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National 'Go Topless' Day Invades New York

Last year, we here at the Voice discovered a tiny loophole in New York City's legal code after a woman was spotted topless on the Bowery: females have the same right as males to appear naked from the waist up in public. A few months later, we offered a guide on how to rock out with your boobs o ... More >>

Another "Week of Action" Protest Movement Begins, Culminating Tuesday At Times Square

The 99 percenters' continual assault against banks starts today with what is being dubbed another "Week of Action" (They might as well start calling it the year of action) that started yesterday with a rally at Union Square that will culminate on Tuesday with what, they say, will be a massive conver ... More >>

People of All Ages and Backgrounds Turned Out for May Day Yesterday

As fellow colleague James King wrote here , The New York Post dismissed yesterday's May Day event as a "joke", made up mostly of "bums". While there were definitely a good number of attention-whorish characters, hooligans, and actual bums, many people who participated seemed to be normal folks, of ... More >>

NYPD Ready for Today's Occupy Wall Street Movement at Bryant Park

The New York Police have sent out a department-wide memo to prepare for today's Occupy Wall Street event, which is scheduled to take place 9am at Bryant Park. The protest, titled "Shut Down the Corporations #F29", targets, among others, Bank of America for supposedly selling subprime mortgages--whic ... More >>

RUNWAY NOSTALGIA

A new documentary remembers the tents

There Are Sukkahs in Times Square to Celebrate Sukkot

​Sukkot is an eight day-long Jewish holiday that this year goes from October 12th to the 21st. One of the traditions of the holiday is the building of a sukkah, a walled, tent-like structure covered in plant material. The sukkah is intended as a memorial of sorts of the time the Israelites spe ... More >>

Nylon Khaman at Bombay Fast Food, Dish No. 1

​The beloved Gujarati snack khaman dhokla has a texture and flavor something like cornbread. It's made by soaking, grinding, and fermenting lentils, much the same way as dosas are fabricated.

Partying En Masse in the Subway Actually Is a Crime

​Yesterday we posted a video of a bunch of people taking over an F train so that they could party in it, because partying in a subway seems like a good idea to some people. But subway partying is not a victimless crime! Today we heard from someone who was trying to use the subway just to get h ... More >>

A Thousand Zumba Fanatics Converged on Midtown Today. We Were There.

Esther Zuckerman​A little after 7:30 a.m. this morning, women and men in neon workout gear were lined up in front 35 West 48th Street. Fifteen minutes later, a car pulled up in front of the building, and out stepped actor Ryan Reynolds, who kept his tanned head down and walked into the buildin ... More >>

Twitter Leads Homeless Man to Daughter

​We told you last week about Underheard in New York, the ad agency-backed goodwill project that put four homeless men on Twitter to "give a voice to the people who needed it most." This week, Daniel Morales (@putodanny, which we think is an epithet) decided he would use his account to find his ... More >>

Fashion Week: Donald Trump Storms Back to Michael Kors, Anna Sui Channels Prohibition

All photos by Stacey Anderson​Donald Trump took a break from his burgeoning mosque empire to drop by Michael Kors' presentation on Wednesday--and though his old limelight nemesis Anna Wintour was also in attendance, the runway was free of bloodshed. Trump did bray about God-knows-what in close ... More >>

The Moody Blues

Rick Moody brings the folk tunes and B-movie literature

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

Gary Shteyngart reads at Bryant Park

The Public Bathrooms of the Lower East Side

​Just one week after our first installment of The Toilet Bowl series, the finalists for America's Best Restroom have been announced! For whatever reason, none of the four downtown bathrooms we covered made the cut, but two of the 10 are from New York: Bryant Park's well-serviced public lavator ... More >>

Key to the City: A Little Bit Lame

​Key to the City, a project by artist Paul Ramirez Jonas, kicked off last Thursday at their kiosk in Times Square. The venture has had a huge turnout so far -- with lines closing early on account of all the wannabe key-bearers. We tried to attain one of the hot-commodity keys twice before maki ... More >>

New York City's Infamous "Tourist Lane" Graffiti: The Culprit, Unveiled

Photo by Mark Armstrong.Click to Enlarge.​Remember the infamous "Tourist Lane" sidewalk graffiti on the corner of 22nd and 5th that - despite Mayor Bloomberg not being fond of it -- many people like us absolutely loved? Well, the culprit behind one of the wittier pieces of conceptual street ar ... More >>

Restaurant and Institutions' Top-Grossing Restaurants List Finds That Steak, Tourists Turn Profits

BlatantWorld/Flickr​Throughout the recession, there's been plenty of advice lobbed at New York restaurateurs who want to stay in business, but perhaps what it boils down to is this: serve comfort food to tourists and people who want to feel like they're eating in a nightclub. That's one of the ... More >>

Spring Guide: Shopping With Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos

