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Red Hook's Superstar Vendors Are Back This Weekend!

Sure, it could be a coincidence that the Smith-9th Street station reopened one day before Red Hook's superstar vendors from El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, and the DR set up around the ballfields. But I think the universe is conspiring to bring you a perfect sunny afternoon of horchata and tacos in ... More >>

Six Months' Worth of Coffee Beans

Bag numbers 19 (left) and 18 (right) were, respectively, Blue Bottle's Guatemala Maya Ixil, roasted in Brooklyn, and Four Barrel's Guatemala Antigua Santa Cruz, roasted in San Francisco. I drink a lot of coffee at home, ground from beans right before being deposited in a French press. I saved the ... More >>

The Return of Lencho

Chiapas, NYC at Casa Enrique

The city gets some long overdue regional Mexican fare

Where Can I Get Guatemalan Food in New York?

The Guatemalan chayote-and-chicken stew called jacon at Tierras Centro Americanas [See More Ask the Critics: Where to Plan a Bachelorette Dinner | How Do I Become a Food Writer?] David C. asks - A friend of mine has been trekking in Guatemala, and tells me about the wonderful food he's encountere ... More >>

Joe Fires Up the Roasters

Joe brings Guatemala to your press pot. [See More Kaffee Klatsch: Espresso To Stay, Surfboard To Go? | Black Coffee Roasting Company Beans Arrive at Murray's] Walk around San Francisco's South Bay for a while, through Silicon Valley towns like Mountain View and Palo Alto, and you're likely to dis ... More >>

Philly Cheese Steak Ice Cream. Oh, the Horror!

This is what you've been waiting for...or maybe not. [See More 'Ew': 5 Awful Songs About Noodles | Zombie Bread, Yikes!] We may be witnessing the birth of a new frozen treat genre. No, I think I can say that with certainty, though perhaps there were inklings decades ago when Baskin-Robbins introd ... More >>

Q&A: The Chipped Cup's Karen Cantor and Andrew Ding on the Coffee House Scene in Harlem, Part 2

[See More Interviews: Bitchin' Kitchen's Nadia G | Runner and Stone's Peter Endriss] Yesterday, Fork in the Road ran the first installment of this interview with owners Karen Cantor and Andrew Ding of the Chipped Cup, a new coffee shop in Harlem. Today, we follow-up and chat about the neighborhood ... More >>

10 Best Gelatos in New York

A waffle cone costs you no more than a regular cone at Eataly's Gelateria. The creamy imported-from-Italy treat called gelato has taken the city by ice storm over the last decade, and even old-guard Italian ice palaces have started selling it. This cousin of ice cream (which sports a lower fat con ... More >>

Aubrey Lee Price Allegedly Jacked $17 Million From A Bank. Now He's Missing And Suicidal

The United States Attorney's Office has filed charges against a Georgia man for allegedly embezzling more than $17 million from the bank he manages. The problem, however, is that he's now missing -- he's also apparently suicidal.Aubrey Lee Price has been missing since June 16, after he was last seen ... More >>

Sublime's "What I Got" And Its Ability To Inspire Low-Level Road Rage

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Summer Art Guide: 'Ghosts in the Machine'

Scenes from the Red Hook Ball Fields

There are a lot of food events going on this weekend, but I picked up a quick breakfast around the Red Hook Ball Fields. Every year, vendors from El Salvador, Mexico, DR, Colombia and Guatemala sell out of trucks parked along the fields, where kids play soccer and families set up for the day to watc ... More >>

Special Mormon Edición

Download: Larkin Grimm's Pulsing, Luminous "Paradise And So Many Colors"

Doom-folk lifer Larkin Grimm is known mostly for 2008's desolate, pastoral daymare Parplar and her colorfully wry outlook (her hilarious MySpace post about attending SXSW in 2009 is required reading). The last four years have been nothing short of monumental for Grimm; she moved to Spanish Harlem, l ... More >>

Special Mexicans Are Racist Edición

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Peach War Breaks Out Down South; Man Arrested for Bribing Restaurant Inspector

​There is a veritable peach war going on between Georgia, the peach state, and South Carolina, a growing peach market. [NY Times] The Rockefeller Center Greenmarket is back, bringing fresh, local fruits, vegetables, honey, and more to midtown. [DNA Info] A new survey of dining trends conclu ... More >>

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A Week After Coup Leaves Allende Dead, No One Knows Anything

