David Letterman

Who's Saving the Yankees' Season While All Their Old Men Are Out? An Old Man, Naturally

Nice quip from David Letterman last night: "Martha Stewart says she wants to meet a rich man between the age of 50 and 70. Why doesn't she just date a New York Yankee?" Indeed. And the subs that the Yankees have brought in to get them through a period of recovery from injuries are as old as the gu ... More >>

Bitter Homes and Gardens: 'Better Homes' at SculptureCenter

Count All the Hilarious Ways Bernard Goldberg Contradicts Himself in Just One O'Reilly Factor Segment

Yesterday, rather than discuss the Supreme Court hearing that demonstrates just how out of touch conservatives are from the rest of America, the gang at Bill O'Reilly's Retirement-Home Fist-Shaking Hour took up the news that mattered most to their audience: the hurt feelings of denim enthusiast and ... More >>

KISS and Morrissey: Together At Last

Last night I saw KISS and Morrissey perform live back to back shows. I came out the other side a changed man. A man who, because he'd just seen KISS and Morrissey back to back, questioned whether or not he even was one. I don't know anything anymore. Except this: I wanna Rock 'n' Roll all night, and ... More >>

Martha Stewart Moves Content to Hulu

Good news for Martha fans: Three Martha Stewart Living shows launched on Hulu and Hulu Plus yesterday, and more episodes will become available every Monday. Once "From Martha's Kitchen," "Emeril's Table," and "DIY Crafts" wrap up, Hulu will begin to unveil more stuff from the archive (over 15,000 ... More >>

With Business/Birther Quips, Romney Flip-Flops With Humor

A week or so back, fellow Voice scribe James King argued that Vice President Joe Biden brings nothing to the Democratic ticket except awkward gaffes and constant smacks to the head by the DNC. This came off the news that Biden told a crowd of mostly African-American citizens that Romney's polic ... More >>

Olympic Soup -- London Style

My favorite Olympic quote so far came this morning from Allen St. John at Salon: "Over the first weekend, I've watched equestrian, dressage, women's table tennis, women's fencing, archery, bicycle racing, volleyball, team hand ball, and men's water polo. It's like Wide World of Sports on steroids. ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Has Eleven Homes, We Can Still Barely Pay Rent

A few months back, Runnin' Scared covered what seems to be the biggest conundrum of the Big Apple: the fact that rents are higher than ever (averaging a solid $3,418 a month) yet no one is leaving the island. Actually, recent years have shown a huge increase in Manhattan newcomers, raising the ... More >>

Live: Paul Shaffer And Others Pay Tribute To Gil Evans At Highline Ballroom

Gil Evans Centennial Celebration Highline Ballroom Monday, May 21 Better than: Never witnessing a world-class band in action. I'm actually fortunate enough to have caught the Gil Evans Orchestra in the '80s, before it became a ghost band. Back then, when the slew of clubs lining Seventh Avenue Sou ... More >>

Giants Fans Like Bill Murray Are Classier Than Patriots Fans

It goes without saying that New York baseball fans are classier than those of New England -- we see evidence of that every time the Yankees and Red Sox play, whether in New York or Boston. As the Super Bowl approaches, it should be just as obvious that New York football fans are classier than their ... More >>

Five Geeky Prince Questions For Meshell Ndegeocello

​ The Topic Prince: pop titan, funk master, scary multi-instrumentalist ("You've got to learn your part," New Power Generation bassist Levi Seacer Jr. told Spin in 1991; "Prince can always come over and play your part"), master songwriter, greatest pop star of the '80s, unending inspiration to ... More >>

Special Report: Jay Leno has always destroyed what he wants in the process of acquiring it

​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. If Roast Beef Could Fly and Leading With My Chin Date: 2004; 1996 Publisher: ... More >>

Adele Tops The Billboard Charts, Actually Sells Some Records

​Finally, a Billboard #1 we can back wholeheartedly: Congrats to Adele, the Brit soul-singer non-diva of whom we are quite fond, for selling a whopping 352,000 copies of her excellent new 21, the best-selling chart-topper since ye olde My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy back in November. This o ... More >>

Food Blogger Cries 'Foodie Fatigue,' but Has No Discernible Plans to Stop Blogging

Apparel of the damned.​On this verrry slow news week traditionally reserved for a final onslaught of year-end round-ups/pronouncements, The Chicago Tribune's Christopher Borrelli has bestowed upon the Interweb "a plea for calm." Borrelli, a general assignments reporter writes about food and bl ... More >>

Don Van Vliet, a/k/a Captain Beefheart, RIP

​Terrible news: Don Van Vliet, the stupendous avant-garde bluesman, surrealist painter, and world-class eccentric, has died, as confirmed to multiple outlets by a rep from the Michael Werner Gallery, which often showed his work. He would've turned 70 in January. The engine behind unclassifiabl ... More >>

Joaquin Phoenix Goes a Very Long Way to Prove a Very Minor Point in I'm Still Here

Harvey Pekar, R.I.P.

​Let's just say that the Perpetual Misery of Cleveland has been in the news again lately, and acknowledge that no one was better at a) articulating it and b) rising above it than Harvey Pekar.