Isaac Mizrahi Tells Trippy Fairytale Story

Style.com​Fashion Week ended with a fairytale happy ending, thanks in part to Isaac Mizrahi's "Central Park Story Book" fall collection. So what's it like getting a fifteen-minute peek into the mind of the fashion-forward fairy godfather? Think: the Upper East Side on ecstasy. Elevated bag lad ... More >>

Leaving Planet Earth With David Byrne at Narciso Rodriguez; Fur Explosion At Dennis Basso

​Cuban designer Narciso Rodriguez is preparing for the future--as if he knows the apocalypse is just around the corner and is attempting to send us a message, don't fret, apparently he can save us. We should have known by the dramatic drumming soundtrack that Rodriguez' Fall Collection show T ... More >>

Carlos Miele Digs the Chains; Jill Stuart's in the Army Now

Discussed: Carlos Miele, Jill Stuart Stacey AndersonCarlos Miele​Carlos Miele is on the chain gang this season; he's one of many designers this season to favor link-metal accents in unexpected places. This morning, in the Bryant Park Promenade, the Brazilian label trotted out its usual discor ... More >>

Matt Dillon -- Was That Him At Charlotte Ronson?

David Wentworth Designer Charlotte Ronson​ Designer Charlotte Ronson hasn't let her prestigious pedigree stop her from riding the easy wave through the fashion industry. For the past three seasons now, we've noticed the young talent establish her line, solidifying her shows with an enthusiasti ... More >>

ANNA'S WORLD

Where to find Fashion Week inspiration

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​Get your taxes done for free If you have dependent kids and make less than $50,000, or if you make less than $18k, the Office of Financial Empowerment will help you do your taxes and find tax credits you're entitled to today at the CUNY Graduate Center (pdf).

Free WiFi in Times Square for One Year

​Yahoo, in cooperation with the Times Square Alliance, today commences free WiFi in Times Square, which will be in place for a year. We haven't sampled it yet, and remember having trouble grabbing a signal when CBS tried it in a big block of midtown in 2007, but Bryant Park's been successfully ... More >>

Things to do on Sunday for (mostly) free

the National Weather Service is promising 82 degrees and disappearing clouds--Broadway on Broadway - the casts from 20 Broadway shows will be performing live on Broadway between 43d and  47th, starting at 11:30. Michael McKean (Spinal Tap, an upcoming play) is hosting.--Brooklyn Book Festival ... More >>

Fashion Week: Kanye Commands the S.S. Phillip Lim

Of all the invitations we've received to Fashion Week, the one for 3.1 Phillip Lim in the Tent (with a capital T) at Bryant Park is the prettiest. Red thread has actually been sewn into the paper to make a swirling "PL" design suitable for framing. Many designers e-mailed invitations this year to ... More >>

Fashion Week: Patricia Field Parties with Santogold; Betsey Johnson Gives Peaches Geldof a Hamburger; Alice Olivia Show Art You Can't Wear

Stacey AndersonPatricia Field is just that into you Yesterday was day four of Fashion Week and also President's Day (pour a Veuve Clicquot on the curb for McKinley!), and your correspondents were happily back in our own turf: downtown. The Bryant Park tents in Midtown are glamorous, sure, with thei ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Avoid Fighting At Charlotte Ronson Show

photos courtesy of David Wentworth From my angle--sixth row, toward the end of the runway at Charlotte Ronson's Bryant Park show--I'm perfectly situated near the DJ booth, a blinding corridor of flashbulbs and hysteria. Samantha Ronson, the DJ, is at least half the show here; she spins country ba ... More >>

Anime Fest '08 Sees the Triumph of Cute Over Evil.

Prepping for Fashion Week 2008

The usual heels, but knock off the complaining

Sigur Rós: Hopelandic Springs Eternal

Icelandic wailers return, as pretentious and indescribable and overwhelming as ever

Fashion Weak

Tales of fatigue, confusion, and humility from the runways and celeb-choked after-parties

BCBG Max Azria: Sitting Next to Lord & Taylor's CEO

Call of the (Well-Heeled) Wild

Susan Sontag Hair Extensions, Anyone?

'Bust' and local artists rescue the ailing holiday craft fair

A Dry White Season

Whoever wins in November, Republican looks swept the Fashion Week runways

The Week in Review

Anti-Shock

Porn and Republicans on the Runways

Listings

Paradise Regained

Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us

Demonstrators Regroup, Plan MLK Day Actions

Activists Focus on the Mounting Costs of War

It's On: Where and How to Protest in New York

Runway Rundown

Film

Cinema Alfresco

NY Mirror

Rose is all angles and bedroom eyes— a '50s movie bad girl, but one who should never be reformed.

Designer Sampling

Beyond Style at Fashion Week

Cool and the Gang

The Fall '99 Collections

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

The Spring '99 Collections