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  • Voice Choices

    August 31, 2011

    CAT AND MOUSE

    Take a wild ride with the NYPD's drug squad

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    December 22, 2010

    Little Fockers and the Franchise of Diminishing Returns

    ​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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2010

    The French Connection

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film

    March 11, 2009

    Z at Film Forum

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 25, 2009

    The French Connection

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film

    October 23, 2007

    CEO of Smack

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

  • Film

    August 28, 2007

    Gay Old Time

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

  • Film

    August 21, 2007

    Before Bourne . . .

    There was Popeye Doyle

  • Art

    June 6, 2006

    Seeing It All

    Twilight in America: The Rockford Files meets The French Connection

  • Art

    June 6, 2006

    Reconstruction Zone

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

  • Screens

    May 30, 2006

    Unshakable Gotham Vibe

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

  • Film

    March 28, 2006

    'Dirty Harry'

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

  • Screens

    March 21, 2006

    Imagine Bugs Bunny on Acid

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

  • Screens

    March 14, 2006

    Ever Want to Feel More Like Kiefer Sutherland?

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

  • Screens

    March 7, 2006

    Why You Will Never Take Ambien Again

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

  • Film

    March 7, 2006

    Gordon Parks, 1912-2006

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

  • News

    February 14, 2006

    Critical Impasse

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

  • NYC Life

    August 23, 2005

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

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

  • Theater

    May 31, 2005

    Bringing a Miniature Jerusalem to Palestinians Longing to See It

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

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2005

    Doug Wead and the Bushes, Part II

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

  • NYC Life

    October 26, 2004

    Union Square's Cut-Rate Consolations

    Bright stores open in a dark time

  • Film

    September 16, 2003

    They Stand Alone

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

  • News

    August 19, 2003

    It's Deregulation, Stupid

    What the GOP Won’t Say About the Blackout

  • NYC Life

    March 11, 2003

    French Kiss

    A Pro-Weasel Shopping Survey

  • Film

    December 17, 2002

    Sales Pitches

    A Pro-Weasel Shopping Survey

  • NYC Life

    April 16, 2002

    Spring Breaks

    Good Clothes at Good Prices

  • Film

    August 7, 2001

    Rogue Cops and Bad Lieutenants

    Good Clothes at Good Prices

  • News

    April 17, 2001

    The Clean-Up Man

    Chic Ex-Prosecutor Makes a Bundle Overseeing Teamsters Local

  • Music

    April 18, 2000

    Music

    Chic Ex-Prosecutor Makes a Bundle Overseeing Teamsters Local

  • Long Island Voice

    September 21, 1999

    Designs For Living

    Chic Ex-Prosecutor Makes a Bundle Overseeing Teamsters Local

  • Film

    April 13, 1999

    Blood Rites

    Chic Ex-Prosecutor Makes a Bundle Overseeing Teamsters Local

  • Film

    February 9, 1999

    Slippery Slopes

    Sundance Takes a Tumble

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