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  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Ron Paul Calls Rick Santorum a 'Fake' Fiscal Conservative in New Ad

    Ron Paul wants to know: "Is this dude serious?" And by "this dude," he means Rick Santorum, ostensibly the front-runner in the GOP presidential field. Featuring a voiceover best described as male valley-girl-meets-political-smear, Paul's latest campaign commercial challenges Santorum's fiscal-con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Q&A: Amy Sheridan, The Woman Who Commits Kanye West's Greatest Tweets To Thread

    ​Now available on Etsy for your gift-giving needs: hand-stitched cloth versions of Kanye West's tweets. The commemorations of West's epic 140-character missives ("Sometimes I get the usage of puns and double en- tundras mixed up. I know sometimes one thing can be both. Rap God issues!!! LOL!!! ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    'Funkmaster Flex's Halloween Spook-tacular'

    ​Now available on Etsy for your gift-giving needs: hand-stitched cloth versions of Kanye West's tweets. The commemorations of West's epic 140-character missives ("Sometimes I get the usage of puns and double en- tundras mixed up. I know sometimes one thing can be both. Rap God issues!!! LOL!!! ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    "How Would You Design a Better NYC?" Website Asks

    ​Two organizations, the Institute for Urban Design and Project for Public Spaces, have joined forces to create a competition entitled "By the City, For the City." Addressing the city's need for public input and innovation, they've asked for your opinion on a seemingly trivial question: "How wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Google Nerds Love April Fool's Day: Font Jokes For Everyone!

    ​Go to Google and search for "Helvetica," the respectable font. The joke is that the results come up in "Comic Sans," a less respectable font. Get it? This day sucks.

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2011

    Oscars 2011: Live Blogging the Awards Show

    Courtesy ABC​And now for the awards portion of the evening! Full disclosure: the three of us have seen only five of the Best Picture nominees. Not that it matters. So:

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Don't Screw Over Your Web Designer or This Could Happen to You

    ​Winona Chiropractic Center in Winona, Minnesota, hired a web designer to create a site with which to advertise their business. Apparently, they didn't follow through with the appropriate payments, so the web designer went back into the site and started recoding. Here's a link to the site. Mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    New Starbucks Logo Has Absolutely Nothing to do With Coffee

    ​It really has been almost 40 years since Starbucks opened its first store, innocuously enough, in Seattle. And given the company's subsequent, unstoppable stampede towards Matrix-like world domination, it seems appropriate that, in celebration of its March birthday, the company is debuting a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    New York Times Goes "Smudging," Which Is Less Sexy Than It Sounds

    Feng Shui​"Smudgers," also known less ridiculously as "space-clearers," work to remove "worries about the future or negative vibes from the past" from local apartments, according to the New York Times today. Why yes, it does get crazier from there! Apparently people are paying these experts no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Rich People Are Totally Outsourcing Christmas

    via Apartment Therapy​Among all the outrageous holiday things we do, whether we're rich or poor or simply middle-class, there is the outrageousness of paying someone else to do it for you. We're all a little bit guilty of this, most likely -- store gift-wrapping? Buying the pies instead of mak ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 15, 2010

    Leftover Crack

    via Apartment Therapy​Among all the outrageous holiday things we do, whether we're rich or poor or simply middle-class, there is the outrageousness of paying someone else to do it for you. We're all a little bit guilty of this, most likely -- store gift-wrapping? Buying the pies instead of mak ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 27, 2010

    Throne of Blood

    via Apartment Therapy​Among all the outrageous holiday things we do, whether we're rich or poor or simply middle-class, there is the outrageousness of paying someone else to do it for you. We're all a little bit guilty of this, most likely -- store gift-wrapping? Buying the pies instead of mak ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2010

    PRINTED MATTER

    Jordan Harrison's Futura

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2010

    Even the New Gap Logo Hates the New MySpace Logo

    ​Amid an internet uproar about how bad the new Gap logo is -- and just after iTunes faced similar scrutiny for the updated iTunes 10 icon -- MySpace is getting in on the Any Press is Good Press action by releasing their own terrible new logo. TechCrunch describes it literally as "the word 'my' ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 6, 2010

