“Accentuate the Positive” —
Abstracted from A Scientist’s View of Almost Everything By Mark M. Green Harvard University Medical School’s psychology professor Nancy Etcoff discovered that for patients […]
The Doctor is In
By Dr. Susan Eldrich Every day there are more COVID-19 cases identified in New York State. NYC has especially been affected, most likely due to […]
Let Us Unite Against the Pandemic by Keeping Apart
By John Kaliabakos According to the CDC, on the last day of February, 15 Americans had tested positive for COVID-19. A month later, that number had […]
How We Manage Through Crisis
An Inside Peek at LifeThyme Natural Market By Jason Bander First, we want to thank you for reading this publication. We are grateful for any […]
Opinion: COVID-19, Me and We
Let Us All Be There for Each Other By Hannah Reimann My awareness and interest in understanding the Novel Coronavirus came about in an unpredictable […]
Practical Guide for Coronavirus and AIDS
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. The rise of the COVID-19 coronavirus is concerning for the HIV/AIDS community. Whichever way you slice it, HIV/AIDS is a serious […]
Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
A VERY SPECIAL TRIP. Once upon a time, in the early 1960s, when I was a brand new immigrant, I lucked out—big time. I got […]
BOOK REVIEW: Call Sign Chaos; Learning to Lead
Jim Mattis and Bing West Random House, New York; 2019; 300 pages By Herbert W. Stupp With purported “tell all” books emerging from most every […]
News and Upcoming Community Events from the West 13th Street Alliance
By the West 13th Street Alliance The Alliance began 2020 with a well-attended lecture titled The Underwater Life of the Hudson River and Beyond with […]
New York is Not Alone in Attempting the Impossible
By Donna Schaper The most wonderful thing about Mayor de Blasio’s Safe Haven plan—to dramatically reduce street homelessness in NYC—is its boldness. Most of us […]
Unfinished: Croman’s Trail Since Jail
By Cynthia Chaffee and Mary Ann Miller According to Joseph Turco’s January 9th, 2020 article in WestView News, referring to the American Greed episode aired last year […]
Money Mad Mickey Mouse
In our recent visit to the 65th anniversary of the Winter Antiques Show (now just called ‘The Winter Show’) at the splendid Seventh Regiment Armory […]
Charlie Caruso’s Quips
This is the 2020 decade. Will we see a better world? Don’t count on it. Breakfast is best. No surprises as reliable as sunrise. The […]
Co-op Boards Adapt to Present-Day Demands
By Gordon Hughes A few months ago I read, with interest, an article in the New York Times real estate section regarding the changing face […]
Sinus Health
By Jason Bander, General Manager, Owner Lifethyme Natural Market Sinus infections are one of the most dastardly of illnesses. They punish us with horrible headaches […]
The Tech Giants: Google, Facebook and Their Sinister Ways
How You Can Survive in this Orwellian Quagmire of Greed, Selfies, Posts and Porn By Roger Paradiso There are many people fighting for our rights […]
The Other Side of Bail Reform
By Philip Yee Recently, legislation was passed to make it easier for you to stay out of jail while waiting for trial if you could not […]
Extracting AIDS from Our Minds And Bodies: “I’m Not POZ!”
By Kambiz Shekdar, Ph.D. Why do we say “I’m HIV-positive” or “I’m POZ,” but not “I’m gonorrhea-positive,” or more affectionately, I’m GONO-POZ?” Since this issue […]