James Hyde, Richard Hughes, and the Artists of 'Homunculi' Are the Buoys of Summer

New York's neighborhood galleries battle the museum malaise

The Sarah Palin Family Memorial Day Movie Marathon, Courtesy of Joe McGinniss

​When writing a book on something, or more importantly someone, an intimate knowledge of the subject matter is a basic necessity. For Joe McGinniss, who's working on his Sarah Palin's Year of Living Dangerously due in the fall of 2011, proximity seemed key, too, so he moved in next door the fo ... More >>

Welcome Back, Courtney Love

The return of 'Hole' whether you like it or not, you little suck shits

Sarah Palin's Expected Facebook Response to Family Guy Guest-Stars Bristol Palin

Keeping to her program, Fix commentator Sarah Palin used Facebook again today to complain of a joke on the Fox cartoon Family Guy, in which son Chris dates a well-spoken but fussy young woman with Down Syndrome who reveals her mother to be "the former governor of Alaska." For variety, Palin enli ... More >>

Pat Kiernan, the NY1 Anchor, on His (Late) Local Bar, Most Adventurous Meal in the City & the Biggest Food Story of 2009

Pat Kiernan brings you the news, but what can you bring Pat Kiernan? A Gray's Papaya hot dog might win you some points.​We wake up with him each morning, and rely on him to tell us what's happening in our city (both "In the Papers" and on PatsPapers.com). But how much do we really know about P ... More >>

5 Things Conan O'Brien Can Do Besides Fight/Accept the Jay Leno Putsch

​The Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien thing is all over the place, with Leno being invited to move his underwatched show from 10 to 11 p.m. and Tonight Show host O'Brien, facing a later start and feeling the squeeze, reportedly in talks with Fox. Should O'Brien jump ship? Or sit tight, and pick up whate ... More >>

Jockbeat: Jets Defense Can Get Them to Super Bowl -- If Sanchez Can Keep Up

​"They played well," Cincinnati receiver (and ace David Letterman guest) Chad Ochocinco told the Washington Post after the Jets 38-0 season-ending win over his team on Sunday, January 3. "My fear coming into today's game was not the individuals I had to play against. It was Rex. He's a defens ... More >>

Find cheap seats to the Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers

Was Ambien Tiger Woods' Sex Drug, or His Alibi?

​Well, you've heard it all about Tiger Woods by now: the growing number of alleged romantic conquests, the Ambien sex -- Wait what? "Uchitel told friends that she and Tiger liked to have sex while taking the drug Ambien. Uchitel told one pal, 'You know you have crazier sex on Ambien, you get ... More >>

Major Obama Birther Suit Thrown Out

​Top birther Orly Taitz has had her request to remove President Obama from office because he's from Kenya denied. Dave Weigel provides the decision. It is full of lovely passages in which we may imagine U.S. District Judge David Carter using the studiously patient tone with which David Letterm ... More >>

Conservative Comedy Hour: Rapists Are Like Democrats

Think conservatives aren't funny? Pajamas TV star Andrew Klavan is here to prove you wrong. Klavan starts by saying he will "set aside the usual mirthful merry-making," but you can tell by the twinkle in his eye it's a set-up. Sure enough, he describes his "sexual relations with David Letterman's ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Twitpic by Mom101. Mayor Bloomberg asked Obama for antiterrorism money. Yet his NYPD minions busted a Staten Island citizen for keeping guns 'n' ammo in his kid's bedroom, so how serious can Bloomberg be about fighting terrorists where it counts? No matter, Marty Markowitz backed him anyway ... More >>

Palin to Resign Governorship of Alaska, Expected to Focus on Complaining

Today Sarah Palin announced that she would not seek a second term as Governor of Alaska -- in fact, she will resign her position and step down at the end of the month. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnel will then be sworn in as Governor. The 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential candidate didn't take questions; loca ... More >>

Leaked: Travelin' Governor Sanford's Press Conference Remarks

The Village Voice has obtained an advance copy of the remarks that recently-missing South Carolina governor Mark Sanford will make at today's 2 p.m. press conference. Good afternoon. Or, should I say, ¡buenas tardes! As you all know, there has been a bit of confusion about my whereabouts sin ... 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 >>

Rock-Critic One-Liner Hall of Fame: "Never Forget the Atrocities of 311"

Congratulations to Rhapsody's Mike McGuirk. Let it be known though that a remarkably animated David Letterman doesn't seem to share Mike's opinion.

Interview: NY1 Morning Anchor Pat Kiernan

The new Rick Astley Like most folks, we're fans of NY1 morning anchor Pat Kiernan, whom we named "Best New York Canadian" a few years back. Pat's daily "In the Papers" segment is a pleasing ritual, as is his bantering relationship with reporter Roger Clark, ever-affable as he checks in from odd loc ... More >>

A Plea For Hugh Jackman To Put His Oscars Tuxedo To Good Use

M.I.A. and the Double Standard of MTV Censorship

Learning to Fly Solo

Canadian rock stars alternately please crowd, themselves

School Daze

Slackjawed sketch comedy adaptation struggles on the big screen

Lecture Hall

A speech series from Toronto tries its best to make New Yorkers smart

Magical Mediocrity Tour

Can you imagine—the whole country wired to Terry Gross's bourgeois ass?

Cream on Me

Fun With China

In Media Merriment, Fine Line Between Humor and Hate

Backdoor Man

His Own Kind of Guilt

Worldwide Dance

BattleBot Galactica

The Summer of Love

The Women's Soccer Team Swept the U.S. Public Off Its Feet. What Happens Now That the Affair Is Over?

American Pie in the Sky

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