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The Five Most Stressed Out U.S. States

Surely this is an honor New York State deserves, to make up for the fact that Miss New York never seems to win enough national pageants. But nooo! The five most stressed out states, according to a new survey, happen to be: West Virginia, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Utah, and Massachusetts. How can th ... More >>

Meet Carla Rzeszewski, New York's Queen of Sherry

What comes to mind when you hear sherry, besides the Four Seasons song that maddeningly loops in your head like scratched vinyl? If the answer is a sweet brown drink that grandma likes, allow me to introduce you to New York City's "Queen of Sherry," Carla Rzeszewski. Rzeszewski is a sherry fanatic ... More >>

Q&A: Night Birds On Pizza And Bagel Snobbery, Being Fed Steak In Belgium, And Their Favorite NYC Venues

New Jersey-via-Brooklyn-DIY-periphery act Night Birds have been hovering since about 2009, but they recently soared into a higher atmosphere, packing shows here and on the West Coast and garnering slobbering reviews for their debut LP The Other Side of Darkness (Grave Mistake) and recent singles (co ... More >>

Despite the Buzz, Wahoo's Fish Taco Is Actually Kinda Meh

Transplanted West Coasters were pretty pumped when Wahoo's Fish Taco opened its doors at 333 Park Ave South (212-466-3330) a few weeks ago, its first outpost east of the Mississippi River. The fast-casual Cal-Mex chain dates from 1988 and its branches in California, Hawaii, Colorado, and Texas soon ... More >>

Wanted: Taste Testers of Astronaut Food

Calling all space geeks and food connoisseurs: Researchers at Cornell University are looking for volunteers to test out menus designed for astronauts on missions to Mars.

Food Stamp Spending Surges at City Greenmarkets

More and more food stamps are getting spent at the city's farmers' markets -- and on healthy items such as fresh produce -- according to an exclusive report by NY1.

Cops: Food Stamps Traded for Blow and Cash

Not a positive idea. ​So you can't use food stamps to go to Hawaii -- but you might be able to feed your cocaine habit with them. Cops in Lynn, Mass. -- a Boston suburb -- say eight people used Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP) benefits for coke and cash, according to the Bosto ... More >>

Food Banks Cut Help to Needy Families

​While some politicians think that poor people use food stamps for trips to Hawaii and that the program should be limited, aid for hungry Americans keeps dwindling.

'Discovery' with DJ Harvey+Kyle Hall

Five Foods That Taste Better Canned

​Want a sandwich? Don't buy a plank of sushi-grade tuna. As foodies, we're trained to always prefer fresh and local, and we'll go out of our way to purchase uncanned anything. But canning as a means of preservation still has its uses, and it's best not to throw the brined or pickled baby out ... More >>

10 Percent of Birthers Will Not Be Convinced By Some Silly Actual Birth Certificate

​Recall last week, when one of the major issues being discussed by the fine people of our nation was still whether or not Barack Obama was born in the U.S., even though his administration released a copy of his birth certificate years ago. Still, there were plenty of detractors who said he cou ... More >>

Donald Trump, Birther, 'Absolutely' Has Obama Researchers in Hawaii

Name recognition alone is probably enough to place Donald Trump second in a poll among potential 2012 Republican candidates -- 17% of likely Republican voters picked Trump, only behind 21% for Mitt Romney -- but his recent media blitz probably doesn't hurt either. Whether it's about his television s ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 6-12, 2011

This Week in Gay Marriage: Six Things You Need to Know To Keep It All Straight

​There was a flurry of activity across the United States on gay marriage this week at both the state and federal levels, from the nation's capital all the way to Honolulu. It might be harder to keep it all straight than, say, Ted Haggard on crystal meth or George Rekers with a rent boy. Here's ... More >>

Brooklyn Dog Food Makers Eat It; Roseanne Barr Goes Nuts

​Two Brooklyn women who make Evermore Pet Food plan to eat their dog food daily for a month beginning March 1 to prove how good it is. [CBS News] The struggling A&P supermarket chain is being forced to close another 32 stores in six states as part of its turnaround strategy, including 17 in N ... More >>

Download Bootlegs Of All 13 Sets From globalFEST 2011

Kinda makes you wonder what the Pedrito Martinez Group sounds like. Pic by Ben Jay.​Last week's globalFEST 2011 blowout at Webster Hall packed 13 acts from Brazil, India, Cuba, Mali, Sengal, Hawaii, Honduras, France, Egypt, Colombia, Peru, the Congo, and New York City onto three stages, a stag ... More >>

