IBM Corporation

Four-Color Revolution

Protest that got your hands dirty

Kurt Vile is a Psych-Folk Guitar God and Forklift Operator Par Excellence

It was a thing of grace. That machine yielded to his will as though it had woken up with the sun, puffed a stale cigarette, choked down some black coffee, and idled patiently until unlikely captain Kurt Vile, reluctant guitar hero and folk journeyman, arrived. The Kurt you don't know is every bit as ... More >>

The Queen of Versailles: The Nouveau Crash

Time-share royalty's time might be up

The Muppets Take Queens

"The School of Tomorrow," Miss Teenage America vs. hippies, and other wisdom from Boys' Life circa 1968

​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. Boys' Life, September, 1968 Publisher: Boy Scouts of America The Cover Promises: In the future, ghostly kids will don aluminu ... More >>

Tim Hawkinson's 'One Man Band'; Michael Alan's 'Harmonious Opposites'

Plus Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian at Arario Gallery

IBM to Fight Childhood Obesity; Latest Food Recall: Lettuce

​Consumer Reports evaluated 14 different supermarket brands of refrigerated and frozen chicken nuggets, including two made from soy, one of which scored highest, health-wise. The Health is Wealth product was said to taste horribly. [NY Daily News] The latest food to be recalled is lettuce sol ... More >>

Clip Job: Scoring on MacDougal, 1964-Style

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 18, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 35Is MacD Still the Place to Hang One's Hip Card?By Sally KemptonThe Bleecker Tavern has given way to a cider bar, the hipsters have left Googie's, and John Mitchell no longer runs the Gaslight. Israel Young, seeking r ... More >>

Clip Job: Computers Taking Over World, 1963 Edition

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 21, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 5The Little Machine That Couldn'tBy Mary Perot Nichols...A recent story in the New York Times headlined "Electronics Ends Housing Muddle"...could easily have led the unwary reader to believe that it was all coming ... More >>

Binghamton Update: 14 Dead, Shooter Presumed Among Them

Binghamton authorities held a press conference with the Governor. (Previous coverage here and here.) The number of dead has been confirmed at 14. Four wounded are in critical condition. The police led out 37 people unharmed. Police found a man with "a satchel" whom they presume is the gunman. They c ... More >>

Unemployment Hits 8.1%, Wal-Mart Still Hiring

The national unemployment rate went to 8.1 percent last month as 651,000 jobs were lost. The losses are attributable not only to collapsing Wall Street giants, but also to corner-cutting by "healthy" companies like IBM, who in January announced a strong 4th quarter and said that "most importantly, w ... More >>

TV by Design; Pipilotti Rist's Pour Your Body Out at MOMA

Television tangles with modern art—Warhol wins

Clip Job: The 'Espresso Underground' Fights The System

Our Man Sietsema and the Surreal White Blobs

Óbiká Mozzarella Bar, Where Buffalo Roam

Surreal white blobs invade a midtown glass skyscraper

Free Will Astrology: November 12 through 18

Daily Flog: Bailing out the planet's investors; a swift boot to Olbermann

Law & Order: Special Marketing Unit

Clip Job: Billie Holiday and Computerized Dating

Congestion Pricing Questions

Who's skeptical about the mayor's traffic plan? The companies bidding to run it.

Lynne Cohen's Bubble Chairs, Emilie Clark's 'The Weeklies,' Thomas Demand's 'Yellowcake'

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

The Dope-Thrill Fugs

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Maysles Archives

Filmmaker Al Maysles moves offices; you win

Love Thinks: Intelligent Rom-Com a Deft Look at Race in L.A.

Irreverent Absurdism

Carnivalesque attractions and nutty conundrums that tease both the mind and senses

Film

How the U.S. 'Master Race' Helped Breed Selective Science

Screeching Halt

Do Weird Computer Noises Point to Imminent Meltdown?

Sun Cell

How to Recharge in a Blackout

UFO Landing

Investigating Inner and Outer Space

What a Girl Wants

Shopping With Shairi, Janine, and Jevonne

Pataki's Post-Election Payday

Governor Cashes in Himself, and Hands Us Big Overdue Bill

Barely Legal

The IBM Link to Auschwitz

Researchers Uncover Records of the Company's Work at Death-Camp Complex

The Long and Short of It

Estimating the Length of Home Runs

Letters

Final Solutions

How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland

Blow Up

Checking in for Waldorf Hysteria

Free Traders and Fair Traders in Stalemate as CEOs Converge on New York

Deciphering the City’s Hidden Code

Is That a Mountain or a Sidewalk?

Desk Slaves

Lock And Load

Art's Bad Boys Mark Their Targets

Organization Man

Listening to Dorfman, Whose Dream Came True

Lust for Lit

Death of a Child Prodigy

Old-school Online Service Pulls the Plug

Tools of the Trader

Could the NYSE Hold the Key to the Future of Electronic Trading?

Profit Prophets

Wonks Predict Stormy Health Care Ahead

Through the Carpal Tunnel

Tired of Typing? Slip on Some Cyborg Gloves.

Code Free

Unleashing Progressive Politics on the Technopoly

Bubble Economy