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Ed Sullivan

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Live: David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, And An All-Star Cast Pay Tribute To The Rolling Stones At Carnegie Hall

    The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Carnegie Hall Tuesday, March 13 Better than: Paying $300 to see The Stones. Okay, so maybe most of the audience was old enough to remember the first time they saw Mick Jagger shake his hips and lips on The Ed Sullivan Show. And a sea of salt-an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.

    Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, on the Living Wage Bill

    When Speaker Christine Quinn presented her compromised version of the Living Wage Bill last week, we immediately wondered how it would affect retail-clothing workers, #47 on the Voice's list of the 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers. We got in touch with Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Whol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    The 10 Best L.A. Guns Songs

    The "classic" L.A. Guns lineup, ca. 1989.​Today, Matador announced that it would be launching a new singles club and the inaugural release would be Stephen Malkmus and one of the bands currently calling itself L.A. Guns (more on that in a minute) will be releasing a split 7-inch on Matador wh ... More >>

  • Books

    October 26, 2011

    Greil Marcus Revisits Some Strange Days...

    ...in his latest book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Things Were Better When There Were Fewer TV Shows

    Let me go into my Grandma Moses mode and bitch about something relatively newfangled and shit. Back when I was growing up in the Civil War, there were only a handful of TV stations on the dial. And that meant that every single human with a TV set watched the very same things.

  • Film

    June 22, 2011

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recalls Past Lives; Car 54 Answers the Call

    Let me go into my Grandma Moses mode and bitch about something relatively newfangled and shit. Back when I was growing up in the Civil War, there were only a handful of TV stations on the dial. And that meant that every single human with a TV set watched the very same things.

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #5: How Many Members Of The Doors Can You Name?

    Left to right: Val Kilmer, Crosby, Stills, and Nash ​After having shown a stunning lack of muscle regarding the Clash and Bob Dylan, I figured I'd give our trusty panel of rock critics one last chance to embarrass themselves in front of whatever baby boomers have figured out the Internet. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Photos: Japanther (And/Or Their Crazed Fans) Shut Down Night One Of The Rock And Roll Circus at Lincoln Center

    Clownsurfing is a real thing. Pics by Rebecca, more below.​The Rock and Roll Circus, a two-night spectacle at Lincoln Center that started Monday, was billed as a homage to the Rolling Stones' 1968 event by the same name, a multi-ring extravaganza scattering big-top attractions among sets in th ... More >>

  • Film

    November 3, 2010

    Jerome Robbins's Classic NY Export: Opuz Jazz, Remade and Renewed

    Clownsurfing is a real thing. Pics by Rebecca, more below.​The Rock and Roll Circus, a two-night spectacle at Lincoln Center that started Monday, was billed as a homage to the Rolling Stones' 1968 event by the same name, a multi-ring extravaganza scattering big-top attractions among sets in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    NYC Cultural Institutions Pay Homage to Kim Kardashian's Ass, Ringo Starr's Drum

    via kimkardashian.celebuzz.com​Last week, Kardashian toyed with viewers of her website: "Hmm ... why would I be getting measured ... Curiosity? Dress fitting? Can you guess?" (Is that a caliper the woman is using to size up her buns?) Yesterday, she posted a photo of a cast of her head. Turns ... More >>

  • Dance

    May 18, 2010

    New York City Ballet Dancers Take to the Streets—on Film

    via kimkardashian.celebuzz.com​Last week, Kardashian toyed with viewers of her website: "Hmm ... why would I be getting measured ... Curiosity? Dress fitting? Can you guess?" (Is that a caliper the woman is using to size up her buns?) Yesterday, she posted a photo of a cast of her head. Turns ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2010

    Michael Jackson and the Endless Summer of Death

    What the King of Pop left behind, and what he took with him

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2010

    All-star benefit for proto-Fug Tuli Kupferberg in Brooklyn

    ​On January 22, St. Ann's Warehouse will be hosting a benefit concert to help pay medical expenses for Tuli Kupferberg, the anti-war poet and all around wiseass who co-founded local heroes the Fugs. Whether because of their political activism (Kupferberg was arrested trying to levitate the P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Pop Songs

    Alternative link here. ​The answer to the third of the three questions in yesterday's teaser quiz was The Newbeats, whose song "Bread and Butter" easily made it onto either the 10 Best or Runners-Up lists, but which one? Listen to this Youtube clip and see if can figure out in which position ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    I Met Marcia Rodd!

