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New Report Details Plans for Low-Wage Worker Justice

When a worker in this city has to endure a three-hour walk to work because his minimum wage salary doesn't allow for him to afford public transportation, that's a problem. Low-wage workers across the city have stood up in the past year to demand that such insecurity be eradicated and to pressure e ... More >>

Mitt Romney Leads Us Into an Age of Stupidity

And other points you should consider this election

Bernie Madoff Wasn't Alone in His Dirty Work, Five Former Employees Hit With New Charges

The Manhattan U.S. District Attorney and several other government agencies announced new and revised charges yesterday for five former employees who worked for infamous scam artist Bernie Madoff. Daniel Bonventre, Annette Bongiorno, Joann Crupi, Jerome O'Hara, and George Perez were indicted back i ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Ariel

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

No U2 Schadenfreude, Baby

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

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 >>

Bush Bails Out GM, Chrysler

Dying GM Drops Yankee Deal, Sticks with Mets

GOP to Motor City: Drop Dead (Updated)

U.S. to GM CEO: Take a hike

High prices at D.C. auto show

Lemon aid: Please bail out Edsel!

Bailout Thoughts from Megan McArdle

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

Charlie Wilson's War Is Over. He Lost.

Macho Geeks of the World, Unite!

New Yorkers Whack Everyone; Ulcer-Inducing Puzzles

Bumper-to-Bumper Autocide; Wrestling in High Heels

Horoscope

Rad Medicine

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

Horoscope

Bush's War on Women, Part Two

The Myth of Progress

Refill 'er Up

Carl McCall's Secret Self

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

Slack Magic

Two-Story Former Girdle Factory

Labor’s Loneliest Battles

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

Working it Out

Competing With Cancer

Auto Erotica

The Romance poetry of Detroit

Passing the Bucks

Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'

Puckfellas