Diversity Matters. Don’t Just Hashtag It.
By Annunziata Gianzero Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. Oscars so white. Equal work for equal pay. Hashtag it all you want. Or post your […]
Stuart Davis In Full Swing
“In order to make a visual image you have to have something going on.” —Stuart Davis By Martica Sawin There could not be a more […]
The Diversity of Contemporary Ceramics is Celebrated at Greenwich House Pottery’s Ceramics Now
By Nikki Shaner-Bradford Long before gaining its contemporary status as a medium for art and personal expression, pottery was considered an artisanal skill. This is […]
How A White Community Should Look at the Racial Divide
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Hand in hand with the scary speech of Donald Trump at the recent Republican Convention was a two-week period which saw […]
Performance Treadmill (Part Three)
By Christina Winholt Raccuia What are you putting off till you have a better body, or a better job? What beliefs have you constructed around […]
Science From Away: What are scientists doing?
By Mark M. Green (sciencefromaway.com) There are scientific journals and there are scientific journals. The latter are really only two, Science and Nature that are […]
The Physics of Everyday Things
By Trush Majmudar Physics and mathematics have been used successfully to describe the world around us. When we think of physics, we usually think either […]
Boomers— A Unique West Village Jazz Club
By Mel Watkins During the late 1960s and early 70s, just as the Civil Rights Movement gave way to the Black Power Movement, jazz thrived […]
Turning off the Music
By Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D. Just imagine the West Village without its music—the jazz clubs, Washington Square Park musicians, the folk houses, open mikes. It would […]
Grab & Go
In July 2016, Tsyen Shen, a Chinese filmmaker based in New York, filmed in the Village the first five episodes of “Grab & Go,” a […]
Vigil Exhaustion
By Reverend Donna Schaper Norman Lear, who is about to turn 93, was asked how he made it so long and so well. He responded, […]
REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s AUGUST 2016 Ah, August! Time to take a break either in the city or at home—relax, catch up, see a movie or two, […]