By Joe Salas From its origins in a gym in 2003, the annual Taste of Greenwich House—to be held this year on March 13th—has developed into a showcase of the Village’s best restaurants and a “must-attend” for everyone following the Greenwich Village food scene. With more than 30 restaurants, eateries including Market Table and Café
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Joy’s Senior Health Tips: Winter Safety
By Joy Pape, FNP-C CDE CILC Since it is still winter, I have listed my favorite tips to ensure a safe season during the cold months. Retain Moisture. Winter air is dry and, as we age, many parts of our bodies get drier. The winter air, combined with heat, can make things worse. Be aware
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Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso It’s easy when you have no choice. Blue is said to be everyone’s favorite color, but who would want blue trees? Our parents are gone, but why do they wander so casually through our dreams? Wine the divine. Poetry is splendid, but pottery is more useful. Sorrow never dies. It sleeps, and
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
JANUARY 2017 I write this as the film community is all abuzz about the best of the year’s awards. Nominees and winners are beginning to emerge; the Oscars remain the number one cinematic competition in the world. Each year, I prepare REEL DEAL’s essential movies of the year, as well as the best albums and
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In and Out
By Caroline Beneviste December was a busy month for restaurant openings. These spanned the gamut, from highly publicized spots with known chefs to smaller venues concentrating on specific foods/dishes. Open 1. Tavo (615 Hudson Street, between West 12th and Jane Streets): Tavo bills itself as serving Contemporary Latin American Cuisine, but many Asian influences are also
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Bird of the Year 2016
By Keith Michael We’re here amidst the hustle and bustle as finishing touches are added to the grandstand for the announcement of The 11th Annual Millies: the coveted Bird of the Year Awards! For those of you only listening in from your earbuds, I’m standing with Millie, the awards’ namesake, at the confounding intersection of
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Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso Live and yearn. Even the brightest gold tarnishes. Your politics reveal your whole view of life. Is extra virgin anything like slightly pregnant? A writer is at his best while writing. The rest of the time he’s just as dumb as everyone else. As silent as snow on a Sunday morning. Christmas
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The Origin of Death Revisited Following the 2016 Election
By Mark M. Green Nearly eight years ago, I wrote a column about the origin of death. An edited version of this column appears below. Perhaps publishing on this subject now relates to some of us feeling as though we are at the origin of something a bit like death. This relates to politics, not
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IN AND OUT
Last month, we reported that the Three Lives & Company bookstore had not closed but was negotiating with its new landlord to stay. On November 15th, Toby Cox, the owner of Three Lives, sent out an email with the happy news that a new lease had been signed and that they were not leaving. So,
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
AFTERSHOCK: When the election results came in, the mood in our neighborhood, a Hillary stronghold, revealed a mix of gloom, anger—and wry (rye!) humor. All photos by Maggie Berkvist.
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Crash Course
By Keith Michael It’s the morning circling of pigeons. Millie is dilly-dallying around the corner onto West 11th Street, one reluctant corgi step at a time. Is the pigeons’ morning circling timed to our walk, or is our walk timed to the circling of the pigeons? Either way, it’s a daily fall spectacle. The “spectacle”
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Of the Park: Paul, “Birdman” of Washington Square Park
By Joy Pape and Brian J. Pape For the past 15 years, Paul has made regular sojourns to Washington Square Park (WSP) to commune with the pigeons and other little creatures in the park. When Paul first began these regular visits, he resided on Carmine Street, where he found that the squirrels and birds were
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Local Businesses Band Together to Provide Girls Opportunities with Basketball League
By Joe Salas On November 9th, as stocks fell and economists around the world braced for an uncertain and stagnant future, a group of businesses had already committed to making sure one thing was certain: that a Greenwich Village institution would be able take the court this year—the basketball court. The Greenwich House Girls Basketball
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Joy’s Senior Seasonal Nutrition Buys of the Month
By Joy Pape, FNP-C CDE CILC As vegetables and fruits continue to come into season, they offer seniors the tastiest and most nutritional buys for their money. December’s New York list of local harvests is short, but there are multiple ways to get nutrition on a budget. Look for shell beans, collard greens, and parsnips.
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The New York Character: A 16mm Film Series and Discussion
By Matt Whitman The New York Character at Jefferson Market Library is an ongoing series of screenings and panel discussions that explore films culled from The New York Public Library’s unparalleled 16mm film collection and archive held at The Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The first such program began last year and
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Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso Marriage: a matter of wife and debt. Journey: from womb to tomb. Nobody ever did anything bad while laughing. We like a book at first sentence or not at all. Dawn: black to blue. December light’s oblique but bright. No Hamlet or Lear in high school because they’re about sex. Macbeth and
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
DECEMBER 2016 “Duck and run for cover!” is one way to warn you about December’s deluge of quality films. These films are being released in NYC in hopes that Oscar nominators will make people forget all the good movies that came out earlier this year. It is overwhelming, quite frankly. There are just too many
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West Village Original: Scott Morfee
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is Scott Morfee, the founding producer of Barrow Street Theater (BST) at Greenwich House. Born in Boston in 1954 and raised in Pittsburgh, Morfee, as a producer, has presented such hits as Buyer & Cellar, The Flick, Red Light Winter, Bugs, and Killer Joe. In addition,
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Science from Away: A Short Science Story about Viruses and Cancer
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Cancer patients in the 1800s were observed, too often to be chance, to be relieved of their cancerous tumors when they were ill with respiratory problems. When viruses were discovered later in that century, it was hypothesized that viral particles were responsible for the effect on the cancerous tumors. The
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Bird’s Eye View
By Keith Michael Millie is sitting this one out (or sleeping it off—dreaming of hallways without vacuum cleaners or exterminators, streets without fluttering plastic bags, and curbs with slices of pizza lined up end to end around the block waiting to be consumed, i.e., corgi heaven). It’s an October Sunday morning under a cloudier sky
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Filmmaker Explores What Makes Greenwich House Thrive
By Joe Salas As Greenwich House nears its 115th anniversary in 2017, an award-winning documentary filmmaker will be capturing stories from members who make up this century-old dynamic and inclusive community. Greenwich House was founded on Thanksgiving Day in 1902 in the settlement house tradition. Its early programs largely helped recent immigrants adapt to life
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IN AND OUT
By Caroline Benveniste Curbed and other media channels have reported that the Three Lives & Company bookstore (154 West 10th Street) is closing, but that is not the case. The building was sold, but Three Lives is negotiating with the new landlord and hopes to be able to stay. In the meantime, stop by and
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What is Happiness?