Lani Kai: Early Reactions

Zagat Buzz​ This past Saturday night was a cozy one for newly opened Lani Kai. Julie Reiner's tropical cocktail bar hosted a lively crowd of thirty-somethings from across the city, all of whom fancied a weekend drink or two (or three, four, five). While everyone huddled around the bar sipping ... More >>

Hawaii's Dismal Onscreen Track Record Continues in Princess Kaiulani

Do Hawaiians Eat Hawaiian Pizza? Plus, a Little History

​Welcome to Ask the Critics, in which we answer your food, eating, and restaurant questions. Check out previous weeks' queries, and e-mail fork@villagevoice.com with your own. Montreal Food Guy wondered: Hi Robert and Sarah, This may seem like an odd question, but here it goes: Do people in ... More >>

875 People Were at the Market Hotel for Surfer Blood on Saturday?!?

Probably should've known that the Surfer Blood bill at the Market Hotel on Saturday night was going to be sold way the hell out, especially when even Luke's Lobster in the East Village was playing Astro-Coast on Friday night. Nevermind the ominous symbolism in a bunch of Brooklyn kids texting back ... More >>

Is Obama Not a Natural-Born Citizen?

​The low-level debate keeps raging on as to whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii, or in Kenya, where the "birther" movement" of wacky cultists swear he actually derived. Well, it's not exactly raging on--it's actually sputtering out, with me giving it one last gasp of semi-credib ... More >>

Birther of a Nation: Poll Finds Less Than Half of Republicans Think Obama Was Born in U.S.

Maybe you heard that top conservative magazine National Review dissed the birthers -- that is, the folks who believe Obama is not really President because he was born in Kenya or somewhere like it. But it's going to take more than that to bring this patriotic movement down! According to a Daily Kos/ ... More >>

Denny's Gets Sued Over Salt; Hawaii to Kick Wienermobile to the Curb

 A man from New Jersey is suing Denny's for failing to warn him that his favorite item, the Moons Over My Hammy egg sandwich, was "loaded up with the salt." [NY Daily News] Brooklyn councilman Bill de Blasio has proposed that New York follow in Chicago's footsteps and pass a green food resolut ... More >>

Feds Crack Down on Sperm Whale Teeth Traffickers

A Massachusetts antique dealer has been indicted by the Justice Department for illegally importing sperm whale teeth. (We didn't know this was a hot black market commodity, but then again, there's a collector's market for just about everything. Apparently the hot sperm whale teeth spots in the U.S a ... More >>

It's Piragua Time Again

As we thaw out from what seemed like the longest winter ever, warm weather foods are reemerging from hibernation, and that means that piragua vendors are heading out to peddle their Puerto Rican-style shaved ice and syrup concoctions from festive carts all over the city. The carts' big shiny blocks ... More >>

Second New, Free Bob Dylan MP3, A Phrase We're Getting Used to Typing: "I Feel A Change Coming On"

Newsweek, of all cultural edifices, is the sole US possessor of the streaming audio to the title track of Bob Dylan's new album I Feel A Change Coming On--until tomorrow, anyway, when it hits the man's own website. The Times Online, overseas, pairs their copy of the mp3 with an inspired interview ... More >>

Iran, N. Korea Prepare to Attack U.S.

Iran claims to have launched its first homemade satellite on Monday. "With God's help and the desire for justice and peace," Iranian President Ahmadinejad announced via sophisticated Iranian television technology, "the official presence of the Islamic Republic was registered in space." Meanwhile Nor ... More >>

THE OUTSIDERS

Don’t forget to apply the grease!

Surfwise: An Alt-Family Portrait

Parenting off the grid–and eventually off the reservation

'Surf's Up'

Trouble in Paradise

Islands in the scream: A talk with Hawaiian novelist Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Calgon, Take Us Away

Beauty products that transport—if only temporarily

Trash and Vaudeville

A Guide to the New York International Fringe Festival's Recycling Program

Et Tu, New Jersey?

Four formerly stiff states proclaim their right to swing

Through Various Lenses, Dancers and Musicians From Across the Globe

Horoscope

Latinas!

Letters

100th Civil Liberties Safe Zone!

Hawaii Is the First State to Defy Ashcroft

Horoscope

Horoscope

The Hole Truth

••• Vine-Swinging Scholar Meets Lovecraft, Ponders Puppets

Baiting 'The Beast'

Thomas and Sic Heil Politics

Romancing the Republic

Disney and the U.S. Military Whitewash Pearl Harbor and Woo Patriots

The World Gets Lei’d

Extraordinary People

Lucky Lindy

Rock the Boat

Hawaiian Hunch

One-bedroom apartment in tenement building