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Africa

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Dish #95: The Beauty at Mile End

    ​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: The Beauty ($11) from Mile End.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2010

    Dish #98: Nigerian Goat Stew From Baku

    ​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now: Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes--old standbys and new finds alike--compiled daily. Today's pick: Nigerian goat stew ($7) from Baku

  • Voice Choices

    July 13, 2010

    AFRICAN BEAT

    Bring your vuvuzelas to Prospect Park

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Fwd: Excessive Emailing Is Bad For the Environment

    ​Apparently, it's time to reduce your Unsolicited Carbon Footprint -- spam emails release over 20 million tons of CO2 per year, approximately .3 grams per message, as this Woork Up infographic tells us. Though the exact science of the whole process isn't revealed, this is good validation again ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Chopped's Mario Tolentino 'In' at Juliet Supperclub; David Burke 'In' at James New York Hotel

    ​Mario Tolentino, who recently won the latest season of Food Network's Chopped, has taken over the kitchen at Juliet Supperclub, and overhauled the menu to focus on street foods from across the globe. [The Strong Buzz] David Burke is rumored to be cooking at the forthcoming James New York bou ... More >>

  • Film

    July 6, 2010

    Predators, a Robert Rodriguez-Produced Sequel

    This action-flick's pretense is like "Satisfaction" for bar cover-bands—if you hit most of the notes, it'll do

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Buka Invites You to Sweat It Out Over Nigerian Pepper Soup

    Some like it fiery.​On a sticky summer's day, the last thing you are likely to be craving is hot soup. But, like Indians with their tea, Africans will sip a steaming bowl, which causes the body to perspire and, eventually, cool down. At the newly opened West African restaurant Buka, on Fulton ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Robert Sietsema at Maima's; Sarah DiGregorio at Paulie Gee's

    This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema has the "one of the hottest things" he's tasted all year: Liberian pepper shrimp at Maima's in Jamaica, Queens. Sarah DiGregorio samples the pie at Paulie Gee's, where the crust "burrows into your brain -- a stretchy, bubbly, char-spotted pillow of a bread, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    War of Words Heats Up Over Prokhorov's Zimbabwegate

    ​It's Day Three of the Great Zimbabwe Flap, and the rhetoric over a New Jersey Congressman's challenge to Russian bazillionaire Mikhail Prokhorov's purchase of the Nets is heating up. Prokhorov fired back at Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-My-Constituents-Don't-Want-to-Drive-Through-Two-Tunnels-to-W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Say Hello to Betel; Goodbye to Blarney Stone

    The owners of Westside Market have opened Vareli, a Mediterranean restaurant and wine bar in Morningside Heights. Expect Italian-flavored small plates, panini, and lotsa wine. [TONY] Betty's has opened in the space formerly known as Boucarou, featuring a retractable-roofed husk, red banquettes, and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2009

    Oumou Sangare+Les Nubians+Asa

    The owners of Westside Market have opened Vareli, a Mediterranean restaurant and wine bar in Morningside Heights. Expect Italian-flavored small plates, panini, and lotsa wine. [TONY] Betty's has opened in the space formerly known as Boucarou, featuring a retractable-roofed husk, red banquettes, and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 27, 2009

    Earl Greyhound+Simi+SwEEtie

    The owners of Westside Market have opened Vareli, a Mediterranean restaurant and wine bar in Morningside Heights. Expect Italian-flavored small plates, panini, and lotsa wine. [TONY] Betty's has opened in the space formerly known as Boucarou, featuring a retractable-roofed husk, red banquettes, and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 27, 2009

    Youssou N'Dour

    The owners of Westside Market have opened Vareli, a Mediterranean restaurant and wine bar in Morningside Heights. Expect Italian-flavored small plates, panini, and lotsa wine. [TONY] Betty's has opened in the space formerly known as Boucarou, featuring a retractable-roofed husk, red banquettes, and ... More >>

  • Film

    April 8, 2009

    New York African Film Festival

    A continent's films, without typecasting

  • Voice Choices

    March 11, 2009

    AND THE DRUMS, THE DRUMS . . .

