Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls at the Jefferson Market Library
By Matt Whitman By September 1966, the U.S. involvement in Vietnam had escalated to over 200,000 soldiers. Bob Dylan had “gone electric” at Newport more […]
Taking a Film Festival to the Next Level
By Richard Eric Weigle Having lived in Greenwich Village for 43 years and having been The Grove Street Block Association President for 15 years, one […]
Bishop’s Crook Lamps
I read in The Times yesterday that the City is replacing 250,000 street lamps with LED lights. I hope they are referring to bulbs and […]
More Jazz Clubs
Clive L. Morrick’s round up of Village jazz clubs was good as far as it went, but it didn’t go far enough. There have been […]
Fontaine Remembered
Dear Mr. Schwartz, Thank you for your articles about Edwina Fontaine in WestView News. Most of all, thank you for the loving care you so […]
Going Home to Turkey
By George Capsis The first question a Greek asks another Greek is: “Where are you from?” As you fly down from the dark green of […]
Maggie B’s Photo of the Month
SUCH A PERFECT PLACE FOR A NAP: So warm, so peaceful! With the beautiful Jefferson Market Garden flowering around him, one could hardly blame this […]
Stuart Davis In Full Swing
“In order to make a visual image you have to have something going on.” —Stuart Davis By Martica Sawin There could not be a more […]
The Physics of Everyday Things
By Trush Majmudar Physics and mathematics have been used successfully to describe the world around us. When we think of physics, we usually think either […]
Boomers— A Unique West Village Jazz Club
By Mel Watkins During the late 1960s and early 70s, just as the Civil Rights Movement gave way to the Black Power Movement, jazz thrived […]
Turning off the Music
By Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D. Just imagine the West Village without its music—the jazz clubs, Washington Square Park musicians, the folk houses, open mikes. It would […]
Grab & Go
In July 2016, Tsyen Shen, a Chinese filmmaker based in New York, filmed in the Village the first five episodes of “Grab & Go,” a […]
REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s AUGUST 2016 Ah, August! Time to take a break either in the city or at home—relax, catch up, see a movie or two, […]
Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour: Sweeping Audiences Back to the Golden Age of Hollywood Panache
By Ellis Nassour Cirque du Soleil has come a long way from its 1984 beginnings in Montreal with a ragtag band of acrobats. It ranks […]
TO ENGAGE THE WORLD
TO ENGAGE THE WORLD—was how the five artists described what they were attempting to do in their June show at the Westbeth Gallery. Its title […]
Artist Karin Batten appointed director of Westbeth Gallery
By Martica Sawin A major asset of the Artists Housing complex known as Westbeth is the large ground floor exhibition space that opens off a […]
Jim Fouratt’s REEL DEAL: Movies that Matter
Jim Fouratt’s JULY 2016 It’s impossible to not speak of how popular culture, and in particular the role film and television play in building consciousness, […]
New York City by Bike: The 2016 TD Five Boro Bike Tour
By Eric Uhlfelder One of the best ways to take in New York’s diversity is by peddling along the meandering route of the annual TD […]