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May 23, 2012
New York Holds Demonstration In Solidarity With Montreal's Student Strike
Yesterday marked the hundredth day of Quebec student's strike, the fourth day since the Quebec government passed an oppressive law intended to break the strike, and, as hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets in defiance of the law, possibly the single largest act of civil disobedience in ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Demonstrators Protest AIDS Inaction, Student Debt and Tuition Hikes
May Day isn't even here yet, and it's already becoming clear that a season of protest and politics in the street is upon us. Yesterday morning saw a substantial demonstration by ACT UP!, other AIDS activists, and Occupiers, marching from City Hall into the Financial District to call for a financial ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
The New York Public Library's Maps Project is a Time Machine for Your Neighborhood
While public library systems across the country flounder in the face of declining tax revenue and dwindling readership, the New York Public Library is somehow managing to survive. Rather than run away from digitization, NYPL has embraced it, and has recently produced a series of projects which are h ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
Q&A: Kyle Kessler On Aliases, Pop Marketing Conspiracies, And Being Visited By Demons While Performing
via WFMUThe word "grinding" means different things to different people. For video-game enthusiasts, it represents the expository dead stretches where no action is happening. In drug-dealing culture, it signifies a never-ending hustle. In youth club culture, it's the dance style formerly known ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
Dog or Girl? Padma Lakshmi Stars in Eels Video
Padma Lakshmi has enjoyed one of the more unusual food-themed careers, ascending from a couple of lackluster shows on the Food Network and a rather mediocre cookbook to being the doyenne of Top Chef - and the hatchet-woman, too, whose icy words and placid demeanor often spell disaster for the cont ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
What's Happening This Week: Foodie Storytelling, West Village Tasting
Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food The Great Hall at Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 13 The Moth's monthly StorySLAM goes foodie this time around with an evening of gastro- ... More >>
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July 2, 2011
Captain Arrested by Greek Authorities as U.S. Boat to Gaza Attempts to Leave Athens
The journey of The Audacity of Hope, the U.S. boat which was going to join an international flotilla attempting to break the blockade of Gaza this weekend, appears to have been very short lived. Not long after attempting to launch from Athens, the Hope's captain has been arrested by Greek authoriti ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2011
New York to Gaza: Controversial Aid Flotilla Will Try Again After Last Year's Deadly Result
I covered a boat cruise around Manhattan last summer that raised money for the Audacity Of Hope — not Barack Obama's book, but the blockade-breaking aid ship for Gaza's Palestinians determined to actually land without the deadly violence surrounding the May 31, 2010, attempt by the "Gaza Free ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
East Village to Get Another Ugly Building, at Astor Place
via CurbedThe Wall Street Journal reports today that 51 Astor Place, the site of Cooper Union's old engineering building, is once again in the works as the site of developer Edward Minskoff's fancy-shmancy new Fumihiko Maki-designed "13-story ribbed granite-and-glass office building," which h ... More >>
Film
December 1, 2010
Night Catches Us Takes a Brutally Honest Look at Black Power
via CurbedThe Wall Street Journal reports today that 51 Astor Place, the site of Cooper Union's old engineering building, is once again in the works as the site of developer Edward Minskoff's fancy-shmancy new Fumihiko Maki-designed "13-story ribbed granite-and-glass office building," which h ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
UN Report: Israeli Raid on Gaza-Bound Boat Included Execution-Style Slayings, One of an American Citizen
An investigative report from the Human Rights Council of the United Nations has concluded that when the Israeli military boarded the Mavi Marmara last year and killed nine people, "at least six of the killings can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions." The most c ... More >>
Art
July 27, 2010
A Cooper Union Student Lost an Eye Protesting in Israel—But None of Her Vision
An investigative report from the Human Rights Council of the United Nations has concluded that when the Israeli military boarded the Mavi Marmara last year and killed nine people, "at least six of the killings can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions." The most c ... More >>
News
July 27, 2010
Class Action Listings
An investigative report from the Human Rights Council of the United Nations has concluded that when the Israeli military boarded the Mavi Marmara last year and killed nine people, "at least six of the killings can be characterized as extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions." The most c ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2010
Yelp's 10 Quirkiest New York Review Topics