    Broken barriers in dance and rhythm

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Clip Job: The Timbuctoo Scene

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 29, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 23The Timbuctoo SceneDear Sir:Well, I have made the Timbuctoo, Timbuktu, Timbukou, Tombouctou SCENE. I left a copy of The Village Voice pasted on the wall of my pad there. I rented a pad -- a whole house -- for $5 a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 19, 2008

    SENEGAL SOUNDS

    Youssou N’Dour brings the hits

  • Film

    November 5, 2008

    Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Funniest of '08?

    Perhaps, if you don't mind monkeying around

  • Art

    October 1, 2008

    The Unforbidden City: 'Street Art, Street Life'

    The Bronx Museum captures the urban vibe—just don't look for any graffiti art

  • Voice Choices

    October 1, 2008

    The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun

    The Bronx Museum captures the urban vibe—just don't look for any graffiti art

  • Voice Choices

    July 16, 2008

    DANCE FOR YOUR RIGHTS

    Fela Anikulapo-Kuti gets his own musical

  • Voice Choices

    July 2, 2008

    OUT OF AFRICA

    Is Damon Albarn the new Peter Gabriel?

  • Art

    April 29, 2008

    New African Art, Resisting Assimilation

    The Studio Museum in Harlem examines the art of the African diaspora

  • Voice Choices

    April 8, 2008

    New York African Film Festival

    The Studio Museum in Harlem examines the art of the African diaspora

  • Voice Choices

    March 4, 2008

    DANCING QUEEN

    Leila Haddad schools us in belly dance

  • Voice Choices

    February 19, 2008

    THE POWER OF WUN

    Afro rhythms heat up the BK

  • Film

    January 29, 2008

    A Walk to Beautiful

    Afro rhythms heat up the BK

  • Specials

    December 11, 2007

    Letters

    Afro rhythms heat up the BK

  • Film

    November 20, 2007

    Senegal's Son

    For Ousmane Sembène, an icon of African cinema, the personal was always political

  • News

    August 7, 2007

    Darfur Betrayed

    China, naturally, supports a UN resolution with no teeth

  • Columns

    June 12, 2007

    Schlong Song

    Circumcision: Health-conscious procedure or unnecessary sexual amputation?

  • Film

    May 8, 2007

    'Six Days'

    Circumcision: Health-conscious procedure or unnecessary sexual amputation?

  • News

    May 1, 2007

    The Genocide Games

    Using China's pride in the 2008 Olympics as a weapon against its shameful support of the Darfur nightmare

  • Books

    April 3, 2007

    Map of the Word

    New translations battle "language imperialism"

  • Film

    March 27, 2007

    Africa Speaks

    N.Y. film fest challenges Western view of war-torn continent

  • Art

    January 9, 2007

    Heartbreak of Darkness

    N.Y. film fest challenges Western view of war-torn continent

  • Film

    January 9, 2007

    'Primeval'

    N.Y. film fest challenges Western view of war-torn continent

  • News

    January 2, 2007

    The Black Holocaust

    After hundreds of thousands of black Muslim corpses, is the genocide at last over?

  • Film

    January 2, 2007

    Accidental Tourists

    Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

  • News

    September 19, 2006

    Darfur in Central Park

    "Try to imagine that your whole way of life destroyed"

  • News

    March 21, 2006

    Rabbi Meets Genocide's General

    A close-up of Sudan's chief mass murderer and his genteel, cultivated entourage

  • Music

    March 21, 2006

    For Konono No. 1 and neighbors, groove is in the likembe

    A close-up of Sudan's chief mass murderer and his genteel, cultivated entourage

  • Art

    March 14, 2006

    A Cacophonous Affair

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • Columns

    February 28, 2006

    Horoscope

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • Screens

    February 7, 2006

    Game From Hell

    Latest plan to save Sudan: Make a video game dramatizing Darfur

  • Film

    January 31, 2006

    What's Up, Docs: MOMA's Sixth Annual Nonfiction Festival

    Latest plan to save Sudan: Make a video game dramatizing Darfur

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