Village Voices

A lively, disruptive artist most famous, perhaps, for a urinal, Duchamp tried his hand at writing pure nonsense in grammatical...

I was feeling nostalgic for our spring shutdown the past few days. Real estate is very busy and it all...

Quite a few Beatles songs evoked dark feelings in my young self, feelings I could not name, but which moved...

Socrates described tickling as being more pain than pleasure. Being the eldest child, I tickled my brother. We both tickled...

Rehearsals come in about as many varieties as there are bands. A very common kind is the brutal, focused, long...

The original sinks, tubs, stoves, even refrigerators, are still in the house. The vintage wallpaper holds tight on some walls,...

A Neti pot looks like a little ceramic genie lamp. You fill it with warm saline water (distilled water only)...

We called the cleaning ladies who looked after our house several days a week when I was growing up, babysitting...

Every time I start a new streaming series, I make a note of whether smoking is prominent. If so, I...

It feels like yesterday that we were hunkered down at home, watching the governor tally unimaginable numbers of new cases...

An indoor-outdoor cat who actually looked both ways before crossing the blacktop, Sis was quite the huntress. Her combination of...

Most of the self-published books that have worked their way into our library collection find their way out if no...

He was all-in, and early, in believing that allergies and immunological issues were root causes in all kinds of health...

As the potential buyers got out of their car, one of the neighbors hopped on a dirt bike, revved it...

In 2017, when I was teaching second graders music at Woodstock Day School, a seven-year-old got up in front of...

Every time I take a bath, my Mysore sandalwood soap envelops me in an active memory of the few days...

Maybe it is not a monolithic novel within us after all – one big thing collected at the end with...

Puzzles offer not only long-term rewards, but short, little jolts of achievement that come with each session. We have both...

I not only loved the playing – some incendiary shows – but the traveling, riding shotgun, and talking deep into...

By the time Milo was seven he’d been to Lisbon, Rome, Mexico, London, and 20 plus states. He’d seen old-style...