By Christina Raccuia What do we need to be happy? Although specific requirements for happiness are based on the individual, there are certain primal needs we all have as humans. Having a home gives us a sense of stability and safety—a primal and important need in order to be happy. It is a place to
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Caruso’s Quips
By Charles Caruso Pay close attention to what people say in anger. It’s the way they really feel. Should you shout, “God bless you!” when someone in the next apartment sneezes? Santa Claus is God in a red suit. Better too hot than lukewarm. Men write most of the love songs. Women are too practical
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REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s November 2017 After you VOTE on November 8th (Yes, 4 Hillary), and if you live in District 66, you can write in my name for State Assembly as a statement against Deborah Glick and machine politics) you will have a deluge of quality films to draw you away from your living room and
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Science from Away: Political Science Applied to Terrorism
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) Does political science deserve to be called a science? When I was in high school and later in college in the 1950s, there was a required course we called “polysci” and the science engineering types thought it was great because we didn’t have to memorize a lot of facts or
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IN AND OUT
-By Caroline benveniste Saikai (24 Greenwich Avenue), the somewhat expensive Izakaya that we reported on in our “Restaurant Row” article, is now serving a very reasonably-priced $8 lunch of rice and noodle bowls. Gansevoort Market (353 West 14th Street) is almost entirely populated, although not all the stands have opened yet. You can’t get tacos
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Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
ANYTHING FOR THE RIGHT ANGLE: Passing this scene on Charles Street, one could only marvel at the photographer’s ingenuity, seriousness of purpose—and excellent physical condition! “IT TAKES TWO”, as the serious tango dancers at the mellow sunset sessions on Pier 45 demonstrate every Sunday and Wednesday. And, should no partner come forward, there’s
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A Flicker Flew In
By Keith Michael This morning, Millie and I are out for her appraisal-of-the-neighborhood amble around the block. In her corgi-ish way, I imagine Millie reveling in the crisp October sunrise painting the cobblestones. Looking up, a Flicker flies into the honey locust tree at the end of the block. Barely having seen it, I knew
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Joy’s Senior Seasonal Nutrition Buy of the Month
By Joy Pape As vegetables and fruits come into season, they offer seniors the tastiest and most nutritional buys for their money. October’s harvest is plentiful. It includes some of my favorites such as: green beans, brussels sprouts, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, corn, tomatoes, kale, and of course pumpkin. Fruits in season are apples and raspberries;
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Face the Fear and It Will Disappear (Part Two)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia Last month, we explored the nature of anxiety, panic, and the symptoms associated with those conditions. In this segment, we look at techniques which can help to facilitate recovery. Practice diaphragmatic breathing and relaxation skills. To practice, lie on your back, with one hand on your chest and one hand on
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Greenwich House to Honor Two Cultural Dynamos at Arts Celebration; David Amram to Perform
By Joe Salas Greenwich House will honor American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and author, David Amram, and ceramicist and Jefferson Market Garden Adopt-a-Pot Founder, Marianne Yoors, at its annual Arts Benefit, November 3rd at the Rosenthal Pavilion at NYU’s Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South). The evening will be hosted by Carey Lowell, an actress best
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Caruso’s Quips —By Charles Caruso
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. Americans don’t know their own history, a great advantage for our rulers. Your jokes tell where your heart is broken. Thinking leads to drinking. Reading doesn’t make you smart. It just gives you more things to be dumb about. Spring is a promise summer doesn’t keep. New
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Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
October 2016 This year, the 54th edition of the New York Film Festival (NYFF) arrives. New leadership under Kent Jones is firmly in place. Keeping true to one of its core missions, it will provide a survey of the world's top film festivals, bringing to NYC cinephiles the best of the best. The NYFF seems
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Maggie B’s Photo of the Month
HE’S FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES, luring a stream of delighted youngsters of all ages in Washington Square Park to try their luck at catching the ‘pretty bubbles in the air.’ Photo and text by Maggie Berkvist.
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Epidemiology— We are the Canary
By Mark Green (sceincefromaway.com) Hoosick Falls is a lovely town in upstate New York near the Vermont border and famous as the home of a remarkable painter: Grandma Moses. Recently, it became famous again, for the discovery that a chemical associated with the production of non-stick cookware, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), is at a dangerously high
