“The Glory of God is a Human Being Fully Alive.”
By Fr. Graeme Napier Thus, down the ages, sings St. Irenaeus, the second-century bishop from the little Aegean sea town of Smyrna who had heard […]
Driven
By Roberta Curley She stoops like those toughened memories saddling her back unashamed of the fabric she braided even pondering a comeback her blood courses […]
Celebrating Mae West at the Jefferson Market Library
By Michele Gouveia “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.” —Mae West With her double entendres, voluptuous figure, and distinct […]
Vacation!
By Christina Winholt Do you want to take your vacation twice? How about a dozen times? Is it possible to relive your vacation as many […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Neighbors
By Roberta Curley My neighbors start crawling around 5 a.m.— both possess two feet equivalent to four noisemakers totaling eight ballbreakers (with shoes) intergalactic attack-drones […]
Play Emerges as Important Factor in Early Childhood Arts Education
By Joe Salas That children benefit from early and sustained access to music and arts education has been widely known. Music education helps develop language […]
Broadway Hit: Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women
By Robert Heide Three Tall Women is the play that won Edward Albee his third Pulitzer Prize for playwriting when it was first produced off-Broadway […]
The Untold Love Story of the Birth of Hollywood
By John Bredin Born on Mott St., Blanche Walsh was America’s first movie star. She also played a key role in my family story. I’m […]