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General Motors Corporation

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    NYC's 10 Weirdest Restaurants

    ​Hmmmm, will flying to Mars for dinner make me seasick? There has always been an element of zaniness in the New York dining scene, ever since pretty girls started selling hot ears of buttered corn down on Delancey Street in the 19th Century - or maybe even before that, because a restaurant b ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 5, 2011

    Ariel

    ​Hmmmm, will flying to Mars for dinner make me seasick? There has always been an element of zaniness in the New York dining scene, ever since pretty girls started selling hot ears of buttered corn down on Delancey Street in the 19th Century - or maybe even before that, because a restaurant b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2011

    Reno Air Crash Kills 3; States Oppose AT&T Merger; UAW and GM Reach Agreement

    ​At least three people died yesterday when a plane at an air race in Reno, Nevada crashed near a grandstand. Jimmy Leeward was piloting a P-51 Mustang at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show when he lost control of the aircraft. Witnesses say he managed to pull up before impact, pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2010

    Harry Wilson's War: Steve Rattner Credits Much of GM's Rescue to Obscure NY Comptroller Candidate

    NY1​Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for state comptroller, may not be preparing to turn the extraordinary praise he gets in Steve Rattner's new book, Overhaul, into a TV ad or mailer. But Rattner's remarkable account of Wilson's skillful and tireless contribution to the Obama auto-indus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    VIBE Magazine Will Be A Magazine Once More

    ​And Chris Brown and Drake will be its "first" cover subjects, reports Ad Age. We will now ceremoniously omit the joke about how certain creative entities went down in public flames and are now both on the comeback trail--we love VIBE and its dispossessed staff too dearly (plus very occasional ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    The Blogroll Gazette: The Many (Possible) Faces of Sam Sifton; Is Momo Midtown On Its Way?

    This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily imagined what sort of disguises Sam Sifton might use to hide his already public identity, including a retro Batman mask, Gael Greene-style hat, and Donald Trump wig. Midtown Lunch got excited at the prospect of a MomoMidtown... or is it MidtownFuku? Rumor ha ... More >>

  • Books

    July 22, 2009

    Pulp Fictions: David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, Brian Fies's Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, and More Comics Galore

    This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily imagined what sort of disguises Sam Sifton might use to hide his already public identity, including a retro Batman mask, Gael Greene-style hat, and Donald Trump wig. Midtown Lunch got excited at the prospect of a MomoMidtown... or is it MidtownFuku? Rumor ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    News Roundup: Sonic Youth, Evan Dando, Jeff Hanson, Live Nation

    --Tomorrow night, Sonic Youth will play the Apple Store in SoHo, by way of promoting their new album The Eternal, which comes out on Tuesday. The show is free, but you need a guest pass to attend. They can be picked up today at the SoHo store, with one non-transferable pass per fan on a first come, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    To Evade Collapse, GM Wants to Export More Jobs

    AdCandy, an advertising funsite, has started a contest soliciting an identity overhaul for General Motors. "If GM were to go bankrupt," they say, "they may want to consider coming out of bankruptcy with a new name to shed the past and look to the future. What are your thoughts?" Their competition ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

    Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2009

    A Guide to the Voice Blogs

    While we cherish the attendance of our dozens of readers as well as the helpful advice of our commenters (e.g., "Get your facts straight," "MORE MSM LIES"), we feel obliged to remind you that ours is not the only blog under the Voice umbrella, and suggest you check out our colleagues, who are at lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    RIP Pontiac: Brooklyn artist reflects on muscle car inspiration

    After General Motors announced yesterday that it is discontinuing Pontiac and laying off a lot of people as part of its restructuring efforts, we got to wondering about the fate of that 17-foot tall Trans Am sculpture that was recently on display in Socrates Sculpture Park.So we called up the artist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    Obama told Chrysler and GM to get their shit straight or go bankrupt. The new head of GM said that was okay with him. (Aren't they supposed to whine and resign in the Times?) This of course made Obama a fascist. Rightbloggers were also mad when Obama went to Europe and wasn't nice enough to the Qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    New GM Head Seems Pretty Cool with Bankruptcy

    New ObamaGM CEO "Fritz" Henderson gave a press conference this morning in which he seemed pretty cool with the possibility of bankruptcy -- noting that it would be the government-assisted, reorganizing kind, as Obama promised, not the one-piece-at-a-time auction kind. "If I didn't want to be part of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    Before he became Mayor Bloomberg's 2009 campaign manager, Bradley Tusk had been a Lehman Brothers lobbyist, a Parks Department functionary, a Chuck Schumer spokesman, a Bloomberg adviser -- and, for four years, Rod Blagojevich's deputy governor. Among Tusk's assignments under Hot Rod was a dicey f ... More >>

  • Music

    March 11, 2009

    No U2 Schadenfreude, Baby

    A mediocre album from this band is bad news whether you're a lover or a hater

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Bush Bails Out GM, Chrysler

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Dying GM Drops Yankee Deal, Sticks with Mets

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    GOP to Motor City: Drop Dead (Updated)

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    U.S. to GM CEO: Take a hike

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    High prices at D.C. auto show

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Lemon aid: Please bail out Edsel!

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Bailout Thoughts from Megan McArdle

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Daily Flog: Saudia Arabia bails out homeowners while we still haven't

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2008

    Charlie Wilson's War Is Over. He Lost.

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Screens

    September 27, 2005

    Macho Geeks of the World, Unite!

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Screens

    September 20, 2005

    New Yorkers Whack Everyone; Ulcer-Inducing Puzzles

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Screens

    September 13, 2005

    Bumper-to-Bumper Autocide; Wrestling in High Heels

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 10, 2005

    Horoscope

    Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

  • News

    May 3, 2005

    Rad Medicine

    City council wades into the middle of the nation's health care crisis

  • Columns

    March 30, 2004

    Horoscope

    City council wades into the middle of the nation's health care crisis

  • News

    June 10, 2003

    Monumental Errors

    Can the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Campaign Be Saved?

  • News

    March 11, 2003

    Bush's War on Women, Part Two

    The Myth of Progress

  • News

    October 22, 2002

    Refill 'er Up

    The Myth of Progress

  • News

    August 20, 2002

    Carl McCall's Secret Self

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

  • Film

    November 13, 2001

    Slack Magic

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

  • NYC Life

    August 21, 2001

    Two-Story Former Girdle Factory

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

  • News

    May 22, 2001

    Labor’s Loneliest Battles

    New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

  • Books

    January 30, 2001

    Working it Out

    New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

  • News

    January 16, 2001

    Nation

    New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    Surfing Up Democracy

    Blue Dog Dems—and Their Corporate Sponsors—Hear It From the Beach

  • News

    August 24, 1999

    Competing With Cancer

    Blue Dog Dems—and Their Corporate Sponsors—Hear It From the Beach

  • News

    April 13, 1999

    Auto Erotica

    The Romance poetry of Detroit

  • News

    March 16, 1999

    Passing the Bucks

    Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'

  • News

    April 28, 1998

    Puckfellas

    Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'

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