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Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Shows: What's Happened So Far

High prices at D.C. auto show

Live: Yo La Tengo (With Stephin Merritt, Britt Daniels, and Ira's Mom) at Maxwell's

2009 Creepiest Commercial Awards

Commercials are growing creepier. Some devolution is easy to trace; 1990's Viagra ads begat modern "male enhancement" commercials, and mid-80's Teddy Ruxpin ads begat Charmin's current war on dingleberries. But from what market-tested pathology sprang BK's intentionally disturbing 'stalker' ads? ... More >>

Wendy and Lucy

One of the year's best sneaks in while you were distracted by the blockbusters

Crazy Sevens!

One of the year's best sneaks in while you were distracted by the blockbusters

Northern Exposures:

Clinton Does the Democratic Primaries

Holla!

Diplo dishes on M.I.A., baile funk, and the Roots

At the Track, Near the Tents

Not Far From Hell: Off-Track Betting in New York City

At the Track, Near the Tents

At the Winner's Circle, Not Far From Hell: Off-Track Betting in New York City

Forget Your Problems, We're Preparing for a War

At the Winner's Circle, Not Far From Hell: Off-Track Betting in New York City

Spy Commerce

The Surveillance Society: Part Three

Voices From the 'Hood

The Surveillance Society: Part Three

Timid Script Stifles Bernie Mac in Race-Reversed Remake

The Surveillance Society: Part Three

Horoscope

The Surveillance Society: Part Three

Mario Kart Wii: Still Lapping It Up

Cartoon racer update is nothing you haven’t seen, but it's still a welcome sight.

Dr. John and Our Critic Embark on a Chile-Pepper Eating Contest

Our man Sietsema and the Night Tripper duke it out at Brooklyn Sichuan

Gasoline Alley

Our man Sietsema and the Night Tripper duke it out at Brooklyn Sichuan

Shooting His Mouth Off

Comic Communist spins Saddam theories and tells us where he got his shoes

Frida Fatigue

Our rollicking crew checks out a couple of Brooklyn taquerías

Jarvis Cocker Wants To Get the Beard Questions Out of the Way Now, Okay?

Jarvis Cocker, ever the gangly, dapper showman, grew a beard last year. Very exciting development in the world anglophile sex-nerd appeal, we know. And so Jarvis Cocker's Beard has become a thing in and of itself--a la Natalie Portman's Shaved Head--and treated as an eccentric novelty, like a thir ... More >>

Freaks Of The Industry: An Unnecessarily Sassy User's Guide To Tuesday's Slate Of CMJ Panels

​CMJ starts today. There are too many goddamn shows. I can't make any sense of it. Here you go. Good luck. Of greater interest at the moment is the fest's daily glut of afternoon panels, wherein folks in the music industry attempt to convince those hoping to get into the music industry that th ... More >>

Have You Seen... Traffic Patrol Tire-Slasher

About 50 seconds into this surveillance video, you can see somebody slashing the tires of an NYPD Parking Enforcement vehicle on St. Raymond Avenue in The Bronx on Monday. He hit four in all. Guy must have had a lot of tickets. Well, it could have been worse. All they can tell about him is that he ... More >>

Italian-American groups, Jerseyans object to MTV's Jersey Shore "guidos"

​Italian-American heritage groups and residents of the Jersey shore are threatening boycotts over a new reality series, Jersey Shore, which MTV is promoting as a look at nine of the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" displaying big hair, good abs, and various forms of lack of continence in a ... More >>

RIPPING REALITY

A car isn't simply a car, and neither is your head

New York's Most Fierce 2010 Rap Single, "Beamer, Benz, or Bentley," Gets Perhaps 2010's Dullest Video

Still not in the least sick of hearing this song come on the radio--whether in the original, menacing Juelz Santana/Lloyd Banks vintage, the Joell Ortiz "Nissan, Honda, Chevy" remix, or the blistering Fabolous remake from There Is No Competition 2. That said, they somehow found a whips-n-vixens vi ... More >>

Katrina vanden Heuvel's Lame Defense of David Paterson, Using Voice Reporting

​The Nation will let you go on a fundraising cruise with Katrina vanden Heuvel for the price of "a modest used car." I've loved her for so long I'm thinking about selling my son's 1996 Honda. Her defense of David Paterson in yesterday's Washington Post, however, was the Edsel of op-eds. And, ... More >>

Englishmen Cross Italian Lake in Bouncy Castle, Allowing Us to Relive the Dreams of Our Youth, if Only for a Short While

​If your longtime, deeply suppressed fantasy has been to cross a large body of water, preferably in scenic Italy, in one of those bouncy houses popular among the playground set, well, wake up, because your dream is dead. Or, more specifically, guys who are way cooler, more enterprising, and cr ... More >>

Joell Ortiz vs. Gentrification

Of Brooklyn, yes, but also of the NYC hip-hop on which he still aims to make his name

Crooked Car Transporter Takes Granny's Honda Hostage

Here's how she beat the racket.

