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  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Live: Remembering The Glorious Life Of New York Jazz Heroine Phoebe Jacobs

    A Celebration of the Wonderful World Of Phoebe Jacobs Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center Thursday, May 24 The voice that filled Rose Hall first at the Thursday afternoon memorial for Phoebe Jacobs was Jacobs's own. There was her face, too, projected on a large screen in a first-tier box. It all mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Clip Job: Jack Newfield's 'Mugging the White Liberal'

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 25, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 36Mugging the White LiberalBy Jack NewfieldImagine three goldfish dropped into a fish tank filled with sharks. Or imagine Billy Budd mugged by the Emperor Jones.Then you might have some idea of the malevolent and paran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009

    This is how they did big-time TV news in 1973: Getting the story however it came in -- phone, telex, slips of paper, whatever -- and dishing it out as quick as you could. Walter Cronkite, who passed away today at 92, had a lot of practice at it. He dropped out of college during the Depression to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Cramer Bails on Morning Joe After His Ass-Kicking

    Hmm: after suffering an epic smackdown on Jon Stewart's show last night, Jim Cramer didn't show up for a planned "The Morning Joe" interview this morning. "Guess he had a late night," said Joe Scarborough. Reaction to the Daily Show ep was swift and brutal. James Fallows of The Atlantic compares S ... More >>

  • News

    April 15, 2008

    Our Very Own Axis of Evil in Guantánamo

    A former prisoner describes the foul essence of the Bush presidency

  • News

    December 11, 2007

    Confronting Joe McCarthy, Then and Now

    The recent death of a former Air Force officer brings back a familiar fight for freedom

  • News

    November 20, 2007

    It's Only Black Muslims

    Has anyone heard Darfur mentioned in the presidential debates? Or in Congress?

  • News

    November 13, 2007

    Congress and the Disappeared

    Still waiting for our representatives—and presidential candidates—to address criminal U.S. kidnappings

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2007

    FIRST LOOK: THE MAN BEHIND THE OiNK INVESTIGATION

    Still waiting for our representatives—and presidential candidates—to address criminal U.S. kidnappings

  • NYC Life

    September 4, 2007

    Trapped in the Closet

    The dubious highs and extreme lows of Fashion Week

  • News

    June 26, 2007

    The Mayor and His Shock Troops

    Will Bloomberg run on his record of bullying schoolchildren and teachers?

  • Art

    April 3, 2007

    Small Order

    City leaders want kids out of large schools and into smaller ones. Now one Brooklyn high school is fighting the mandate to close its doors.

  • Screens

    April 4, 2006

    Nightmares of TV's Messy Adolescence

    City leaders want kids out of large schools and into smaller ones. Now one Brooklyn high school is fighting the mandate to close its doors.

  • Screens

    February 28, 2006

    Mediocre TV

    It's the chronic—what?—woes of freeware Web television

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    On Rumsfeld's Watch

    A PBS documentary names U.S. torture commanders

  • Columns

    November 1, 2005

    Free Will Astrology

    A PBS documentary names U.S. torture commanders

  • Columns

    September 27, 2005

    La Dolce Musto

    A PBS documentary names U.S. torture commanders

  • Film

    September 27, 2005

    Celebrity Journalist

    Confessions of a Democratic Mind: George Clooney presses for freedom of the press

  • Film

    September 27, 2005

    Smoke and Mirrors

    Foe McCarthy: Clooney's compact, conscientious paean to a bygone era of principles

  • Film

    September 6, 2005

    See It Now

    Geopolitickin' and an East Asian invasion highlight the 43rd New York Film Festival

  • Film

    August 23, 2005

    Open Season

    Fall brings hope of a brave New World and a historic Violence

  • NYC Life

    June 15, 2004

    Tropical Brownstone

    A parrot, an orange dining room, golden light—and a school of fish

  • News

    April 27, 2004

    In Hack Heaven

    Bios of dead journos reveal tricks good muckrakers carried off: booze, lies, big truths

  • Film

    October 15, 2002

    Access of Evil

    Bios of dead journos reveal tricks good muckrakers carried off: booze, lies, big truths

  • News

    May 14, 2002

    A Liberal Slant to the News?

    This Book Is 'An Act of Treason'

  • Music

    June 5, 2001

    Armstrong Akwaba (Welcome)!

    This Book Is 'An Act of Treason'

  • Music

    June 5, 2001

    Satchmo and the Critics

    This Book Is 'An Act of Treason'

  • News

    December 26, 2000

    Winter Solstice Tributes

    Free Speech for Everyone

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    The Really World Wide Web

    A Guide to Finding News From Far-Flung Places

  • Film

    April 18, 2000

    Endless Summer

    A Guide to Finding News From Far-Flung Places

  • News

    April 11, 2000

    The Sound of Silence

    Killing the Hope in Haiti

  • Film

    June 8, 1999

    Smoke and Mirrors

    Killing the Hope in Haiti

  • News

    February 23, 1999

    A Holocaust We Could Have Stopped

    'I Saw My Father Cut to Pieces'

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