Sogno Toscano now carries an amazing wine selection from Bolgheri
Sogno Toscano now carries an amazing wine selection from Bolgheri (the hometown of the founders, Brian Persico and Pietro Brembilla) including award-winning Sassicaia ‘15 and […]
IN AND OUT
The theme this month seemed to be Italian restaurants, mostly of the kind making fresh pasta. A number of international imports also are making an […]
Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily […]
The Digital Age or The End of the World as We Know It
By Roger Paradiso The robots are coming! The robots are coming! I am concluding my top ten nightmares of the digital world serial. As you […]
LIFETALK with Roberta Russell: Change Your Patterns That Don’t Work
By Roberta Russell Of late, I have been a steady patron of social media sites. The results of this widely diversified search for would-be mates, […]
Armando F. Ienco
Armando F. Ienco, age 90, formerly of Brooklyn, New York passed away Thursday Nov 4, 2021 in NYC. He was a retired bricklayer and contractor […]
4,000 Giant-Sized 5G Antennas Proposed for NYC; Opposition Grows
By Camilla Rees Recently, health advocates have learned that 4,000 enormous new ‘Jumbo’ 5G antennas, on giant monopoles, have been proposed for New York City […]
Is B Corp Losing its Credibility?
By Max Goldberg Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to […]
LOCAL STREETSCAPES: Gansevoort Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Gansevoort Street (formerly Great Kill Road, renamed 1837) along with riverside Fort Gansevoort (1812), were named for Revolutionary War Gen. […]
If Anyone Can Put an AIDS Cure Together, it Will Be You!!
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. That is what my doctoral thesis advisor, Nobel-laureate Gunter Blobel, MD, PhD told me, and now I say the same to […]
Hush, a Thrush
By Keith Michael Charles Lane, 11:28 am. Weather cloudy. 59 degrees. Quite frankly, I’m on my way to Hudson River Park, hoping to take a […]
Dog Days
By Jeff Hodges Riley is one of those dogs you keep on a tight leash. She attacks skateboarders and sanitation workers, stops deliverymen dead in […]
The Kallikantzaroi Who Stole Christmas
By Anastasia Kaliabakos Although winter brings wind and cold weather, it also offers immense joy and holiday cheer to the entire world. Christmas is my […]
Super Hero XV: A Grand Way to Pay a Bill
By Robert Kroll No one in his right mind would pay this bill. It was six years overdue, a penalty for a crime committed by […]
An Interview with Michael D. Minichiello, Author of West Village Originals
By William Repicci It was a little over 12 years ago when my better half, Michael D. Minichiello, came home saying he had met the […]
Jersey Boy Bobby in WW II
By Robert Heide Growing up in the middle-class town of Irvington, New Jersey, a suburb of the big city of Newark during the time of […]
Notes From Away: An Embarrassment of Riches
By Tom Lamia In order to keep up with events here in Maine I read one of the major statewide newspapers, The Portland Press Herald, […]
Pearl Harbor Baby
By John Gilman Five years ago, on the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor I told the story in WestView News of my fathers’ experiences as […]