I’m a fan of the Netflix series Stranger Things. In this sci-fi coming-of-age thriller set in a 1980s small-town America, teenagers face their fears of growing up and transitioning to an adult world with all of its peculiarities.
The Writers Guild of America recently surprised the industry with a new tentative minimum bargaining agreement with the studios, or the AMPTP.
Though we might not recognize it, in these and many other moments in daily life we relax into our true nature and are freed from the exhausting job of defending or promoting our conditioned self. One might even call this falling effortlessly into the reality of one expansive mind a form of “everyday enlightenment.”
Soon after he was elected president in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) unveiled his New Deal program to save the nation from the Great Depression.
We have several interesting races coming up in June’s Democratic primary. Within the Village View readership area, there will be a new City Council member (which looks like it will be Carl Wilson), a new Assembly member (replacing Deborah Glick) and a new state senator (replacing Brian Kavanaugh).
I have a decades-long relationship with 14th Street. In the 1980s, it was a bustling boulevard of electronics shops, wig stores, inexpensive clothing and luggage, and old-school mom-and-pop businesses.
I was born in 1947, among the first wave of baby boomers. Growing up in the 50s, I had my whole life in front of me and everything looked rosy. The middle class was growing and there seemed to be no limit to what was possible.
Assemblymember Grace Lee represents the East Village and Lower East Side and is running for the State Senate in a district which encompasses most of Greenwich Village and SoHo.
In these troubled times there is much confusion and concern among us. Dramatic policy differences exist within both Republican and Democrat constituent blocs.
Walking out of Sevilla, a Spanish restaurant on Charles Street, I notice an ocean of influencers using the steps of townhomes as their pretty backdrop for social media content.
