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It’s over let’s face it, this “Human Thing” of ours is done. I mean look who occupies the seat of our government, the White House, no humans in residence there. We’ve given it all up, to the giant algorithm in the sky. All human accomplishments in Science, Literature, Art, are uploaded to this thing. And […]

Spring 2025. I head over to the median strip of West Street at Christopher to participate in a small weekly “action” I’ve just learned about. I choose a hand-lettered sign from the organizer’s bag that reads HONK IF YOU LOVE DEMOCRACY. For the first time since elementary school, someone hands me a tambourine. Goldilocks-like, I’ve

“In the season of summer, with all its labors, then it is that goats are fattest, wine is best, women are most wanton, and men are weakest; for Sirius dries up their heads…” Hesiod’s Works and Days, translated by Gregory Nagy Lethargy, lassitude, lust… sic transit every one of my teenage summers! But I have

This is my first column for the Village Star Revue. Getting the attention of people on the frantic streets of Manhattan is more challenging than getting people to talk to me on the laid-back streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn which I do every month for my People of Red Hook column. So, for my virgin

In the NYC 2025 Primary Election Voter Guide, sixteen of the twenty mayoral candidates listed affordability or a related factor as one of their top three issues. Rent is high, MTA trips add up, and even a bacon, egg, and cheese feels more like a special treat these days. But despite the uphill financial battle

When I was a kid, I had a dream, a wonderful dream. I would dress up in my parents’ clothes or my toy-store tutu, bound into my parents’ bedroom, fling open my arms, yell ta-da and do a little song and dance. Before long, shyness and trouble singing on key knocked the budding entertainer right

The coffee flower…these delicate white blooms are not only beautiful but also integral to the coffee plant’s life cycle and important to the development of the beans that turn into the brew in our daily cup. Coffee flowers grow on the coffee tree and are typically small, white, star-shaped blossoms. The flowers have a jasmine-like

Cameras in hand, around 15 sightseers traversed packed West Village streets on July 20 to snap photos of the Blue Note Jazz Club, Cornelia Street and over a dozen other renowned spots. Tour guides dotted chronicled histories with personal accounts in their retellings of the social and political nuances that built Lower Manhattan. The group,

It’s probably an unwinnable debate to determine who is happier to have dell’anima back downtown: the team behind it or the diners in front of their dinners.  The restaurant, an inveterate regular on “Best of” Lists, debuted in Abingdon Square in 2007, with much of the same team that still operates it now.  In 2018, with skyrocketing