Joe Mullen with Duke Reilly. Photo courtesy of Joe Mullen Playing Party Politics Voting the old-fashioned way - In these crazy days I’m sticking to the tried and true way of voting. At a polling place.... Voices 25 Oct 2020 | 04:03
Section of sample ballot for the State Assembly, courtesy of Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright’s office. Ballots and Buses Bottoms up - The court battles are over and Democrat Rebecca Seawright, after a tumultuous pre-election process, is on the... Voices 11 Oct 2020 | 09:43
Reading for readings on 18th Street. Photo: Hazel Feldman Looking to the Future Double bagging - Like it or not, there’s a 5-cent charge for paper bags these days which beats having to walk the streets... Home 12 Sep 2020 | 04:14
Rabbi Yisroel Stone and his son Menachem. Photo courtesy of Rabbi Yisroel Stone Taking to the Streets Have shofar, will travel - There it was, old time religion making claim to its place on NYC’s street. And why not, everything’s... Voices 30 Aug 2020 | 03:22
Chef Hakan Akbag (left) and Mirso of Tudor City Steakhouse. Photo courtesy of Tudor City Steakhouse The Best of all Worlds: Good Food, No Noise Noiseless in NY ... No noise, NY? - Sounds like an oxymoron. Where to eat/dine in Manhattan where there’s no noise from street... Voices 16 Aug 2020 | 06:29
Sidewalk tables at Tal Bagels on East 86th Street. (Photo: Nancy Ploeger) Redefining Street Food Mixed-up messaging - Kind of weird to see that Whole Foods’s rotisserie chicken comes wrapped in packaging that promotes... Voices 02 Aug 2020 | 06:12
Harmony Grits was rescued from under a warehouse. ( Photo: Monica Sinforosa, Crossed Paws Rescue) A City’s Travails, A Cat’s Tale Pandemania - No matter what you call the scourge (COVID, covid, CV, cv, pandemic), it’s here, we’ve got it. For how long?... Voices 19 Jul 2020 | 04:41
Esther Yang’s BBQ sauce and spareribs. ( Photo courtesy of Esther Yang ) New Food for Thought Into the future - It’s good to see that the pandemic hasn’t forever dampened the spirit of some restaurant owners and other... Voices 05 Jul 2020 | 06:32
Zoom meeting of BreakALeg Productions theater company. ( Photo courtesy of Susan Richard) In the Whirl of Zoomtown SLAM dunk - Play time is what’s needed more than ever these days - from sitting down in a restaurant indoors to seeing a... Voices 21 Jun 2020 | 06:09
NY Tough - With Some Same Old Same Old Just like old times - Stop orders. Stays. Waits. Gone. Forgotten. Fini. We’re back to where we left off in building the buildings... Voices 07 Jun 2020 | 05:01
A new NYC's Neighbors, Art, Ballots Far and away neighbors - Some stay, some flee, some send packages. And that's been the NYC experience for most, if not many,... Voices 21 May 2020 | 02:30
Tony Di Spigna response to the UN's call for messaging to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. ( Image courtesy of Tony Di Spigna) Signs of the Times And the EMMY goes to - The pandemic didn't stop this year's EMMY awards ceremony although neither the red carpet nor the... Voices 11 May 2020 | 11:52
Council Member Ben Kallos with his cat Pandora, on a City Council Zoom meeting. ( Photo via Ben Kallos Twitter feed.) Pandora's Box This just in - No presidential primary this June so says the NY Board of Elections, meaning that Bernie Sanders gets no NY... Voices 27 Apr 2020 | 02:44
Political Clubs in the Crazed COVID Days Four Freedoms Zooms in on the future - Virtual meeting places are the current go-to and are appealing and useful in these... Voices 13 Apr 2020 | 03:08
NYC in the Daze of COVID-19 First food responder - No sooner did Uncle Paul's Pizza owners Dino Redzic, Paul Nicaj and Leo Krkuti learn of the COVID... Voices 30 Mar 2020 | 10:03
