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Frank Sinatra

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Rapping Train Conductor Plays His Heart Out on the Harmonica

    Who said train conductors were mean, boring stickler-ish types shushing you in the quiet car, punching your tickets through a thinly disguised veneer of hatred, and kicking you off the train after you pee drunkenly in the vestibule? Train conductors are fun, too! Some of them are even sort of comedi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    The Best Comebacks In Showbiz History

    They were washed up, kaput, as ovah as the macarena! And then they rose up from the ashes of disdain and said, "Ha!' And we applauded like madmen. The best comebacks ever are:

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2011

    Trader Joe's Opera Singer Won't Make the Line Shorter

    The video above comes from BuzzFeed, and it shows a man at an Encinitas, California Trader Joe's serenading his fellow shoppers with a pitch-perfect aria while picking up some flowers. We don't speak Italian, but we're pretty sure he's saying they're out of mini frozen tacos.

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Celebs Who Are Only Children: Here's The List

    I always assumed I was the only Italian-American only child in creation -- those people tend to procreate a lot -- but it turns out Al Pacino is one, too! I'm not alone! And I did a little research (and glanced at Us magazine) and found some other famous folk who have gone through life without sib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Hedda Lettuce, Polanski, And I Rocked The Chelsea Clearview

    Drag star Hedda Lettuce presented Rosemary's Baby last night at the Chelsea Clearview and was delightfully satanic enough to bring me onstage beforehand to talk about my love for the 1968 horror classic. I advised the audience to look for various sitcom regulars who Polanski purposely cast as witch ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 17, 2011

    The Manchurian Candidate

    Drag star Hedda Lettuce presented Rosemary's Baby last night at the Chelsea Clearview and was delightfully satanic enough to bring me onstage beforehand to talk about my love for the 1968 horror classic. I advised the audience to look for various sitcom regulars who Polanski purposely cast as witch ... More >>

  • Art

    July 20, 2011

    Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

    The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    The Best Celebrity Mug Shots

    Nick Nolte​Celebs usually love being photographed, except for colonoscopies and mug shots. Well I haven't manage to dig up the former photos--yet--but I have assembled some of the best, most poignant, scary, most desperately in-need-of-a-stylist mug shots of the criminally unglamorous stars. ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 29, 2010

    MAX’S BIG MOVE

    In the year 2011 . . . Weinberg goes solo

  • Columns

    November 10, 2010

    Are Mexicans Cry-Babies?

    Making sense of lachrymose singers and other burning questions

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Summit's Greg Seider on the Bar's First Anniversary, His Garden-to-Glass Philosophy & the Best Tipping Story in History

    Summit's Greg Seider​Summit made headlines when it opened a year ago on Avenue C for offering great cocktails and -- gasp! -- a fun atmosphere. Imagine: bartender who knows how to shoot the shit and not a suspender or waxed mustache tip in sight. Summit celebrated its first anniversary on Tues ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Q&A: Animal Collective's Panda Bear On How He Is Similar To Kanye West

    ​ "Does that mean I have a massive ego? Is there something wrong with that?" asks Panda Bear, a/k/a Noah Lennox, about his latest conquest as a solo artist. Though Lennox is the soaring, helium-voiced member of the ubiquitous Animal Collective and the man responsible for one of the most prais ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2010

    THIS AMERICAN LIFE

    Take a good listen to the U.S.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Wall Street Journal Discovers This Whole "Hat" Trend Thing

    ​Are you a young man, located in "areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn," who likes to wear hats? Are you inspired by Justin Timberlake and "pictures of Frank Sinatra"? Do you consider your hat a part of your "look," but just can't nail down the proper hat etiquette? The Wall Street Journal can help.

  • Voice Choices

    July 20, 2010

    Willie Nelson & the Levon Helm Band

    ​Are you a young man, located in "areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn," who likes to wear hats? Are you inspired by Justin Timberlake and "pictures of Frank Sinatra"? Do you consider your hat a part of your "look," but just can't nail down the proper hat etiquette? The Wall Street Journal can help.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    American Idol Season 9: Live-Blogging the Top 5 Results

    I hear Lady Gaga's in the house tonight for the Cinco de Mayo installment of the results show, and hopefully singing a Frank Sinatra song. Or duetting with Harry Connick, Jr. That would be awwwwesome. 9:03pm. Group sing: the four boys sing "The Lady is a Tramp" and does that make Crystal Bowersox ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2010

    The Manchurian Candidate

    I hear Lady Gaga's in the house tonight for the Cinco de Mayo installment of the results show, and hopefully singing a Frank Sinatra song. Or duetting with Harry Connick, Jr. That would be awwwwesome. 9:03pm. Group sing: the four boys sing "The Lady is a Tramp" and does that make Crystal Bowersox ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Green Day Was Influenced By Ethel Merman!

