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. […]
Abu Dhabi and Beyond
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 […]
Curtain Up On New Rite Aid
“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 […]
De Blasio Looks Beyond Charter Schools with New Education Policies
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 […]
Dear Santa, Please Bring Me a Dreidel
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 […]
The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke by West Village author Barbara Riddle
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 […]
Air Rights: A Gift from the Gods
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 […]
Brownstone Makeover on Charles Street
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 […]
Rent Control Terror
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 […]
Skydiving
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 […]
The Ink Pot
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 […]
POONING HI-HATS
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 […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
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 […]
Remembering Richard Barr in the Village and on Broadway
A new book has arrived entitled Richard Barr – the Playwrights Producer written by David Crespy, a Professor of Theater at the University of Missouri […]
American Jazz and Blues Get Persian
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, […]
The City
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 […]
The Sweet Stink
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 […]
Where My iPhone Took me for Dinner Recently!
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 […]