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April 13, 2012
Mike Bloomberg, Miss Piggy, and Kermit the Frog Talk About Tourism and Lady Gaga
We didn't think it was possible, but this morning Mayor Mike Bloomberg held a news conference that was even cooler than his public appearance with the cast of Gossip Girl earlier this year. The secret weapon? Muppets. Four talking Muppets. You can't make this stuff up, folks! In perhaps the sillie ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2012
The Adventures of Pete and Pete Cast Bring 90s Nostalgia To The Bowery Ballroom
When Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi started writing the offbeat Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete in the early nineties, they didn't really know what they were doing. Much less did they expect that 17 years later, the quirky experiment in children's programming would amount to three ... More >>
Columns
January 11, 2012
Ask a Mexican: Why Don't Mexicans Perform in the Winter Olympics?
When Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi started writing the offbeat Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete in the early nineties, they didn't really know what they were doing. Much less did they expect that 17 years later, the quirky experiment in children's programming would amount to three ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 7, 2011
Dan Zanes
When Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi started writing the offbeat Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete in the early nineties, they didn't really know what they were doing. Much less did they expect that 17 years later, the quirky experiment in children's programming would amount to three ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 2, 2011
STRINGS ATTACHED
An onscreen ode to puppets
Blogs
October 5, 2011
Sesame Street's New Hungry Muppet Is No Laughing Matter
The new face of poverty on Sesame StreetIn an effort to raise awareness about poverty and hunger, the makers of Sesame Street are introducing a new Muppet to the neighborhood. Her name is Lily, and her family has an "ongoing struggle with hunger."
Blogs
September 3, 2011
What To Eat When You're Sick: Of Montreal Sing About 'Bananas, Rice, Applesauce, Toast'
Of Montreal on Yo Gabba Gabba! from NickPress on Vimeo.A friend from San Francisco sent this in to Fork in the Road. It's a song from Of Montreal that I've never heard them perform in concert, and casts the band in a more wholesome mode than you've probably seen them in lately.
Voice Choices
August 17, 2011
MASTER OF PUPPPETS
Remembering the genius of Jim Henson
Blogs
August 13, 2011
Bert and Ernie Have No Sexual Orientation?
That's what the Sesame Street producers swore in their response to the petition asking the two male roommates to get married. Said the officials: "Bert and Ernie are best friends. "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Inside the Bert and Ernie Marriage Campaign
Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie have been living together for 40 years. And now, an online petition demanding that Sesame Street allow Bert and Ernie to wed is circulating. As of this posting it has almost 4,500 signatures. "Let us teach tolerance of those that are different," the petition's d ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2011
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Spin-Off Announced
"Won't you be my neighbor? REMIX!"A decade after Mister Rogers' Neighborhood went off the air, PBS has announced a spin-off called Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. The series will be animated and star Daniel Tiger, the son of Daniel Striped Tiger, who was originally a puppet. The original Mister ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
Smurfs Week Declared in New York City. Really.
Monday marks a long-awaited moment in New York City history: The start of Smurfs Week. Yes. City officials announced it yesterday, and it is so. The Smurfs are taking on the "ambassadorial role" once held by Sesame Street characters and Dora the Explorer! The ostensible purpose of this market ... More >>
Film
July 13, 2011
The Muppets Take Queens
Monday marks a long-awaited moment in New York City history: The start of Smurfs Week. Yes. City officials announced it yesterday, and it is so. The Smurfs are taking on the "ambassadorial role" once held by Sesame Street characters and Dora the Explorer! The ostensible purpose of this market ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 25, 2011
Big Time Rush
Monday marks a long-awaited moment in New York City history: The start of Smurfs Week. Yes. City officials announced it yesterday, and it is so. The Smurfs are taking on the "ambassadorial role" once held by Sesame Street characters and Dora the Explorer! The ostensible purpose of this market ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 6, 2011
LIZARD KINGS
Not just a cartoon, but a movement
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Not-So-Sexy Dora the Explorer Porno Surprise for Queens Family
Would you be surprised if you popped in a tape of Dora the Explorer for your kids and Bubble Butt Bonanza No. 17 came on instead? The New York Daily News tells the story of a Candice Connor, a woman who faced that very situation via an "accidentally" porn DVD she bought from Toys R Us. The m ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 22, 2010
Class Actress
Would you be surprised if you popped in a tape of Dora the Explorer for your kids and Bubble Butt Bonanza No. 17 came on instead? The New York Daily News tells the story of a Candice Connor, a woman who faced that very situation via an "accidentally" porn DVD she bought from Toys R Us. The m ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 15, 2010
JAM WITH THE BISCUITS
Philly eccentrics crash at Terminal 5
Blogs
December 3, 2010
Dora the Explorer Concedes to Puberty
Caitlin Sanchez, the voice of Latino exploring superstar Dora the Explorer, finally settled her lawsuit against Nickelodeon. Not afraid of biting the hand that fed her cartoonish mouth, Sanchez accused Nickelodeon of making her sign an "unconscionable contract without adequate compensation." Sanc ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Kermit the Frog Brings the Green, Freaks Out Silly People
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 29 'Sesame Street' Learns It's Paved with Gold By Carol B. Liebman The Children's Television Workshop, producers of "Sesame Street," was attacked this spring by tv critics of the Times and the Daily News for ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2010
Katy Perry's Real Boobs Coming to The Simpsons
Elmo couldn't quite grasp the Katy Perry breast situation, so her racy figure skater get-up got her edited out of Sesame Street. You know what they say: for every chesty pop star, there's a children's show that's tired of screwing her. But there on the rebound is another show with yellow char ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2010
Breaking: Katy Perry's Boobs Too Much for Elmo, Sesame Street to Handle (Video)
Why in the world would Sesame Street pull a segment featuring Elmo and Katy Perry singing a rewritten song of hers?
