Theatre Threads
By Irv Bauer October 30, 2013 – After Midnight – Conceived by Jack Viertel and based on Duke Ellington’s music and Harlem’s famed Cotton Club. […]
By Irv Bauer October 30, 2013 – After Midnight – Conceived by Jack Viertel and based on Duke Ellington’s music and Harlem’s famed Cotton Club. […]
By Maria Hadjidemetriou Abu Dhabi and beyond My love for architecture draws me to The United Arab Emirates. My last visit there was in 2004 […]
“Where shall we walk today?” was my daily question to Maggie who, after lung surgery, couldn’t walk more than a block or two, and one […]
Bill de Blasio’s stance on charter schools may feel like a bitter pill to swallow for charter advocates,after Bloomberg championed charters for the last 12 […]
When I was the10-year-old child of itinerant bohemian parents in the West Village, being Jewish to me was Kathe Kollewitz lithographs of thin women and […]
Download a FREE copy of the novel The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke by West Village author Barbara Riddle from December 6-10, 2013 This unique […]
Our Hudson River Waterfront is on the verge of being overshadowed by oversized development enabled by the same agency which created such an exceptionally beautiful […]
Winter is coming! Fuel prices are up! My place is cold and drafty! Help! For over a century, one of the most popular types of […]
Inher90th year, my mother became an activist. She had been a singer, and with my dad had owned the Waverly Lounge in the Earle Hotel […]
Early December. A birder’s doldrums. There aren’t actually many birds around Hudson River Park this morning, but the anticipation of a late migrant snuffling in […]
Until the early 1920s, the buildings around Sheridan Square were a lot shorter than they are today. With the exception of the eight-story building at […]
When I was a boy of ten or twelve, we used to take pleasure in throwing stones. Sometimes we threw stones at trees; sometimes we […]
Quite frankly there are many major films of merit released in the last six weeks of the year to qualify for consideration in the upcoming […]
A new book has arrived entitled Richard Barr – the Playwrights Producer written by David Crespy, a Professor of Theater at the University of Missouri […]
What happens when one blends exquisite Persian verses from masters like Rumi, Hafez, or Omar Khayyam to the rhythm and sultry sounds of American jazz, […]
Poems by Sherri Felt Dratfield West Village resident Sherri Dratfield published her first book of poetry in June. Her second book, Water Vigils, is scheduled […]
SnackBar I bought a pound of shiny brown chestnuts, all ready to inaugurate the seasonal spirit of gluttony by making a batch of marronsglacés. I […]
Being ambitious about where to eat used to be determined by reading the paper or a magazine, talking to people or noticing a new restaurant […]