Des Moines

Is My Band Playing Too Many Shows?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you s ... More >>

Fall Arts Guide: The Return of the Real

Philip-Lorca diCorcia on turning the ultimate photographic trick

How to Best Spend the Money Our Band Earns? Press Photos? A Video? Gas Money? Recording?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

New Restaurant Reviews: Three Letters Asks 'Parlez-Vous Brooklyn?'; Cata Serves Sublime Paella

This week, our critics were equally charmed by a petite French bistro and a bustling Bowery tapas joint. Robert Sietsema dug into a mussels poutine at Three Letters in Clinton Hill, while Tejal Rao scooped up hearty bites of paella at Cata on the Lower East Side. Will the professionals go back for ... More >>

Dear Fan Landers: Desperately Seeking a Booking Agent and Un-flakey Bandmates

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild and Compliance

​Broken social and economic systems, and the broken lives and homes they leave in their wake, have been a big theme at Sundance this year. Across documentaries and fiction features, broached directly and indirectly, it seems the new American dream is a longing for the old normal; accumulation or a ... More >>

Holy Shit! Mitt Romney Made a Fake Bet!

Last night, the remaining Republican presidential candidates met at Drake University in Des Moines for a debate that lasted almost two hours. What they said doesn't matter, however, as the only thing people will remember is the moment when Mitt Romney asked Rick Perry if he wanted to bet "ten thousa ... More >>

Mitt Romney Hammers Gingrich on Moon Policy, Space Mirrors

Newt's America.​Earlier, we wrote about last night's GOP debate in Des Moines and Mitt Romney's proposed $10,000 bet with Rick Perry over claims that Romney's book was edited to change a portion about health care. This fleeting and insignificant moment overshadowed the real issues that were di ... More >>

Chris Christie Mic-Checked by Occupy Protesters in Des Moines

New Jersey governor Chris Christie was mic-checked by Occupy protesters yesterday at a Des Moines, Iowa. Christie seems relatively unfazed as the protesters chant "Put people first" (we think that's what they're saying, at least).

Reddit Post Turns Into Warner Brothers Script

​Warner Brothers has purchased an alternate history screenplay written by a two-time Jeopardy! champion, which came to their attention when it went viral on the social news site Reddit. (That was the nerdiest lede of all time.) The script, Rome, Sweet Rome, is a product of this thread, which p ... More >>

Watch Patrick Stump Cover Jeff Buckley's "Everybody Here Wants You"

On October 18 Patrick Stump will release his solo debut Soul Punk (Island), a fantastic, hooky pop-soul record, full of choruses that soar into the stratosphere and crystalline lyrics. The Fall Out Boy lead singer plays every instrument on the record, and the album lays bare his appreciation for bot ... More >>

Live: Grand Wizzard Theodore Brings It Back, Fred The Godson No-Shows At Simpson St. Block Party

​ Grand Wizzard Theodore, Illstyle and Peace Productions, Hip-Hop Kung Fu, and more Simpson Street, Casita Maria Saturday, August 6 Better than: Cowboys & Aliens. "Some of you might say I'm preaching to the choir," Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon, a former Zulu Nation member and our master of ... More >>

Do You Ride Horses and Possess The Bravery of a Warrior? The HISTORY Channel Wants You!

Knocking on reality TV is like kicking a kid with crutches, but sometimes that kid with crutches begs to be kicked. Which brings us to another one of those open casting calls out there in the trades, the ones with the shady Gmail address contact info and the thinly veiled condescension for the peopl ... More >>

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

Robert Klein Works a Couple of Jersey High School Proms

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 7, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 23 Class of '73: Save the last dance for anyone but me by Blair Sobol How could i refuse an offer to go to two proms in one week? Especially when one was in Newark and the other was in East Brunswick, New ... 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 >>

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to The Suburbs

Starbucks Lines About to Get Longer; Can Food Psychology Help Kids Eat Better?

​Starbucks is telling its baristas to slow down and focus more on the artistry of making coffee drinks, such as steaming milk for each drink individually instead of by the pitcher, which you can expect to result in longer lines at the counter. [Wall Street Journal] A group of bakers in Krakow ... More >>

How to Use a Bike Lane and Not Be an Utter and Complete Shithead: A Handy Primer

The Village Voice: Not blocking the bike lane.​Oh, bike lanes. They are complex. It's so hard to know, for instance, where they stop and start, and how to actually use them. New Yorkers are accustomed to things being difficult, and maybe these new bike lanes are just so easy that our giant bra ... More >>

New Bill About Illegal Sublets Makes Some People Very Cranky

​Let's say you're going away for a week, or two, or even three, and want to make up some of your vacation money by renting your place to your mom's friend or Uncle Gus, or maybe even putting it up on Craigslist? No dice, at least legally speaking, according to a new bill New York City legislat ... More >>

The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

MURDER, SHE WROTE

No one knows women better than women

The Top 10

Arguing about mellow indie rock, Lady Gaga, and the real grizzly bears

Yes, I 'Actually' Like It

More music to love, loathe, fear, and tragically fail to avoid

New Jersey Still Not Superior to New York, Votes Down Gay Marriage

​The New Jersey Senate voted down gay marriage today, effectively ending any hopes for marriage equality in the Garden State until at least the end of incoming Governor Chris Christie's first term in 2014. The defeat mirrors a similar blow-out in the New York State Senate last month. Both hou ... More >>

Clip Job: Kesey Reappears, Is Busted

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 27, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 2 Kesey Reappears, Is Jailed in California Ken Kesey has been busted. The elusive novelist, who returned from exile in Mexico two weeks ago to remain in the U.S. "as a fugitive and as salt in the woun ... More >>

Largest Pumpkin Bursts Onto the Scene

Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle​ The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, at the yearly pumpkin weigh-in at Half Moon Bay, a 1,658-pound pumpkin won. The behemoth clinched the coveted title of largest recorded pumpkin at Half Moon Bay, which sits in the center of a lush coastal agricultural regi ... More >>

Hilarious Will Ferrell Interview!

A Q&A before he brings Bush to Broadway.

New York Times Takes on David Mamet's "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'"

Daily Flog 8/1/08: Bush aides, Williamsburg hipsters under attack!

Getting Our Reputation Back

People around the world who aren’t our enemies now distrust us as allies

Sanctifying the Evangelical Vote

Chop Suey Christmas

From lo mein to lobster in the city's five chinatowns

Tonight! One of the World's Craziest Videos!

Voter's Digest

The latest election fraud warnings

Horoscope

Letters

Pre-Debate, Kerry Stumps Poorly, Clark Brags About His Fastball

Edwards Starts To Look Better in Comparison

Remote Patrol

The Culture of Death

Who Will Decide When You Should Die?

The Hillary Watch

New Hampshire Filing Deadline Approaches

Horoscope

The Lost WTC Memorial

Artists Meet Frustration at Ground Zero

Nuclear Waste Makes Haste

The Hazardous Roads to Yucca Mountain

Buying Trouble

Your grocery list could spark a terror probe

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Hot Tuner

Benjamin Treuhaft Floats Pianos to Cuba

NY Mirror

Advice from the ball circuit: 'This category is about your face, not your booty. Now ride your broomstick out of here, baby gorilla.'

Cheerleaders For Violence