Saturdays, September 26, October 3, 10, 17, 24 – 3 pm to 5 pm What was political radical thought in nineteenth-century America? This course, Reform in the Age of Capital: Radical Political Thought in the United States, 1829–1877, will focus on the content of the radical political thought in the period historian Eric Hobsbawm named the “Age
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New Waves at Jefferson Market University
Saturdays, September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17 – 3pm to 5 pm The mid-twentieth century is considered a major turning point for independent filmmaking when young directors with small budgets flourished. This course, New Waves: an International Study of Modern Cinema, takes a world tour to explore some of the most famous 1950s and1960s
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West Village Original: Erwin Lerner
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is playwright and screenwriter Erwin Lerner, born in the Bronx in 1935. The author of such plays as “Dilemma,” “Katz’ Poem,” and “Happy New Year, Love,” Lerner served in the Air Force as a cryptographer for four years before moving back to New York and, eventually,
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Are You Staaalled?
By Ron Elve If you are stalled (whether it be at work, school, or even life), odds are you know what your next step should be, but you are guilty of fatal neglect/avoidance. If this is you, try the following tips to try to get unstuck: Break your task down to the simplest of achievable
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When Horses Ruled NYC A series on historic stable/carriage houses: Chumley’s at 86 Bedford St.
By Brian J. Pape, AIA The famous Chumley’s is slowly crawling back to business after eight years in limbo, a phoenix rising from the rubble of 2007. When the former speakeasy for literati finally re-opens this Fall, the ghosts of e.e.cummings, Faulkner, St. Vincent Millay, O’Neill, Steinbeck, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, among many others, will hardly recognize
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35XV The Invisible Building
By Barry Benepe I saw a building in the air When I looked, it wasn’t there It wasn’t there again today I wish that building would go away Apologies to William Hughes Mearns I Saw a Man upon the Stairs Walking east from Sixth Avenue on the north side of 15th Street alongside a gorgeous
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Now Get Out
By Keith Michael Summer is golden. Millie hruffs inside from a sweltering walk, shedding a trail of fur-wisps behind her. Corgis were bred for herding in northern climes. New York summers are not that. Once in the door, she dashes to the bathroom for her water bowl, tags rhythmically jingling on the rim as
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Bringing Poetry to the People
Greenwich House Joins with Poets House By Joseph Salas The New Country By Edith Merle cold and unwelcoming as unrelenting as the falling snow blaring fire engine sirens unfamiliar sounds—the foreign language unheated apartments devoid of hot water year round summers—a distant memory sounds or ripened mangoes beckoning the children falling to the ground
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Food is love
By John Barrera Have you ever cooked for someone and noticed the other person’s face? I can almost guarantee that person was smiling. How about a conversation with your mother telling her you’ll be coming to visit soon? Most times that conversation would include something about making your favorite meal or maybe visiting your
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Summer in the City: Not a Bad Place to Dine
By David Porat August in the city, with weather being cooperative, is a great time to enjoy restaurants that are not as easily available at other times of year. Between reservations that are generally easier to get and the very successful NYC and Co. promotion, Restaurant Week, you can enjoy good food, good value, and
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Science from Away: Short Stories about Serotonin and More
By Mark M Green (sciencefromaway.com) Simon N. Young began teaching at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in the early 1970s and went on to become Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. He also sat on committees, which decided who gets money to do what research—a professor of considerable influence. Just about when
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Raffetto’s—A Century Link to the Village’s Past
By Caroline Benveniste When you enter Raffetto’s, you might be greeted by the sound of the guillotine. Not just one swift thwack, but repeated chopping. In the back of the store the ninety-nine year old pasta cutting machine chops away, cutting to order four different widths of pasta, from linguine to wide fettuccine. The one
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The Lost Cinemas of the West Village: It’s A Wrap (Part Two).
By Clive I. Morrick Remembering some favorite West Village cinemas which I and many readers have known but are now lost to us. The Eighth Street Playhouse, 52 West 8th Street, now a Beth Israel Medical Center Walk-In (and former TLA Video store), 1929-1992. One commentator has written that the loss of this cinema
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When Horses Ruled NYC: 53 Christopher Street “The Stonewall Inn”
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Many in the West Village neighborhood celebrated this June when the Stonewall Inn was listed by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which voted unanimously to approve landmark designation of the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the first such site the Commission has landmarked based solely upon LGBT history.
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West Village Original: Peter Carlaftes
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is writer and performer Peter Carlaftes, born and raised in the Bronx. He has published works in all genres: playwriting (including the spoof “Spin-Dry”), comic writing (the recent “A Year on Facebook”), and collections of poetry (including “Drunkyard Dog”). In addition, he and his partner,
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Tips to Enhance Enjoyment
By Ron Elve Savoring life’s enjoyments before, during and after life experiences can enhance and add significantly to overall feelings of wellbeing. One way to do this is to focus mentally on the positive—including details of small joys, such as good weather. We tend to go overboard with the negative (road rage and other
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
August used to be the month that studios dumped all the films that had failure written all over them or the month when indie films and docs with niche audience potential were slotted. But our good neighbor on Bank street Harvey Weinstein upended that cinema game plan when he made a new template called March
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Science from Away: Kathleen Lonsdale—Against all odds.
