Will We Ever See the End of Hunger in America?
By Kieran Loughney The smell of my mom’s apple pie baking in the oven. Many of us have that one childhood encounter with food that […]
What Makes HIV+ Gay Men Open or Private About Their Status?
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Each person’s medical history is personal and private. At the same time, it’s always patients who charge the leading edge of […]
The Farm Supply
By Jeff Hodges In 1990, when my daughter was four, we started frequenting the Carmel Farm Supply on our weekends away from Greenwich Village. The […]
The First Time
By Keith Michael Spoiler alert: This is not a cheerful tale. On Friday, March 26th, while I looked for migrating spring birds in the Willow […]
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 […]
SUPERHERO X: Life or Death in Apartment Buildings
By Robert Kroll Life in an apartment building is tough; it’s treacherous, death-defying. Apartment residents are literally at the mercy of all the other people […]
Epigenetics: Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Abstracted from “A Scientists View of Almost Everything” by Mark M Green I’ve often wondered if my compunction to lock doors and to be thinking […]
Ramsey Clark (1927-2021): America’s Gandhi
By Bruce Poli Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General for LBJ’s Great Society (1967-69), author and supervisor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the […]
Two Plays and a Journal by Julian Beck
By Robert Heide In the summer of 1957 the founders of the Living Theatre Julian Beck and his wife Judith Malina went to jail with […]
Edith Stephen: From Sound into Silence
By J. Taylor Basker We lost our Westbeth icon, the dancer/choreographer/filmmaker Edith Stephen, on March 18th at 6:55 p.m. Her friend and neighbor, jazz guitarist […]
Catching Up With Our Oldest Oscar Winner
By Richard Eric Weigle In July of 2020, film legend, EVA MARIE SAINT, became our oldest living Academy Award winner and our earliest winner for […]
Crystal Visions
By Dana Jean Costantino Oh, how I love crystals! It seems I’ve always got a few in my pocket, in bowls around my apartment, I […]
Transgender, The Facts
Abstracted from “A Scientist’s View of Almost Everything” by Mark M Green In the Science and Technology section of The Economist, February 20, 2021 issue, […]
New York Mets 2021 Season Preview
By Anthony Paradiso On March 19th New York’s governor announced that Mets and Yankees fans will be allowed to attend games at 20 percent capacity […]
Refugees Fleeing Terror Face Prejudice in America
By Kieran Loughney Scenes of missile attacks, reports of girls denied an education, stories of people fleeing violence or being trained to engage in combat. […]
No Greater Challenge
By Tom Lamia How is this impasse among us to be resolved? When and by what means can we expect to resume civility in our […]
Lifetalk with Roberta Russell: Looking for Love?
Lifetalk with Roberta Russell I live in the shadow of COVID-19, devoid of touching, or kisses, or any kind of physical intimacy. Living is useless […]
Pill Bottle Recycling
By Ede Rothaus Want to contribute to reducing New York City’s carbon footprint? Improve medical care in developing countries while caring for the environment? Recycling […]