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Brooks Brothers' Version Of The Gatsby Clothes: Swell Stuff

I normally don't care much for fashion and/or movie tie-ins, but these Brooks Brothers clothes--inspired by the Catherine Martin-designed duds for the upcoming Great Gatsby film--are so swanky they could bring on a whole new jazz age. No roaring 20s revival would look quite dapper enough without the ... More >>

'Housewives' Rock The Hamptons! Underwear Boys Take Fire Island!

A tour of Fire Island, the Hamptons, the anti-Hamptons. All nice. Now it's back to Murray Hill.

Q & A: Chunklet's Henry Owings On The Indie Cred Test, Not Being A Hipster, And Paying Tribute To Jerry Fuchs

Ian Cone​The 100 Biggest Assholes in Rock Issue, The Shit List Issue, The Overrated, The Rock Bible--Chunklet mastermind Henry Owings redefined the 'zine aesthetic with his deliciously wisecracking, ass-chewing tongue, dumping on everyone and their mother while taking a little bit of time to e ... More >>

Five More Awesomely Awkward J Mascis Interviews

If you're lucky, he'll shout out his wad. J Mascis's career has been fairly consistent. Even during the time Dinosaur Jr. had disbanded, he kept busy with his solo project, making sure that every couple of years we got a fresh dose of yearning-to-connect vocals and brontosaurus-sized fuzz-guitar. H ... More >>

Best Of NYC: What $150 Can Get You in NYC

We're in it for the long haul

Retrosexual Denies Retrosexual Trend, While Wearing Boat Shoes

​Back in early April we stumbled upon a Philadelphia Inquirer trend piece all a-drool over the latest meme in man-style: the "Retrosexual." According to the piece, such a fellow, largely inspired by Don Draper, trounced about with a trilby atop his pomaded 'do, clad in a three-piece suit, ciga ... More >>

A Glamorous Photo of Me on My Bike

Via.​ Doesn't it make me look a little like a triple agent on a secret mission, zooming off to some embassy (or gay bar) with brisk aplomb?

Charmingly Pragmatic Prince Seeks Louboutin-Losing Cinderella (Q&A)

Moshe Billet​Moshe Billet found a black leather peep-toe Christian Louboutin pump at 96th Street and Broadway on June 23. Knowing Louboutins are expensive ($600-$800) and that someone was probably upset to have lost it, he posted an ad on Craigslist and messages on Facebook and Twitter, as wel ... More >>

Priest Accused of Stealing $1 Million in Church Money, Spending It on Male Escorts

via Hartford Courant​Weren't we all just talking about how the BP spill totally helped the Catholic Church with its little "priest situation," at least where the media was concerned? Got 'em out of the spotlight for a bit, took the heat off, what have you? Well, today we heard that we all migh ... More >>

The Post's "Welfare" Fraud

​If you read the Which Lazy Bastards Are Ripping You Off section of yesterday's tabloids — you can find it after the Who Is Sandra Bullock Not Sleeping With/Adopting section — you may have spotted the story that the Post headlined "Millionaires' welfare 'con' ": The Brooklyn DA's o ... More >>

PREPSTERS, AHOY!

Don your finest L.L. Bean

New "Retrosexuals" Really Just Metrosexuals With a Wardrobe Change

Metrosexual? Retrosexual? Guy waiting for the subway?​The Philadelphia Inquirer is drooling all over the "Retrosexual," a delightful new character in today's great "Menaissance." Think Don Draper-esque manly men with cigars and bespoke suits, pomaded and primped to dapper 1950s glory. Take Le ... More >>

Clip Job: A Messy Birth for the World-Journal-Tribune

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 22, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 49 A Newsman Views The Newest Paper By Stan Fischler After a lengthy courtship, the Journal-American, World Telegram and Sun, and Herald-Tribune finally joined their presses in journalistic marriage l ... More >>

Thomas Spargo -- Bush Campaign Operative Turned NY Judge -- Gets 27 Months in Prison for Bribery, Extortion

Bush 2000 campaign operative Spargo's career move to the NY Supreme Court bench ends with a prison sentence for extortion, bribery.An upstate New York Supreme Court justice who had been prominent in the Bush 2000 Florida campaign — and who specialized in shaking down attorneys — was sent ... More >>

From the Archives...The Voice Reviews Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, 1960

Our January 20, 1960, take on one of the most famous double bills in modern theater history, the American debuts of two now-classic plays

Clip Job: JFK, 1917-1963

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 28, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 6JFK, 1917-1963By Suzanne KiplingerAll of us will remember where we were at 2 o'clock Friday for the rest of our lives. There is a sense in which it was not so much a public event as something which happened to eac ... More >>

New York Newcomers Story Turns Out Happily for Rich, Famous People

New York magazine has produced that article about New York noobs and why they come here, which we saw them working on earlier, and about all you need to know about it is in this quote: "Many offered some variation on 'I came here to live out my dream.'" If you can stomach more, a former nanny says s ... More >>

DC Party Monsters in Grisly Killing?

Picture via Who Murdered Robert Wone? An intrepid reporter named Craig Brownstein just sent me info on "a grizzly, unsolved gay murder case that happened in one of DC's more tony and gay neighborhoods over two years ago." He had me at hello. Said Brownstein, "We're either in the middle of gay DC' ... More >>

'Times' declares war on news, gets right in your grille -- for a change

The Times as Jimmy Cagney and the reader as Mae Clarke. It's about time. A banner day for the New York Times. Newspapers that don't go out for blood are worthless. The Times often should be itself flayed because it so often doesn't take full advantage of its tremendous resources and usually und ... More >>

Young Men's Pens Do Politics and War in Farragut North and Bury the Dead

David Berman—the Myth, the Man, the Silver Jew—in Williamsburg

More Love for Summer Streets: A Thousand Bikes Bloom in Manhattan

Remembering Roger Stone Fondly

Reader: Tom Ford's a Talentless Pimp

When Bad Things Happen to Good Girlfriends

At the five-month mark in a relationship, she always forgets to do one important thing: dump her boyfriend. Sadly, he never forgets to dump her.

Part 2: Stuff You've Probably Never Heard Before Or Should Hear More of...

Not Bourgie

Albert Ayler met Paul Gonsalves and Sonny Rollins's saxophone lineage was re-established

Early to Bed

Pajamas in which to sleep in, perchance to dream in

A Dirty Trickster's Bush Bonanza

The man who stopped Miami recount makes gaming millions

Mr. Uptown And Mr. Downtown

They're miles ahead of the competition, and the hip thing should be to dig both of them

Pataki's Sick Department of Health

How a Collusive Contagion Has Infected a $34 Billion Bureaucracy

Time in a Bottle

The Kitsch Vendors of 9-11

Letters

Dream Weavers

The Fall 2002 Fashion Shows

The Gilded Closet

The Swank World of Gay Gents in New York

Shirts

Two T's, One Buttondown, and a Plaid Flannel

A bunch of slugs

City Limits

NY Mirror

Notes from an opening: 'Manhandled by security guard. Kept running into whiny B-list types— or maybe that was a mirror.'

Hearts of Glass

Fashion Victims

Maid Man

Maid's room in Park Avenue building