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Benzene with six carbon and six hydrogen atoms plays a critical industrial role, and is a theoretical model for understanding all of organic chemistry. Although the shape of this key molecule, proposed around 1860 as a hexagon of carbon atoms, has to be certainly known to understand these
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Street Smarts
By Keith Michael I’m outside of my usual West Village haunts, walking up Sixth Avenue from downtown. (Millie is at home, paging through the latest New Yorker to see if there are any cartoons or humorous bits about corgis.) This is hardly as far from my usual streets as was a recent
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When Horses Ruled NYC
A series on historic stable/carriage houses: 271 W 10th Street By Brian J Pape In the May 2015 issue, we inaugurated this series with a study of 129 Charles Street, ca. 1897. Readers also saw an ad for recent “House Sales,” one of which is 271 West Tenth Street, another stable building between
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The Lost Cinemas of the West Village: It’s A Wrap (Part One).
By Clive I. Morrick I had intended to write one article on some favorite West Village cinemas which I and many readers had known but are now lost to us even before I discovered the Sheridan, Carmine, and Fugazy cinemas (WVN Vol. 11, Nos 4-6). So here it is, in two parts.
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Dolly Berry: An Addict’s Only Friend
By Catherine Revland From Billie Holiday’s drug conviction in 1948 to her death in 1959, she could not perform in the West Village nightclubs where she had always sung to a packed house. The drug conviction had resulted in the loss of her cabaret card, a license administered by the NYPD, denying her
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Yup Bacon Still Sells and Then Some!
By David A. Porat Chelsea Market Baskets over the last eighteen years has constantly evolved, and we pride ourselves on exciting new products to experience and taste. An interesting chapter in this is the story of our Bacon Peanuts or what we cheekily call CMB Goin’ Nuts. It started in September 2009,
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Years to Be a Chef—Minutes to Look Like One
By John Barrera We have an obsession with all things food. Whether cooked, written about, or photographed, as a society we can’t get enough. In this frenzied state of mind, who better than the media to exploit our obsession. The problem, though, is their pervasive marketing of everything food has diluted standards put
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Gallatin’s Legacy at NYU
By Ron Elve “NYU Jew” and “Catholic U”—these were some of the names that NYU was called based on its long-standing tradition of an inclusive admissions process. Other schools, including the Ivy League and religious institutions, imposed admissions quotas which led to Irish Catholics and Jews being excluded. NYU’s mission was explicitly not
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
The BAMcinemaFest is the success story of the year, with imaginative programing by curators who hand pick the best indie films and documentaries. They cull these treasures from important film festivals like Sundance and SXSW, as well as from recent restorations. The curators also have a keen awareness of the emerging Brooklyn Film community who
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July Events
Download the pdf with the link below view pdf and see the full list of events in the most recent West Village—including Film, Music, Learning, Dance and Literature. WestView News July 2015 PDF edition For weekly updates go to EVENTS at http://www.westvillageword.com/.
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Shocker: In Manhattan tickets for new movies can cost $15 to $20 dollars for adults and $14 for seniors (there goes the fixed income movie goer). Early morning shows cost a little less—between nine in the morning and noon it will only cost you $8.50-$9.50 for any age. That’s great if you can get yourself
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
May 2015 Ten days of non-stop Tribeca Film Festival has left me weary (jumping on my Citybike four or five times a day and rushing between 23rd St. and Battery Park theaters), but pleased to have found so much to be excited about—including the discovery of a young filmmaker from Costa Rica. Her name is
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
April 2015 I’m writing from SXSW 2015 in Austin Texas. SXSW now includes the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music and Media Conference, SXSW Film and the SXSW Interactive Festival. Two Greenwich Village residents scored big! Recent NYU Graduate School of Film Studies Laura Terruso jumped right into filmmaking even before being degreed. On The Foxy
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
OK, let me get my Oscars response off my chest. The New York Times published an article critical of Academy voters for being out of touch with the public and voting for films that only, say, 4 million people had seen (Boyhood) as opposed to American Sniper’s 320 million gross in the US. The Times
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
I am writing this column from Park City, Utah home of the 26th SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. Today there are actually two Sundances. The one you see on TV full of stars—Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Robert Redford, Iggy Azalea, Common and John Legend—partying on Main Street. The other Sundance, the one Robert Redford founded to celebrate
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
As I write this column I am still reeling from the saturation of quality films that opened and closed in the last 90 days in NYC and LA in order to qualify for Oscar Season. Some will be back in the next couple of months for all of you to see. We can thank my
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Let’s Go To The Movies: Nightcrawler – Director Dan Gilroy Dan Gilroy’s debut film should grab the gold come award time. His Michael Mann- inspired look at Los Angeles, and how tabloid journalism, first invented by the supermarket rag The National Enquirer, has drenched television news reporting, rechanneling it in an ugly aesthetic, is a
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
September 2014 Last October I wrote: “Quel deluge! The awards season scramble is upon us.” Everyday it would seem a new “important” film opens in New York City. The march to Academy Award nominations is in high stop motion. Understand that the setup is to qualify for the IFC Spirit nominations (the independent film movement
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
In or out of Greenwich Village, August is either the dog days of summer or the time to vacation with a good book or feel good movie. That is how it used to be. But no more now that the Oscar campaigning has seeped into August. We can thank our neighbor uber-Producer Harvey Weinstein for
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
A heat wave is predicted for July and August on the East Coast, which is perfect air-conditioned movie theater time. Please keep that in mind when the air is sticky and even the air you breathe is hot so that sitting in a cool, dark, air conditioned theater may be a better choice than boiling
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
June 2014 June brings summer breezes and vacation nights! We can recommend quite a few: The Amazing Spider-Manfor sheer fun with an undertone of humanity. X-Men Days of Future Pastis spectacle at its story telling trickster best.Polanski’s Venus in Furs sizzles with the kind of sexual tension that S&M games can generate.HBO has a couple
