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    November 17, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street National Day of Action: Live Updates From Downtown Manhattan

    Nick PintoThe NYSE, which protestors did not stop from opening today​Good afternoon, and welcome to the evening edition of the Village Voice liveblog of Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action. Today, November 17, marks the two month anniversary since Occupy Wall Street began in Zuccotti Park. Pro ... More >>

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    November 16, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street and the End of Zuccotti: What's Next?

    C.S. MuncyPolice clear Zuccotti Park on Monday night.​This week, I have a story in the print version of the paper about what would happen if Occupy Wall Street was no longer occupying Zuccotti Park. The story went to print before the city evicted the protesters on Monday night. Some aspects ... More >>

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    October 19, 2011

    Ray Kelly Versus the First Amendment--On My Street

    C.S. MuncyPolice clear Zuccotti Park on Monday night.​This week, I have a story in the print version of the paper about what would happen if Occupy Wall Street was no longer occupying Zuccotti Park. The story went to print before the city evicted the protesters on Monday night. Some aspects ... More >>

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    October 19, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: It's the Best of New York Issue!

    ​This week in the Voice, out today: Our Best of New York issue has finally arrived! Inside, we celebrate New York's inherent internationalism, with guides on how to travel the world without leaving the five boroughs. Maura Johnston looks at modern New York's scattered musical culture. Michae ... More >>

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    October 14, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street "Cleaning": Live Updates from the Standoff

    Via Twitter/@LucyKafanovA camped out protester waking up others as police arrive​After a night of pouring rain with unrelenting thunder and lightening (is Mayor Bloomberg wealthy enough to own one of those Bond-vilain-style weather machines?), the moment of confrontation between the NYPD and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Does Anyone Really Believe the Postponed "Cleaning" of Zuccotti Park was Brookfield's Decision? [UPDATED]

    ​Our Harry Siegel, who has been in Zuccotti Park since 9:00 PM last night, just phoned in to pose this question: "Does anyone really think this was Brookfield's decision?"

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    October 12, 2011

    Billionaire's March Occupies the Upper East Side

    ​Yesterday at noon, protesters gathered at 59th Street and 5th Avenue (just across the street from the Plaza Hotel) for the Billionaire's March, a picket of the homes of five of New York's richest men: Rupert Murdoch, David Koch, Howard Milstein, Jamie Dimon, and John Paulson. Separate from ye ... More >>

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    October 6, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street March Sullied By Violent Altercations With Police [Update: Ray Kelly's Response]

    At the tail end of last night's Occupy Wall Street march from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park with major unions (and a guest appearance from Michael Moore), the facilitator of the Zuccotti rally announced a march on Wall Street. As it turned out, it was an unauthorized march, as we discovered when we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Kathy Griffin, Rick Perry's Fantasy Texas

    ​This week in the Voice, out today: Jim Schutze analyzes the economy of Rick Perry's Texas. It's definitely not the small government, super-low-tax fantasyland Perry would like you to think it is. Michael Musto and Kathy Griffin talk Tourette's and Paula Abdul. Harry Siegel details a possib ... More >>

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    October 5, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street: Live Updates From the March

    The Community/Labor march to Wall Street is on, with thousands of people filling Foley Square, where marchers are assembling prior to the march, which begins at 5 p.m. They're scheduled to head past City Hall and to Zuccotti Park to "unite in solidarity." Nick Pinto (@macfathom) and Rosie Gray (_@ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Inside Suckadelic Enterprises, R.E.M.'s Reckoning

    This week in the Voice, out today: Camille Dodero profiles the Sucklord, 42-year-old Morgan Phillips, who lived with his mother till the age of 36 but is now an important figure in the designer toy world despite thinking that everyone sucks. Maura Johnston takes stock of R.E.M.'s breakup in light o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Inside the Shomrim; Why Musto Hates Fashion Week

    ​This week in the Voice, available in those red boxes today: Nick Pinto takes a look at the Shomrim, the community patrols of Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish NYC neighborhoods. They're using taxpayer money, but the NYPD doesn't always get clued in to what they're doing. Harry Siegel asks: who's ... More >>

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    August 10, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: The Choice to Marry

    ​This week in the Voice: Steven Thrasher tells the beautiful love stories of two same-sex couples. But while Kawane and Jeanette Harris got married on July 24, the first day they could in New York, Kevin Beauchamp and Howard Orlick -- both legally blind -- are staunch gay marriage advocates wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Tracking Down the City's Moonshiners

    ​This week in the Voice, Lauren Shockey tracks down the moonshiners of New York City so she can sample their wares. After she sips moonshine with Lance, a young college professor in Brooklyn who makes shine in his spare time, Shockey explores the trend that moonshining has become in recent yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Longshot Is Giving You 48 Hours to Make a Magazine About Debt...GO!

    ​Longshot Magazine, the insane attempt to put together a glossy magazine from start to finish in 48 hours over a single weekend (undertaken, obviously, by masochists who don't spend their weeks the same way we do), just announced the theme for their new issue: debt. Per their email a few minu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2011

    Same-Sex Marriage Is Now Officially Legal in New York State [Breaking]

    Goodbye to this graphic, retiring today. We'll miss you! (Not really.)​Happy Same-Sex Sunday! As of this moment, same-sex marriage is legal in New York State. Right about now Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd just said "I do!" in front of Niagara Falls. In the next 24 hours, the City of New York ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2011

    First Same-Sex Couples Wed in New York City

    Steven ThrasherMichael Furey and Bienvenido Amagna, the first same-sex couple to wed in Brooklyn.​Today's the day! Same-sex marriage is officially legal in New York State, and the weddings are rolling along. The first couple married in New York City was Phyllis Siegal and Connie Kopelov, who e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Citizen Bloomberg

    ​This week in the Voice, Harry Siegel reflects on what he views as the end of Mayor Mike Bloomberg's political career in light of his shaky third term "marked by the Snowpocalypse, the snowballing CityTime scandal, the backlash to Cathie Black and 'government by cocktail party,' and the reject ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Michael Bloomberg Buying $20 Million Hamptons Mansion

    ​This week's Village Voice cover story asks, "After two full terms and change, what do you call Bloomberg's New York? In many ways, the mayor has been merely a caretaker." Mayor Mike's third term -- which he made possible by changing the rules -- will be over in a few years. "Soon, he'll be ju ... More >>

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    April 26, 2011

    U.S. Media Favoring Scary Side of Guantanamo Detainees Instead of American Screw-Ups

    ​Front and center in today's edition of the New York Times is an article entitled "In Dossier, Portrait of Push for Post-9/11 Attacks," a piece that uses this week's WikiLeaks document dump about detainees held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay to tell of terrorist plans never carried out ... More >>

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