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May 22, 2012
Medical Marijuana Ban Doesn't Hurt Disabled, Court Says
More weed news from the West Coast: A federal court in California just ruled 2-1 that cities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries -- and that doing so doesn't violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. As detailed by the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appea ... More >>
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May 16, 2012
IP Address Does Not Even ID a State, Judge Decides in Landmark BitTorrent Lawsuit
Just a few weeks after a New York judge decided that an internet protocol address is not enough evidence for lawsuits against accused illegal file-sharers, a California judge has ruled that an IP address can't even pinpoint one's state. As detailed by CNET, the judge tossed out lawsuits against 15 ... More >>
Columns
May 9, 2012
Why Do Mexicans Change Their Names, Seemingly at Whim?
Just a few weeks after a New York judge decided that an internet protocol address is not enough evidence for lawsuits against accused illegal file-sharers, a California judge has ruled that an IP address can't even pinpoint one's state. As detailed by CNET, the judge tossed out lawsuits against 15 ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Rules California's Prop 8 Unconstitutional
By a vote of two to one, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that California's Proposition is unconstitutional. Simply put: even though more Californians voted for Prop 8 than not, that proposition was a violation of the constitution of the United States of America, according to the ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Play the Fortune Cookie Game!
Where the hell did the fortune cookie come from, anyway? How they were invented is a matter of some dispute, not where they were invented -- which was California. The magic happened approximately 100 years ago, when a Japanese company in that state decided to make a modern American version of a te ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Live: Akron/Family Lead The Crowd In Noisemaking At 285 Kent
Akron/Family w/Bad Weather California, Dustin Wong 285 Kent Saturday, January 21 Better than: A rock show. The fourth wall was breached long before Akron/Family hit the stage at 285 Kent on Saturday, the frothing, all-ages, sellout inventing polyrhythmic clap-alongs to opening acts Bad Weather C ... More >>
Film
September 21, 2011
Keep Out of the Water: Race and the Black Surfer in White Wash
Akron/Family w/Bad Weather California, Dustin Wong 285 Kent Saturday, January 21 Better than: A rock show. The fourth wall was breached long before Akron/Family hit the stage at 285 Kent on Saturday, the frothing, all-ages, sellout inventing polyrhythmic clap-alongs to opening acts Bad Weather C ... More >>
Columns
September 21, 2011
Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels if I Smoke Pot?
Akron/Family w/Bad Weather California, Dustin Wong 285 Kent Saturday, January 21 Better than: A rock show. The fourth wall was breached long before Akron/Family hit the stage at 285 Kent on Saturday, the frothing, all-ages, sellout inventing polyrhythmic clap-alongs to opening acts Bad Weather C ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2011
For Peels' Shuna Lydon, Being Told She Doesn't Use Enough Sugar Is a Compliment
Shuna LydonYesterday, we published the first part of our interview with Shuna Lydon, the Peels pastry chef who we have to thank for raising our quality of living with things like monkey bread and St. Louis Sticky Gooey Cake. Today, we talk to her about the differences between New York and nor ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Introducing the Mango Nectarine
The mango nectarine looks and feels more like a plum. albeit a plum with a skin that runs from medium green tending toward olive drab to shades of yellow dappled with green.
Blogs
July 26, 2011
Food Trucks Have Now Been Appropriated by the Solar Industry
Sungevity/FacebookIce pops, and geese.Even if the city has decided it hates food trucks, the solar industry still loves them.
Blogs
February 16, 2011
Proposition 8 Decision: We Will Decide In a Year or So
The California Supreme Court made a decision today, kind of, in the ongoing case of Proposition 8, the California ballot proposal that banned gay marriage in 2008. The California Supremes decided that they will decide something in about ten months to a year. There's nothing like justice delayed, ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
Shirley Chisholm Dares to Run for President
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 2, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 48 'They will remember a 100-pound woman' By Mary Breasted The tiny glittering black woman stood utterly at attention. She wore a suit of stiff brocade that fitted her shoulders so snugly it gave her a f ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Nils Noren Is Leaving the French Culinary Institute
BravoWhen we last heard from the French Culinary Institute, the school was busy announcing its plans to open a new campus in California. Today, the news coming from Grand Street hits a bit closer to home: Nils Noren, the school's Vice President of Culinary and Pastry Arts, is stepping down as ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Science: "Smart People Do Drugs." Guy on Acid: "I'M FU**ING A UNICORN!"
Smart people are more likely to deal with new things and try them. Those new things seem to include drugs. Why?...While "the use of opium dates back to about 5,000 years ago ... Other psychoactive drugs are 'chemical' (pharmacological); they require modern chemistry to manufacture." Psychoact ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Live-Bonging the Prop. 19 Vote with Broam Chronsky
As the results of America's midterm elections come to light, the Village Voice's expert panel of political thinkers and shapers will be weighing in live over the course of the evening. Covering California's landmark vote on whether or not to legalize Marijuana, Proposition 19, is our special ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 15, 2010
SWEET SUNSTROKE
Don’t worry, the real Best Coast is still East
Blogs
August 5, 2010
NYC's Proposition 8 Rally in Foley Square: Video
The Village Voice's Steven Thrasher was in attendance at a rally in New York's Foley Square last night where some 200 folks gathered to celebrate yesterday's ruling that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. There, civil rights attorneys Yetta Kurland and Todd Fernandez read key sec ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Virginity Questioned! The Olive Oil Controversy.
fdecomite, FlickrOil's not well.... Following a mid-July study at U.C. Davis that found that more than 60 percent of bottles of olive oil labeled "extra virgin" they tested were not technically "extra virgin," a few California chefs are bringing a lawsuit. Top Chef's David Martin is among a ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2010
California's Proposition 8 Ruled Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. The long awaited decision was just released from the U.S. District Courthouse for Northern California in San Francisco. The case, Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, was a lawsuit in which two gay couples sued that Propo ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
Forever 21 Launches Maternity Line, Basically Forcing Teens to Get Pregnant
Forever 21, purveyor of cheaply made, brightly colored teen-wear, has launched a maternity line. It's only in five states, three of which have some of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country. In a store that's aimed at the teen and tween demographic, it's likely that this is a specifi ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Crime Trends: New York Geezer Thief vs. West Coast Geezer Bandit
This season, we've seen a new trend on the run-a-way, and they're no longer toting ski masks and youth, but rather oxygen tanks and elegantly scripted threat notes. The New York Post reported today that a "Geezer thief" raided a Midtown store with a cane in one hand and a handgun in the other ... More >>
Film
June 15, 2010
How the Mormon Church Brought Down the Gays in 8: The Mormon Proposition
This season, we've seen a new trend on the run-a-way, and they're no longer toting ski masks and youth, but rather oxygen tanks and elegantly scripted threat notes. The New York Post reported today that a "Geezer thief" raided a Midtown store with a cane in one hand and a handgun in the other ... More >>
News
June 15, 2010
The Killer of His Daughter's Mother
A Cunning American Boy Becomes a Mexican Cartel Soldier and East L.A. Executioner
Blogs
May 21, 2010
Harvey Milk's Birthday: Chatting with Cleve Jones
Tomorrow is Harvey Milk's birthday. It's an official holiday in California for the first time (signed into law last year by the Terminator), and will be marked here in the city by a march beginning at the GLBT Center at noon. Runnin' Scared spoke to the real-life Cleve Jones on the phone (portr ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 24, 2010
Nebula+Quest for Fire+the Atomic Bitchwax
Tomorrow is Harvey Milk's birthday. It's an official holiday in California for the first time (signed into law last year by the Terminator), and will be marked here in the city by a march beginning at the GLBT Center at noon. Runnin' Scared spoke to the real-life Cleve Jones on the phone (portr ... More >>
Columns
December 22, 2009
¡Ask a Mexican! The Reconquista of Christmas
What to buy your Mexican-loving friends this Navidad
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009
Pamelia Kurstin
What to buy your Mexican-loving friends this Navidad
Voice Choices
August 4, 2009
Incubus+the Duke Spirit
What to buy your Mexican-loving friends this Navidad
Voice Choices
July 28, 2009
BIGFOOT STRIKES AGAIN
Michael Puzzo's Lyric is Waiting
Voice Choices
June 10, 2009
Akitsa+Bone Awl+Ashdautus
Michael Puzzo's Lyric is Waiting
Voice Choices
January 7, 2009
SOFT ROCK
Because "the Silver Jews" was already taken
Blogs
November 17, 2008
Coincidences Department: Prince, Gay, Prop 8
Because "the Silver Jews" was already taken
Blogs
November 5, 2008
Lynn Yaeger: About Last Night...
Because "the Silver Jews" was already taken
Columns
October 29, 2008
Ask a Mexican! Voting Is Gay
And everyone should be doing it—particularly in California
Blogs
October 13, 2008
AARP Meets GLBT: SAGE Advertises in Subways
And everyone should be doing it—particularly in California
Film
August 5, 2008
Bottle Shock: Great Concept, Not Great Movie
And everyone should be doing it—particularly in California
Voice Choices
August 5, 2008
Scott Davis
And everyone should be doing it—particularly in California
People
November 6, 2007
Lou Dobbs Needs a Check-Up
The pendejo and his refrain about hospitals
Blogs
January 16, 2007
It's a Good One: Cheese Magic from Cali
The pendejo and his refrain about hospitals
News
November 7, 2006
Reader: Sex, Sure, But Where Is the Love?
The pendejo and his refrain about hospitals
News
October 31, 2006
Letters
The pendejo and his refrain about hospitals
Blogs
May 16, 2006
King Dork: Best Punk Rock Book Ever
The pendejo and his refrain about hospitals
Columns
July 26, 2005
Horoscope
The pendejo and his refrain about hospitals
Art
June 15, 2004
Termite Theory
The only way to chew through what some artists perceive as rot is with a lot of activity
Home
February 3, 2004
Pebbles at the Palace
Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King
News
October 21, 2003
The Bush-Cheney Gazillions Tour
Get Out Your Checkbooks. It's a Bundle of Fun
News
September 2, 2003
Orange County Anguish
Searching for Someone, Anyone, Who Loves Governor Gray Davis
News
June 26, 2001
Mr. Hot Potato
California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm’s Length
Dining
June 27, 2000
Good and Plenty
California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm’s Length
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