Wines from Portugal
Portugal has been on my wine radar from the very start. Having roots in two of Portugal’s former African colonies, I consider it to be […]
WestView Letter December 2013: Melissa Mark-Viverito
Melissa Mark-Viverito Dear Editor, A new political day is dawning …and not a minute too late. With progressive Democrats elected to office as Mayor, Public […]
An Existential Christmas Carol
The author, Patrick Barlow, who adapted the Tony Award winning hit The 39 Steps for the stage has now done the same for Dickens’ A […]
Not an Entirely Ill Wind?
After Sandy blew through on the night of October 29th last year, leaving the neighborhood minus electricity for the next four days, one of the […]
One Year Later:
When Left Bank, 117 Perry Street, decided to commemorate last year’s Sandy blackout with a repeat performance, October 30th through November 2nd,,of four evenings of […]
Theater: This Town Needs More Than One Voice
Thank you to Robert Heide for restoring me to sanity. I’m a frequent contributor to the WestView News, and, after reading his recent review, more […]
WestView Letter December 2013: “Officer: ‘Old man beat, defamed me’”
“Officer: ‘Old man beat, defamed me’” Dear Editor, The publisher of this paper, George Capsis, didn’t make the front page of the Daily News. In […]
The Pure Whiteness of Winter (February)
After Hanging scroll painting, ink on silk, by Xu Jing, (dated 1441), Metropolitan Museum of Art The pure whiteness of winter blankets plum blossoms as […]