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After Boston Bombing, Rightbloggers Turn on Immigration (Mexican or Whatever)

There's a bill working its way through Congress that would offer a "path to citizenship" to the sort of immigrants currently known in some circles as illegal. Though its application is general, it's obviously aimed at U.S. guests of the Mexican persuasion, and it only has a chance of passing because ... More >>

The Evolution of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

When I was a kid in Minneapolis, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was a sight to be savored. My friends and I would see it only once or twice a year, in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 'burbs, or idling in front of a department store like Dayton's or Donaldson's downtown. Then we'd come runn ... More >>

Q&A: Scarcity Of Tanks' Matthew Wascovich On Not Being A Poet, Cleveland Punk, SST Records, And Releasing Two New Albums On The Same Day

Bottomless songwriting pit machinist Bob Pollard has some friendly in-state competition from fellow Ohio native and Scarcity Of Tanks guru Matthew Wascovich. The Clevo skater/sporto/wordsmith/punk dude—the lone constant in SOT's revolving universe of all-star avant-rock beasts—is touting ... More >>

The Amish Sell Exotic Animals, Are Even More Badass Than You Thought

Alligators! Elk! Kangaroos and kinkajous! Parrots! Poison-arrow frogs! And an "irate African aardvark"! It sounds like an exotic bazaar in some faraway land but it's actually an auction in Amish country, explored in this delightful piece in The Daily. Here at Runnin' Scared we stay up on Amish news, ... More >>

Live: Guided By Voices Reconfigure Time And Space

Guided By Voices w/Wavves, Surfer Blood McCarren Park Saturday, June 18, 2011 Better than: Just hearing the show without seeing it, which is what everyone who lives on my street got to do anyway. It's long been gospel that you can't tell Robert Pollard anything. Attempts by well-meaning biz type ... More >>

New York Is America's Top City for Bedbugs

​According to a survey released by the pest-control people at Terminix, New York is again the number one city for bedbugs in the US of A. Congrats, all. This summer keeps being touted as the "summer of bedbugs," and it's great to know that we're succeeding on that front. Truthfully, it's horri ... More >>

March Madness Day 2: Obama Makes His Picks, Biden's Bookie Won't Accept His

via ESPN​ESPN released Barack Obama's March Madness bracket today, along with a video of the president making his picks. Depending on your political leanings, you think this is either a lighthearted exercise showing the president is a normal guy, or a potentially catastrophic waste of time whi ... More >>

James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced

opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tears​It's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>

Liza Insight From Singer Jim Caruso

​Jim Caruso hosts Cast Party, the long-running Monday night entertainment free-for-all at Birdland, but he's even better known for performing with the lusty legend known as Liza Minnelli. In honor of Jim's swinging new CD The Swing Set, I asked him some probing show biz questions. Me: Hi, Ji ... More >>

The Out-Of-Towners: Neil Simon Just Doesn't Get New York

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 4, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 23 Film: The Out-Of-Towners By Molly Haskell On the assumption that no situation is so grim that a few laughs can't be wrung out of it (look at Feiffer and Buchwald on Nixon), Neil Simon ought to have been ab ... More >>

NYC Is the Most Bedbug-Ridden Place in the USA!

​As Rosie mentioned last week, maybe it's time to accept the bedbugs as our overlords. Personal anecdote: This very blogger walked down 2nd Street on Sunday and saw no less than 6 mattresses waiting in the rain for garbage collectors. Since it's neither the last nor the very first of the month ... More >>

Our Town, 45365

Midwestern life intimately observed

2009, The Year of the Snuggie: A Handy Timeline From "The WTF Blanket" to Weezer's Wuggies

The people behind the Snuggie know they are bugging the crap out of you, and it's working out pretty well for them. The cultural impact of the sleeved blanket, largely due to those unbelievably campy commercials by Allstar Marketing Group, might've exceeded that of any other "As seen on TV" produc ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: 6 Hot Excerpts from Sarah Palin's Going Rogue!

​It's the hottest of hot news -- Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue: An American Life and the accompanying tour. There've been some teasers, but our contacts in the publishing industry have leaked us six choice excerpts, which we reproduce for you here: 1. On accepting the Vice-Presidential nomin ... More >>

Hugs and Kisses 53: The Breeders

The Breeders are Still Sentient

More divine hammers and Mexican ballads from the Deal sisters

Richard Dupont's Naked Launch

Talking with an artist who turns his body scan into sculpture

Last Meal: Shane Coffey Loves Old Fries

Shane Coffey's Last Meal

. . . requires a time machine

Reader: When the 'Voice' Knew How to Stay in Trouble

Thursday 7/27

Things I Learned Watching Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Chappelle's Show

Comedian's Bed-Stuy bash serves up local flavor and a homestyle, utopian vibe

Alito Is In. Roe Is . . . ?

Pimpin' Ain't Easy

The legend of a seminal, misunderstood figure in the adult industry

Making Monkeys of Us

Mystical as it may seem, recent wins have Bush riding tall in the saddle again

Miller's Crossing

Rust belt blues: In this brashly ambitious debut, the earnest Midwest reveals its dark side

Letters

Tonight! One of the World's Craziest Videos!

State of Siege

A Sensitive Subject

Incognito

Letters

Listings

Fall Dance

Choreography That Interprets Feminism From Behind the Lens

Sports

Two-Bedroom Apartment in New Building

Ten Years After

Sarajevo Lost and Found

Two Connected Studios in High-Rise

Renovated Studio in Former Warehouse

An Officer and a Gentlewoman

Ladies Who Punch

Give the Gift of UniMoth

Rebirth of a Nation

Peace and Resistance

Moving Targets

Choreographers Stride to Hit the Mark

Lo-Fi Dead in O-hi-o?

Recordings

Respect Due

'Barbwire

Postcards from the edge of NASCAR's infield

Citizen Corgan