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William Friedkin's Self-Loathing Gay Protagonists

R.A. the Rugged Man: The Music Industry is "Crooked Fake Phonies Marketing hemselves to the world

R.A. The Rugged Man releases his Legends Never Die album this week. It's a project the thuggish ruggish rap chap promises will showcase his ability to "annihilate any rapper on this Earth." We don't doubt the Rugged man. In other, chirpier news, here's R.A. explaining away his Twitter timeline chatt ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: Six Films to See This Spring

Delhi Safari

Max et les Ferrailleurs

William Friedkin Tells Us About Killer Joe and What's Wrong with Hollywood

CAT AND MOUSE

Take a wild ride with the NYPD's drug squad

These Bruce Lee Films Are Really Blowing Up

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 17, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 20* (we seem to be missing the May 10 issue in our paper archives) Hong Kong's answer to 007 by Tom Costner Within the past month Chinese action movies from Hong Kong's Shaw Brothers studio have been the t ... More >>

What Frank Serpico Started: The Knapp Commission Report

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 1, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 9 (And a new logo!) The Knapp Connection by Adam Walinsky On December 29, 1972, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the City's Anti-Corruption Procedures, popularly knows at ... More >>

Brooklyn 1973: Gunmen, Hostages, and the Revolution

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 25, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 Two days in Brooklyn: 'Better than the Bowl' by Clark Whelton The rain had stopped but the el tracks overhead were still dripping. The cop behind the steel support pillar looked up as the water hit h ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Colonie, Goodbye to Niko's

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Satsko on the Lower East Side has been shuttered recently and plastered with bright orange "seizure" stickers, apparently due to state taxes owed. [Bowery Boogie] Salt & Pepper in Midtown West ... More >>

Charlie Chaplin Classes Up the 1972 Oscars Ceremony

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 20, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 16 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The 44th annual festivities of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began with a whimper and ended with a bang, demonstrating that, among other things, Oscar ... More >>

Little Fockers and the Franchise of Diminishing Returns

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KFC vs. Popeye's: Fried Chicken Smackdown

That's KFC on the right, Popeyes on the left​ Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC as it is now known, was founded in 1930 in North Corbin, Kentucky, when Colonel Harland Sanders started selling his fried chicken out of a gas station. Eighty years and thousands of franchises later, those apocryphal ... More >>

Wintour Commands You to Shop! Fashion Week Launches with "Fashion's Night Out"

​As Anna Wintour goes, so goes the nation: today marks the start of Fashion Week, and tonight the first Fashion's Night Out, the Vogue empress's glam plan to get the bodies back in the stores. Over 300 retailers citywide will extend their hours until 11pm to host live music, celebrities, and o ... More >>

NYPD Still Mum On Logo Crackdown, Retirees Not so Mum

It's now been 24 hours since the Voice asked Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's spokesman Paul Browne for a comment on the NYPD's campaign to stop its own retirees from using the department logo. (See our story here.) No response. Not even an acknowledgement that the emails were received. We've now as ... More >>

5 New York 70s Movies We Are Terrified to See Remade

At the Observer today, Christopher Rosen, stimulated by the unfortunate new The Taking of Pelham 123, decries remakes of 70s New York classics. But his complaint is that "Only '70s period pieces remain locked inside the isolation of past events... We want '70s films to be something other than a ... More >>

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A-Rod Quiets Crowd with Homer, Hangs with Drug Buddy

This is so A-Rod: Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez, who recently admitted to using steroids back in the "loosey-goosey" early '00s without knowing what they were, endured boos and taunts at the team's spring training opener in Dunedin, Florida -- then hit a home run. The crowd turned in A-Rod's favor, ... More >>

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Sunday's Headlines: N.A.A.C.P. wants Post editor and cartoonist fired

HARKAVY now blogging at The Smart AssetAnd now, your Sunday New York headlines...N.A.A.C.P. calls for firing of Post editor Col Allan and cartoonist Sean Delonas over chimp cartoon.Lupica: NY no longer home to sport's biggest heroes. Now we've got the biggest pinheads.Mobster serving '55 million yea ... More >>

CEO of Smack

Ridley Scott's portrait of '70s dope visionary Frank Lucas may not be epic, but it's still super-fly

Gay Old Time

Cruising had the city's gay community up in arms in '79, but what was all the fuss about?

Before Bourne . . .

There was Popeye Doyle

Seeing It All

Twilight in America: The Rockford Files meets The French Connection

Reconstruction Zone

An artist's quasi-religious, art-historical, life-and-death parable

Unshakable Gotham Vibe

'Dirty Harry'

Imagine Bugs Bunny on Acid

Ever Want to Feel More Like Kiefer Sutherland?

Why You Will Never Take Ambien Again

Gordon Parks, 1912-2006

The renowned photographer, filmmaker, and author was as self-made as self-made men get

Critical Impasse

With arrests growing and two cops hurt, Critical Mass gets messy

Size Matters: A 10 Is Not a 10 Is Not a 10

Bringing a Miniature Jerusalem to Palestinians Longing to See It

Doug Wead and the Bushes, Part II

Union Square's Cut-Rate Consolations

Bright stores open in a dark time

They Stand Alone

John Frankenheimer's Lone Heroes Confront Communists, the French, and Themselves

It's Deregulation, Stupid

What the GOP Won’t Say About the Blackout

French Kiss

A Pro-Weasel Shopping Survey

Sales Pitches

Spring Breaks

Good Clothes at Good Prices

Rogue Cops and Bad Lieutenants

The Clean-Up Man

Chic Ex-Prosecutor Makes a Bundle Overseeing Teamsters Local

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Designs For Living

Blood Rites

Slippery Slopes

Sundance Takes a Tumble