By Pam Nogales This year marks the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of American Reconstruction (1865–1877), a historical period largely absent from popular imagination. Historical narratives of black […]
BEST IN FILM 2015 We are not limiting ourselves to a Top Ten. Rather we have put together a list of narrative and documentary films […]
To George and staff All the best I was just eight four And simple did not know what to do So I simple picked up […]
In the November issue of Westview News, my coverage of Dames at Sea contained two print mistakes I would like to correct. Following the original […]
By Martica Sawin The free-flowing spaces of the Whitney Museum’s 18,000 square foot fifth floor seem to have been specially created for the current […]
It’s Christmas time and I feel like Santa Claus about to deliver to you so many really excellent films that you could spend most of […]
By Alan Wexler While wandering through the narrow and winding streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, it’s difficult not to stumble upon connections […]
By Robert Heide A new Broadway production of Dames at Sea opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on Thursday, October 22. This is a milestone […]
November 2015 If you think an important movie opens every other day in NYC, you are right, It is fall and the Harvey Weinstein template […]
By Michael Feldman Sato Moughalian is angry. Her fifteen year tenure as principal flute, personnel manager, consultant and advocate for the Gotham Chamber Opera Company […]
By Krin Gabbard Ever since spring 2007 I’ve been showing clips from great movies and performance films at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. At first […]
A Review of WitteVeen’s When We Were soldiers… once and young installation at Brooklyn Navy Yard One Sunday afternoon my Uncle Max offered that he […]
By Joseph Salas Select winners of the Stecher and Horowitz New York International Piano Competition will return to Greenwich House Music School’s Renee Weiler Concert […]
Sunday October 18, 1:30 By Norman MacAfee Last year, the progressive Vatican of Pope Francis named Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to Matthew […]
October 2015 The Stonewall Rebellion took place in Greenwich Village in 1969. Hollywood director Roland Emmerich and Broadway Playwright Jon Robin Baitz have released […]
By Jim Fouratt Lisa E. Davis, forty year+ Villager and retired College Professor, has rebirthed her underground bestselling novel Under the Mink. It went out […]
By Carol F. Yost Most probably the earliest real African American theater was located in the Village area. Founded in 1821, six years before slavery […]
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL (NYFF53) Spent 10 days and nights watching movies, attending talks and public conversations and then thought what do I want […]