Culture and Cuisine: Art Review—Alejando Otaola’s Tale as Old as Time
By Nat Taylor West Village residents have an unexpectedly profound treat this month in Tale as Old as Time, Manhattan-based painter Alejando Otaola’s first solo […]
Culture & Cuisine
By Hannah Reimann December 2021 brought us many surprising turns as we inched towards Christmas with a howl of uncertainty around the 17th of the […]
Holy Hudson! The Blessing of the Waters in Hudson River Park
By Fr Graeme Napier The ancient tradition of blessing rivers, bays, coves, and other waterways returns once more to the West Village after a hiatus […]
Essential Oils for Wintertime
By Dana Jean Costantino As the winter is now here, and we still must deal with the various restrictions and implications brought about by Covid, […]
Ilene Reid’s The Sounds Around The House
By Robin Hirsch As someone who has spent a considerable part of his life immersed in performance of every kind and surrounded by performers of […]
Film Review – Piano Lessons: The Life and Art of German Diez
A new documentary film directed by Antongiulio Panizzi By Hannah Reimann On rare occasions, while we listen to the beautiful music of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Bach […]
Style on the Street Meets “Style on the Stoop”
YULIYA RICKY HOPE MCKENZIE STEPHANIE SARA KATIE ANDREW Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood […]
Whitney Museum of American Art Celebrates Publication of Big Book of Andy Warhol Films
By Robert Heide The special December 2, 2021 program and celebration at the incredible Whitney Museum of American Art at 99 Gansevoort Street was in […]
Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
A Happy Surprise….. Our stretch of Bleecker Street looking more truly festive than it has in many a moon. Photos by Maggie Berkvist.
Are Your Organic Tomatoes Truly ‘Organic’?
By Max Goldberg When most consumers go to buy organic produce at the supermarket, they do so believing that it has not been sprayed with […]
LOCAL STREETSCAPES: 100 Vandam St. at Greenwich St.
100 Vandam St. at Greenwich St. Originally projected for completion in Summer of 2020, this daring redevelopment of a circa 1910 six-story brick powerhouse building […]
Tips for Starting the New Year Healthy
By Paula Doebrich The new year is always a time for grand resolutions and plans to start implementing new healthy habits. While I suggest you […]
A View from the Kitchen
By Isa Covo What season is this? I shall tell you in case you have not noticed, it is COVID-19 season. That is almost all […]
IN AND OUT
While there was a healthy number of openings, and no permanent closings we are aware of, December saw many restaurants close temporarily due to rising […]
Joan’s Shanghai
By Joan Klyhn Joan’s Shanghai is a memoir of a childhood in Shanghai in the ‘30’s and ’40s of the 20th century. I am primarily […]
The Lost Movie Theaters
By Anthony Paradiso & Roger Paradiso The pandemic has not been kind. Over 800,000 Americans have died as of mid-December. Many businesses have died too. […]
Grandma’s Arms
By Lynn Pacifico My grandmother Virgie’s story might not be as complete as I would like it to be, as my mother’s backcountry folk, especially […]
Lifetalk With Roberta Russell – Flying Over Sunset: A Healing Psychedelic Transcendence of Time and Space
Video courtesy of James Lapine. By Roberta Russell Life is lived in three zones: intrapersonal—within ourselves, interpersonal—between ourselves, and transpersonal—extending beyond. Tony Award and Pulitzer […]