Ford Motor Company

He's Old, Missing Teeth, and Has a Funny Haircut: He's Danny Brown, Rap's Biggest Deal

Apart from the overcrowding and cost of living, subway ads are one of the most depressing things about New York City. But now, next to the usual ads offering escape in vacation destinations and self-realization in a pair of shoes, you'll find a glimmer of hope in a Uniqlo ad featuring 32-year-old De ... More >>

"Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God": A Scientology Insider Gives First Full-Length Interview to the Voice

I've spoken to John Brousseau numerous times over the past couple of years. In 2011, I reported about the photographs he smuggled out of Scientology's International Base east of Los Angeles which documented the work he did customizing a motorcycle, a Ford Excursion, and an airplane hangar for Tom Cr ... More >>

Kool Keith Remains Defiantly Warped

Doing the dirty work as hip-hop cleans up

Q&A: Kool Keith On Times Square's Seedy, Marquee-Lit Old Days

Kool Keith used to love the Times Square of the early '80s; while interviewing him for this week's Voice, he waxed lyrical on the subject. Here's his full and lengthy rememberance of the days when 42nd Street was a seedier place, one lit by marquees advertising kung-fu flicks and boomboxes that look ... More >>

BREAKING: Facebook Files IPO, 'Friending' and 'Liking' Jokes Ensue

​Facebook wants your money! The social networking behemoth filed its initial public offering today, so now you will soon be able to spend time and cash on the site by becoming a stockholder. (It's the American way!) Facebook, which was birthed in a Harvard dorm some 8 years ago, the New York ... More >>

American Idol: It's Finally Over!

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

There Are Six Lexus Taxi Cabs in New York City, But They're Only For the Cool Kids

​New York City has just six Lexus taxis. That's out of over 13,000 cars, with most being Ford Crown Victorias. The Lexus RX 400h or RX 450h hybirds cost over $40,000, with a typical cab hovering around $28,000 -- but there's actually no financial incentive for having a nicer yellow car. "But c ... More >>

Sustainable MBA Programs Look To Provide Entrepreneurial Solutions to the World's Social Woes

Business, unusual

Octogenarian Showstopper Rules New York!

Revived: Marilyn Maye and Sally Kellerman. Clubs aren't dead yet, either.

'Brooklyn' Now Co-Opted by Ford and the Gap

brooklynmadetattoo.com​ While trend forecasters have been eager to name a dessert-world successor to the cupcake, perhaps they should be looking at a map instead of inside a display case. Because if the fine folks at the Gap and Ford have anything to say about it, Brooklyn can be as easily pac ... More >>

Your "Taxi of Tomorrow" Will Be an Iconic Minivan

​Mayor Bloomberg and the Taxi and Limousine Commission are tired of those Crown Vics. At a press conference today, the city announced three finalists in a contest to choose a new, custom-built car model to replace the city's fleet of taxicabs. See pictures of whatever high-tech deathtrap-on-wh ... More >>

Courtney Love: "Get Me Out of Movie Prison!"

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown's in town, and she's not one of them.

Woodstock Hangover: Ripping Off Rock Festivals

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 30, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 31 Rip-offs and revival By Don Heckman Summer rock festivals. Hippie capitalists. Rip-offs. Exploitation of the "rock community." Not exactly the kind of year anyone expected after the good vibes of Woodstoc ... More >>

Verdict Against Ford Worth $131M For SUV Death Reported First (and Best) on Twitter

​In 2001, New York Mets prospect Brian Cole was killed when his Ford Explorer flipped on the way home from spring training. Fast-forward to September 2, 2010, when a Mississippi jury awarded $131 million to Cole's family. Have you heard this story? Probably not, because no media was on hand to ... More >>

Pimp Our Ride: The Taxi Cab of Tomorrow 2014 Redesign

Illustration via Crain's New York Business​At the beginning of the year, the Bloomberg administration pitched the ambitious and dreamily titled idea of the Taxi Cab of Tomorrow, tomorrow being 2014 (maybe then we should call it the Taxi Cab of Today, or the Incomplete Transportation Fiasco?). ... More >>

Clip Job: When a Newspaper Dies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 28 Mr. Hearst's Flagship Sank Like the Maine By Stan Fischler The Journal-American died with its boots on last Sunday morning at the age of 71. When the boots were removed there was a stench. "Nat Hento ... More >>

Robert Frank's Real America

The photographer who changed the way we look at—and depict—ourselves.

TAKE ME OUT . . .

. . . To one last ball game at Citi Field

Clip Job: LeRoi Jones, Art D'Lugoff and Nat Hentoff Duke it Out

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 18, 1965, Vol. X, No. 22Gig at Gate: Return of the White Liberal StompersBy Jack NewfieldGoateed, immaculately dressed Negroes looking for a pogrom, carefully coifed Hadassah ladies looking for a lynching and impassive hipsters looking f ... More >>

Cash for Clunkers Drove Car Sales -- Now It's Time for the "Hangover" Stories

"Staten Island's car dealers brace for post-'Clunkers' letdown," says the Staten Island Advance. Wait a minute -- we thought the program was a failure! Certainly rightbloggers like to say so. Wizbang called it "a complete failure" -- because it hadn't disbursed most of its funds. (And you thought th ... More >>

Parental Controls For Cars Point to Our Totalitarian Future

​Just keeping tabs on our evolving police state: WCBS reports on some car technologies that car companies are offering "to help parents control the way their teenagers drive -- and, as CBS' Cindy Hsu shows us, parents don't even have to be in the car." After some palaver about what screw-ups k ... More >>

Robert S. McNamara, 1916-2009

"He concluded well before leaving the Pentagon that the war was futile, but he did not share that insight with the public until late in life," says the Times of John Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who died this morning at 93, and Vietnam. He was among the ... More >>

Crappy Car Company Performance Boosts Market

Well, Obama's "30 Days to Chapter 11" auto company plan is going as expected. Chrysler is preparing to go bankrupt. GM is going to "stall out" 13 assembly lines in North America. And as Ward Harkavy puts it at The Smart Asset, "Ford loses $1.4 billion, and investors are... happy!" Yes, the company ... More >>

What Cooked the World's Economy?

It wasn't your overdue mortgage.

A Blue Fitzmas for Rightbloggers -- But Wait'll Next Year!

GOP to Motor City: Drop Dead (Updated)

High prices at D.C. auto show

Lemon aid: Please bail out Edsel!

Daily Flog: Feds bail out Citibank, automakers. You're still at the end of the bread lines.

Flash of Genius Unbearably Dull

Hybrids Coming, Says TLC; TS, Say Cab Owners

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Killer Mike

George W. Bush Depreciates Like A Ford Taurus

Life Support

Scenes from a rescue mission

Macho Geeks of the World, Unite!

New Yorkers Whack Everyone; Ulcer-Inducing Puzzles

Bumper-to-Bumper Autocide; Wrestling in High Heels

Horoscope

The Jean Genie

Product-designing whiz Marc Newson does G-Star proud

Opus Heyday

The success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code excites interest in a secretive Catholic lay group—and further notes on the culture of conspiracism

Carl McCall's Secret Self

A Look Inside the Bizarre World of His Pension-Fund Proxy Votes

The Cheery Orchard

Lower East Side Shopping

Checking in for Waldorf Hysteria

Free Traders and Fair Traders in Stalemate as CEOs Converge on New York

Primary Colors

Working it Out

Greenwash