Good Morning America

Who or What Will Chris Brown Fight Next?

When you look at Chris Brown, what do you see? A bully with an entourage all too happy to start a dust-up over a perceived slight or a parking space? An emotionally crippled/stunted young man who is the sad victim of the cycle of domestic abuse? A wanton spreader of pink eye? The boo-hooingest cryba ... More >>

The Legend Of Snaggapuss: The Cult Bronx MC Who Rapped In A Cartoon Voice And Was Courted By Dr. Dre

Snaggapuss ingratiated himself to the early-'90s New York City rap scene through a series of guest verses recited in a tone resembling Hanna-Barbera's pink cartoon lion Snagglepuss. As part of mixtape master Doo-Wop's Bounce Squad, Snagga was prepped to emerge as the break-out solo artist of the bun ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima

As the stakes get higher on YouTube, video stars are finding safety—and power—in numbers

After Batman Theater Shooting, Rightbloggers Rush to Defend What's Important: Guns, Themselves

Last week's terrible incident in Aurora, Colorado in which 70 people were shot, 12 fatally, at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises made many of us think about how awful these episodes of senseless violence are, how precious and fragile life is, and that we should stay close and be good to ou ... More >>

Lisa Marie Presley Removes All Mention of Scientology From Her Official Website (UPDATED)

After the jump: Less than 30 minutes after we pointed out one last CCHR mention on her website, Lisa Marie scrubbed it! Yesterday, the Voice revealed the lyrics to the song "So Long" on Lisa Marie Presley's new album, Storm and Grace, which seem to confirm what she was saying in her advance single, ... More >>

Lisa Marie Presley Says "So Long" to Scientology

Last month, we noted that Lisa Marie Presley's single "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," which she released ahead of her new album, Storm and Grace, came with lyrics that read like a kiss-off to the Church of Scientology, even using some of Scientology's jargon -- like the very telling word suppressive. ... More >>

Scientology Counterattack: Commenters of the Week!

There's been so much enturbulation in the underground bunker lately, it's been hell on the cats, who just want to catch up on their sleep. So we installed one of those kitty hi-rises this week and it was an instant hit. The little carnivores are remaining more calm in their tiny carpeted condos whil ... More >>

Nightline's Scientology "Exclusive": What was Exclusive About It, Exactly?

I had a strange and powerful case of déjà vu last night while watching Nightline's interview with Debbie Cook as she talked about being held in "the Hole" at Scientology's international base in California, where executives who fall out of favor with church leader David Miscavige are sent to rot in ... More >>

DEBBIE COOK COUNTERSUES SCIENTOLOGY: We Have Her Counterclaim, and the Church's Legal Salvos

The Voice has learned that Debbie Cook filed a counterclaim against the Church of Scientology Monday afternoon, the first significant development since her stunning victory against the church in a Texas courtroom on February 10. In her counterclaim, Cook is aiming directly at Scientology's ultimate ... More >>

R.I.P., Uncle Chichi, You Old Dog

Uncle Chichi, circa 2000 (via Facebook)​According to the New York Times, there is a sad bit of information to impart today. Uncle Chichi, a West Village toy poodle who may have been 24, 25, or 26 years old, who had been battling cancer (sadface), and who was unquestionably adored and adorable, ... More >>

Scientology in Turmoil: Debbie Cook's E-Mail, Annotated

Since news broke Sunday of Debbie Cook's stunning e-mail, sent to thousands of her fellow Scientologists, word of a serious rift inside the church has been appearing in many news outlets, particularly in Europe. In the meantime, we provided additional depth and context about Debbie Cook, her career, ... More >>

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Outs Himself as an Illegal Immigrant

Vargas​In Sunday's edition of the New York Times Magazine, online today, a former Washington Post reporter and senior contributing editor for The Huffington Post, Jose Antonio Vargas, tells the story of his own life as an undocumented immigrant. Sent by his mother to the United States from the ... More >>

Botox Mom 'Kerry Campbell' Fooled Everyone, Is Not Really a Botox Mom, Is Still Messed Up

​Oooh! Will America be mad at this, or what? The alleged Botox Mom is a farce! A hoax (as earlier speculated)! A tawdry effort to make a bit of cash and get a little bit famous, reports TMZ, which claims to have a sworn declaration written by a woman named Sheena Upton, who says she was approa ... More >>

Mel Gibson Is Crazy (in The Beaver)

TSA Pat-Down of 6-Year-Old Girl to Be Reviewed

After public outcry over this video of a 6-year-old girl receiving a thorough pat-down from a TSA agent, which we posted yesterday (gleaning more than 100 comments), the TSA and Congress are promising to look at their policies for screening small children, reports the Washington Post.

Rightbloggers Enjoy The Birther-rific Quasi-Candidacy of Donald Trump

In case you missed it, Donald Trump is sort of running for President. He's shown his seriousness about this by speaking at the CPAC political convention, and by taking a job at Fox News. That Trump might push this self-publicity campaign all the way to the 2012 Republican convention is expected by ... More >>

Rightbloggers Taste the Tiger Blood, Link Charlie Sheen to Unions, Obama, and Gay Marriage

Last week it seemed no one could get enough of Charlie Sheen. Though he'd previously made the papers with his drug problems, domestic violence incidents, and hit TV series, Sheen attained internet meme status when, after his ravings derailed his show, he responded with spectacularly outsized referen ... More >>

Keith Olbermann Will Shut Up For Most of 2011

​Keith Olbermann's departure from MSNBC is being euphemistically called a "negotiated separation," but this for the same man who was called "a jerk and difficult and brutal" by his boss. The New York Times has more details in this morning's paper, the most concrete being the fact that Olberman ... More >>

Bloomberg Names First Chief Digital Officer; New York Times Readies Online Paywall

