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Attica

  • News

    February 8, 2012

    Jazz Hayden and the Fight Against Stop-and-Frisk

    An unlikely activist's battle with the NYPD's frisky business

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    The Bank Robbery That Would Become 'Dog Day Afternoon'

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 31, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 35 Littlejohn & the mob: Saga of a heist By Arthur Bell Tuesday, August 22. Home about 10 p.m. A message from a friend on my cassette phone unit. "Just heard a couple of homosexuals are holding up a bank ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    "Will Marching Up Sixth Avenue Get Us Anywhere But Uptown?"

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 11, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 45 Why do they still march? By Robin Reisig Why are you marching? I ask the only three blacks who had showed up at the assembly point for blacks, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Asian-Americans. Why? I a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Attica Prison Uprising '71 -- Another Voice Heard From

    Liz Fink​As this paper's late great photographer, Fred McDarrah, used to say when cornered by readers angry over something they disliked in its pages, "The Voice is many voices." This is why Clark Whelton's article blaming leftists for the bloodiest prison siege in American history -- "Attica: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2010

    Attica: The Death of '60s Radicalism

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 16, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 37 Attica: the death of '60s radicalism By Clark Whelton There are three treatments for cancer -- radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. All three poison or mutilate the body and may even kill the patie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Carl Paladino, Angry Man, Beats His Own Party

    ​No matter what your politics you have to admit Republicans yesterday went for the guy with a lot more pop in his bat -- literally. Just three months ago, all Carl Paladino, the wealthy gun-slinging landlord from Buffalo who will now carry the GOP banner for governor, could muster at the Repub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Mike Lupica Joins David Paterson Bashing, Loses Mind With Attica Comparison

    ​Another sign that David Paterson's refusal to quit his day job and go home to his Lenox Terrace apartment is driving reasonable people insane appears in Mike Lupica's Monday political column in the Daily News. All is well and good as Lupica The Lip declares that Paterson needs to quit. Then, ... More >>

  • Film

    July 1, 2009

    Fifth Annual Afro-Punk Festival at BAM

    ​Another sign that David Paterson's refusal to quit his day job and go home to his Lenox Terrace apartment is driving reasonable people insane appears in Mike Lupica's Monday political column in the Daily News. All is well and good as Lupica The Lip declares that Paterson needs to quit. Then, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2009

    CRIMINAL MINDS

    Chant 'Attica!' with Al Pacino in Bryant Park

  • Columns

    October 15, 2008

    The Hidden History of the City's Greatest Era

    Days of whine and poses

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Daily Flog: Lennon killer gets laid regularly and Edwards doesn't, Russia rips Georgia, China rips U.S., Con Ed rips us off

    Days of whine and poses

  • News

    July 23, 2008

    Paroled Ex-Cons Make a Baby But Still Can't Live Together

    Forbidden love in the bar scene

  • News

    October 31, 2006

    Who Killed Robert Konopka?

    His psychotic Rikers cellmate—or the prison system itself?

  • Film

    August 29, 2006

    Magical History Tour

    Lennon rock doc is both poignant and topical

  • NYC Life

    August 8, 2006

    Freeze Frame on a Bad Cop

    Still stuck in prison for three decades: the once famous, now forgotten, Bill Phillips

  • Film

    November 22, 2005

    The Boys on the Side

    Remembering anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum—and other members of an unconventional salon

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1971

    Remembering anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum—and other members of an unconventional salon

  • Music

    March 1, 2005

    Unstoppable

    Veterans look back at hip-hop's big-bang birth in the Bronx

  • News

    November 9, 2004

    Million-Dollar Blocks

    The neighborhood costs of America's prison boom

  • Film

    October 7, 2003

    Film

    The neighborhood costs of America's prison boom

  • News

    May 20, 2003

    Complex Persecution

    A Long Island Family's Nightmare Struggle With Porn, Pedophilia, and Public Hysteria

  • Specials

    September 11, 2001

    Letters

    A Long Island Family's Nightmare Struggle With Porn, Pedophilia, and Public Hysteria

  • News

    September 4, 2001

    Remembering Attica

    Thirty Years Later, the Story of America’s Worst Prison Riot Continues

  • News

    April 3, 2001

    Anatomy of a Prison Murder

    Guards Watch as a Prisoner Kills His Cellmate

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Seizing the Spotlight

    A Stand-Up Comedian Fights the Drug Laws by Working the Media

  • News

    December 19, 2000

    Life on the Outside

    After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

  • Music

    September 26, 2000

    Zooids New and Old

    Cures for the Twilight Zone

  • News

    May 23, 2000

    The Riot Academy

    Guards Stage Mock Prison Riots to Test the Latest High-Tech Gear

  • News

    April 11, 2000

    Attica Brother

    A Survivor of the Nation’s Deadliest Prison Riot Comes to Terms With His Past

  • News

    December 21, 1999

    Strike Behind Bars

    Prisoners Plan a Work Stoppage To Protest Parole Cuts

  • News

    April 6, 1999

    The Reflective Rudy

    Memo to file: Rudy Giuliani, April 4, 1999

  • News

    February 23, 1999

    Uneasy Exits

    Hasty discharges may put Manhattan Psychiatric Center patients at risk

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    Campaigning For Clemency

    Just before Christmas Governor Pataki is expected to commute the sentences of a few state prisoners. Will any of these women get lucky?

  • News

    May 12, 1998

    Rocky's Road

    How the Worst Law in the State's History Came To Be

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