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    December 8, 2011

    Eve Biddle, Co-Director of the Wassaic Project, On Its Past, Its Future, and Its Fundraiser Tonight

    It's the holidays and time for nightly benefit parties. This month, we'll be circling back to non-profits and art groups we've talked to through out 2011 as they gear up for their annual shindigs. Today we're talking to Eve Biddle, the Co-Director of the Wassaic Project, which is having a silent au ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Greg Ball's All Atwitter at Gay-Marriage Bill: Upstate Senator Takes His Own Online Poll.

    Here's what happened over the weekend with the gay-marriage bill, which the Assembly has already approved: Publicly, the bill has the support of 31 of the 32 senators it needs for passage. Though he was considered "leaning no," GOP senator Greg Ball (who represents all of Putnam County, northern ... More >>

  • Art

    April 13, 2011

    Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met

    A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Tina Adovasio Found Murdered; Hubby a Suspect; Her Family Already Thought He Was a 'Lowlife' and 'Animal'

    Adovasio: Scared, brutalized, murdered.​The search for Tina Adovasio, the 40-year-old mother of four in Throgs Neck, turned out to be brutal and short, and her life sadder and more secret-filled than previously thought. Her body was found Wednesday night in Yorktown, beaten and asphyxiated, and he ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 3, 2010

    Nailing the Mob's Builders

    A contractor tells a billion-dollar industry's dirty secrets

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Harney & Sons to Open a Tea House in Soho

    patrick_george/flickrGive me a tea.​Harney & Sons Fine Teas, whose more than 250 different types of tea, including iced versions, can be found in gourmet shops and fine dining establishments the world over, is opening its first tea house in New York City by late fall or early winter.

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips

    Photo courtesy The Old FieldOld Field Vineyard is worth visiting for the grounds alone​ In honor of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, we devote our top 10 list this week to food-centric day trips. Our list contains a lot of good eating, most accessible by train or bus, all within range for low- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Allen Ginsberg Explains Timothy Leary

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 12, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 9 Remarks on Leary's Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg By the late '40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dow ... More >>

  • Art

    March 2, 2010

    Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial

    Bye-bye bling! The new realists win out this year

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Down 178 Votes, Tedisco Asks to Be Declared Winner

    In a ballsy move, despite being down by 178 votes at last count, Republican Jim Tedisco has petitioned Duchess County Supreme court to declare him the winner of the NY-20 Congressional post-election. The logic escapes us, but the Hudson Register-Star says Tedisco also wants all the votes, machine or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    NY-20: Republican Lawyer Will File to Impound Ballots in Dutchess County

    Well, that was quick. Dutchess County Election Commission Fran Knapp tells us that John Ciampoli, a Republican lawyer, has informed her that he plans to file in Supreme Court to impound ballots from that county in today's special election. She says her understanding is that he wants the paper ballot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Sundwall Off NY-20 Ballot; Tedisco, Murphy Press On

    Libertarian candidate in the NY-20 special election Eric Sundwall has been knocked off the ballot by the state board of elections. Most of his signatures were invalidated in petition challenges by three parties, including the chairwoman of the Dutchess County Conservative Party. The remaining candid ... More >>

  • News

    February 11, 2009

    Paterson Duped Again: Shelly Silver Gets Childhood Pal Jonathan Lippman State's Top Courts Job

    Libertarian candidate in the NY-20 special election Eric Sundwall has been knocked off the ballot by the state board of elections. Most of his signatures were invalidated in petition challenges by three parties, including the chairwoman of the Dutchess County Conservative Party. The remaining candid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Wayne Barrett: How Shelly Silver Made His Pal Chief Judge

    This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>

  • News

    February 13, 2007

    Can't Anyone Here Learn to Drive?

    In Hevesi's wake, new charges of free car rides for a government spouse at the taxpayer's expense—this time, the wife of former comptroller Carl McCall

  • NYC Life

    May 16, 2006

    Fresh Direct

    Seasonal fare abounds at farmers' markets around the city

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    I'm My Favorite Game

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • News

    June 28, 2005

    The Juror and the Convict

    Lynne Harriton was the jury foreman at Andre Smith's trial in the Carnegie Deli murder case. Now she's his closest friend.

  • Columns

    April 26, 2005

    Out of Here

    Three getaways for New Yorkers in need of a little R&R

  • News

    January 18, 2005

    The Last Executioner

    Dow B. Hover was paid by the state to run its electric chair in the 1950s and '60s. The job may have cost him more than he earned.

  • News

    November 30, 2004

    Medical Marijuana Keeps on Rolling

    Pot for patients may run into trouble with the Supreme Court, but the issue is gaining here at home

  • Columns

    July 20, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Pot for patients may run into trouble with the Supreme Court, but the issue is gaining here at home

  • News

    June 29, 2004

    Challenge to a Quiet Boss

    Flying squads, charges of dirty tricks by incumbent plague a teamster local election

  • News

    December 16, 2003

    Suicide in the Box

    For the Mentally Ill, Solitary Confinement Can Be a Death Sentence. The Stories of Two Men Who Never Made It Out.

  • NYC Life

    October 28, 2003

    Violet Apples

    For the Mentally Ill, Solitary Confinement Can Be a Death Sentence. The Stories of Two Men Who Never Made It Out.

  • News

    February 5, 2002

    Timothy Leary's Wife Drops Out

    Rosemary Woodruff Leary, Psychedelic Pioneer, Dies at 66

  • News

    April 3, 2001

    High on the Hog

    The McCalls’ Splendiferous Government-Appointed Penthouse

  • News

    January 30, 2001

    The Trouble With Harry

    Pataki’s Wannabe Cop Gets Nailed

  • News

    December 19, 2000

    Life on the Outside

    After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

  • Long Island Voice

    October 26, 1999

    Resident evil

    After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

  • News

    August 10, 1999

    The Conversation

    Tina Brown Gets a Buzz Cut

  • News

    May 25, 1999

    The Making of a Guilty Plea

    Volpe Family Adviser Played Key Role

  • News

    March 16, 1999

    Bowery Bummer

    Downtown Plan Will Make and Break History

  • NYC Life

    December 29, 1998

    Song of My Elf

    One-Bedroom Apartment in Six-Story Tenement

  • News

    October 6, 1998

    Spycam City

    The Surveillance Society: Part One

  • News

    August 25, 1998

    Rage Against Muhammad

    An investigation by the joint terrorist task force adds to the Million Youth March leader's woes

  • News

    July 28, 1998

    Should Al Sharpton Apologize?

    The racial politics of reconciliation in New York

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