​Rachel Sterne, a 27-year-old child of New York City's burgeoning start-up scene and a citizen journalism early adopter, has been named the city's Chief Digital Officer by the Bloomberg administration. What on earth does that mean? Find out inside Press Clips, our afternoon media round-up. Plu ... More >>

POTUS 2012: Sarah Palin or Donald Trump, Take Your Pick

​There have been a number of times throughout the year when yelling "Ohhh hell nah!" has been rather appropriate. None more so than recently, however, when Donald Trump announced he would consider running in the 2012 Presidential election. Sure, he's contemplated running before. But this time ... More >>

San Diego Man Refuses TSA Search, Kickstarts Revolt Against Airport Security

​John Tyner, a software programmer in California, is on his way this weekend to becoming a folk hero for refusing to comply with Transportation Security Administration security procedures at San Diego International Airport, including the controversial backscatter x-ray machines, which can see ... More >>

Meghan McCain Gets Liberal Media-ed

​"Daughter of John McCain Is a Rebel," declares the New York Times on Sunday. She couldn't have said it better herself. The 25-year-old Meghan fancies herself the zany future of the Republican party (loves the gays!), but has made more splash for her image and cultivation thereof than her poli ... More >>

World's Oldest Dog Appears on Good Morning America

​Chichi (aka Uncle Chichi or "Cheech"), the West Village poodle who is possibly the oldest dog in the world, has recovered from his illness and appeared with his owners today on morning blah-fest Good Morning America. He seemed to be doing pretty well for a dog who may be as old as 24, which i ... More >>

Debrahlee Lorenzana Now Also Too Hot For JPMorgan Chase

Debrahlee told to shut up!​Claiming she's tarnishing the financial industry's reputation, ex-Citibanker Debrahlee Lorenzana's current employer, JPMorgan Chase, now threatens to fire her for speaking to the press, the Voice learned today. Debrahlee Lorenzana is the sexy former Citibanker whose ... More >>

Video: Standardized Testing, Bullying, Charter School System to Blame for Texas Teacher-Student Beatdown

​Have you seen the video of that teacher at a Texas charter school who gave a kid an ass-stompin' beatdown? Well, via Yahoo, the teacher -- Sherri Davis -- went on Good Morning America today. It was fairly convincing, but a few elements in the narrative that are pretty important to understandi ... More >>

Giuliani Criticizes Obama for Allowing Crotch-Bomber "Domestic Attack" When Bush Had None (um, 9/11?)

Rudolph Giuliani went on Good Morning America and announced that "we had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama," seeming to forget the World Trade Center attacks that made him America's Mayor in 2001. Interviewer George Stephanopoulos did not correct him at the time. Cue Darry ... More >>

The 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2009

Barring a massive surge of readership between now and Thursday night (and with Michael Musto half-naked on this week's cover, anything is possible), we can safely say that the following stories generated the most interest from our readers this year. (And watch out for #3 -- it's definitely Not Safe ... More >>

Go To Prison, Get A Nightline Puff Piece? Does Ted Koppel Know About This?

​Here's a challenge: try to imagine a major network television news program -- one with a long, storied reputation for hard-hitting journalism -- assigning a reporter to follow around OJ Simpson's current love interest (whoever that might be), in order to drum up sympathy for how difficult lif ... More >>

Model Finds Diabolical Way to Burn Blogger Who Called Her a Skank

​"Will Google Out 'Skanks' Blogger Who Burned Liksula Cohen?" asked ChannelWeb after Cohen won the right to learn the identity of the blogger who called her a skank and other choice epithets on a now-vanished web site. They worried about the First Amendment implications. We don't know how the ... More >>

YouTube Wedding Dance Video Ends in Tragedy

​YouTube can be a path to celebrity, but also a path to bitterness and regret, as we are seeing in the case of Kevin Heinz and Jillian Peterson, whose bright idea to turn their wedding march into a dance routine to Chris Brown's "Forever" has made them internet celebrities. But these innocen ... More >>

Are You There, God? It's Me, Regina Spektor

The downtown ingénue takes on bigger audiences and weightier issues

Bloggers Vs. an Author: No One Wins

Thoughts on book tours, literary self-promotion, and one published writer's blog spat

Columbia's Knotty Noose Problem, Part 2

How the Teachers College administration went from supportive to skeptical in the Constantine case

Columbia's Knotty Noose Problem

There's still no culprit for a notorious noose at Teachers College—but plenty of evidence behind the firing of Madonna Constantine

Columbia Fires 'Noose' Professor for Plagiarism

A law firm hired by Teachers College concluded that Madonna Constantine had lifted the work of others

Minding Mencia

Sure, Carlos is a hack, but is that a reason to hate him?

The Bohemian Diaspora

Full Disclosure

Time for Miller to come clean

Bush Saddles Up for Terri Schiavo

Get me an activist judge! Prez rides hard for Christian right

Unquiet Riot

Media come out slugging after the NBA brawl in Detroit, throw in sucker punches, 'moral' lessons

The Literary Olympics

At the 440 B.C. Olympic Games, a hot young author made the scene—Herodotus!

Mauling Michael Moore

The attack on Fahrenheit 9/11: Fox lays back while ABC and NBC pile on

Close-Up on Times Square

Behind the Pulitzer

Death and litigation continue even after The New York Times exposed a foundry owner's negligence

Ash-Blond Ambition

Prosecutor Linda Fairstein May Have Tried Too Hard

Letters

Reading Between the Lines

How Ashcroft Could Make an End Run Around Roe v. Wade

Ready for Prime Time

X-treme Performance Art Moves From the Margin to the Mainstream

NY Mirror

Springer loves playing Ed Sullivan to all those lesbian stripper nuns and their disgruntled drug dealers. 'These people don't have