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Cooper Union: Secret Transcript of Board of Trustee Meeting Reveals Talk of Shut Down

At night, you can see it clearly--the corner windows of the Cooper Union's seventh floor, flooded in red light. It's a signal from the students who have been occupying the president's office for two weeks. They're there because they've lost faith in university leadership that voted to start charging ... More >>

A Cooper Union Student, the Chair of Trustees, and Felix Salmon Walked Into a Debate

ICYMI: After Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha met students for a surprise discussion in his office earlier this week, on Wednesday morning Democracy Now! hosted a rare, moderated forum with Victoria Sobel, a Cooper Union student organizer, Mark Epstein, the chair of trustees, and Felix Salmon ... More >>

Here's the Guy Who Set Fire to 15 Cars on September 11

NYPD is asking for help to find an arsonist responsible for setting fire to 15 separate cars in Upper Manhattan on the morning of September 11. The first vehicle burned was a 2004 Chrysler Minivan at around 1:45 a.m. on West 151 Street. From there, he went on a spree that lasted at least five hour ... More >>

The Good, the Bad and the Bromance: Clint Eastwood Endorses Mitt Romney

This is the best Presidential endorsement by a famous old guy since Jon Voight (who now supports Romney as well) told reporters in 2008 that Rudy Giuliani's "commitment to keeping our military strong and his track record of transforming New Yorkers makes him the right man at the right time for ... More >>

The Slow, Sad Crumbling of Urban America in Sometimes Cities

Happy Manhattanhenge! Tonight's Sunset Will Align With Manhattan's Street Grid

Happy Manhattanhenge! So what the hell is Manhattanhenge, you might ask? On May 29 and July 12 every year, the sunset lines up with Manhattan's street grid which, as the Hayden Planetarium puts it, simultaneously illuminates "both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough."

Greg Dulli Finds Religion

The Twilight Singers' Dynamite Steps plumbs new depths of dark spirituality

Top 10 Super Bowl 2012 Halftime-Show Possibilities

Let's all do our best to keep this from happening​So another enjoyable terrible Super Bowl Halftime Show is in the books, and as we wash "I Gotta Feeling" out of our eyes and ears for the thousandth time, the question becomes: Who will grace the stage in 2012? How old will their most famous al ... More >>

The 25 Sexiest Things We Are Thinking About RIGHT NOW!

Everyday things can be sexy, too!​By God, today is full of sexy! There's People's annual "Sexiest Man Alive" countdown, of course. And Salon's "Men on Top" answer to it. Not to mention the pretending-to-be-less-shallow Daily Beast offering, "Sexiest Man Alive (On the Inside)." You know who's s ... More >>

The Cremaster Cycle at IFC

Matthew Barney exposes his films again

Off-duty Cop Who Plowed Into Tiffany's Window Charged with DWI

​Officer Raphael Ospina, 27, of the 25th Precinct in East Harlem has been charged with DWI and vehicular assault after his Chrysler 300 bounced off a garbage truck on 57th Street, took out a street tree and a garbage can, and careened into the front of Tiffany's at 3am Saturday morning.

Clip Job: When a Newspaper Dies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 28 Mr. Hearst's Flagship Sank Like the Maine By Stan Fischler The Journal-American died with its boots on last Sunday morning at the age of 71. When the boots were removed there was a stench. "Nat Hento ... More >>

The Blogroll Gazette: The Many (Possible) Faces of Sam Sifton; Is Momo Midtown On Its Way?

This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily imagined what sort of disguises Sam Sifton might use to hide his already public identity, including a retro Batman mask, Gael Greene-style hat, and Donald Trump wig. Midtown Lunch got excited at the prospect of a MomoMidtown... or is it MidtownFuku? Rumor ha ... More >>

Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney Talk Truck Farming

One of the attractions at yesterday's Good Beer at BAM could be found parked on the street outside of the event itself. Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis' Truck Farm, a 1986 Dodge pick-up with delicate rows of greens sprouting in its bed, attracted plenty of stares from passersby, along with more than a f ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

On Third Avenue. Albany went coup-coup! Pedro Espada Jr. seized the state senate with the help of Hiram Monserrate and billionaire Tom Golisano. After some skirmishes, which saw Tom Duane appearing to lean GOP to save gay marriage, the Dems locked the chamber, but Espada got the key and the GOP w ... More >>

Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Chrysler Sale; Judge Clears End of 789 Dealership Contracts

There was some concern for the Chrysler deal when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg granted a stay to Indiana state pension funds and others seeking to block the sale, previously cleared by a bankruptcy judge, of the collapsed car company's assets to Fiat, the Italian carmaker whose involve ... More >>

