Smiling is Contagious
By Stanly Wlodyka Jiménez This past year, there’s been no shortage of reasons to feel glum, but common wisdom tells us that we ought to […]
Cuteness Squared
By Keith Michael It’s Millie’s Birthday! She’s twelve. Of course, Millie’s resting up for later festivities in the day with corgi-shaped candles in a cream […]
Greece’s Best Kept Secret
By Effie Panagopoulos It all started in 2008, when I was working as National Brand Ambassador for Metaxa, the old school Greek brandy that you’ll […]
Off the Meter
By Jeff Hodges In 1971, when I took the New York City taxi driver test, I didn’t know whether Fifth Avenue traffic ran uptown or […]
Big Trouble for New York Daily News
By Carol Yost The parent company for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune has agreed to be acquired by Alden Global Capital, […]
Fauci’s Division at NIH Accepts Grant Applications to Cure HIV/AIDS
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Fifty percent of people living with HIV/AIDS have HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). Today’s powerful anti-HIV drugs do not eliminate HIV-associated mental […]
Housing that Heals
By Kathryn Garcia Over the last year, COVID-19 has exposed deep vulnerabilities and worsened a crisis that has long plagued our city: affordable housing. Even […]
Observing Pascha: The Traditions and History of Greek Orthodox Easter
By Anastasia Kaliabakos Easter is arguably the most important holiday in the Christian tradition, no matter what denomination you belong to. The Western world uses […]
A Dynamic Theatrical Family Affair: From Florida to the Village and the Jersey Shore
By Robert Heide Often now in these difficult times of COVID virus, living through a new Great worldwide Depression with over a half million American […]
Ilona 101: A Course in Philosophy of Life
By Mia Berman There’s Sophia. Liza. Rihanna. Gaga. And then there’s Ilona. I call her the Queen of Gusto. Turning 101 on March 27th, Ilona […]
Misfolded Proteins and Disease
Abstracted from “A Scientist’s View of Almost Everything” by Mark M. Green There was an article in Science dated August 5, 2005 entitled, “Preventing Alzheimer’s: […]
Firefighters
By Jeff Hodges When Smoky Mike and I started shooting fires, we had to sleep in one of the fire trucks or get left behind. […]
Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence
Freedom Fighters Who Changed the Course of History By Anastasia Kaliabakos Ever since I was a young girl, Greek Independence Day—March 25th—has been very important […]
The Role of a Community Newspaper in Curing AIDS
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Library Journal referred to Harvard’s Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide as “the journal of record for LGBT issues.” Larry Kramer called […]
A Tale of Two Economies
By Siggy Raible “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” So begins Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, […]
Super Hero IX: California Yankee in Kings County Court Street
By Robert Kroll Like the Connecticut Yank in King Arthur’s Court, it was not obvious whether I had wandered into a local asylum or into […]
Lifetalk with Roberta Russell: Do You Feel Isolated? Have You Gained Weight?
Lose Extra Fat Permanently Without Costs by Doing What it Takes By Roberta Russell From the stoop of my Federal townhouse on West 9th Street, […]
Keeping Love
By Lynn Pax As I sat at my father’s bedside toward the end of his passing, I saw him take an invisible (at least I […]