    Tommy McCall ​CLICK HERE for my new column in which Green Day admits that Broadway legend Ethel Merman had something to do with their new musical about teen angst. I'm not making this stuff up! Also in the column: *Did the Night of 1000 Gowns turn into a Mormon-bashing gala--and how was the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Live Blogging Choice Eats 2010

    Fort Defiance's deviled egg with amaranth.​Hello from deep inside the bowels of the Lexington Avenue Armory! It's 6:19, meaning there are 11 minutes until Choice Eats 2010 officially begins. When we arrived at 5 p.m., people were already lining up outside in the rain; now, the crowds are begin ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    From Here to Eternity

    Fort Defiance's deviled egg with amaranth.​Hello from deep inside the bowels of the Lexington Avenue Armory! It's 6:19, meaning there are 11 minutes until Choice Eats 2010 officially begins. When we arrived at 5 p.m., people were already lining up outside in the rain; now, the crowds are begin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    Tonight! Jay-Z, Little Boots, Body Language, Rogue Wave, Avi Buffalo, and ODDSAC

    ​Jay-Z, reigning singles champ of the Voice's own Pazz & Jop poll, makes his triumphant return to Madison Square Garden tonight. But for those of who have yet to accept him as the new Frank Sinatra, you and our beloved contest winners can head to the Highline Ballroom for some glossy synth-pop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    What's Happening This Week: Cooking with Italian Grandmas; Eating Sushi with a Concierge

    Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! SLOW U: Cooking with Nonna, Cenone di Natale ($45) Astor Center November 30 Who cooks better than Italian Grandmas? Not too many people, according to Rossella Rago, host of the onli ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 8, 2009

    Fall Guide: Our Retro Dining Picks

    10 places that have persisted—somewhat miraculously—among the ceviches, tiny Neapolitan pizzas, and banh mis.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    YouTube Treasure: Nancy Sinatra

    Sixties icon and boot-wearer Nancy Sinatra is timelessly relevant to me, but she's even more so with this remixed version of her hit "Sugartown," using the clip from her groundbreaking TV special Movin' With Nancy. Have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about? Well, blithe, blonde Nancy had a succ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    The Ten Greatest Dicks In History!

    This is one list I definitely wish I was on---a ranking of the most fantabulous penises in creation. Some of the ones listed are only so amazing because they were so small (or so much smaller than expected), but still, I'd love to be including here (or anywhere)! I'd feel so genitally special! One ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2009

    CHILL OUT

    Cure your Independence Day hangover with the Film Society

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    4 More Reasons to Like Minetta Tavern

    In his review, Our Man Sietsema liked the fat-drenched, "transgressional cuisine" doled out at Minetta Tavern, and Bruni just gave it three stars and called it the best steakhouse in New York. I wanted to check it out, but imagined it to be snotty to no-names and impossible to get into. Not so! I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Hip-Hop RNC Chairman Michael Steele Likes Diddy, Snoop Dogg; Calls the Rat Pack the "Pack Rats"

    Also pictured: the Great Satan It's getting harder to imagine a path to survival for RNC Chairman Michael Steele, whose promise to launch the Republican party into "urban-suburban hip-hop settings" was only the beginning of a long downward slide that may well end in a no-confidence vote in April. I ... More >>

  • Film

    October 29, 2008

    Rosemary's Baby Turns 40

    Also pictured: the Great Satan It's getting harder to imagine a path to survival for RNC Chairman Michael Steele, whose promise to launch the Republican party into "urban-suburban hip-hop settings" was only the beginning of a long downward slide that may well end in a no-confidence vote in April. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    MP3 Debut: Steinski, "What Was Raymond Doing With His Hands? (A Soundtrack for a Real Swinger of a Nightmare)"

    Also pictured: the Great Satan It's getting harder to imagine a path to survival for RNC Chairman Michael Steele, whose promise to launch the Republican party into "urban-suburban hip-hop settings" was only the beginning of a long downward slide that may well end in a no-confidence vote in April. I ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2008

    Death Becomes Them

    Indie rockers Death Cab for Cutie finally hit the mainstream

  • Art

    June 26, 2007

    The Dope-Thrill Fugs

    Recommendations by R.C. Baker

  • Film

    May 29, 2007

    The House Always Wins

    Ocean's Thirteen is a tired, washed-up threequel. Wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

  • Music

    February 20, 2007

    Scrapbook of Solitude, Part II

    Ocean's Thirteen is a tired, washed-up threequel. Wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

  • Screens

    April 25, 2006

    Rack Focus

    Ocean's Thirteen is a tired, washed-up threequel. Wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

  • People

    February 8, 2005

    Young, Restless

    Ocean's Thirteen is a tired, washed-up threequel. Wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    Conspiracy Leery

    How to remake a classic paranoid thriller without stepping on any toes

  • NYC Life

    May 4, 2004

    Film

    How to remake a classic paranoid thriller without stepping on any toes

  • Film

    December 2, 2003

    Fifty Years Later, an All-star Service Drama Still Makes Waves

    How to remake a classic paranoid thriller without stepping on any toes

  • Music

    May 27, 2003

    Savooooy Be Gooood

    The Lighter Side of Bebop

  • Music

    May 27, 2003

    Prom Balloons

    Derivative Boy Next Door Does Good!

  • News

    March 25, 2003

    When Doves Cry

    Oscar Declares War on the War

  • Music

    December 3, 2002

    Christmas Gilt

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

  • NYC Life

    May 14, 2002

    Close-Up On: Hoboken

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

  • Film

    December 4, 2001

    Role Players and End Games

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

  • Film

    May 16, 2000

    The Vulgar Classes

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

  • Music

    February 29, 2000

    Cleanup Time

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

  • Books

    March 9, 1999

    Sinatraland

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

  • Theater

    February 16, 1999

    Asian Lite

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

  • News

    May 26, 1998

    Frank Sinatra 1915-1998

    A Bounty of Chestnuts and Gift Boxes

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