Hanoi

How to Make a Hanoi Ginger from Betel Bar and Kitchen

The vendors on Broadway are selling oversized 2013 sunglasses. Bring on the sequins and make some questionable decisions, it's time for New Year's Eve. If celebrating in sparkles is not your idea of a good time, consider washing your cares away with something bubbly instead (it's tradition!). Today ... More >>

Is Sao Mai Our Best Vietnamese Restaurant?

Take First Avenue to Hanoi

Yoko Ono (6) And Leiber & Stoller (11) Go Head To Heads In SOTC's March Madness

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—continues to chug along, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. This morning's first match puts the a ... More >>

Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din Moves the Bushwick Starr to the Front Lines

Mark Sitko mashes up the American war experience

The Struggle: Black Power Mixtape and Bobby Fischer

Dog Meat: What Does It Taste Like?

Grand Central Publishing​In case you Fork in the Road readers don't Google-stalk me, you might not know that I wrote a book called Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris, which recounts the year I spent learning to cook in restaurants around the world. ... More >>

Our 10 Best Vietnamese Restaurants

Lauren ShockeyBun cha Ha Noi at Pho Bang​Alas, New York City isn't one of the great Vietnamese culinary capitals of the world. Which is too bad, because at least in our minds, Vietnamese cuisine is one of the best on the globe. But you can still find some decent Viet grub. You just have to ... More >>

Ask the Critics: Where Can I Have an Interactive Date?

flickr/jetaloneWhere's the beef? Right here.​Steve S. Asks: I want to impress my lady with a non-boring date. Something like Korean barbecue where it's not just the same old dinner. What are some interactive options for us? Dear Steve: I love interactive dates where you get to cook your own ... More >>

Soldiers Come Home from Vietnam: Emotion, But No Spitting

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 15, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 7 Home from the war by Joe Shea CLARK AIR FORCE BASE, Philippines -- He was a tall, blond, and heavy man who breezed into the bar around 2 a.m. in a rumpled blue polo shirt. He ordered a Coke and we t ... More >>

Eating Bun Cha Ha Noi at Pho Bang

Lauren Shockey​Bun, otherwise known as rice noodles, are ubiquitous at Vietnamese restaurants throughout the city. New York is rife with bun thit nuong--a large bowl filled with rice noodles, grilled pork or beef, pickled vegetables, lettuce, and herbs. So we were very happy to see on Pho Ba ... More >>

Porsena Makes Sara Jenkins Consider the Comparative Splendor of Hanoi

Carla Roley​Sara Jenkins files her latest Porsena dispatch in The Atlantic today. It's her first since opening the restaurant a few weeks ago, and, as her column makes clear, those weeks have been hell. At one point she considered turning the place over to Nate Appleman and running off to Hano ... More >>

Tuli Kupferberg Is God, and a Shoulda-Been Cult Hit Finally Gets Its NY Premiere

Partying Down at Bill Buckley's House

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 17, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 38 A Day at the Buckleys: Big Blight at Great Elm By Barbara Long SHARON, Connecticut -- Several months before Apollo 13's crew walked out on "Hair," setting us straight once and for all on just who the ... More >>

Chatting With Sara Jenkins: Porsena, Eataly, and the Simple Beauty of Pasta With Tomato Sauce

Carla RoleySara Jenkins​Widely celebrated for the black magic she works with boneless pork roast at Porchetta, Sara Jenkins currently has her hands full opening Porsena, her new pasta restaurant down the block from Porchetta on East 7th Street. Jenkins, who spent much of her childhood in Tusca ... More >>

Co Ba Tries to Capture the Spirit of Vietnam's Neighborhood Stalls

Steven Duong offers a new restaurant

Co Ba: a New Vietnamese Eatery in Chelsea From a Pioneering Restaurateur

Bottom: banh duc man (steamed coconut cakes); Top: goi du du (green papaya with pork belly and shrimp)​New York is not known for its Vietnamese food, but Steven Duong has been quietly trying to change that for years, offering vibrant, precise dishes in ever-so-slightly upscale places. The Vie ... More >>