    Avi Buffalo

    ​Amid an internet uproar about how bad the new Gap logo is -- and just after iTunes faced similar scrutiny for the updated iTunes 10 icon -- MySpace is getting in on the Any Press is Good Press action by releasing their own terrible new logo. TechCrunch describes it literally as "the word 'my' ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 20, 2010

    I, TOO, CAN BE WARHOL

    Print away, and take away

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    HOOTERS

    They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

  • Voice Choices

    February 2, 2010

    My Architect

    They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

  • Voice Choices

    December 15, 2009

    L'Inhumaine

    They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

  • Voice Choices

    November 10, 2009

    The Adventures of Prince Achmed

    They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

  • Voice Choices

    October 27, 2009

    L’Inhumaine

    They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

  • Film

    October 6, 2009

    Visual Acoustics Explores Flat Beauty of Julius Sulman's SoCal

    They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2009

    Jane Scheckter

    They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Clip Job: Mailer Tangles with Architecture Egghead

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 16, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 26Is Architecture Totalitarian?Is contemporary architecture totalitarian? The eminently professional Architectural Forum in its April issue spread out before the readers the bitter words of an outsider. A Yale pro bla ... More >>

  • Film

    May 20, 2009

    Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight Anecdotally Strolls Through Designer's Life

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 16, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 26Is Architecture Totalitarian?Is contemporary architecture totalitarian? The eminently professional Architectural Forum in its April issue spread out before the readers the bitter words of an outsider. A Yale pro bla ... More >>

  • Theater

    May 20, 2009
  • Voice Choices

    February 11, 2009

    WHAT'S COOKING?

    Crystal Skillman’s six-character play Nobody

  • Art

    October 29, 2008

    Bones' Beat: MAD at the museum of arts and design

    Crystal Skillman’s six-character play Nobody

  • Voice Choices

    July 9, 2008

    Sunrise

    Crystal Skillman’s six-character play Nobody

  • Art

    January 15, 2008

    The Grand Delusion

    Recommendations by R.C. Baker

  • NYC Life

    December 18, 2007

    Digit Goes to the Museum

    Blogging invades the Met's Costume Institute

  • Film

    September 4, 2007

    Helvetica

    Blogging invades the Met's Costume Institute

  • News

    March 27, 2007

    From His Big House to the Big House

    Chop-shop king built his dream mansion. Then an interior decorator took him down.

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2007

    Brooklyn Zipper Innovator Sues the Gap

    Chop-shop king built his dream mansion. Then an interior decorator took him down.

  • Art

    February 27, 2007

    The Tower of Positive Thinking

    Architects color the skyscraper green

  • Art

    July 18, 2006

    Asphalt Jungle

    25 acres with over 2,500 sculptures made from discarded bits and pieces

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1959

    25 acres with over 2,500 sculptures made from discarded bits and pieces

  • NYC Life

    May 3, 2005

    Yin-Yang on the Bowery; Good Drinks and Yummy Eats Too

    25 acres with over 2,500 sculptures made from discarded bits and pieces

  • Dance

    September 14, 2004

    Downtown Dance and Performance Awards Celebrate 20 Years

    25 acres with over 2,500 sculptures made from discarded bits and pieces

  • Art

    December 23, 2003

    Poor Memorial

    Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero

  • NYC Life

    December 23, 2003

    Every Single Thing

    Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero

  • Film

    November 11, 2003

    Design for Living

    From Philly to Dhaka, a son's pilgrimage sheds light on a visionary architect's personality

  • NYC Life

    April 29, 2003

    How the Other Half Lives

    America Gets in Touch With Its Interior Designer

  • Theater

    February 18, 2003

    The Desk Set

    Strange Things Grow in an Office Culture

  • News

    October 30, 2001

    The Age of 'Reason'

    Strange Things Grow in an Office Culture

  • Art

    August 1, 2000

    The Bilbao Effect

    Marquee Architects Draw Mixed Reviews on Campus

  • NYC Life

    January 19, 1999

    Boobism and Cubism

    The trouble with the Met's latest fashion exhibit

  • News

    January 12, 1999

    No-Collar Workers

    Is There Room for Unions in the New Media World?

  • Art

    December 8, 1998

    School of Paris

    Is There Room for Unions in the New Media World?

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