Drug Czar Ends Drug War, But Casualties Continue to Mount

This has been a crap couple of days for the U.S. economy. As The Smart Asset details, California is selling off assets to avoid total collapse. Congress is watering down the credit card bill, removing the 15 percent cap on rates. Chrysler is closing hundreds of dealerships, and last month wholesale ... More >>

Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama b ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Swine is the word! It started out as a mere public health emergency. Some kids got sick in Queens and they closed their school. Then it went viral, so to speak, becoming the new thing everyone's enemies caused. Another Queens school closed. A kid died in Texas. Two Brooklyn schools closed. The Isr ... More >>

Chrysler Goes Bankrupt?*

(* Question mark added for plausible deniability.) They've been talking about it for a while, and today Chrysler is expected to announce it's filing for Chapter 11. The company had been trying to work out a deal with its lenders, but they won't take the necessary losses of their own volition, so ban ... More >>

Obama: Yep, Chrysler's Bankrupt, Will Partner with Fiat

The President just gave a statement in which he announced that Chrysler is bankrupt, but insisted that it will emerge stronger from the bankruptcy reorganization. He thanked the many "stakeholders" of the car company, including creditors and employees, who had "made sacrifices" to help put Chrysler' ... More >>

A Guide to the Voice Blogs

While we cherish the attendance of our dozens of readers as well as the helpful advice of our commenters (e.g., "Get your facts straight," "MORE MSM LIES"), we feel obliged to remind you that ours is not the only blog under the Voice umbrella, and suggest you check out our colleagues, who are at lea ... More >>

Crappy Car Company Performance Boosts Market

Well, Obama's "30 Days to Chapter 11" auto company plan is going as expected. Chrysler is preparing to go bankrupt. GM is going to "stall out" 13 assembly lines in North America. And as Ward Harkavy puts it at The Smart Asset, "Ford loses $1.4 billion, and investors are... happy!" Yes, the company ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Obama told Chrysler and GM to get their shit straight or go bankrupt. The new head of GM said that was okay with him. (Aren't they supposed to whine and resign in the Times?) This of course made Obama a fascist. Rightbloggers were also mad when Obama went to Europe and wasn't nice enough to the Qu ... More >>

Obama: Car Companies Get 30 Days; Better Plans or Bankruptcy

The Obama Administration rejected the General Motors and Chrysler plans and GM CEO Rick Wagoner resigned at the President's request. The President just announced the next steps. Wagoner's ouster, he said, is not a "condemnation" but "a recognition that it will take a new vision and new direction to ... More >>

Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

Where's the news? Obama's whitehouse.gov is transparent -- but not in a good way.

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

On track: Barack Obama's conjunction junction

Can't get enough of Obama's January 17 train ride. Here it is again. Even before today's inauguration, Barack Obama's whistle-stop trip to D.C. brought the best of two worlds to America. Besides being just a really cool thing to do — complete with speeches by the mellifluous new president t ... More >>

Ricardo Montalban, 1920-2009

Ricardo Montalban, who died today at his Los Angeles home, started out as a sort of ethnic utility man in Hollywood, playing not only a variety of South and Central American characters but also Asians and Native Americans. (He is shown here receiving an award in 1993 from Anthony Quinn, who knew ho ... More >>

Bush Bails Out GM, Chrysler

Fellow Arabs honor journalist's feat

Obama's truth-or-dare press conference on Blagojevich

GOP to Motor City: Drop Dead (Updated)

Lemon aid: Please bail out Edsel!

Clip Job: If I Were Krushchev

Daily Flog: For the recession, some remedial English lessons

Daily Flog: Saudia Arabia bails out homeowners while we still haven't

Daily Flog: Powell confined to Barack's; oil prices, Red Sox, confidence in economy all fall

Flash of Genius Unbearably Dull

Dipset's Parole Model

The Harlem crew's president and cred-enhancer is once again free to fly high

Through a Glass Darkly

Smug penguins and bitchy snowflakes: An opinionated tour of the season's department store windows

In Living Color

Tashlin's eye-popping '50s artifacts pile on gags like live-action Looney Tunes

For Aussie Garage-Pop Tarts, Life Begins at 30

Veteran Town

The stars of Bush's inauguration have scars

NY Mirror

The Towers Tomorrow

A City of Spires Searches for Its Next Skyline

Cruising Altitude

A Visionary Inventor Takes the High Road— and Builds a Car That Flies

If Walls Could Talk

A restored tenement offers a window on city history

Pundit-cide

Twenty-five Reasons To Develop an Edifice Complex