Most people know Yelp, the user-generated review website of mass proportions, for their infinite reports on restaurants, bars, shopping, and service centers. But if you scamper on over to the "Local Flavor" section, you'll find examinations of all kinds of New York stuff you never knew was ac ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Mike Bloomberg's Off-Shore Tax Dodge Should Be Exhibit One in Obama's Cooper Union Speech
The last time Barack Obama visited the Voice's neighborhood he and Mike Bloomberg were arms-around pals. That was March, 2008 and at the Great Hall at Cooper Union the then-candidate was talking about the need for new rules for the road for Wall Street and ways to block tax dodging by the big ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Coldplay Now Just Two Members Away From East Village Dominance
Hilarious, soulful image via Cityfile In news that will make at least one-third of this blog really, really happy, Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman is moving in just down the block from the Voice offices, into a 2,681-square-foot apartment at 79 East 2nd Street, for which the incredibly wealthy mu ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 24, 2009
BUILT TO LAST
Artist Daniel Arsham takes his cutting-edge work downtown
Blogs
June 23, 2009
Protesters Warm Up Before Rent Guidelines Meeting at Cooper Union
As we said earlier, there's a Rent Guidelines Board meeting tonight where they're expected to approve our new rent hikes. The only humanizing touch in the whole Soviet-style deal is the protests that took place earlier this evening outside Cooper Union, where the vote is to be held. The 60 or so pr ... More >>
Film
May 20, 2009
Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight Anecdotally Strolls Through Designer's Life
As we said earlier, there's a Rent Guidelines Board meeting tonight where they're expected to approve our new rent hikes. The only humanizing touch in the whole Soviet-style deal is the protests that took place earlier this evening outside Cooper Union, where the vote is to be held. The 60 or so pr ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2009
Bones' Beat: Saying Goodbye to Guild & Greyshkul with On From Here
This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, bids the Guild & Greyshkul gallery farewell with one last valedictory fling. While they did it, they did it rather well... Jamie Isenstein's 2006 sculpture Intermission, a portable brass easel with a white-on-black handmade sign bearing the work's ti ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2009
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 >>
Columns
December 10, 2008
Good-Enough Gifts For These Recessionary Times
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 >>
Columns
October 15, 2008
Soup and Homicidal Nuts: Recalling a Cheaper, Scarier Village
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 >>
Blogs
July 31, 2008
Hyper-Local News from Cooper Square!
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 >>
Art
May 13, 2008
New York Schooled: Spring Art-School Exhibitions
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 >>
Blogs
March 27, 2008
Barack Obama: Economic Wonkster, Not Rock-Star
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 >>
News
June 20, 2006
Letters
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 >>
News
April 25, 2006
Spire Education
Cooper Union's Towering Tax Break
Art
April 4, 2006
Education Listings
Cooper Union's Towering Tax Break
News
March 8, 2005
Nobel-Winning Wangari Maathai on Democracy
Amid frenzied talk of freedom, a seasoned voice from Africa
News
December 7, 2004
'You Can Never Not Fight Back!'
A conversation with Larry Kramer about the current state of gay activism
NYC Life
August 17, 2004
Daddy Starbucks
Toasting Kerry on Astor Place
Art
July 27, 2004
Education
Toasting Kerry on Astor Place
NYC Life
March 30, 2004
Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Downtown Sensorial Celebration
Toasting Kerry on Astor Place
NYC Life
March 23, 2004
Burning Bush
Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay
Art
December 23, 2003
Poor Memorial
Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero
Art
December 9, 2003
Art
Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero
Art
August 26, 2003
Pizza Orientation
The Best Slice Near Your School
News
August 20, 2002
The Real Curriculum
The Best Slice Near Your School
News
June 4, 2002
Green Meanie
Bloomberg's Budget Deals Deathblow to Struggling Parks
Art
January 15, 2002
Education
Bloomberg's Budget Deals Deathblow to Struggling Parks
NYC Life
March 6, 2001
Testing, Testing
Bloomberg's Budget Deals Deathblow to Struggling Parks
Books
January 2, 2001
Pretty Persuasion
Going for the Girl Market
News
June 20, 2000
Rumble at the Rent Board
Annual Ritual Gets Rougher Than Usual
Columns
March 14, 2000
NY Mirror
Annual Ritual Gets Rougher Than Usual
Film
August 10, 1999
Palace Walks
On the Road With the Theatre Historical Society
News
January 5, 1999
Losing the Body
What happens when you separate the dancer from the dance?
News
November 24, 1998
Crashing the Messengers
When the dirtiest part of child porn is politics
News
September 29, 1998
Day Without Color
When the dirtiest part of child porn is politics
News
June 23, 1998
100 Years of Hell-Raising
The Hidden History of Asian American Activism in New York City
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