At the intersection of art, politics...and birth control...

Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld told columnist Phil Reisman on New Rochelle radio station WVOX Thursday ---one week after announcing she will not run for U.S. Senate-- that she believed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is beatable but said that she couldn’t run now, citing her husband’s job in Boston.  Feld also said she would not run again against 25-year incumbent State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer (who soundly defeated her in Feld's bid for that job)  because she doesn’t think that one person alone can effect any real change in Albany. She expressed disdain for those State Senators who were in bed last year with State Senators Espada and Montserrat – whom I believe she called “crooks.”

Join State Assemblyman George Latimer and County Legislator Judy Myers for district office hours Saturday January 30. They’ll be in Rye at Ruby’s Oyster Bar from 9:30 to 11am (45 Purchase Street) and at the Nautilus Diner in Mamaroneck (1240 Boston Post Road) from 2 to 3:30pm.  Assemblyman Latimer also will be available on Saturday February 6 in New Rochelle at the Mirage Diner with County Legislator Vito Pinto. 

No Reargument for Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club in its case against the Village of Mamaroneck and others. The Club claimed default approval of its site plan to develop seasonal housing units.  The Club's proceeding was dismissed last fall. Perhaps this latest decision has prompted the settlement rumors we've been hearing.  

Radio legend Dennis Elsas goes live and in person in his hometown of Rye...at the Rye Arts Center , Febrary 4, 7:30 to 9pm. Elsas is heard nationally on SiriusXM Satellite Classic Vinyl (14 and 46) and weekdays from 2-6 pm as the afternoon host on Loop sponsor WFUV FM (90.7).  He is a recognized rock authority , well-known for his creative musical programming and history-making interviews with rock legends.  Watch for theLoop's interview with Elsas next week.

Tickets are $5 and students are FREE with ID.   This event is in conjunction with Off The Record:  Rock, A Social Revolution, in the RAC gallery January 10 – February 26, 2010. 

The new fab Media Lab at Pelham Art Center opens in February for classes and workshops. Two free Media Lab Open House Workshops will allow the public to visit the lab and work with its digital art making tools. The workshops will take place Saturday, January 30 from 11:15am – 1:15pm and Saturday, February 13 from 1:30 – 3:30. These free workshops are supported in part by a grant from ArtsWestchester.   Registration for media classes for the spring term is ongoing through February. 

-       Ceramic Artist Judith Weber (check out the classic teapots) has been elected President of The New Rochelle Council on the Arts for 2010-2012. Theresa Kump Leghorn, Director of the Museum of Arts & Culture, and Lynn Green, Vice President of Development at Family Services of Westchester, will serve together as Vice Presidents, with attorney Beth Willensky as Secretary and Billie Tucker, co-founder of the New Rochelle Opera, continuing as Treasurer.

-       NRHS senior Daniel Hoffman  was selected to be a New York State representative to the Hearst Foundation’s US Senate Youth Program in Washington, DC.   He was chosen for this honor by the NY State Department of Education as one of its two representatives.  

 Bambi in the 'hood? Put her on the pill!   A meeting in Greenburgh on January 20th discussed the use of "immunocontraception" (a word not in my online dictionary, by the way) as a non-lethal way to control burgeoning suburban deer population.  In other words, it's an alternative to killing the deer.  Objections to deer contraception  include its cost and difficulty to use.  (We don't even want to know how they take it) For more information, contact Barbara Stagno of  In Defense of Animals

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