A More Cooper Union
When I was 18 years old, I moved to the East Village for college. From my dorm room, I had view of the Empire State […]
RICK, MITT OR NEWT
What with one thing and another, the Republicans are in for some difficulty in this election year, and they certainly didn’t have to add to […]
Campaign Finance Reform in Post-Citizens United Era
by Evan Palenschat In his State of the Union address in 2010, President Obama rebuked the Supreme Court for reversing “a century of law . […]
What Do Teachers Need? R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
How did we get to a place in this country where our teaching force of than three million professionals (elementary and high school) is being […]
NYU PROFESSORS NEW YORK TIMES PLEA – NOT IN MY BACKYARD
On Wednesday April 25, three NYU professors had an op-ed piece published in the New York Times that catalogued the reasons against the 30-year expansion […]
Then and Now. 72 Fifth Avenue
A gleamingly restored building at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 13th Street now educates young minds, but in the early 20th century it was […]
Science from Away: Sex, stress, alcohol
There are many different kinds of amino acids, all of them very small molecules, which can link together to form chains of varying lengths. If […]
SARCOMA: THE FORGOTTEN CANCER
I had never heard of sarcoma until 2002 when my son, Adam, called from California and told me and my wife that he had a […]
Birds Do It
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let’s do it. Let’s fall in love. Cole Porter “I canoodle. You canoodle. He, […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter May 2012
ACT UP Documentaries: How to Survive a PLAGUE (second look) and UNITED IN ANGER: the History of ACT UP + WE WERE HERE Commemorating the […]
MISADVENTURES IN POETRY—Art Gatti
May Day And the Burning Hearts of Poet-Patriots Phil Ochs showed me where poetry, song, imagination and conscience converged. In an age when America was […]
Jazz Global Connections
Drop into the famed Village Vanguard Jazz Club on Seventh Avenue and you’ll usually spot a group of Japanese tourists sound asleep in the corner. […]
HK & NYC- It is a Small World After All!
Sitting here, in a modern hotel on the otherside of the world, twelve hours time difference, day is night and night day – yet the […]
West Village Original: Nancy Weber
This month’s West Village Original is journalist and author Nancy Weber. Known primarily for her non-fiction work “The Life Swap,” her twenty-some other books include […]
The Fine Cut SnackBar
After taste buds, knife skills are a chef’s most precious possession. Here’s a spring dish to hone your blade on: Japanese cucumber salad. It’s crunchy, […]