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 The 15th annual WestFest Dance Festival took place from May 1-4 at Westbeth Artists Housing with four nights of performances at the Martha Graham  Studio Theater on the top floor of Westbeth. But the super popular (free) highlight was two afternoons of site specific dance performances on Saturday and Sunday all over the Westbeth campus. […]

I called my sister to wish her happy Mother’s Day. She has four daughters and nine grandkids. “I know this might sound crazy,” I said, “but I’m really glad Mom is gone and not here for this.” My sister said that she was thinking the same thing. We would be so worried, even though our

For so many of us, coffee and tea are part of our daily lives. Today I want to dive into the topic “Coffee Drinker vs Tea Drinker” what are the differences…the debate begins as it is often thought that the difference between coffee and tea drinkers is not just in taste preference, but also in

I dropped a book off at the little free library near my apartment and a passerby stopped to ask if it was any good. The novel, Russian Gothic, is dark and horrible. The woman walked away, calling over her shoulder, “I get enough of that in the news!” I commiserated. I had started the month

I’m aware that some people cringe at the thought of attending a literary reading. Otherwise sophisticated people have even been known to sneer at the very term reading, particularly when prefaced with poetry, in that voice Giuliani used when he described Obama as a community organizer. But hear me out. Readings—prose, poetry or both; with

What if I told you that Washington Square Park had its own circus? What would it look like? Some people would imagine a giant tent set up over the central fountain; with the water turned off, it already creates a sort of acropolis with raked seating, a stage that is already used by skateboarders bailing

I called my sister to wish her happy Mother’s Day. She has four daughters and nine grandkids. “I know this might sound crazy,” I said, “but I’m really glad Mom is gone and not here for this.” My sister said that she was thinking the same thing. We would be so worried, even though our

Wonder City: How to Reclaim Human-Scale Urban Life By Lynn Ellsworth Fordham University Press, 384 pages, $34.95 If it were not such a spur to anguish, fear and fury, the second Trump administration would be a fascinating social experiment: What does it take to get people and institutions to bend to your will? When do

Why do these milk substitutes often come with a higher price tag? Whether it is soy, almond, oat, macadamia, hemp, or any number of alternative options, why are coffee shops charging between fifty cents and sometimes up to a dollar fifty more for non-dairy choices? In simple terms, alternative milks generally cost more for cafes

With apologies to Jay North, who played “Dennis the Menace” in the old TV show and died recently. This picture of him grabbed my attention when it came up on my phone. It seemed to illustrate the attitude of the current regime, pedaling full tilt into a dysfunctional authoritarian state. The opening quote is from