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The Best Food Events This Weekend

Friday, May 3 The Food Book Fair The Food Book Fair started on Thursday, but its events will run all weekend. Some highlights include a book signing and Q&A with Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, a foraging panel with Fredrik Berselius of Aska, and a farming panel at the Wythe Hotel. See all the eve ... More >>

What the Manager Who Verbally Abused Jackie Robinson Has to Do With Valdimir Nabokov

If you've seen 42, no doubt one of the more memorable scenes is when Philadelphia Phillies manager Ben Chapman heaps verbal slurs on Jackie Robinson in a 1947 game. The incident actually happened, and it shortened Chapman's career even though the two posed for photographers shortly afterwards to sh ... More >>

Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield Is No Longer Languishing in Grief

Still salty, less wounded

Hunters Sign to Mom Pop, Announce Tour With JEFF the Brotherhood

File Under: BIG THANGS POPPIN'! Brooklyn cool kids and Voice cover subjects Hunters have just inked a deal with the Mom Pop record label, the home of Big Deal bands like Sleigh Bells, Wavves, Metric, Tokyo Police Club, FIDLAR, Neon Indian, Freelance Whales, etc. etc., so on and so forth. They've a ... More >>

Maysville, Your New Kentucky Home

Kyle Knall offers up Southern spirit and spirits

Nothing but a Man: This Is(n't) a Man's World

Winners of the James Beard Foundation's Restaurant and Chef Awards

Last night, the James Beard Foundation's winner's list was completed--the media awards were over the weekend and listed here yesterday. In addition to major excitement over the first ever Outstanding Bar Program award other highlights included a tie for Best Chef Southeast (a hot dining destination ... More >>

Is "Mexican" an Offensive Word?

James Briscione, Author of Just Married and Cooking, on Newlywed Cooking

Just Married and CookingJames Briscione, looking very dapper on his wedding day​It's summertime, which means wedding season! A time to either rejoice at your friends' happiness, or at least make a beeline for the open bar that is supposed to compensate for the expensive present you had to buy ... More >>

Lady Chefs Rock the James Beard Awards!

​So the James Beard Foundation Awards were last night and New York City cleaned up pretty well, with Best New Restaurant going to ABC Kitchen, Outstanding Pastry Chef awarded to Eleven Madison Park's Angela Pinkerton, Outstanding Restaurant Award also nabbed by Eleven Madison Park, and Outstan ... More >>

The 2011 James Beard Award Finalists Are...

​Earlier this afternoon in Portland, OR, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards. So without further ado, the nominees, after the jump:

James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced

opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tears​It's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>

Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls Cancel Their Tours

​Alas. Crocodiles (left) had a show at Maxwell's in Hoboken tonight; Dum Dum Girls were set for Music Hall of Williamsburg with Frankie Rose and the Outs on November 1. Both shows/tours have been scrapped entirely, per a family emergency (Brandon Welchez from the Crocs and Dee Dee from the Dum ... More >>

Charles Ensley, 69, City Labor Leader, Unmourned by the Dailies, But That Figures

​Charles Ensley, who died last week at 69, was one of New York's great labor leaders, but it shouldn't shock us that the only way he made it onto the Times obit page today was via one of the paper's $52-per-line paid death notices.

Viagra Might Make You Go Deaf, But You'll Enjoy Every Minute of It

​New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham indicates the potential for long-term hearing loss following the use of Viagra and possibly other penile perker-uppers like Cialis and Levitra. Uh oh.

Colicchio, Boulud, White, Humm Big Winners in Last Night's Beard Awards

​Pomp, circumstance, product placement, and varying levels of inebriation all converged at Avery Fisher Hall last night for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Many white men were awarded large gold pendants that dangled from green sashes. It was a particularly good night for New York, wit ... More >>

The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

Rich Con's and Wife's Heartbreaking Story on Nightline

​"Once the toast of Birmingham, Alabama, worth some $300 million," wealthy televangelist and HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy was accused of fraud and convicted (not of the fraud, but of bribery on an earlier charge) and had to pay $2.8 billion to shareholders and go to prison. ABC's Nightline ... More >>

Handicapping the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party

The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party has grown to be one of the great culinary events of the summer. This year the 7th annual edition will be held on June 13th and June 14th in Madison Square, from 11 am till 7 pm, which is two hours longer than the previous year. As usual, the collection of barbecues ... More >>

Kalas, Fidrych: So Long, Friends

Everybody talks about how every spring baseball can make you feel young. What we often forget is how baseball can also make you feel old. If you're a fan of the game, you'll mark important points in your life by the passing of those you followed when you were young. To Mets fans, Harry Kalas, who di ... More >>

The Good Negro and Incident at Vichy Hunt Conflict; Blithe Spirit Hunts Comedy

Is Banksy in New York? Or Is that a Copycat Banksy 'Flower Thrower' in Williamsburg?

Interview: Steinski (a/k/a Steve Stein), Part I

Spring Art Preview: Kerry James Marshall's Black Whole

Battling art's blind spot

Live: Morrissey in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Dope-Thrill Fugs

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

The Bored and the Beautiful

The Pierces are enjoying themselves a little more than their biggest hit would suggest

Letters

Morning Report 9/2/05
Bush's Ark

Film

The Church of Bush

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president

Gipper Gore

Responses to the Voice's coverage of Ronald Reagan's death

NY Mirror

The South Does It Again, Sort Of

Rap Trounces Rock Below the Mason-Dixon

In the Line of Fire

Osama’s New Recruits

White Power and Al Qaeda Unite Against America

Letters

Supreme Court in Contempt

Rewriting the Constitution

Photo Ops

A Last-Minute Guide to Holiday Picture Books

A Paddock for Thoroughbreds

Dancers Replace Horses in New Upstate Venture

A Bookie's Wild Week

Hanging Out With a Bookmaker on the Super Bowl, Betting's Biggest Event

The 10-Minute Decade

Letters

A Survivor's Story: Bombing Victim Emily Lyons Battles Back

Cheerleaders For Violence

State of Siege: Antiabortion Violence, 1993-1998

Blight To Life

Antiabortion extremists and another murdered doctor

Fanning the Fame