Theater Review: Conflict – When Words and Honor Mattered
By Eric Uhlfelder Are we totally responsible for our lot in life? Or can circumstances be so extreme as to make a mess of the […]
Celebrating Tom O’Horgan at La MaMa E.T.C.
By John Gilman On Saturday June 16 LaMaMa E.T.C. celebrated the life and career of the late Tom O’Horgan at the Ellen Stewart Theatre at […]
Broadway Babes Bette & Bernadette: The Saga of Hello Dolly and Big Bucks Broadway
By Robert Heide Bette Midler returns in Hello Dolly on July 17th in one of the best musicals ever to grace Broadway. Midler won the […]
World Premiere Screening – American Tap
American Tap Directed by Mark Wilkinson Film Society of Lincoln Center/ Dance on Camera 46 Friday July 20 8:45 pm Walter Reade Theater 165 West […]
WestView News Celebrates Women’s Scientific Accomplishments— Part II: Ada Lovelace
By John Early Cautioned about her father’s “most strange and dreadful history,” Ada, Countess Lovelace “declared that she could relate to her father’s defiance of […]
Doc Suture’s Ghosts
By James Lincoln Collier Ordinarily, I don’t like to bother Doc Suture about simple illnesses like the sniffles or a sunburn, but the six-year-old was […]
La Nacional, Celebrating Little Spain
By Eleanor Cole On June 15th, in anticipation of its 150th anniversary, La Nacional-Spanish Benevolent Society will inaugurate its community restaurant. The last surviving remnant […]
Through the Eyes of A Tourist
By Ananth Sampathkumar, Partner NDNY Architecture + Design The American Institute of Architects held its annual convention at the Javits Center in June. Over 25,000 […]
But for The Grace of God
By Lawrence J. Phelan, Captain, Infantry A grey watery dawn was breaking over the bleak buildings of the Brooklyn Army Base when I reported there […]
A Tribute to Two Soldiers
By Stephanie Phelan At the start of the U.S. fighting in WWII, my uncle, Larry Phelan, served as a lieutenant in the army’s famous First […]
A Long Ago Lesson on the Cost of War
By David S. Kerr I must have been six, or maybe just a little older, but I was with my Mom, Dad, and Grandmother, and […]
Caffè Vivaldi Closes
By Caroline Benveniste When Ishrat Ansari posted the news on Caffè Vivaldi’s website that the café/restaurant/performance and community space would be closing on June 23rd, […]
Have You Seen My New Perambulator?
By Gordon T Hughes Jr. The other morning, I was sipping a cup of coffee at my favorite haunt, Panino Mucho Gusto Cafe, when a […]
Junzi Kitchen
By Caroline Benveniste On July 16th or thereabouts, Junzi Kitchen, a Chinese fast-casual restaurant will open at 170 Bleecker Street. This will be the restaurant’s […]
The Proust Center Opens at Jefferson Market Library
By Sharon Girard “For a long time I used to go to bed early.” Thus begins the 4,000 plus page masterpiece In Search of Lost […]
Horses that Heal: The Extraordinary Impacts of Therapeutic Riding
By Anastasia Kaliabakos Everyone has heard of American Pharoah and Justify; however, does anyone know about Sugar, Tito, or Duncan? When most people think of […]
Then & Now: Milkwagon and Old Houses, 8-10 Grove Street
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP Abbott’s streetscapes often included horse-drawn wagons, relics of an earlier age. In this Grove Street photograph, taken the same […]
Village Hard-won School to Open
By Lucy Stone As the New York City public school academic year winds down and students eagerly await summer vacation, there is one middle school […]