Haiti

Zombie Apocalypse: A Primer on The Undead

A rash of recent news reports about flesh-eating humans -- the tally has hit at least seven in the last week -- has had a lot of people asking: Are we entering the zombie apocalypse? Two key things people do not seem to have asked (but should!): So what the fuck are zombies, anyway? And: Do zombie ... More >>

Creole Choir of Cuba

'Summerstage Festival: RAM+Group Doueh+Baloji'

Hurricane Rips Into a Haiti Still Waiting for Post-Earthquake Aid

Photo: Ariana Cubillos While Hurricane Tomas batters Haiti today, none of the $1.15 billion in aid pledged by the United States after last January's devastating earthquake has arrived. Ten months since the 7.3 magnitude quake killed 230,000 people and only weeks after news of a cholera outbreak, th ... More >>

Sean Penn on Wyclef Jean: "It Is Folly For We Americans to Assume 'Our Haitian' Is Their Answer"

​Well, this will surely be awkward when Sean Penn and Wyclef Jean have to share whatever inevitable Haiti-relief benefit stage in six months from now. Hours after Haiti's electoral council knocked out Wyclef's appeal of their ruling that he couldn't run for their presidency--because he hadn't ... More >>

Vote No On Wyclef Jean: Why the Former Fugee's Run For the Haitian Presidency Is Totally Misguided

Wyclef Jean opens NASDAQ on the six month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. Photo via Yele Haiti.​So it's official: Wyclef Jean is running for the Haitian presidency. The former Fugee confirmed the news to the New York Times last night; later today, he's expected to go on Larry King Live ... More >>

Earthquake Strikes Baja California

​A 7.2-magnitude earthquake -- the biggest to strike in the area since 1892 -- hit Baja California Sunday at 3:40 p.m., according to the United States Geological Survey.

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife

​The Arms Around Haiti event at Public Assembly kicks off our Friday evening with a reminder that just because there haven't been any telethons lately doesn't mean the situation isn't just as awful as it ever was. The event spans over both rooms of the venue and boasts a lineup of over ten dis ... More >>

'Arms Around Haiti'

DINING IN

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The Grammys Work: Lady Antebellum's Need You Now Is #1; Lady Gaga Is Back at #3

​All bands should be so lucky as to play the Grammys the week their record hits shelves. For instance: charmingly trite, light country trio Lady Antebellum, who just sold 481,000 fucking copies of their sophomore record, Need You Now. Those are Susan Boyle numbers. Extra bonus scorched earth p ... More >>

Alan Lomax's Haitian Time Capsule

A 10-disc box from the '30s captures a troubled nation in transition

'A Night of Haitian Rara'

RESCUE HAITI

Laughing for a good cause

What's Happening This Week: More Help for Haiti; A Glimpse into SHO Shaun Hergatt

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Drink Coffee/Help Haiti 'wichcraft January 25 It's been close to two weeks since devastation gripped Haiti, and the relief efforts are still rolling in. 'wichcraft has teamed up wit ... More >>

Live: St. Vincent and Bon Iver Sing Your (Dad's) Favorites at BrooklynVegan's Haiti Benefit

St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, Bon Iver, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, and more Haiti Benefit @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg Saturday, January 23 BrooklynVegan might best be known for having the most obnoxious commenters in the entire music blogosphere (which, in fairness, is certainly no small ... More >>

Your Big, Honking Guide to Haiti Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Non-Wyclef Musical Edition

If this doesn't say it all, don't know what does Wyclef's Yele charity has recently drawn a firestorm of criticism, but he's not the only musical figure trying to mobilize folks and funds on behalf of Haiti. There's also an impressive number of benefit concerts and music events happening in the cit ... More >>

Does The Money Really Get To Haiti?

​Everywhere you go, people are asking for donations to help the people in earthquake-devastated Haiti, and one can't help responding by immediately opening one's heart and wallet. Even at D'Agostino, they ask you at the checkout counter if you want to give a dollar for Haiti. For God's sake, ... More >>

Jonah Goldberg: Haiti Would Be Better Off If It Were Rich

​If you're wondering, especially since Scott Brown's victory turned America Republican again, what conservative thinkers have been up to lately, have a gander at National Review editor Jonah Goldberg's latest column, in which he explains that the earthquake would have been no big deal for Hait ... More >>

On January 24, Eat for Haiti

​In the immediate wake of last Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti, Ilili chef-owner Philippe Massoud put out the call for his fellow restaurateurs to come together to raise money to help relief efforts in the devastated country. Now, less than a week later, an impressive roster of Massoud's colleag ... More >>

Rightbloggers Keep It Sweet on Haiti -- Unless You Attack Rush, Are Obama, Etc.

