Can You Go Home Again? Exploring California in 2021
By Gordon Hughes In my very first article for WestView News (which has now become a monthly column) I explained my journey from Hollywood to […]
Fall Forest-Bathing: The Call of Nature
By Lynn Pacifico It is difficult to find earth with soul left in it when living in a highly-urbanized city, so I need my forays […]
The Digital Age or The End of the World as We Know It
By Roger Paradiso Top Ten Digital nightmares I think about every day: Driverless cars. One day you will be in a driverless car— Uber, etc. […]
To Stream or Not to Stream…
By Roger Paradiso Streaming is a technology used to deliver internet content to smart TVs, computers, and mobile devices without having to download it. I […]
Star Power
By Keith Michael But I will find him when he lies asleep, And in his ear I’ll holla ‘Mortimer!’ Nay, I’ll have a starling shall […]
Super Hero XIV: The Highs and Lows of Subletting in a Co-op
By Robert Kroll Here’s something co-op apartment dwellers never wanted to hear: if you are thinking of sub-letting your apartment long-term, you could be shooting […]
NYC DJ Brenda Black Interviews AIDS Cure Researcher
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Biology, maybe more than the other sciences, is a lot like cooking, but not many people know that. I was happily […]
Heroes Fight Like Greeks: Remembering Oxi Day
By Anastasia Kaliabakos Nowadays, Greece is known for its beautiful islands, sandy beaches, and ancient ruins. It is one of the most popular vacation destinations […]
The Campaign Against Lawless Motorcycles Begins
By Committee Against Lawless Motorcycles Just when New Yorkers were adapting to the ubiquity and legalization of electric bicycles (e-bikes), another invasion of bigger badder […]
Local Progressive Group Reorganizes
By Penny Mintz When the election results were confirmed on November 3, 2016, I, for one, went into mourning. For years I wore nothing but […]
The Rise of Health Drinks and Elixirs
By Dana Jean Costantino Over the last several years we have seen the interest in, and demand for, healthful drinks climb to new heights. Whether […]
On Writing My First Play
By Carol Yost I’d had an idea for this play since the 1970s, but it was hardly like the play I wound up writings. Still, […]
The Broadway Bubble
By Gordon Hughes There is an amazing, sometimes controversial, movement occurring on the Great White Way. Right now there are more than 125 plays and […]
Black Holes
Abstracted from “A Scientists View of Almost Everything” by Mark M Green To get away from the earth’s gravitational field, objects have to accelerate to […]
School Days
By Jeff Hodges Our daughter is a natural producer, director and performer. She says it was inevitable that she would become a teacher. She discovered […]
Google Buys St. John’s Terminal
St. John’s Terminal has gone through many iterations over the years. When WVN first started writing about possibilities, several architects had already offered ideas. We […]
NYC Retiree Alert
By J. Taylor Basker & Jesse Kasowitz While you were enjoying the summer on the beach, sunning, swimming, or boating, the city unions sank the […]
Little Italy has almost no public green space.
@Adrian_Benepe tweeted: Little Italy has almost no public green space. Mostly it has asphalt yards. Why would the City destroy a beloved green space that […]