A Journal Entry a Day Keeps the Doctor Away…
-By Dana Jean Costantino It is an oft-said expression “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” and whether there is or is not […]
Talk To Me
-By Tom Lamia The Medium Is The Message I was reminded of the practical effect of the changing seasons yesterday when I visited the very […]
Collective Conviction Is a Brand of Truth
Absolutely nothing gets people so instantaneously and uncontrollably angry as when somebody blandly recites a “conspiracy theory” as if it were true. Of course many […]
Crooked Lawyer Encounters Lawyer Victim
I got an anxious call from Gretel Ramirez, the very nice lady who, with her brother, operates the friendly Sandwich Shoppe on Greenwich Avenue, saying that […]
AIDS Prophylactic Touted as Cure
By George Capsis One of the newest members of the WestView family is Kambiz Shekdar whose business card offers he is a Ph.D. and as […]
Youth Is 1,000 Eyes
An attempt at self healing by George Capsis, Publisher of WestView News The paper was an accidental happening—I tried to restart the Charles Street Block […]
The Dictatorship of Ugly
By George Capsis Oh, wow, there on the six o’clock news were the rounded features of Barry Diller modestly purring in unctuous LA diction his […]
Thoughts About the Presidential Primary and Debating Deborah Glick
By Arthur Z. Schwartz April, for me, was a month of highs and lows—in the political arena. Since I like to be transparent now in […]
WestView Op-Ed
By Corey Johnson A contributor to WestView in his seventies offered he could not live in the West Village if it were not for his […]
Why I Joined a Political Club
By Alec Pruchnicki Since the 1960s, I’ve been active in a variety of political causes. I learned back then not to be co-opted (a popular […]
How to Buy Votes
By George Capsis Anxiously watching the TV weather forecasts the inevitable conclusion emerged—I had to do a big food shopping before the Saturday blizzard ended […]
Max and I Have Lost Our City
By George Capsis Max Frankel, like me, is very angry at these 1000-foot asparagus towers with $100 million apartments that are springing up along 57th […]
I Am Running! A New Year, A New Campaign
By Arthur Z. Schwartz As I finish my 34th year as a resident of the West Village, I remain amazed at what a close-knit, vibrant […]
Allegations of Corruption—Why No Response
By Arthur Z. Schwartz Way back in our November 1 edition, before either Sheldon Silver or “Dean” Skelos had been convicted of bribery, money laundering, […]
From the United Nations through the West “Village” to Upstate
By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper I live in both the Village and Upstate. Unlike Aesop’s two friends, the city mouse and the country mouse, I […]
It Runs in the Capsis Family
By George Capsis At last, yesterday, I got John Capsis on Skype sitting at his desk in Athens. He had chided me, as he […]
Thanks for the Memory
By Erwin H. Lerner I can recall with clarity a December afternoon when I was a cutesy featherweight first-grader, standing fifth in a class […]
Faitheist
By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper I ran into my Muslim friend on the street a week after the Paris bombings. She was not wearing […]