Eileen Myles

Picture This: Our 5 Can't Miss Book Events Get Graphic

Tamara Shopsin Spoonbill & Sugartown Wednesday, 7:30pm, Free Shopsin's new memoir is arranged the way any harried artist's journal might be--in fragments, drawings, photographs, and asides--and surprisingly all the more cohesive for it. Mumbai New York Scranton (Scribner) highlights the underlying c ... More >>

Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer for Freedom

Live: Pussy Riot's Cause Is Celebrated At The Ace Hotel

The dungeon-black walls of the hip Ace Hotel's underground room, appropriately called Liberty Hall, are relieved by vintage speakers stacked floor-to-ceiling like a rock wall. The decorative recycling of defunct gear, lit with candles like a sanctuary, made a righteous backdrop for a reading of lett ... More >>

Free Pussy Riot Public Reading

SPITFIRES

A vanload of saliva pulls into Brooklyn

FAILURE IS THE ONLY OPTION

Performances celebrate the art of not succeeding

New Japanther MP3 (Download: "Spread So Thin"), Album (Rock 'n' Roll Ice Cream), Member!

​Seems like just yesterday Japanther were bringing out 2008's Tut Tut Now Shake Ya Butt, staging punk rock operas in the basement of PS122 with Penny Rimbaud from Crass, causing trouble in various Barnes and Nobles, and getting robbed on the A Train. But a new year brings glad tidings--a new r ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Vivian Girls, All Tomorrow's Parties, Mike Judge's Extract, 'Mondo Fandom' at Anthology, and More

Hm, that ghost up there in the top left corner looks familiar. Vivian Girls photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla goes one more round with The Vivian Girls, and comes away from their record release show a sweatier and more fulfilled man. Christopher R. Weingarte ... More >>

Eileen Myles, Still Cool for You: The Importance of Being Iceland

Violate some categories! A downtown poet-performer collects 25 years of art writing.

This Week in the Voice

​Mike Bloomberg has a deal with the city that keeps his mayoralty separate from the business he founded. But Bloomberg the company has a way of benefiting on local deals even without the help of Bloomberg the Mayor. You may have noticed, for instance, that the Yankees' cable network used to be ... More >>

All Systems Goo: Fiction Inspired by Sonic Youth

Feedback titans send fiction writers to the inkwell in Noise.

This Week's Voice: Ice-T and Richard Hell on the Election, They Might Be Giants, Craig Finn, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and More

My Little Underground

Following the paper trail from downtown zines to the digital revolution

Theater

Scenes From a Mall

An heir to Bukowski and Eileen Myles struts her stuff

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

The 'Voice' reports the queer revolution

Rimbaud II: First Love

In Richard Hell's new novel, 'godlike philosopher poets' crash parties and go to Veselka

Artists run their mouths off on the first day of the year

It Was 25 Years Ago Today

Selections from the Village Voice's annual Queer Issue

Listings

Poetic Justice: New Year's Day dueling words marathons

A Few Odd Girls Out Leave Behind the Old New Queer Cinema

Weather Vein

Letters

Letters

Pride Guide

Ink Slingers

Across Town, Words Jump off the Page

My Intergeneration

For Lesbians, Age Counts Less Than Attitude. At 50, I'm a Non-Recovering Punk.

Features

Wordstock

A Dispatch From the People's Poetry Gathering

Richard Belzer, Ice-T Jack Up the Election

Ah, those talking heads-the TV yabberers, not the guys singing about buildings and food. We've grown a little...