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 20, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 38 The Press Desk by Alexander Cockburn THERE HAVE BEEN HEADLINES in the papers and cover stories in Time and Newsweek but one of the central facts about Chile, so far as the world's newspaper-readin ... More >>

Today in El Diario: Fighting Deportation

​A woman fights deportation  Norma Cordon, 35, emigrated from Morales Izabal, Guatemala, in 1997, crossing the border with two small children in tow and, after paying thousands of dollars and facing numerous difficulties, she finally arrived in Newark, where she's lived for 10 years, El Dia ... More >>

Ten Fascinating Ethnic Ingredients Chefs Should Get to Know Better

Sprinkled with sesame seeds, marinated jellyfish makes a memorable summer salad​ The last couple of decades have flooded NYC with colorful cuisines many of us never knew existed, and stocked ethnic markets with exotic ingredients that had strange names and fascinating properties. This influx ... More >>

Should the United States Return the Southwest to Mexico?

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Can a Gabacho Become President of Mexico?

And why do Mexicans jump so much?

Andrew Sarris: Heteros Have Problems Too

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 4, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 5 Heteros have problems too By Andrew Sarris I am 42, going on 43, and I have never had a homosexual experience. Thus, if only by the process of elimination (and an ecstatically happy marriage), I must q ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

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U.S. Real Sorry About Giving Guatemala Gonorrhea That One Time

​Just when you thought there was a statue of limitations regarding that unfortunate "crabs incident" of 1996, the U.S. has gone ahead and sort of done the right thing, owning up to having purposely infected Guatemalans (without their knowledge or consent, obvi) with sexually transmitted diseas ... More >>

White America Has Lost Its Mind

The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion

Zack de la Rocha, MIA

We need more of Zack's music, fewer Wikipedia scholars

Illegal Immigrant's Heart Transplant is Covered. Her Rent is Not.

​In June, the Voice wrote about Julia Amparo-Alvarado, a 42-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who faced death without a heart transplant. The mother of two was navigating a complex path of gaining insurance coverage despite her immigration status. Three weeks ago, Julia managed to get ... More >>

Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

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An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

Morning Links: Scary Sinkhole in Guatemala, BP Losing Value Like It's Losing Oil, Real Housewives DWI Bust

​• In the wake of Tropical Storm Agatha, there is a giant sinkhole in Guatemala City, and it is terrifying. "It may look like it's impossible to fix, but we've done it before," says David de Leon, spokesman for the Guatemala disaster response agency. Video of the sinkhole here. • BP has l ... More >>

Morning Links: International Criticism Mounts Against Israel, Hurricane Season Begins, Quit Facebook Actually "Update Your Status" Day

AP​• Israel is holding more than 600 activists from the Gaza convoy, and international criticism of the country is mounting, with the UN condemning the acts that on Monday killed 9 civilians -- many of them Turks, a country that had once been a friend of Israel -- aboard the flotilla that ha ... More >>

The Early Word: Kickstand Coffee, Williamsburg's First Coffee Bike

Mackenzie SchmidtKickstand sets up shop at McCarren Park.​In our many caffeinated years, we've committed every crime known to coffee--making old hot coffee into iced, reheating in the microwave, and mixing vintages (making new coffee over yesterday's lingering leftovers in the pot). We're not ... More >>

Full Mental Jacket

Mexicans are short, impervious to cold

The Spoiled American

No one is catered to overseas like the Yanks

Bronx priest turns to high-end fashion

​The Rev. Andrew O'Connor, who serves in what he describes as "the parish of Jennifer Lopez," has an untraditional sideline. O'Connor, who has been making patterns since he was 16, designs and manufactures high-priced hand-sewn clothing out of hand-woven organic cotton fabric. Anna Wintour is ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! What's It All About, Salvi?

Understanding Mexican-Salvadoran animosity

'Crash' Director Paul Haggis Ditches Scientology

"I am only ashamed that I waited this many months to act. I hereby resign my membership in the Church of Scientology." ​Over the past few days, a remarkable letter was published in four parts at the blog of Marty Rathbun, a former high-level Scientology official who has left the church and no ... More >>

The Yankees' Clean-Up Man

Rudy went to bat for the Yanks, and look what he scored.

Southern Gothic

High Prices on Fordham Road

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Votes Of No Confidence: Our Strained Relations with the U.N.

Snow-Blind on 43rd Street

The Times’ Silence on Plan Colombia