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  • 1. Art

    Tim Hetherington: It's War

    By Robert Shuster
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Like other great war photographers, the late Tim Hetherington always went beyond the raw surface of armed conflict to find a more intimate view—and a better...

  • 2. Books

    Philip Levine Reads at Congregation Beth Elohim on Thursday, May 10

    By Eric Sundermann
    Published: May 9, 2012

    On Thursday, May 10, Philip Levine, the current United States Poet Laureate, reads at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, followed by a Q&A with CBE's Senior Rabbi Andy...

  • 3. Features

    Rikers Violence: Out Of Control

    By Graham Rayman
    Published: May 9, 2012

    The Voice has obtained extremely disturbing images from New York City's jail system. These photographs—graphically showing knife wounds and beating injuries to the...

  • 4. La Dolce Musto

    Broadway Gossip About Ricky Martin, Newsies, and Jekyll & Hyde!

    By Michael Musto
    Published: May 9, 2012

    On Broadway, we now have three Alan Menken musicals, three Andrew Lloyd Webbers, two Stephen Schwartzes, five musicals about faith, two lowbrow British farces adapted or...

  • 5. Film

    Alex Ross Perry's Wheelhouse

    By Steve Erickson
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Alex Ross Perry doesn't lack ambition. The Brooklyn-based director's first film, 2009's Impolex, riffed on Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. His second film, The Color...

  • 6. Film

    Kicking and Screaming

    By Chuck Wilson
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Guaranteed to make most men feel woefully unprepared for a fistfight to the death, these five action flicks from After Dark Films—each of which will play once a day as...

  • 7. Film

    Renior's Grand Illusion Just Got Grander

    By Nick Pinkerton
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion opened in an anxious France in June of 1937, as wars were going badly for the Spanish and Chinese Republics, and Picasso’s Guernica...

  • 8. Tracking Shots

    Under African Skies

    By Tim Grierson
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Considering that many modern-day music documentaries present an unerringly glowing portrait of the artist, it’s a pleasant surprise that Under African Skies not only...

  • 9. Music

    Kilo Kish, Smooth Operator

    By Jackson Connor
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Earlier this month, Lakisha Robinson—better known by her stage name, Kilo Kish—commanded the bar at Top of the Standard while sporting a silver sequined jacket...

  • 10. Theater

    Man and Superman: Shaw Does His Quirky

    By Michael Feingold
    Published: May 9, 2012

    "My plays must be acted," Bernard Shaw wrote to his director of choice, Granville Barker, "and acted hard." By this he meant not that they should be overplayed, but that...

  • 11. Theater

    The Living Theatre Continues Struggle to Keep Its Home

    By Eric Sundermann
    Published: May 9, 2012

    The Living Theatre, a staple of the downtown arts scene since 1947, is still looking to the public to help stay alive. Last week, the company claimed that it needed to raise...

  • 12. Calendar

    Awolnation

    By RAYMOND CUMMINGS
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Awolnation singer/songwriter Aaron Bruno cobbles together modern-rock tunes that are candy pop, hard as nails, and cathedral-huge: Aggro refrains choke on wafting choruses and...

  • 13. Calendar

    Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

    By Mikael Wood
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Look, I’m as heartened as anyone by this L.A. hippie-pop crew’s convention-defying success: the big sales, the sold-out shows, for sure the spot on this...

  • 14. Calendar

    'Undead Music Festival Marathon Night and Tonic Reunion Show'

    By Jim Macnie
    Published: May 9, 2012

    This year's program kicks off with a remembrance of Tonic featuring the late lamented club's usual suspects, then finds Medeski, Martin, & Wood inviting a wealth of special...

  • 15. Calendar

    LAUGHTER BENT

    By John Surico
    Published: May 9, 2012

    At Union Hall in Brooklyn, the comedian Greg Barris made a name for himself with his consistently sold-out variety show of quirks The Heart of Darkness. On his website, he...

  • 16. Calendar

    THURSDAY = YOUTH

    By Nick Murray
    Published: May 9, 2012

    In their early days, European indie duo M83 looked back to shoegaze, with Anthony Gonzalez's vocals lying in a feathery bed of guitars and keys. Now closer to a solo project,...

  • 17. Calendar

    Lionel Loueke

    By Jim Macnie
    Published: May 9, 2012

    The agility that marks the Benin-born guitarist's deep sense of interplay can be jaw-dropping: Sometimes his melodies are a tad too sweet, but what he wraps around them is...

  • 18. Calendar

    Laurie Anderson

    By Kory Grow
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Four nearly four decades, Laurie Anderson has stood at the front of New York City’s avant-garde, staging performance art and creating experimental music and video (Her...

  • 19. Calendar

    ROOFTOP REBELS

    By Heather Baysa
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Spring has sprung! The sun is shining, birds are chirping, and flowers in the park are blooming . . . and immediately being trampled in violent scuffles of police versus...

  • 20. Calendar

    HANGING ON

    By Mikael Wood
    Published: May 9, 2012

    Indie rock's second-most-famous harpist (after Joanna Newsom), Pat Grossi of
Active Child says he's ready to start work on the follow-up to his underground-hit debut,...

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