Fargo

Pete Swanson's Muse Leads Him Down Ever-Gnarlier Alleyways

When Punk Authority (Software Recording Co.), Pete Swanson's new EP, is emanating from my iPhone, a funny thing happens: my German Shepherd rushes in from wherever else he was in the house, snuffling and whimpering and breathing heavily. The ears flatten against his head. His entire body heaves. "Fo ... More >>

CULTURE SHOCK

A different kind of talk show

Marilyn Hagerty, Grand Forks Olive Garden Reviewer, Speaks

Marilyn Hagerty isn't the first person to review the Olive Garden--in fact, Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist Jonathan Gold did that very thing in the LA Weekly last April--and she won't be the last. But for some reason, her very factual review of the "long-awaited" franchise in Grand Forks, North Da ... More >>

Thin Ice

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

Live: The Dismemberment Plan Do The Standing Still (And Flail Around A Lot) At Webster Hall

Travis Morrison, in a rare break from his stand-up-comedy routine. Pics by Jena Cumbo.​The Dismemberment Plan Webster Hall Saturday, January 29 Better Than: Back when they played shows with Death Cab for Cutie as the "Death and Dismemberment" tour. Travis Morrison, frontman for freshly reun ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: November 17 through 23, 2010

Pete Hamill on the Death of Newsweek The Saturday Evening Post

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 16, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 14 More Irrelevant Than Irreverent by Pete Hamill The tv cameras had departed, the reporters were gone, and in the fourth-floor offices of the Saturday Evening Post at 541 Lexington Avenue, there wasn't ... More >>

The Personals

We promise to do better next time

Your Favorite Coen Brothers Movie?

​A Serious Man, the new Coen brothers film, is a darkly funny, Kafkaesque tale of a Jewish man in Minnesota, whose marriage, job, and life are all simultaneously in jeopardy. It's a keenly observed, absurdist gem--though it's so odd I have a feeling it'll be a lot of people's second or third ... More >>

Autolux Supposedly Coming to New York This Fall, May Actually Play All Tomorrow's Parties NY This Time, Babies Be Damned

Maura Lanahan Autolux, the Los Angeles art-fuzz trio that blogs forgot, has been annoyingly dormant for the last few years: after releasing the sublime full-length Future Perfect, and touring throughout 2006, they virtually disappeared. Last fall, they booked for All Tomorrow's Parties New York, bu ... More >>

New in Town Features Zellweger as Mitt Romney in a Mini

Harold Pinter, 1930-2008

Just Buried's Snickering Tone Provides a Few Sour Laughs

The Coen Brothers Make Another Mockery with Burn After Reading

Remarkably consistent, there's nothing these boys can't hold up to ridicule

The Coen Brothers Were Never Better Than with Barry Sonnenfeld

The Gruesome Threesome showcased at the MOMA

NY Mirror

Welcome to the Doll Factory

Soderbergh doesn't condescend to middle America, doesn't do much of anything else either

Morning Report 10/3/05
Bush Puts Old Pal on High Court

Letters

Flee as a Bird

Envoi; Aloha, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen; Adiós Amigos; I'm Checkin' Out, Goombye

Enemies, a Love Story

How could you believe me when I said I love you when you know I've been a liar all my life

No Feelings

Midwestern rock critic and greatest living American writer defeat their designations

Say It Isn't So

How Not to Broaden the Jazz Canvas

Code of Quiet

The Secret War on Whistle-Blowers

NY Mirror

Heavy Mental

The Parent Trap

Bitter Battle at Domino Sugar

Strike Continues at One of Waterfront's Last Big Factories

Letters

Rockin' in Rhythm

Part two of our Jazz Supplement

Desperate Measures

Freeway Threeway