J. Edgar Hoover

Why Do Gabachos Complain So Damn Much?

I Saw J. Edgar And I Have The Gay Details!

​SPOILER ALERT! I liked J. Edgar, the Clint Eastwood directed flick, written by Dustin Lance Black, about controversial crime fighter J. Edgar Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Great Man Theories: Clint Eastwood on J. Edgar

How Does J. Edgar Handle The Gay Stuff?

​Clint Eastwood's film about FBI tough guy J. Edgar Hoover (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is almost upon us, and already there's word about how the gay content we've long heard about is treated, if at all. Says Todd McCarthy in his Hollywood Reporter review:

The FBI's Village Voice Files: 'It Is a Well-Known Hippie Paper'

​The FBI has released a cache of documents about the Village Voice dating from 1969 to 1997 that are now available under FOIA. Bomb threats! Contras! Secret lists! Ed Koch vs. J. Edgar Hoover! First up: were Village Voice subscribers in the '70s added to a creepy secret government list? A le ... More >>

Leonardo To Go Gay Again?

David Shankbone/Wikipedia​Fresh off playing J. Edgar Hoover, Leonardo DiCaprio is being buzzed about to play a less closety gay. According to The Guardian, he's supposedly the frontrunner to play Alan Turing, the math wiz who helped break the Nazi code but who was broken himself when his homo ... More >>

Nazi Sabotage Team Sent to America Was Hilariously Inept

"Hogan!"​In 1942, a team of Nazi saboteurs armed with bomb-making supplies and instructions to perform multiple acts of terrorism emerged on the shores of Long Island and Florida. Details of this mission from a MI5 intelligence officer were recently declassified, Yahoo reports, and they paint ... More >>

Beware: Ray Kelly for Next FBI Director?

Blind Items! Blind Items! Blind Items!

You figure out the names.

Leonardo DiCaprio Won't Wear Drag As J. Edgar Hoover

​Leonardo DiCaprio will kiss Social Network hottie Armie Hammer in Clint Eastwood's upcoming film about FBI bulldog J. Edgar Hoover. But he won't don drag in the role!

Saint Clint's Hereafter Meets Timothy Carey's Greatest Sinner

J. Edgar Hoover Called Us Liars: Yes, We're Thrilled!

​J. Edgar Hoover had his FBI eye on Runnin' Scared in 1969, just-released Teddy Kennedy files reveal. In fact, he called us liars, the greatest blurb quote we've ever garnered.

The FBI Searched My Home!!

Yep, they came into Musto's house and took away trash bags full of evidence, searching for any possible clue of alleged--and I repeat alleged--wrongdoing! Apparently, they even went into my car and nabbed my satellite radio!

Rip Torn's Daughter, Friends Line Up To Give Temperance Lectures

​We were surprised and pleased to see New York Post theater reporter Michael Reidel get a prime slot in this morning's rotation. We should have known something was up. Reidel gets Angelica Page, daughter of Rip Torn, to talk smack about her dad. "He's pissed away so much -- so much of his tim ... More >>

Clip Job: Ginsberg and Orlovsky -- Legalize Pot!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 31, 1964, Vol. X, No. 11Pickets for Pot Push LegalizationBy Mary Perot NicholsIn a light drizzle on a gloomy last Sunday, a dedicated picket line marched in front of the City Department of Welfare's headquarters on the east side of To ... More >>

Bill Buckley Files Reveal FBI's Love, Helpful Cop

Surveillance: NYPD Retreats, FBI Takes Over

With the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover returning, Ray Kelly yields some ground to the NYCLU

FBI Spied on Pulitzer-Winning Times Scribe

What Do Marilyn Monroe and Paris Hilton Have in Common? Celebrity News Roundup

Two New Productions Play Politics

History glows in The Conscientious Objector; vapidity kills Caryl Churchill's dumb cartoon

The Judge and the G-Man

A radical on the bench weighs an FBI agent's fate

The Camden 28

An Airborne Literary Event?

Don DeLillo sorts through the emotional dust of 9/11 in Falling Man

Blue Wall of Lawlessness

The NYPD has a long-standing reputation for its "excessive" surveillance. Now more than ever.

Radical Chic

Black berets and leather coats are out, Ski Iraq tees are in

J. Edgar Bloomberg: COINTELPRO in NY

Not only the president is in need of an education on the Bill of Rights

Spying on Big Brother

Now you can find out if you're being surveilled by the FBI or the NYPD.

Mobster on a Mission

A talented mafioso who helped the FBI beat the KKK still haunts his ex-handlers

The Bush Family Coup

Son revisits the sins of the father on America

The Bush Family Coup

The son revisits the sins of the father on America

Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

What Lies Beneath

Two books tease out shadowy subtexts—from the past seven decades to just last year

Slicing raw nerves: The man who wouldn't hold his tongue

Horoscope

Bob Barr vs. the FBI

A conservative libertarian targets Ashcroft and Mueller for violating First Amendment

Alien vs. Predator

What the McGreevey mess means for closets, corruption, and casting couches

J. Edgar Hoover Back at the 'New' FBI

Classified FBI Bulletin Reveals Tactics at Protests

Nation

Remembering Why We Are Americans

Who's That Next to Us at the Meeting?

Letters

Unleashing the FBI

'There Would Be No Place to Hide'

Long Arms of the Law

Ever Bigger FBI Flails at the Enemy Within

Black Panthers 35 Years Later

Not Your Daddy's Reunion

Slowing the Ashcroft Act

Haste Could Lay Waste to Liberty

'Liberty Is a Fragile Thing'

McCarthyism Can Rise Again

Ugly America

Who's for the Bill of Rights?

The Return of J. Edgar Hoover

When Being Italian was a Crime

During World War II, some 10,000 Italian immigrants in America were displaced. Another 50,000 lived under curfew. Others spent months or years in internment camps.

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

''In the new George Michael video, two very arresting male cops are locked in a passionate kiss, bringing new meaning to the word entrapment.''