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The 10 Best Wine Stores in Manhattan

Declaring New York's top ten wine shops proved even harder than counting the city's finest bowls of ramen. The number of high-quality wine retailers at our disposal is an embarrassment of vinous riches, and the abundance of stellar shops forced me to draw up separate lists for Manhattan and Brooklyn ... More >>

Four Potential Special Guests For Taylor Swift's Two New York Shows

As you might have heard, Taylor Swift has been crossing the country touring behind 2010's Speak Now and performing a new cover song, often with a surprise guest, at each city along the way, leaving in a trail of camera phone YouTube videos and exclamation point-filled tweets in her wake. In Atlanta ... More >>

Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)

Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>

The Tranny Chaser Chaser

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An Idiot's Guide to SXSW 2011: DFA 1979 Chaos, Kanye in a Power Plant, Screeching Weasel Assault, and More

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithTexan frat-boy didgeridoos We know you hated us, and at this moment, we hate ourselves too. Since you probably (definitely/rightfully) blocked all the spirited gluttony and gleeful ignorance cluttering your Twitter feed about SXSW, let's just accept that a few things happe ... More >>

Under Review: Sietsema at The Vanderbilt; DiGregorio on a Citywide Martini Crawl

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema is Brooklyn-bound for The Vanderbilt, where "partners Saul Bolton and Ben Daitz pride themselves on their homemade sausages"; while Sarah DiGregorio bellies up to a couple different bars in search of the perfect martini. Sam Sifton offers up a two-fer this w ... More >>

Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Chrysler Sale; Judge Clears End of 789 Dealership Contracts

There was some concern for the Chrysler deal when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg granted a stay to Indiana state pension funds and others seeking to block the sale, previously cleared by a bankruptcy judge, of the collapsed car company's assets to Fiat, the Italian carmaker whose involve ... More >>

Clip Job: Jean Shepherd and the 7th Voice Auto Rallye

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesAugust 1, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 41Seventh Annual Voice Auto RallyeAs a sidelight to the Village Voice Rallye held last Sunday, a number of remarkable old cars turned up for the pleasure of the public and the plaudits of the contestants. All were i ... More >>

Chrysler Goes Bankrupt?*

(* Question mark added for plausible deniability.) They've been talking about it for a while, and today Chrysler is expected to announce it's filing for Chapter 11. The company had been trying to work out a deal with its lenders, but they won't take the necessary losses of their own volition, so ban ... More >>

Obama: Yep, Chrysler's Bankrupt, Will Partner with Fiat

The President just gave a statement in which he announced that Chrysler is bankrupt, but insisted that it will emerge stronger from the bankruptcy reorganization. He thanked the many "stakeholders" of the car company, including creditors and employees, who had "made sacrifices" to help put Chrysler' ... More >>

Obama: Car Companies Get 30 Days; Better Plans or Bankruptcy

The Obama Administration rejected the General Motors and Chrysler plans and GM CEO Rick Wagoner resigned at the President's request. The President just announced the next steps. Wagoner's ouster, he said, is not a "condemnation" but "a recognition that it will take a new vision and new direction to ... More >>

Where's the news? Obama's whitehouse.gov is transparent -- but not in a good way.

Check out this smarmy explanation by the Obama White House's tech crew of its new website. Barack Obama's version of the official presidential website, whitehouse.gov, is deeply troubling and downright scary. So far, it's nothing more than puffery. Even under the Bush-Cheney regime, the site in ... More >>

Entering a new phrase: Barack Obama's inaugural address

Eire on the side of the new president: There's no one as Irish as Bearach O'Bama. Too short to be an oratorio, Barack Obama's inaugural speech (video) proved nevertheless that as an orator he's got handle. That guy can speak. Notwithstanding our gratitude to George W. Bush for the past eight yea ... More >>

On track: Barack Obama's conjunction junction

Can't get enough of Obama's January 17 train ride. Here it is again. Even before today's inauguration, Barack Obama's whistle-stop trip to D.C. brought the best of two worlds to America. Besides being just a really cool thing to do — complete with speeches by the mellifluous new president t ... More >>

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