Ivy League

Another Subway Death Solution: NYPD Tracking Of Mentally Ill?

Okay, the platform doors, laser alert system and the advice for conductors to slow down were one thing. But this goes a little above and beyond that. Yesterday, news came that the NYPD, in accordance with the Health Department, has tracked down twenty-five mentally ill patients that have been deeme ... More >>

Facebook and Twitter Have Rotted Our Brains!

And I don't mind as long as you click on my link, genius

Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats

Extremely Picky Chinese Dater Now in Brooklyn Seeking 'Ivy League' American

​The New York Post has tracked down the so-called "most-hated woman in China," and guess where she is! New York City, of course. Brooklyn, to be exact. Working at a nail salon. Why? 26-year-old Feng Luoyu, described as an "Ugly Girl" seeking marriage with unsufferably high demands, was ostraci ... More >>

The Formulas Work in Moneyball

Field of statistically knowable dreams

1 in 10 Pets Have a Social Media Presence; 1 in 10 Pet Owners Are Nuts

a "life-blogging device for cats"​How many dogs are you friends with on Facebook? How many cats do you follow on Twitter? How many adorable animal videos do you watch regularly (don't answer that)? There are many to choose from, since, it turns out, one in ten of all UK pets have their very ow ... More >>

Bloomberg View Gathers All-Star Roster of White Males

​Bloomberg View, the forthcoming editorial page at Bloomberg News -- under the umbrella of the media and data company Bloomberg L.P., founded and owned by Michael Bloomberg, New York City's three-term billionaire mayor -- has finally released its list of high-powered editorial board members and co ... More >>

Mark Flood, Judith Linhares, and Others Who Don't Need Your Darn Network

The badass and the 30-year hallucination

What is the Street Price of Marijuana at Columbia University?

​It's High Times uptown these days, as five Columbia University students/fratboys were busted this week for selling all kinds of crazy drugs at school. Ivy League? More like High-vy League. Luckily, via Columbia's BWOG, understanding the numbers of the busts also gives us a chance to understand ho ... More >>

Feel the Rage All Over Again With Financial Disaster Doc Inside Job

Leaves of Grass, Up in Smoke

Rick Meyerowitz's 'Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead'; 'London Transport Posters' at MOMA

R.C. Baker's Best in Show

The Week of the Yalien Invasion: A Reaction Rundown and Why They Win

​Maybe you've noticed the assault. No, not the hipsters abusing the Chinese people, though maybe there is some overlap. The real issue is more extraterrestrial than entitled NYU students, who are practically native at this point. It's the Yaliens -- they're everywhere, taking over New York Cit ... More >>

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

Another Mafia Squealer, But This One's From Mob Elite

​More than forty wiseguys who took an oath to take their Mafia secrets to the grave have later changed their minds and cut deals with the feds to tell all they knew. But while mob squealing was a growth industry in recent years, the elite Genovese family has managed to keep its members mostly ... More >>

Leaves of Grass Goes Up in Smoke

The Top 10 Non-Basketball March Madness Brackets

The surest signs of spring are upon us: flowers blooming, scantily clad NYU students smoking in the park, and most importantly, coworkers who have never showed any semblance of sports fandom live-streaming basketball for the next two weeks and yelling at their computers things like "Cinderella!" "B ... More >>

MC Paul Barman Perseveres

Reintroducing the lewdest, brainiest, unlikeliest white rapper of them all

Ron Darling Achieves Broadcasting Godhood

​Ron Darling just made a Dag Hammarskjold reference while providing color commentary in tonight's Detroit Tigers-Minnesota Twins one-game playoff being broadcast on TBS. This should automatically and immediately put Darling into some kind of broadcaster hall of fame or Ivy League annex of bus ... More >>

Clip Job: Lynda Bird at Gracie Mansion

 Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesAugust 20, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 44Feeding 'em Up for LBJ at Mr. Gracie's MansionBy Roberta BrandesWith 1000 pounds of pork ribs, 500 barbecued chickens, 5000 hot biscuits, and the culinary guidance of Walter Jetton, her father's favorite chef ... More >>

Sex and The City Sequel: Some Suggestions

It was inevitable. The first Sex and the City movie made over $400 million, so there had to be a sequel, and auteur Michael Patrick King has confirmed it. Filming starts this summer, with release expected in summer 2010. That means a year of splashy features, and another summer of young women from ... More >>

David Samuels' Doubleheader

Harper's scribe releases two for the price of two

School Daze: Bizarre Student News Roundup

This Week's DVDs: Into the Wild, Radiant City, More

Stranded by Oscar

Please Ignore This Band

Why Vampire Weekend’s high-society fetishizations can’t help but drive you to Black Flag

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

The Sunday Comics

The Whitest Kids U Know would maybe like to screw a deer. Welcome to New York sketch-comedy boom time.

'Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls'

Horoscope

On First Day of Year, Hundreds of Artists Run Their Mouths Off

Pilot Trouble

A season in hell: A critic's guide to what not to watch in the new fall lineup

The Haves and Have-Nots All Sustain Injuries in New Novel

NY Mirror

Stress Test

Smarty grads find easy money in SAT prep for wealthy, nerved-up kids

What Spring Break?

Young dancers offer a glut of masterworks and a bloom of talent in one New York week

Tolerance Levels

Master director Peter Brook brings a frayed community Tierno Bokar, a multicultural fable

Wunderbar, Wunderbar

Man and his voice live inside his apartment with large cereal collection

Sorry, Kids

Mom and dad have glimpsed your future, and it's not exactly bright

NY Mirror

Spy Scam

The Outing of a CIA Employee Is a Predictable Move in the Bush Government's Attack on Constitutional Rights

NY Mirror

XXX-tra Credit

The Carlyle Connection

How the Pentagon Learned to Love the Weapon No One Wanted

Labor’s Loneliest Battles

New Survey Finds Union Self-Help Programs Point Way in Addiction Struggles

Music

Class War

The Sommers-Gilligan Cat Fight

Letters

Letters

Log On . . . Drop Out?

The Dotcoms Come Calling—Diploma or No

Egg Hunt

Fertility Companies Hit the Silver Screen