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Damon Runyon

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    March 26, 2012

    RIP: Bert Sugar. Iconic Boxing Journalist Dead At 74

    ​The first feature I wrote for the Village Voice when I came to New York was a profile of Bert Randolph Sugar. It appeared in the May 3, 1983 issue. When it was published, I got a note from Sugar: "Not bad, but you violated one of the cardinal rules of journalism - you buried your lead. You didn' ... More >>

  • Film

    June 22, 2011

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recalls Past Lives; Car 54 Answers the Call

    ​The first feature I wrote for the Village Voice when I came to New York was a profile of Bert Randolph Sugar. It appeared in the May 3, 1983 issue. When it was published, I got a note from Sugar: "Not bad, but you violated one of the cardinal rules of journalism - you buried your lead. You didn' ... More >>

  • Theater

    April 27, 2011

    Born Yesterday Born All Over Again

    Nina Arianda claims Garson Kanin's classic comedy as her own

  • Film

    January 5, 2011

    Go Go Tales A Sweet Strip Tease

    Nina Arianda claims Garson Kanin's classic comedy as her own

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley Predictions, and Why Mixed Martials Arts Hasn't Finished Off Boxing

    ​In 1982, I wrote my first story for the Voice, a profile of Bert Randolph Sugar, then editor of Ring Magazine. The piece was hooked to the Larry Holmes-Gerry Cooney heavyweight championship fight, still one of the biggest-grossing bouts in boxing history. Twenty-eight years later, Sugar is ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2010

    The Lemon Drop Kid

    ​In 1982, I wrote my first story for the Voice, a profile of Bert Randolph Sugar, then editor of Ring Magazine. The piece was hooked to the Larry Holmes-Gerry Cooney heavyweight championship fight, still one of the biggest-grossing bouts in boxing history. Twenty-eight years later, Sugar is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Crazy Yankee Chick: A Quick Note on How To Work Around Yankee Stadium Ticket Prices

    ​There are more NHL fans in Saudi Arabia than there are people in NYC who can afford Yankee Stadium ticket prices. And it's a shame, because it's really a site to behold. Very..cavernous. Say what you will about the site lines, but the place is a monument to magnificence. And this is coming ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Clip Job: The Changing World of Bill Manville

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 1, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 2The Changing World of Bill ManvilleBy John WilcockIt's been much too long since Bill Manville, creator of "Saloon Society," last appeared in these pages, but he hasn't been drinking his life away -- at least no m ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 11, 2009

    Guys and Dolls and Distracted Go Media-Heavy; Savannah Disputation Amuses More Modestly

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 1, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 2The Changing World of Bill ManvilleBy John WilcockIt's been much too long since Bill Manville, creator of "Saloon Society," last appeared in these pages, but he hasn't been drinking his life away -- at least no m ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 21, 2009

    OPPOSITES ATTRACT

    The 1950 Tony-winning classic returns

  • Voice Choices

    November 5, 2008

    KNOCK-OUT

    Roy Jones Jr. aims to end Joe Calzaghe's winning streak

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    Great Journalism Lives in Rockaway

    Roy Jones Jr. aims to end Joe Calzaghe's winning streak

  • Books

    March 4, 2008

    Dandy in the Underworld: Super-Plastic Profound

    One man's (possibly true) tale of Scottish gangsters, nice clothes, and a thousand prostitutes

  • Books

    December 18, 2007

    Field of Schemes

    The Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball joins the game's literary classics. But how good is it?

  • Theater

    October 3, 2006

    Sharp Tooth

    Sam Shepard's rock 'n' roll star trip

  • NYC Life

    July 25, 2006

    Life in the Footprint

    Voices of the fading community in the shadow of the Atlantic Yards

  • Film

    May 24, 2005

    Man Shows

    The modern American sportsman, as skate punk, ringside messiah, and prison bitch

  • News

    May 11, 2004

    On the Stem

    A.J. Liebling had an eye for the beauty of a con and an ear for the city's idioms

  • Theater

    August 19, 2003

    Fringe NYC Gets All Het Up

    Organ Harvesting, Leprechauns, Thoreau's Alien Abduction, and the HMS Donkeyballs

  • NYC Life

    September 3, 2002

    Close-Up on Rockaway Park

    Organ Harvesting, Leprechauns, Thoreau's Alien Abduction, and the HMS Donkeyballs

  • Film

    May 23, 2000

    Promised Lands

    Organ Harvesting, Leprechauns, Thoreau's Alien Abduction, and the HMS Donkeyballs

  • News

    January 19, 1999

    This Ain't No Roller Disco

    The Badass New York Enforcers Aim To Keep the Wussy Skaters In-Line

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