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Appalachia

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    New York City Really Has a Thing for Pain Pills

    Not too long after data came out questioning whether America might be addicted to painkillers, additional details have been released about New York City's pill popping. From 2008 to 2010, prescriptions for opioid analgesics surged 22 percent, according to The Associated Press (via CBS). What's s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Is America Addicted to Painkillers?

    And now for some sad-making stats as we near the end of the week. Recent Associated Press reports suggest that America is really drugged up on prescription opioids -- and New York is certainly no exception. Receipts for two most popular painkiller scripts -- oxycodone and hydrocodone -- boomed fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Dying Is In Vogue: Americans' Life Expectancies Dropping

    ​Each week, Death by Science gets on its hands and knees and crawls around, searching the dark world of science and technology. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up on canned goods and doomsday porn. This week, we found a stud ... More >>

  • Film

    June 1, 2011

    Dirty Coal: The Last Mountain on an Industry Run Amok

    ​Each week, Death by Science gets on its hands and knees and crawls around, searching the dark world of science and technology. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up on canned goods and doomsday porn. This week, we found a stud ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 19, 2011

    Robert Plant & the Band of Joy

    ​Each week, Death by Science gets on its hands and knees and crawls around, searching the dark world of science and technology. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up on canned goods and doomsday porn. This week, we found a stud ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2010

    DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION

    From the L.E.S. to Appalachia

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Arlo Guthrie: More Nowness Than Newness

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 28, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 46 Films by Andrew Sarris "ALICE'S RESTAURANT" is about as likable in a limited way as Arlo Guthrie, a curiously coquettish folk-something unlike anything else. Peeping out from under his lanky locks with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    H. Rap Brown: "If You Can't Give a Gun, Give a Dollar"

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 2, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 3 John Brown's Roll to Rap Brown's Rock by Stephanie Harrington Rap Brown talked to the honkies last Friday night. The occasion was the National Guardian's 19th anniversary (and fundraising) meeting. An ... More >>

  • Books

    September 8, 2009

    Fall Guide: George Packer Chronicles a Turbulent 21st Century

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 2, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 3 John Brown's Roll to Rap Brown's Rock by Stephanie Harrington Rap Brown talked to the honkies last Friday night. The occasion was the National Guardian's 19th anniversary (and fundraising) meeting. An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Clip Job: Jack Newfield's 'Mugging the White Liberal'

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 25, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 36Mugging the White LiberalBy Jack NewfieldImagine three goldfish dropped into a fish tank filled with sharks. Or imagine Billy Budd mugged by the Emperor Jones.Then you might have some idea of the malevolent and paran ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    STRING MACHINE

    Classical strings meet an unlikely match

  • Film

    April 22, 2009

    Throw Down Your Heart Places Banjo, and Béla Fleck, in Africa

    Classical strings meet an unlikely match

  • Books

    August 19, 2008

    The New Weird America of Amanda Petrusich's It Still Moves

    Don your hyphens, hipsters!

  • Music

    June 3, 2008

    Talking with Robert Plant

    Touring the South, the legend talks about Led Zep and Alison Krauss. Mostly Krauss.

  • Film

    January 30, 2007

    'The Last Sin Eater'

    Touring the South, the legend talks about Led Zep and Alison Krauss. Mostly Krauss.

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    'Voice' on Literature

    Reviews of the last 50 years

  • Film

    July 26, 2005

    Crash and Burn: Inanimate Dukes Update Salutes Idiocy

    Reviews of the last 50 years

  • Books

    July 5, 2005

    Motel Fix

    The master of the Southwestern gothic novel breaks his friscalating prose and heads indoors

  • Books

    November 9, 2004

    The Miseducation of Tom Wolfe

    College kids say the darndest things: Awesome, sexiled, dormcest, and . . . mons pubis!

  • News

    October 12, 2004

    Reading Voters

    Tagging along on Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote

  • Music

    October 5, 2004

    Your Guide to CMJ 2004

    Tagging along on Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote

  • Film

    August 10, 2004

    Film

    Tagging along on Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote

  • Music

    May 4, 2004

    A Manner of Speaking

    Rust-belted Motor City meets mined-out Appalachia in the battleground state between

  • Music

    April 22, 2003

    Music

    Rust-belted Motor City meets mined-out Appalachia in the battleground state between

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Off the Wall

    An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

  • Film

    February 4, 2003

    The Big Chill

    Brats and Boomers Dominate Sundance Docs

  • News

    November 5, 2002

    Tomb Raiders

    Bush's Secret Society Hits the Mainstream

  • News

    May 21, 2002

    Dial 'P' for Paranoid

    Bush's Secret Society Hits the Mainstream

  • Art

    February 5, 2002

    Wizard of Odd

    Roger Ballen’s Theater of the Absurd

  • News

    October 23, 2001

    The Race Factor

    A View From behind the Scenes

  • Music

    September 4, 2001

    Music

    A View From behind the Scenes

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    Rescuing Martin Luther King Jr.

    A Craving for Equal Justice

  • Film

    June 12, 2001

    Culture Vultures Home to Roost

    A Craving for Equal Justice

  • Books

    March 27, 2001

    Mother in Arms

    A Craving for Equal Justice

  • News

    September 5, 2000

    Picture This

    Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

  • Theater

    July 25, 2000

    ‘The Poseidon Adventure’—Coming to a Stage Near You!

    Alternative Theater Rides a Populist Wave

  • Dance

    July 11, 2000

    Hunting New Classics

    What to Serve With Vintage Balanchine

  • Dance

    April 25, 2000

    Spring Bouquet

    All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

  • Music

    March 28, 2000

    Music

    All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

  • News

    February 15, 2000

    Nation

    All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

  • Long Island Voice

    December 21, 1999

    Road Kill

    All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

  • NYC Life

    November 9, 1999

    The Shock of the Old

    Strange Days at Anthropologie and Restoration Hardware

  • Music

    October 5, 1999

    Hat Tricks

    Strange Days at Anthropologie and Restoration Hardware

  • News

    July 27, 1999

    Tooth To Tell

    Hamptonites Gather Baby Teeth To Fight Radiation

  • Music

    July 13, 1999

    All Souled Out

    Hamptonites Gather Baby Teeth To Fight Radiation

  • News

    November 17, 1998

    Duke Lives!

    'He Deals With Kids' Crises. He Is Rare— He Changes Lives.'

  • News

    July 14, 1998

    Katuria Smith Goes to Court

    'The Kids in My Hometown Expected Me To End Up in Jail'

  • News

    July 14, 1998

    Enter Stage Left

    Paul Wellstone Struts His Presidential Stuff on New York's Stage and Receives Mixed Reviews

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