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    January 11, 2012

    100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

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    June 27, 2011

    NYC Pop-Up Chapel Will Celebrate Marriage Equality With Free Central Park Weddings

    ​On Friday night, groups of New Yorkers stayed glued to their cellphones even in social situations -- and more than usual -- awaiting the final word on the marriage equality vote in Albany. When the good news finally arrived, more drinking commenced and for one crew of friends, the late-night ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Lulz Security Hackers Target Senate.gov and Bethesda Software Because They Can

    LulzSec Logo​The latest hacker group on the scene to prove how unsafe information is on the web call themselves Lulz Security, "the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense." In response to unfavorable coverage of WikiLeaks, the mischief-makers hacked a PBS website late la ... More >>

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    June 14, 2011

    Central Park Booting Buskers From 'Quiet Zones'

    ​If your last walk through Central Park felt eerily quiet, you can thank the NYPD. Over the past few weeks, they have started enforcing eight quiet zones within Central Park, where music and loud noises are prohibited. The zones include the Bethesda Fountain, Shakespeare Garden, Sheep Meadow, ... More >>

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    March 23, 2011

    The Schapiro Group Responds to Our Cover Story About Sex-Trafficking Study

    ​In our current cover story, Village Voice Media writer Nick Pinto called into question research done by a Georgia firm, The Schapiro Group, which was used by Womens Funding Network to make claims about the scope of underage sex trafficking in the U.S. Pinto's story called that research into q ... More >>

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    December 6, 2010

    Bill Graham Closes Down The Fillmore

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 6, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 18 Remember the Fillmore? By Lucian K. Truscott IV Out on the street, a group of black-clad, tough-looking longhairs who called themselves the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers were distributing a handbill. I ... More >>

  • Theater

    November 3, 2010

    The Millennium Recedes: Looking Back at Angels in America

    The Signature Theatre and Michael Grief remount Tony Kushner's seminal play

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    September 22, 2010

    Fruit Fly, Just Another Adopted Immigrant Identity Crisis Musical Comedy

    The Signature Theatre and Michael Grief remount Tony Kushner's seminal play

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Reverend Billy Holds an "UnMarriage Until Gay Marriage" Ceremony on Valentine's Day (VIDEO)

    ​Central Park's Bethesda Angel looked out at scores of brides wreathed in crowns of fake white hydrangea and grooms in thrift-store formalwear. "Enjoy the last two minutes of your marriage," Rev. Billy Talen of the Church of Life After Shopping yelled, as on the most romantic day of the yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Video: Chucking Snowballs at Bethesda Fountain

    Just a reminder that snowball-related violence is at an all-time high, and that if you must throw snowballs, please use an approved target, like the angel at Bethesda Fountain, as these Christmas revelers chose to do on December 20th. (Maybe they were protesting the works of Tony Kushner.) Merry m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Le Pain Quotidien Adds Another Link to its Chain in Central Park

    Baguettes to beat off the competition.​The battle for Central Park cafe supremacy has been won: Diner's Journal reports that the Parks Department has awarded Le Pain Quotidien the license to renovate and restore the Mineral Springs Cafe by the park's Sheep Meadow.

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Fort Hood's Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan: Jihadi, Psycho, Both?

    ​Bits and pieces are coming out about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the shooter in custody in the Fort Hood massacre. Records show he was born in Virginia, graduated from Virginia Tech and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' F. Edward Hebert School Of Medicine in Bethesda, Mary ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Trend That Must Stop: Public Dancing Schtick

    Break Out in Song did it again, getting a bunch of dancers to jump around to "If My Friends Could See Me Now" in the Time Warner Center yesterday. Further performances are promised for this afternoon at the South Street Seaport, tomorrow at the Intrepid, and Sunday in front of the Marquis in Times ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    New York Celebs Do Cell-Phone Audio Tours of Central Park

    Usually we're all, "blar, we've been living here 100 years and we don't need an audio tour," even in museums where we don't know shit about shit, but here's something we might actually do: cell-phone audio commentary on city landmarks, performed by local celebrities. For example, "Yoko Ono introduce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

    While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    New York's Top Health Official to Head CDC

    New York's Commissioner of Health, it will be announced today, is about to become head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Thomas Frieden will replace the acting head of the Centers, Dr. Richard E. Besser. We mainly know Frieden for his health education campaigns, such as those concerning H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Please Don't Shoot at the Big Glowing Thing in the Sky

    New York's Commissioner of Health, it will be announced today, is about to become head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Thomas Frieden will replace the acting head of the Centers, Dr. Richard E. Besser. We mainly know Frieden for his health education campaigns, such as those concerning H ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 25, 2008

    Ladies & Gents: No Luck of the Irish

    A bloody, desolate Dublin

  • Voice Choices

    March 18, 2008

    LADIES & GERMS

    Private acts in public restrooms

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2008

    Ah, What Urinetown Hath Wrought! (NSFW)

    Private acts in public restrooms

  • News

    September 11, 2007

    Shock and Awe

    The stunning comeback of electroshock and other harrowing treatments for the mentally ill

  • NYC Life

    December 5, 2006

    New Year's Eve Event Guide

    The stunning comeback of electroshock and other harrowing treatments for the mentally ill

  • News

    September 19, 2006

    Darfur in Central Park

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

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    July 4, 2006

    Act Like a Drunk Johnny Depp

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

  • NYC Life

    May 16, 2006

    The Life Aquatic

    You can go in the water again!

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Bush Just Keeps on Talking

    President says wiretaps will continue, and so will his speeches and press conferences and photo ops and—

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Bush Fights Back: A Timeline

    President hauls self out of harm's way with speech after speech after speech

  • News

    November 15, 2005

    'Reagan' Attacks Netanyahu

    Director Stephen Gaghan talks about what didn't end up in 'Syriana'

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2005

    Morning Report 7/23/05
    The War on Tourism

    Director Stephen Gaghan talks about what didn't end up in 'Syriana'

  • News

    July 19, 2005

    The Roberts file

    The Supreme Court nominee: A conservative lawyer in King Dubya's court

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    October 26, 2004

    The Best Votes Money Can Buy

    Facts and figures of the most expensive election campaign in U.S. history

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    The Sunshine Patriots

    The GOP's champions of this war had a hard time finding their own way to the battlefield

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    February 3, 2004

    On Da Corner Worldwide

    Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Religious Conversion

    The Synagogue That Thomas Friedman Built

  • NYC Life

    September 9, 2003

    I, Narcissist

    Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

  • NYC Life

    May 13, 2003

    Urban Oases

    Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

  • NYC Life

    July 23, 2002

    Two Connected Studios in High-Rise

    Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

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    September 4, 2001

    The People's Prozac

    Dissident Scientists Question the Ban on Ecstasy

  • Music

    June 20, 2000

    Music

    Dissident Scientists Question the Ban on Ecstasy

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    April 4, 2000

    An Unscientific Method?

    Activists and Legislators Urge Safeguards for Human Subjects in Experiments

  • Music

    August 3, 1999

    New Turf

    Activists and Legislators Urge Safeguards for Human Subjects in Experiments

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    November 3, 1998

    Guided by Voices

    The Star of The Cruise and His Celluloid City

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