Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies That Matter
Awards season has arrived! A deluge of quality films will fall almost daily between September 1st and December 31st. In order to qualify for consideration […]
The Show that Keeps On Going
By Stanley Wlodyka The artists of A Diamond Jubilee are vastly different from one another, but they each can reveal the secrets to longevity and […]
“Are You Jewish?”
God Sends a Kosher Editor Oh wow, a $35,000, roughly 40 foot house-bus, in front of United Cigar and Christoper Street is blaring Yiddish music—this […]
West Village Sartorial Splendor
By Gordon T Hughes Jr. When you meet a guy, be it in the theatre district where I do most of my work, or in […]
Theater Review: Days to Come
By Eric Uhlfelder So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” […]
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
By Robert Heide In the world of film, during the month of August, a new documentary called Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood opened […]
Andy’s and Everyone Else’s 90th Birthday
By John Gilman They were celebrating Andy Warhol’s 90th birthday August 9th with a big champagne gala at the Whitney Museum, and when we were […]
A Tafel Surprise
By Jon D’Orazio I wish to share something I learned only last year, concerning Edgar Tafel, whom my architect father met at the ’67 AIA […]
Italytime to Present Three Eyes on Pinocchio in Spanish
By Jane Heil Usyk On November 7, 8, 9, and 10, the cultural organization Italytime will present a new version of Italy’s most famous character, […]
Tribute to Architect Edgar Tafel
By Brian J. Pape, AIA 39 years ago, this summer, upon the publication of Edgar Tafel’s memoir Apprentice to Genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright, […]
Greenwich Village: What’s in the Name?
By Brian J. Pape, AIA Greenwich is a fairly common place name, a city in CT, a village in upper NY, NJ, RI, and of […]
Designing Waste—Strategies for a Zero Waste City
By Mary Chandrahasan, Partner, NDNY Architecture + Design Here are some interesting numbers to get you thinking about waste. Did you know that nearly 40 […]
Gotta Go!
By Keith Michael Another Sunday. Another walk in Hudson River Park. At the end of her leash, Millie has already walked me around her neighborhood […]
Escape to Nowhere
By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner, NDNY Architecture + Design “Man Struck and Killed by Falling Debris from New York Building Fire Escape,” read the headline from […]
In and out
August was a surprisingly busy month—and since I was away for a couple of weeks I was particularly grateful to WestView readers for their observations. […]
West Village Original: Carmen Grange
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is Dr. Carmen Grange, born in 1922 in Colón, Panama, to Jamaican parents working in the […]