    Beauregard Houston-Montgomery​I love esoteric stars who are troupers in need of more appreciation. That's where I step in. Recently I went to see an off-Broadway revue called Don't Leave It All To Your Children!, which costars seasoned performers like Marcia Rodd and Steve Rossi.

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    From the Voice Archives: Nelson George on the Jacksons at MSG in '84

    In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Nelson George, reviewing a show Jackson and his brothers played at Madison Square Garden in 1984. Chocolate Chips at the Ice Capades By Nelson George August 7, 1984 Three years before the Jacksons' current magical mystery tour (the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Jimmy Fallon/Roots Watch Continues: My God Rappers Sound Good on This Show

    It did not occur until just now that the Roots on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon makes this particular 30 Rock soundstage into absolute ground zero for live rap. You now have arguably hip-hop's best live act, in residence: willing and able support for anybody with an album out. Jay-Z. Nas. T.I. Blac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Liz Smith Leaves the Post

    It's not something we look for, but something we always expected to be there, and soon it will be gone. Liz Smith's column is leaving the New York Post, her only and probably last local newspaper outlet, and with it goes an old-fashioned kind of gossip journalism, less rude, less crude, and more obv ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 22, 2008

    The W Premiere and a Hustler Ball!

    There's no business like Gaynor's show business; under the big top at Hustlaball

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    Hugs and Kisses 56: Robert Forster, formerly of the Go-Betweens

    There's no business like Gaynor's show business; under the big top at Hustlaball

  • Columns

    August 5, 2008

    Advice to Madonna, Lindsay, Katie, and Meth Addicts

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2008

    Clip Job: Steve Allen on Jack O'Brian

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    Live: The Mountain Goats at Webster Hall

    Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

  • Dance

    January 22, 2008

    Talking Dancing: Works & Process at the Guggenheim

    A ballet veteran looks back; young dancers gaze into the future

  • Music

    November 20, 2007

    When the Bop Gun Jams

    Plainfield's Tyrone Ashley once rivaled George Clinton. He may get his doo-wop due yet.

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2007

    Japanther's Animatronic Robot Dinosaur @ PS 122

    Plainfield's Tyrone Ashley once rivaled George Clinton. He may get his doo-wop due yet.

  • Film

    July 10, 2007

    Hairspray, Get Back to Your Roots!

    Movie musical of the musical of the movie is nowhere near divine

  • Music

    June 6, 2006

    Forbidden Broadway

    Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2006

    NBC Makes Jamie Foxx Look Stupid

    Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1964

    Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1967

    Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1971

    Harry Connick Jr. has the Sinatra quality musical comedy needs

  • News

    March 30, 2004

    Hung Out to Dry

    What we laugh about when we laugh about American Idol's most famous reject

  • News

    March 11, 2003

    Fire Music

    Lincoln Center Thaws Its Cold War on Jazz Activism

  • Books

    October 22, 2002

    Hobo Ken

    Lincoln Center Thaws Its Cold War on Jazz Activism

  • News

    September 10, 2002

    Silence = Life

    John Kelly Represents in Mime

  • Books

    August 6, 2002

    The Medieval Mob Squad

    John Kelly Represents in Mime

  • NYC Life

    May 21, 2002

    Time, Worn

    The Lure of Vintage Clothes

  • NYC Life

    March 5, 2002

    Serfs Up

    Peasant Blouses, Vreeland, and Mickey Mouse

  • Dance

    November 20, 2001

    Laughter and Tears

    Peasant Blouses, Vreeland, and Mickey Mouse

  • NYC Life

    August 22, 2000

    Loft in Former Brewery

    Peasant Blouses, Vreeland, and Mickey Mouse

  • NYC Life

    January 11, 2000

    Rock in a Hard Place

    Style Slumps at the Met

  • News

    May 4, 1999

    Big Guns on Campus

    City University's Alarming Arms Purchases

  • News

    February 9, 1999

    Bubble Economy

    City University's Alarming Arms Purchases

  • News

    January 26, 1999

    From Hair to Eternity

    City University's Alarming Arms Purchases

  • News

    January 12, 1999

    Eminent Domain

    Scavenging for funds in the age of for-profit education

  • Screens

    December 15, 1998

    NY © TV

    Scavenging for funds in the age of for-profit education

  • Columns

    December 8, 1998

    NY Mirror

    Springer loves playing Ed Sullivan to all those lesbian stripper nuns and their disgruntled drug dealers. 'These people don't have

  • News

    July 14, 1998

    Enter Stage Left

    Paul Wellstone Struts His Presidential Stuff on New York's Stage and Receives Mixed Reviews

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