon.
Zachary Pine kicks it for Bari, left. Bari goalkeeper Tommy Wu clears the ball, right.
Downtown soccer action
Bologna vs. Bari
It was a gorgeous afternoon for soccer Saturday when Bologna met Bari in the Minor 8 division of Downtown Soccer.
Downtowners play like G-men
The Downtown Giants Junior Peewee Division, aged nine to 10-year-old, celebrated their homecoming game with a 42-34 win over the Bronx Colts at Murry Bergtraum field Saturday Oct.
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Downtown Express photo by Jefferson Siegel Little Giant  "Ain't no CBGB" anymoreBy Lincoln Anderson While hundreds of fans were still rocking in punk ecstasy to Patti Smith at her closed-to-the-media farewell show inside CBGB early Monday morning, there was no mistaking the feeling among those who couldn't get inside. Maybe for them, at a remove from the Smith band's driving three-chord rhythms and feedback, reality had set in earlier. State files appeal in Knickerbocker case
Stewart gets 28 months, not years, to her delight
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News Burned by diesel loss, Tribecans begin citywide fight No plan for W.T.C. buses in the early years
The planet's answers are in the soil, says B.P.C.'s green thumb C.B. 1 hires two for the price of one (almost) C.B. 1 backs Park Row reopening $45 million in community grants Boomerang lands in the World Financial Center |
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Downtown Arts and Entertainment
David Lynch's night music
By Harry Newman
David Lynch can't say what inspired him to start improvising seven years ago. The best he can offer is that he had a keyboard in his house and one day started experimenting.
In "Jonestown" a horrifying look at a murderous leader
By Noah Fowle
It is rare to find a documentary that contains more suspense and horror than any of the scary movies arriving in time for Halloween. But in "Jonestown" Director Stanley Nelson gives the medium a powerful shot in this eerie exploration of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the infamous mass suicide in Guyana, presenting a striking look past the sensational headlines and into the fractured psyches responsible for the grim tragedy.
"Aguirre" is back, with a vengeance
By Jerry Tallmer
Clouds so low that they mask the mountains. Mountains so high that they melt, hauntingly, into the clouds. And now, bit by bit, we perceive a line of ants working their slow, painful way down the very edge of a 600-meter vertical drop.
A doomed expedition that sails on stage
By Tonia Steed
The lights come up, washing the blank curtain in a cold and unforgiving brightness. At center stands a round, fleshy man in an ill-fitting tuxedo, hair corkscrewing into a halo, red clown nose attached to his face by fraying elastic, a huge prosthetic ass strapped behind him: Bane Barrington.
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The Poetry of the Moving Image ‰¥&Mac254;The Golden Hour,‰¥ÿ a group exhibit at Gigantic Art Space, takes its name from that ephemeral twilight period in which filmmakers and photographers love to shoot. Drawing upon everything from film trailers to soundtracks to stills, each artist explores their relationship to film, arguably the most important medium of the last century. Above, a still from "Charming Augustine" a 3-D film by Zoe Beloff that will be screened at the gallery on Tuesday, October 24 at 7:30 and 8:30 PM, complete with 3-D glasses. The exhibit closes Oct. 28. Gigantic Art Space, 59 Franklin Street, 212-226-6762.
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