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Hey Companies, You Are No Longer Allowed to Participate on April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day has become, for lack of a better word, a shitshow. A day of pranks played on and by friends has metastasized into overblown theater perpertrated by news outlets, corporations, and even governments. Did you set your sister's clock back an hour? Too bad, Scope has already goofed her ... More >>

Tasting the New Game of Thrones Beer from Ommegang

Cooperstown-based brewery Ommegang has collaborated with HBO and rolled out a new beer to celebrate the third season of Game of Thrones, which premieres tomorrow. Iron Throne, as it's called, is the first in what will be a series of Westeros-themed beers. Co-branded food and drink stuff tend to be ... More >>

Watch a Deleted Girls Scene Shot at The Little Cupcake Bakeshop

While this clip from a future episode of the much-loved HBO show Girls, which hits on the multitude of lows that occur in the lives of twenty something New Yorkers, won't make it on TV, it does leak two truths about the upcoming season. Firstly, women on HBO are still really into cupcakes. Secondly, ... More >>

WikiLeaks... The Movie?

Yes, you read that correctly and, yes, it looks like it could happen. "The man who leaked the world" has Hollywood up in arms and it's not because there is a Cablegate in the works for Tinsel Town. Let's not get our hopes up.According to the Hollywood Reporter, big studio executives are dueling it o ... More >>

Pacquiao/Bradley Rerun: Score It Yourself Tonight (Just Turn The Sound Down First)

The late great Bert Randolph Sugar used to growl, "You could get a better decision in most fights by getting a 12-year old boy to watch one without any instruction and then telling him to walk over and lift the hand of the winner." Are you at least 12 years old? I promise that you'll never have a b ... More >>

American Meat Takes an 'Even-Handed Look at Animal Husbandry'

AMERICAN MEAT TRAILER from Leave It Better on Vimeo. Since the release of Food, Inc. three years ago, the film industry has taken a holiday from the national food debate (HBO's Temple Grandin biopic not withstanding). That's about to change thanks to American Meat.

There Will Be a Boardwalk Empire Subway Train

​Today in historical things that are kind of cool: You'll see a 1920s (authentic, vintage) subway train running on the 2/3 track for all the weekends in September. The train was originally used for the IRT system, and began service in 1917. Now its rattan seats and Prohibition-era detailing (c ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: June 22-28, 2011

Keith Olbermann's Future: What Will It Be?

​Fiery Keith Olbermann is no longer at MSNBC, as you know, prompting a hailstorm of speculation about what he might end up doing, when he's contractually allowed to relocate. One report said he might consult and/or appear on an Aaron Sorkin show for HBO about cable news, which is interesting, ... More >>

Charles Rangel to Receive Punishment Today; Mike Bloomberg Lights World's Largest Menorah to Kick Off Hanukkah

​• Rep. Charles Rangel will finally get his punishment: The House is expected to vote on his censure for 11 ethics violations today. Although the octogenarian Congressman has been lobbying for a reprimand instead of the harsher censure, it seems unlikely that that will happen. [NBC NY]

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The Brooklyn Lyceum gets animated for a second time

Sex and The City 2 Spoiler: Carrie's Jihad on Islam?

​For years, HBO's Sex and the City made New York City an excitable frontier of moneyed men, inexplicably well-off women (despite shitty writing jobs that realistically pay nothing), and a world where everyone is someone else's plus-one. And that frontier was then seized upon by basically every ... More >>

Kid Cudi Japanther "Brooklyn" "Hipsters" = How To Make It In America

Can a show have an identity crisis before it's even on air? HBO's How To Make It In America debuts on February 14, not that you'd necessary know from its anemic promotion. There's a reason for that--sources say that the show is casting around desperately for a marketing angle that will appeal both ... More >>

Things I'm Not Invited To

You'd assume that the life of a glamorous culture maven like me would be wildly exciting, and it is, kittens, it is. But you'd be amazed at how many things I don't get invited to--whether on purpose or, worse, by oversight. (At least when they keep you out on purpose it means they know your work and ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Das Racist, dead prez, Woody Allen's Whatever Works, New York Asian Film Festival, Peter Terzian's Heavy Rotation, and More

Ben RowlandDas Racist, not thinking Arby's In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla chats with geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," otherwise known as Das Racist. J. Pablo takes a stroll through Bed-Stuy with dead prez. Bret Gladstone with the Avett Brothers at I ... More >>

Sandra Bullock's The Proposal, HBO Instaclassic

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

C'mon, Flight of the Conchords, There's Still Time to Salvage This

The highlight of the new Flight of the Conchords season thus far, provided above, is a song about their testicles, i.e. "Sugar Lumps," which is both the good and the bad news. (The Voice food brigade is enraptured with this clip as well.) I will admit to liking this a lot more than I feel that I ... More >>

From Soup to Nuts: Rightbloggers Enraged By Obama-Themed Products

The Inauguration approacheth! Last time we had one of these things, liberals complained of the cost, and conservatives defended it. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and we must expect it to kick. When conservatives kick, though, they give the ball plenty of spin. Donors to this year's Presiden ... More >>

Please, Lord, Let the New Season of Flight of the Conchords Be Good

Film Critic Attempts to Watch Epic Movie, Fails

The Gentleman Boxer Goes for Two

Little Britain Comes To Big America!

Spike Lee's Reality TV

When the Levees Broke brings Katrina's devastation into clear and timely focus

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Desperate Househusbands

Masterpiece Theater HBO style—star-studded entertainment that's supposedly good for you

Perfect Worlds: Plasma House

Living in Oblivion

Reagan-era callousness sparked an indie film renaissance. Will Bush II inspire another?

Back to the Future

An independent-film veteran recalls the '80s and looks ahead

Verse and Foremost: A Downtown Spoken-Word Hub Turns Two

Out of the Box

Indie film directors invade the TV screen

Machine Age

Machine Age

Remote Patrol

Sports

Our Way to Fall

Are You There, God? It's Me, TV Critic

Showtime Wanks It Up

Hello Meta Man; the Grim Reaper Lands a Series

Bare Naked Lesbians

Alt Is Long

Lords of the Ring

The Gray Zones

Mastering the Art of War

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Fighting for Their Rights

And Their Lefts. Women Foment a Boxer Rebellion

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There's No Place Like 'Oz'

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Sports

State of the Unification

The Heavyweight Championship is in crisis

Phallus in Wonderland

Private Dicks Bares It All

Mean Driveways

Even Mobsters Get the Blahs