Hunter S. Thompson

Here Are Some Insane Coachella Campsites

The Coachella campgrounds are the Wild West of the festival. They are the sort of place you can imagine Hunter S. Thompson running around with his pants around his ankles. Drugs are more plentiful than food and going to bed before 4 a.m. is considered an early night. Campers built incredible structu ... More >>

Dark Skies: Why Do Aliens Dick Around in Our Bedrooms for Weeks Before Finally Abducting Us?

Five Great Literary Landmarks of NYC: Taverns and Restaurants

The White Horse Tavern as it looks today Stay in one place long enough, many bars have found, and you're likely to eventually develop literary cachet. Indeed, many of the city's most venerable taverns - Old Town, McSorley's, and the currently-defunct Chumley's - are or were lined with the dust jac ... More >>

Live: Gonjasufi Presses On in The Midst of Technical Chaos

Better Than: Watching the corny parts of the "Watch the Throne" tour. Hip-hop has always flirted with spirituality. The S.p.o.o.k.s. and Wu-Tang embraced a Buddhist vision; M.C. Hammer, God's Property, and P.M. Dawn charted with Christian themes; and the 5% Nation attracted many gifted creators of ... More >>

Live: Alvarius B Sings Songs Of Love And Spleen At Union Pool

Alvarius B w/Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett Duo Tuesday, September 4 Union Pool Better than: Getting drunk with your conspiracy-theory spewing uncle. Before his performance as the pseudonymous Alvarius B (with all the trippy venom that implies), former Sun City Girls member Alan Bishop chats p ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa

From cash-hungry strippers to protesters dressed as vaginas, your gonzo guide to the Republican National Convention

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Q&A: Tone Tank On Making Bootleg Toys, The Beastie Boys, And Why L&B Spumoni Gardens Has The Best Sicilian Slice

Tone Tank anointed himself the King of Surf Guitar Rap back in 2009. It's a title the rapper, who resides in Brooklyn, admits he didn't have much in the way of competition for, but it's one that brought him to the attention of Geoff Barrow, the producer for Brit trip-hop troupe Portishead. Barrow wa ... More >>

Q&A: Matt Taibbi on the 40th Anniversary of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hunter S. Thompson's influence, and Why Barack Obama Isn't a Great Shark

The Rolling Stone writer penned the introduction for the latest edition of the book.

Bob Dylan (1) Gets In The Pit With Sick Of It All (16) 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, and you get to vote on who makes it to Round Two. We'll have some first-round results later today, but ... More >>

Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers

Tom PalumboJack Kerouac, on the road somewhere ...​ For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that ... More >>

The Ghost of Hunter Thompson, A Tame Rum Diary

This Week in the Voice: Brooklyn on Film

​This week in the Voice, out today: James Hughes talks to director Walter Hill, whose early work, The Warriors, kicks off the Brooklyn Close-Up series at BAM on Halloween, followed by a screening of "his most underappreciated and airtight film," The Driver, starring Ryan O'Neal, at MOMA on Nov ... More >>

Hunter S. Thompson's Playboy Correspondence: Kind of Tame

Playboy​ The above is Hunter S. Thompson's hangover cure, according to a cache of his letters released by Playboy. It's 12 amyl nitrites and "as many beers as necessary." Amyl nitrites are poppers, FYI. What did you expect Hunter S. Thompson's hangover cure to be? Green tea and a hot yoga ses ... More >>

Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Observing the Launch of Occupy Wall Street

Ari Lipsitz​The Occupy Wall Street protest, now in its dwindling stage, started off as something of a shitshow. Around noon on Saturday, Runnin' Scared watched as protesters met at Bowling Green to march around the bronze Wall Street bull and begin their demonstrations. At first, the results w ... More >>

Kentucky Derby Will Be Decadent, Depraved

​Hunter S. Thompson went so you don't have to: The rest of the day blurs into madness. The rest of that night too. And all the next day and night. Such horrible things occurred that I can't bring myself even to think about them now, much less put them down in print. I was lucky to get out at ... More >>

Rango: Too Much Hunter S. Thompson, Not Enough Laughs

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 >>

WHAT A TRIP

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas turns 40

Rocky Mountain High

Celebrate all things Colorado

Total Badass/Hell on Wheels: In the Gutter and on the Roller Rink With Austin Double Feature

Ibogaine: Can it Cure Addiction Without the Hallucinogenic Trip?

The substance has helped addicts kick heroin, meth, and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

Interview: The Onion's Nathan Rabin on His New Pop Cult Memoir, The Big Rewind

"I think there are good pop culture references and bad pop culture references. I don't want to be Family Guy. I don't want it to be just a bunch of disconnected pop culture randomness." ​ Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The Onion's A.V. Club and the author of the New York Times-approved ... More >>

Push Is Less X-Men and More 'Why, Man?'

Gonzo Salutes Hunter S. Thompson's Substance

A new doc goes beyond the sensational

Fear and Loathing in Tibet

Behind Jim and Artie Mitchell's Behind the Green Door

Parsing a splendid, lurid memoir of life at S.F.'s O'Farrell Theater

Margot at the Wedding, American Gangster: Unrated Extended Edition, more

The Port Huron Project, Julian Schnabel's Drawings, and Artists Against the War

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Provincializm #12: Silver Jew and David Berman, Part One

Hate Us or Love Us

The Future of Gonzo

Hunter S. Thompson's widow Anita tries moving the celebrated writer's legacy forward

Southern Comforts

Even Larry Flynt looked cuddly at Durham's documentary fest

I'm From Rolling Stone: The Finale

'Fuck'

I'll Be Your Mirror

Dear Abbie's Esquire

Talking with Gerald Lefcourt, attorney to stars many, motley, and magnanimous

Letters

'Twelve' Going on 21

Talking with Nick McDonell, well-connected young novelist

Bombs (sic) Bursting in Air

Hunter S. Thompson's farewell a great, sordid letdown

Letters

The End of Gonzo

A savage journey in search of the legacy of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Books

The Shooting Gallery, 1991–2001

The Rise and Fall of an Indie Empire

Fear the Cheaper

Sports

Epistle Whipped

Quasiphenia

Vietnam Lore