The disaster in Haiti has obsessed both mainstream media and bloggers, and for the most part rightbloggers have been exceptionally well-behaved about it. Even some normally obstreperous critics have praised Obama for his interventions, and if they piled on Danny Glover for attributing the quake t ... More >>

US takes over airport in haitian capital

Médecins Sans Frontières​At the request of the haitian government, the United States Army has taken over operation of the Port au Prince airport in Haiti's capital to unblock the delivery of supplies to what the UN is calling the worst disaster they've ever dealt with.

Haiti Is The Only Story

​Our normal political pursuits are rendered even more trivial than usual by the footage of the corpse-lined streets of Port- Au-Prince. Ford vs. Gillibrand? Paterson's depleted campaign treasury? Senate expulsion for Monserrate? Thirty days in jail for Dominic Carter? Our everyday concerns sli ... More >>

One of the Owners of Brooklyn's Kombit Restaurant is Missing in Haiti

Brownstoner.comKombit Bar and Restaurant​ New York restaurants are beginning to raise money to aid relief efforts in Haiti, but at least one has been directly impacted by the earthquake: one of the owners of Kombit, a Haitian restaurant in Prospect Heights, is missing after traveling to Haiti ... More >>

NYU Students Who Went to Haiti Rescued; New Yorkers Send Relief

​As Tom Robbins observes, Haiti is the only story, albeit with some local angles. Now it is reported that two NYU doctoral candidates, Nathalie Pierre and Greg Childs, who had gone to Haiti before the quake and were reported missing, have been found alive and well in the Dominican Republic. ... More >>

Pat Robertson: Haitian Earthquake Caused by a "Pact To the Devil"

The cataclysmic 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has "flattened" the capital city, Port-Au-Prince, and killed perhaps more than a hundred thousand people*. National Geographic says it's the strongest earthquake in Haiti in 200 years, and caused by the release of seismic stresses on tectonic plates. Above, ... More >>

Clip Job: Jules Feiffer on the Meaning of Inness and Outness

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesAugust 8, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 42'In' and 'Out' With Mensch MagazineBy Jules FeifferThe rumors began several weeks ago, Mensch, the Magazine for Insiders was about to devote an issue to the literary scene -- "the quality-lit scene," as one Mensch ... More >>

DO THE CONGA BEAT

Rhythms and dance from Brazil to the Ivory Coast

ISLAND LIFE

Jamaican company shows its roots

The Immigrant Song

Death, folktale, and Haitian gangs in Edwidge Danticat's family memoir

Vodou Child

Haitian religious rites in the unlikeliest of places: a Long Island suburb

Democracy, Now

Brooklyn Haitians blame the state for violence in Port-au-Prince

Haitian Police Distribute Machetes in Bel Air

Aristide Supporters Divided on Haitian Elections

Letters

Haiti Under U.S. Pressure to Release Neptune

But no mention of Jean-Juste or Annette August

Love and Haiti

Wyclef Jean sends a swirling Creole valentine and relief to his homeland

Letters

No Lambi Today

Haitian café in Kensington goes easy on the national dish

Broadcast News

Discussing radio, revolution, and dreams of democracy with director Jonathan Demme

Revelation Road

Novelist Edwidge Danticat talks about Haiti, parallel realities, and your mysterious parents

Say What?

Drug Through the Mud

A Way Station For Dope, Haiti Again Gets The Wrong Kind Of Interference

Haiti's Unauthorized Refugees Held in Miami

Love and Haiti

Haiti’s Virtual Government

Nation on the Brink of Civil War

The Investigation Continues

Widow of Slain Haitian Radio Journalist Carries on His Work Amid Threats

Police Brutality and Voodoo Justice

Rudy, Race, and Religion in the Wake of Louima and Dorismond

Nation

The Sound of Silence

Killing the Hope in Haiti