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Moose Murders, Classic Broadway Bomb, Is Back

The gold standard in flops, Moose Murders was the 1983 Broadway bad-taste comedy set in a motor lodge, where a blind singer, burn victim, German nurse, twisted Shirley Temple type, incestuous mother, and other loonies converged for parlor games and foul play. AARP magazine ranked it as the fifth wo ... More >>

"What About the Good Things Hitler Did?" Probably Was A Bad Headline Choice By Rutgers Student Newspaper

There's a sure-fire way to draw the ire of, well...just about everyone: write a newspaper article with the headline "What About the Good Things Hitler Did?" and then attribute it to a Jewish college kid who didn't even write it -- which is exactly what a satirical newspaper at Rutgers University did ... More >>

Best in Show: 'Die, Nazi Scum!' at Andrew Edlin Gallery

Plus: Alex Webb at Aperture Gallery

2011: The Year In Kanye

Remember the time?​Does Kanye West exist because the world gives him so much attention? Or does the world exist because he gives it something to pay attention to? Heavy stuff, man. Whatever the answer is, the rapper-cum-producer has both dominated critics' best-ofs and been a celebrity-news st ... More >>

Testimony from the Front Lines of Life in "Talking Head"

Lulz Security Says It's Disbanding

​Hacker group du jour Lulz Security announced last night that it is disbanding. The shady, anonymous band of mischief-makers were behind hacks on Sony, the CIA, the FBI, and PBS, among other things; now they claim to be breaking up. After the jump, portions of their goodbye press release:

Dirty Old Town: A Low-Budget Ode to No-Budget NY

I've Been Raptured To The Heavens

​Yes, I was one of the lucky 2% of the population who, last night at 6 PM Eastern Standard Time, got magically swept up to a de-luxe apartment in the sky-aye-aye. And luckily they have Internet service up here, so I can keep on blogging away for you poor, earthbound folks. In fact, the servi ... More >>

Watch Out, Galliano! There's a New Hitler Lover In Town!

​For some reason, creative visionaries have felt emboldened to spill their deep, dark admiration for Adolf Hitler in public lately. First, designer John Galliano was ruined for screaming such thoughts at someone he felt deserved to be in an oven. And now, filmmaker Lars von Trier has been ba ... More >>

Why I Hate Celebrities!

49 Furious Reasons!

A Thumbnail History of Munich's Hofbrauhaus

kunstgymszbadde.comWatercolor of Hofbräuhaus around 1919 by fledgling Munich art student Adolf Hitler. He would soon be using the beer hall to stage Nazi rallies.​ When I was an elementary school student in Minneapolis, German was a required subject. It was a German part of the country, t ... More >>

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T

Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart - Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What, you didn't know that? You must have mis ... More >>

More Info On Donna Murphy's Holocaust Show

​I recently relayed lemonwade.com's breaking news about Tony winner Donna Murphy's participation in a show dealing with Holocaust victims and survivors, which is on its merry way to Broadway. Well, apparently, it's a musical comedy! I've linked the new lemonwade report, which tells you some ... More >>

Richard M. Nixon, Cinephile

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 20, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 34 Film in Focus By Andrew Sarris President Richard M. Nixon may not be quite the cinephile his recent press notices would seem to suggest. Or so we are led to believe by a recent Variety follow-up to the ... More >>

Germany Will Finally Pay Off That Nagging Old World War I Debt

​This weekend is a big one for Germany. The country will finally pay off its debt from World War I, 92 years after their defeat, with a final installment of almost £60 million, or nearly $100 million U.S. (This makes our little credit card situation seem like nuthin'.)

3 Billion and Counting Plays the Blame Game

After More Than a Decade, Hitler Comes to Town

Holiday Greetings from Our Elected Representatives!

​ We were unable to send Kirsten Gillibrand a birthday card because we wouldn't put any money in it, which may explain why we didn't get her Christmas card -- 'scuse us, holiday card; these are politicians we're talking about. But the Observer reproduces it, so we're going to magnet it to our ... More >>

Liveblogging the Obama Health Care Speech

​ 8:05. The look of surprise Hillary Clinton uses when she greets people in crowds makes her look like she's trying to wake herself up. We wonder if she has a callous on her cheek from getting kissed. Whoops, Brian Williams said "death panels" was bogus! Liberalmediabias! Do a shot! 8:11. ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds Makes Holocaust Revisionism Fun

Rightwing PAC: Obama = Hitler

From the folks at Our Country Deserves Better, which you may recall tried this year to keep Democrats from holding Kirsten Gillibrand's old House seat by telling voters that House candidate Scott Murphy hated U.S. troops, has just put out this ad comparing the President of the United States to Ado ... More >>

Joe the Plumber Returns, Makes Ass of Self

The national Republican Party strategy looks like kind of an ad-hoc/panic thing. Democratic initiatives provoke them to weak rejoinders and comparisons of Obama to Hitler. And they spend a good deal of time beating each other up. But somebody must have put on his thinking cap, because the GOP has co ... More >>

Quick Hits

OK, not new we're sure, but new to us: the New York Public Library Digital Gallery online. And here's where instinct and the search feature led us: "Woman holding Hitler the Cat at Jitterbug Contest." If it comes too late in the day for you to waste time with it, there's always tomorrow. Speaking ... More >>

Sick, Uninsured Youths Borrow Meds, Go Broke, Inspire Socialism

We are tempted to schadenfreude, having heard young libertarians refer to health care as something only old fogeys need ("the old and sick have some culpability in their ill health. They didn't eat right or excercise"), but we finally cannot blame the youthful subjects of this Times article for find ... More >>

Valkyrie is Tom Cruise's Latest Impossible Mission

The risky business of plotting to kill Hitler

Not Everyone Loves a Parade

Wall Street Humor

RightBloggers on Obama Tour

In Praise of Clay Aiken

The Rape of Europa

Hell Bent

A Dostoyevskian gallery of contemporary lost souls, louts, louses, and ignoramuses

The Mirror Sage

The subject of a new documentary, Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues for self-mockery as the ultimate form of seriousness

Dear Bush Beat: 'Bush is Better Than You'

Culture Shocks: Craig Baldwin's Magnetic Assemblages

Getting Personal, Political, and Very Idiosyncratic at Exit Art

Mild Kingdom

Three pieces of fluff prove that, where fun's concerned, the past is indeed another country

Leni Riefenstahl, 1902-2003

A Wonderful, Horrible Life

Portraits of the Artist

Dictator Tots

Nation

Mild Thing

Springtime for Hitler

A New Exhibit at the Jewish Museum Produces an Uproar

Baiting 'The Beast'

Thomas and Sic Heil Politics

History Repeating

History Repeating

Letters

Paper-Thin Reporting