The Oscars' Six Most Outrageous Moments

Statues of no limitations—the Academy Awards bring the crazy

A Different Kind of 1960's War Demonstration

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 31 The Hawks in May: A Day to Remember By Joe Flaherty On Saturday afternoon past, with the war gods supplying sunshine to heat their passions, the Legions of Decency and Death paraded down Fifth Avenue. Lik ... More >>

Clip Job: The Apocryphal Teeny Bopper

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 14, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 39 The Apocryphal Teeny Bopper By Howard Smith and Jack Newfield A 13-year-old blonde-on-blonde named Cher Zimmerman, dressed in flowered bell-bottomed pants and a fur vest over her knish-size breasts, com ... More >>

Clip Job: Tacos, Rock 'n' Roll Girls Invade the Village

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 30, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 37 Scenes By Howard Smith The girl who plays the drums is not allowed to play barefoot any more. There seems to be a city regulation against naked toes and soles in a restaurant. She still has a lot going ... More >>

Clip Job: Peace March, 1966

Ginsberg at the Peace March, photo by Fred W. McDarrah​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 31, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 24 Peace March, 1966 By Paul Warren I live on 103rd Street near Central Park West, one of the very few whites in a block of Negroes and Puerto Ricans. ... More >>

Clip Job: Vietnam War Protesters Get an Earful

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 21, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 1 Peaceful Protesters Parade Against War By Paul Cowan Between 15,000 and 20,000 people marched along Fifth Avenue in a parade protesting America's involvement in Vietnam last Saturday. Though Sunday's ... More >>

On the Exhausting Exhilaration of Oneida

Catching up with our finest purveyor of impromptu noise-punk trilogies

Xie Xie's Angelo Sosa Talks Sandwiches, Sriracha

 While the city's banh mi fever may be breaking, Angelo Sosa is betting that Asian sandwiches still have traction on our palates and in our stomachs, particularly if pork buns are involved. Yesterday, Sosa -- who was the executive sous chef at Jean-Georges and became synonymous with contemporar ... More >>

Madonna's Uncut Boy Toy

Hey, you with the short attention span! Read these items, please.

Letters

Week in Review: Type "Motorhead" into an iPhone and it Auto-Adds the Umlaut

photo of the Fucked Up Inauguration Day crowd by Santiago Felipe In the week we said goodbye to John Updike, twice, and Missbehave Magazine once, we said hello to American Idol judge Kara's cleavage, the U2 song "Get on Your Boots," and welcomed Hanoi Jane back. Cold and poor, we also watched a ... More >>

Letters 8.13.08

Is McCain a War Criminal Who Has Served His Time?

Bomb, bomb Hanoi

Jane Fonda's Cunning Lingual Slip of the Tongue!

Pro-Life

Artists return to the Vietnam protest model with For Life Against the War . . . Again

Letters

The Many Ideas of Oneida

More confounding innovation from Brooklyn's weirdest and finest

Interpreter of Maladies Covers the SARS Spread

Din and Grin

Brooklyn's utopian power trio veers off the highway to hell

Senator Goes Missing

Where are the soldiers? The issue the press never asks McCain about.

A Very Happy Happy Hour

Verlaine caters to the thirsty and thrifty seven days a week

Political Urgency at Arts Fest May Cause Vietnam Flashbacks

Brothers-in-Cover-up

When Kerry worked with Cheney on Vietnam P.O.W.'S

When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.

Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind

Did America Abandon Vietnam War P.O.W.'s? Part 2

A closer look at an ugly issue

Follow the Microfiche

Did America Abandon Vietnam War P.O.W.'s? Part 1

A closer look at an ugly issue

Finning Off the Viet Cong; They're Still Here, One's All Gone

Mo’ Better Pho

G.I. Jane

A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

Trailer Flash and Female Trouble

Toronto Divides and Conquers

Nation

NY Mirror

Oh What a Lovely War!

Technological Racism in Kosovo