This Week in the Voice: The Queer Issue, Featuring Jersey Shore's Guidos

​We at the Village Voice fly all variations of flags -- patriotic, pirate, freak, or otherwise -- day in, day out as routine business around here. But this week, we're loud and proud of a very specific color (or colors), as that special time of year is here again: The Queer Issue has arrived. ... More >>

Rip Torn the Most Paranoid Man Ever

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 27, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 24 'Let's Get a Rip Torn Type' by Michael Zwerin If you want to laugh at an actor named Rip Torn, that's your problem. Born Elmore Torn 37 years ago in Temple, Texas, he was nicknamed Rip around the house ... More >>

Honda vs. Hipsters: Australian Ads Target 'Ironic' Young People in Skinny Pants

Honda Australia "asked the question: how much hipster can you pack into a Jazz?" A Jazz, apparently, is a new kind of car that is small, but spacious? I the commercial above, the hip youths try to put vinyl in the car's CD player, fill crevices with what must be the Australian equivalent of Pabst B ... More >>

No Age's Dean Spunt on How His Band's Rainbow Logo Became a New Punk-Rock Icon

"The idea was to have a visual identity before the band even started, before the music started. It kind of worked because people would be like, 'Dude, what is this? What is No Age?'" Radiohead's Colin Greenwood wearing the No Age "Classic" in January 2008 Dean Spunt's first band was a punk-rock ou ... More >>

Group Home Reminisce Over Guru

The veteran rap duo pay tribute to their late mentor

Fear and Loathing in the Holland Tunnel: One More Take on Jon Stewart's Serious Speech

​Have you heard enough about this rally that happened in D.C. this weekend? Maybe. We've already told you what it was like and what the best signs looked like. But what about what it looked like from TV, far away from the uncontested idealism and cheer? Village Voice film editor Allison Benedi ... More >>

Last Night, a Taxi Plowed Into Café Habana, Injuring Three

delicious discourse​Last night shortly before 6 p.m., a cab struck a Honda at the intersection of Prince and Elizabeth Streets and then plowed into the entrance of Café Habana. The New York Post reports that the car hit three women standing in front of the restaurant. Fortunately, they ... More >>

Inside Scientology's Labor Camp That Benefits Tom Cruise: The Photos

Tom and Katie, beneficiaries of menial labor?​One of the many accusations made about Scientology in Lawrence Wright's masterful piece in this week's New Yorker is that the organization's "Sea Org" members -- who sign billion-year contracts -- work for a measly $50 a week and do hard labor that ... More >>

The American Dream & Hunter Thompson's 'Fear & Loathing'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 13, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 28 The American Dream & Hunter Thompson's 'Fear & Loathing' By Lucian K. Truscott IV I was in the market for a used motorcycle a few weeks ago. Not a big one, but not a puny one, either: perhaps a 350 Hond ... More >>

Q&A: Mike Watt on Napping, Beards, the Neutral Milk Guy, and D Boon

Mike Watt (center) and his Missingmen To dig up some remotely negative bluster thrown at flannel-flyin,' bass-pluckin' Minutemen/fIREHOSE/Stooges punk-rock guru and super-nice dude Mike Watt is no small feat. Enter Watt's ol' SST Records pal Henry Rollins for lighthearted jabs at Watt, found in Rol ... More >>

Leibby Kletzky, Missing Brooklyn Boy, Found Dead in Dumpster, Fridge; Suspect in Custody

​An 8-year-old Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn boy was found dead in two separate locations on Tuesday night after going missing as he left day camp on Monday. Leibby Kletzky's body was discovered in a Dumpster at 20th St. and Fourth Avenue, where the police were lead by a man in custody who said "he ... More >>

Levi Aron Was Accused of Stalking Neighborhood Boy, Beating Ex-Wife Before Murdering Leiby Kletzky

​When Levi Aron was first fingered in the kidnapping and brutal murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky in Brooklyn, his ex-wife Debbie Kivel told the New York Post, "It's completely out of the character of the Levi that I know, I am in shock. I am not believing this." She went on to say, "He loved ... More >>

Couple Will Be Your Dinosaur For a Year If You Give Them an Apartment

​This ad recently appeared in Craigslist's "Real Estate Wanted" listings for Vancouver, where real estate seems nearly as difficult to come by as it is here in New York City. Unconventional Offer for Adventurous Home Owner (Vancouver) Date: 2011-06-26, 8:16PM PDT This offer is not for everyo ... More >>

Domino's Pizza Japan Says It's Launching a Branch on the Moon. Is It a Joke?

Pizzas in space.​While Domino's is busy killing the word "artisan" in America, over in Japan the fast-food chain has its sights set on space. The L.A. Times blog notices that the company has launched a website outlining its "Moon Branch Project." Is it a hoax marking the pizza chain's 25th ann ... More >>

The Shomrim: Gotham's Crusaders

They patrol Jewish neighborhoods with taxpayer money—but don't always clue in the police

Tea Party Princess

Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics