Charles Dickens

Where to Punch It Up for National Punch Day

Charles Dickens had a taste for punch. Documented in letters he wrote, Dickens shared his appreciation for the labor intensive cocktail as well as the recipe, which combined lemon, lump sugar, "good old rum," brandy, water, and fire (yes, fire). Historians have since discerned that Dickens was indee ... More >>

Free Will Astrology

Bah, Bum-Bug!

An xmas classic comes undone

The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Not So Mysterious

Rupert Holmes makes light of the Dickensian darkness

I Helped Choose Edwin Drood's Killer: My Review

At The Mystery of Edwin Drood, melodrama meets shtick meets interaction, as Charles Dickens' last novel--which he died before finishing--gets completed by audience members picking the killer of orphan Drood. It's basically Victorian literature meets American Idol--quite an appealing mix, as it turn ... More >>

Eight Musicians Who've Proved Themselves Damn Fine Authors

Thanks to Frankenstorm, a whole slate of concerts has been wiped out tonight and tomorrow, including this evening's Joshua Radin/A Fine Frenzy gig at Best Buy Theater--it's been rescheduled for Sunday, Nov. 4. As it turns out, Alison Sudol, the brainy beauty behind AFF, is about more than just music ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: October 3-9, 2012

Give 'Em the Dickens: A Harsh Message for Republicans

Delving inside a Simon Callow book

Free Will Astrology: July 18-24, 2012

The Domino Sugar Factory Deal: $160 Million and a Waterfront View

If you've ever drove/ran/biked across the Williamsburg Bridge, you have probably seen the Domino Sugar factory. The pre-Civil-War industrial building used to be the largest sugar refinery in the world; now, its worn-down streaks are covered with bright graffiti and its drabness is reminisc ... More >>

New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Oliver Twist in Wonderland at Marc Jacobs; Swinging London Inspires Betsey Johnson; Go to the Office With 3.1 Phillip Lim

Well before Marc Jacobs's show even got started, it was hard not to be impressed. To design his set, he'd hired artist Rachel Feinstein, who created what appeared to be a crumbling castle in the woods and an elevated winding path leading out into the audience. It immediately called to mind something ... More >>

Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens! The Five Best Food and Drink Quotes From His Books

Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870)​Say hello to Charles Dickens on his 200th birthday, a man known for his appreciation of food, who was regularly feted at the best restaurants in the U.S. when he passed through on book tours. In New York he was a regular at Delmonico's, where a ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Reid Farringtion's A Christmas Carol

Night and the City: Walter Hill on The Warriors and The Driver

Sucker for the underbelly of urban life

Michigan Pol Thinks Foster Kids Should Only Wear Secondhand Clothes

Sorry, kid. ​A new budget proposal from Michigan state senator Bruce Caswell would require children in the state foster system to only buy their clothes at secondhand stores. Under the proposal, kids would receive gift cards that they could only use at places like Goodwill and the Salvation Army. ... More >>

TINY TIM’S HANGOUT

A marathon of good cheer

A NAUGHTY XMAS

Prepare to be taken off Santa’s Good List

What to Do With the Bear Once You've Shot It: A Brief Outline of Bruin Gastronomy in NYC for New Jersey Hunters

briancenterhunting.com​A bagged brown bear in Alaska In response to the rising bear population of northeastern New Jersey, the state's Department of Environmental Protection authorized a six-day bear hunt this year, commencing on December 6th. State biologists predicted that as many as 400 c ... More >>

Rip Torn, Stacy Keach, Frank Zappa -- It's Obies 1967!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 25, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 32 21 Win '67 'Obies' The Village Gate was full to bursting at noon on Saturday for the 12th annual Village Voice Off-Broadway Awards. Barbara Harris, star of the Broadway musical "The Apple Tree," made the ... More >>

David Wondrich Previews his New Book on the History of Punch

In his new book, Wondrich tackles punch.​Last week, several dozen bartenders gathered on the low-riding banquettes and plush lounge chairs of the Pegu Club to hear cocktail historian and author of Imbibe!, David Wondrich, talk about punch. The presentation was essentially a preview of Wondrich ... More >>

HOT AND BOTHERED

Bettie Page, naked girls, and sex galore!

A Beautiful Life: Misery Pile-Up About An Abused Teenage Runaway

"Ad That Shocked a Nation" Pretty Mild Actually

We're always interested to see the latest "they're so much more advanced than we are" advertising from Europe. This British anti-teen-pregnancy spot -- which the Daily Telegraph advertised as the "graphic teen sex ad that shocked a nation" -- is okay, but something's awry and we can't figure out w ... More >>

Pulp Fictions: Chris Onstad's "Achewood," Dash Shaw's "Bodyworld," and Spike's "Templar, Arizona"

A Brooklyn College Grad Experiences the Constitution in a Cage

Torture in Manhattan for 28-year-old Muslim American Sayed Fahad Hashmi

Tale of Two Cities, Three Changes, and Anger/Nation Try to Relive What Other Artists Once Did

Grated expectations

Ye Un-Merry Gentlemen

Pinter and Beckett send season's greetings: Careful how you unwrap them

London Orphan Seeks Home, Gruel

Noted urchin faces gang and theater critics

The (Elizabethan) Jewish Conspiracy

Talking to Theater for a New Audience about restaging anti-Semitic classics

Best in Show

The Top 40 Picks of the Tribeca Film Festival

Victorian Shrieklets

The Woman in White: Andrew Lloyd Webber serves up a Collins that badly needs remixing

You Know You Want It

Gifts for addicts and fanatics

Polanski's 'Twist' on a Classic Is the Stuff of Nightmares

Forget Your Problems, We're Preparing for a War

Where The Toys Are

Boss Tweed, de Tocqueville, and Hot Tubs at Here

The Good Son

We'll All Be Under Surveillance

Computers Will Say What We Are

Cheap Cheer

Letters

Callow, Coward, Cops

In School: The 'Success' of Failure

'The Dropout Rate Is Rising'

Nation

Winter Solstice Tributes

Free Speech for Everyone

The Year in Queer

The Gay Exception Comes Back to Haunt Us

O! Battling Elizabethans! O!

Humans, Posthumans, and a Detergent Ad

How Doo Doo Doo Doo Heartbreaker

French Kisses