Autumn in New York
By Robert Heide with John Gilman One of the favorite theater musicals of all time for many people including myself is The Fantasticks, which opened […]
Summertime in August at the Jersey Shore
By Robert Heide with John Gilman During the 1940s War years I was a wee tot who spent every summer in nearby Olympic Park, New […]
Thirty Dollars Pays Your Rent On Bleecker Street* The Way We Were
By Robert Heide and John Gilman *lyric from the song Bleecker Street from Simon/Garfunkel album Wednesday Morning, 3 AM – 1964 Recently, in virtual quarantine […]
Money Mad Mickey Mouse
In our recent visit to the 65th anniversary of the Winter Antiques Show (now just called ‘The Winter Show’) at the splendid Seventh Regiment Armory […]
James Fitzgerald — 1948-2019
West Village Resident and Top New York Editor By Robert Heide and John Gilman We first met Jim Fitzgerald in the lobby of the Algonquin […]
West Village Original: John Gilman
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is author and journalist John Gilman, born in Honolulu, Hawaii. With his life partner Robert Heide, […]
The Normalization of Gay
From Oppression to Legalization By Robert Heide In New York the “World Pride” month of June, 2019, was given over to celebrate gay life worldwide […]
A Night Out with Noel Coward, Steve Ross and KT Sullivan
By Robert Heide The great New York singer Steve Ross—dubbed the “Crown Prince of New York Cabaret”—with the dynamic, amazing KT Sullivan—the artistic director of […]
Robert Heide At The Newark Museum
By John Gilman WestView News writer Robert Heide will be featured on a panel about Pop Art at the Newark Museum in downtown Newark on […]
Stonewall Uprising, 1969: A 50-Year Celebration
By Robert Heide and John Gilman Yes, we were there the night of June 28th, 1969, and all the rest of those famous nights whose […]
Save the Date for Renegade Dreamers
By John Gilman 58 years ago Bob Dylan wandered into the precincts of Greenwich Village and almost immediately sparked a major resurgence in folk music […]
Goodnight Irene, I’ll See You in My Dreams
The Death of Maria Irene Fornes, Genius Greenwich Village Playwright—1930-2018 By John Gilman Maria Irene Fornes, known to her friends and peers as just Irene […]
Starmaker—The Interview Covers
By John Gilman It’s a time-honored tradition for writers to have a big kick off “launch” for their books—maybe a book-signing, a cocktail party, or […]
March Theatre Madness—News of the Month Past
By John Gilman It was big blizzard time in March at the Cherry Lane Theater in the Village and just about everywhere else. The Cherry […]