Voice Choices
June 29, 2010
The Beets+Coasting+Alex Bleeker & the Freaks
Why in the world would Sesame Street pull a segment featuring Elmo and Katy Perry singing a rewritten song of hers?
Blogs
May 7, 2010
Q&A: Yo Gabba Gabba! Creators Christian Jacobs and Scott Shultz Explain Why Indie Rock Is Good For Children
Ben Clark/NickelodeonBottom row: Christian Jacobs, DJ Lance Rock, and Scott Shultz. Top row: Brobee, Muno, Plex.The characters of the Nickelodeon preschool children's show, Yo Gabba Gabba!, recently barbecued with riff-rockers Them Crooked Vultures: picture a gap-toothed cyclops (Muno), a pin ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2010
Puppets Were Up In My Face!
I've been interviewed by all the greats from Oprah Winfrey to Al Goldstein, but I'd never been interrogated by two felt creatures until May and Ted cornered me on my couch for some heavy duty grilling the other afternoon. It was as if Sesame Street and Avenue Q had suddenly intersected with MY bl ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2010
Ousted NY Governor Eliot Spitzer Finally Earns Hipster Cred
Is posing with Terry Richardson the new Make A Guest Appearance on Sesame Street Yo Gabba Gabba?
Theater
January 19, 2010
Young Jean Lee's Latest at Soho Rep: So Lear and Yet So Far
The Bard and Big Bird collide
Voice Choices
December 8, 2009
SUNNY DAYS
Sesame Street via Lafayette Avenue
Blogs
November 14, 2009
Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free
Jung's Red Book at the Rubin, w/admission
Blogs
November 11, 2009
Conservatives Enraged By 2007 Sesame Street Episode Get Apology from PBS
As often happens in the madhouse that is the rightwing blogosphere, a conservative recently got mad about an old TV show: Big Hollywood denounced Sesame Street for a 2007 episode in which Oscar the Grouch said, "I am watching 'Pox' News. Now there is a trashy news show." The episode actually ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2009
Maura Johnston Says Farewell to Idolator
It was always going to be a thankless task, replacing Maura Johnston at Idolator--she was fluent, smart, informed, and took the thankless task of wading into the morass of pop kudzu on the internet seriously. It was her sensibility that garnered whatever readership the site had. Now that her ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Soupy Sales, 1926-2009
Local children had a number of crappy shows with which to entertain themselves or drown out their parents' drunken yelling in the 60s. Most of the hosts were anodyne, cheerful dopes like Officer Joe Bolton. But Soupy Sales, who has passed away at age 83, was different. He was hard-working and rubb ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2009
This Week's Voice: 50 Cent's The 50th Law, Brad Paisley, Bob Dylan, Where the Wild Things Are, the Andy Williams Memoir, and More
Who moved my cheese? Illustration by Shane Harrison.In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla reads 50 Cent's surreally insightful self-help book, The 50th Law: "This book is actually kind of sad, in the bleakness of its cutthroat, shoot-nine-times-or-be-shot-nine-times worldview. Trust no o ... More >>
Film
September 22, 2009
The New Fame: Sanitized Moppets Sing the Body Generic
A drag-queen-less field trip to Lucky Cheng's
Blogs
September 1, 2009
Bloomberg's New Swine Flu Plan: "Flu Centers," Sesame Street
We might call this "David Rosen gets action": Mayor Bloomberg has outlined the city's new plans to meet the swine flu threat. Along with free vaccinations for grade school students, the city will turn some of its medical clinics into "flu centers" at which citizens may obtain information and ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 11, 2009
FINE 'TOONING
See Michael Kupperman's latest works in 3-D
Blogs
June 12, 2009
50 Cent to Elmo: "I Saved Your Life!"
This is a Jimmy Kimmel Live clip of 50 Cent dousing Sesame Street's Elmo with Vitamin Water after celebrity chef Adam Perry had shaved the furry red creature and began barbecuing him. Nobody promotes new albums like 50 Cent, whose War Angel mixtape--the cover of which seems to borrow both the apoc ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2009
Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG with Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Oscar the Grouch
Pete Seeger only turns 90 once, so why not have a big party? True to the folk singer's activist legacy, this packed Madison Square Garden celebration was a fundraiser for the Clearwater sloop and sailboat-centered foundation that Seeger built in 1969 to raise awareness about a then-near-dead Hudso ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 22, 2009
FREE LOVE
A rare screening of Jim Henson's hippie doc
Voice Choices
November 12, 2008
BLOW-BY-BLOW
Pre-Thanksgiving never looked so inflated
Blogs
November 11, 2008
YouTube Slowly Turning to ProTube
Pre-Thanksgiving never looked so inflated
Screens
April 8, 2008
New House of the Dead: Undead on Arrival
Returning for the Wii, stiff as ever
Screens
March 11, 2008
Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Fuzzy Fights
The combat’s cuddly in the new Smash
Theater
September 4, 2007
Silent But Deadly
Would you like some mime with your cannibalism?
Blogs
August 21, 2007
Things I Learned Watching High School Musical 2
Would you like some mime with your cannibalism?
Blogs
January 9, 2007
Live: High School Musical Runs the World
Would you like some mime with your cannibalism?
Film
February 1, 2005
Film
Would you like some mime with your cannibalism?
Music
October 14, 2003
Microscopic Paw Prints
Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues
Long Island Voice
August 31, 1999
Schmoozing with the Original Sweater
Kids' TV star skidoos onto Yoshimi's planet, leaves clues
News
July 14, 1998
Rats!
That Corporate Rodent Descends Upon Central Park Again
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