James Agee

Lens Crafted: MOMA Focuses on Walker Evans

The Village Voice's Top 5 Book Events This Week, May 29-June 4, 2013

101 Classic Cookbooks 92Y Tribeca Wednesday, May 29, 7:30 p.m., $15 Here's one for the foodies--or really anyone who cherishes the cookbook as more than just a batter-stained instructional manual. Like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for baked goods, 101 Classic Cookbooks (Rizzoli) is the Fales Libra ... More >>

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Tenant Farm for the 21st Century

'Unaccompanied Minors' at MOMA: The Kids Are Unloosed

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

'70s wives ask themselves, "When was the last time I expressed pleasure in our sex life?" and so much more

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Especially for Wives: When Was the Last Time Author: Michael A. Campion, PhD., with ph ... More >>

Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I Sees Double

Plus, the return of Another American: Asking and Telling

Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

Arlo Guthrie: More Nowness Than Newness

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 28, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 46 Films by Andrew Sarris "ALICE'S RESTAURANT" is about as likable in a limited way as Arlo Guthrie, a curiously coquettish folk-something unlike anything else. Peeping out from under his lanky locks with ... More >>

David Goldblatt, Zwelethu Mthethwa, and 'Retratos Pintados' Evoke Art's Subject-Producer Question

Three photo shows at the Jewish Museum, the Studio Museum, and Yossi Milo Gallery

Cat People

On Treme's (Possibly Redeemable) Annoying Characters And Fraught Quest For "Musical Authenticity"

Don't write Steve Zahn off yet, folks​David Simon's Treme is, as has been mentioned far and wide, clearly not going to be The Wire. Sure, it's dealing with rampant corruption in a major American city and the frustration of human beings forced to deal with that corruption, doing so with an unca ... More >>

Men's Health Lists New York Among "Least Drunk" U.S. Cities

​Thanks to the Riverfront Times, we have seen a preview of an upcoming list article in Men's Health about America's Drunkest Cities. USA Today says the magazine finds Fresno, California the nation's drunkest municipality. Metrics include liver disease and DUI rates. We note that in 2004 Fresn ... More >>

Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: Lutefisk at Christmas

​White fish on a white plate on a white tablecloth, but wait till you see what it tastes like! Yesterday, the subject of Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods (with apologies to James Agee) was durian. Not to be outdone, lutefisk now claims a place in the odiferous queue.

Helen Levitt, 1913-2009

Helen Levitt has passed at the age of 95. Born in Bensonhurst, she dropped out of high school and went to work as a photographer's assistant. She sought out great artists like Cartier-Bresson and Luis Bunuel, and made friends with James Agee. Street scenes were her metier and she was especially cel ... More >>

A Dreyer Duo—Day of Wrath at the IFC and Vampyr  on DVD

The visionary, restored

Manny Farber 1917-2008

Remembering the painter, professor, and underground model for scores of American film critics

Manny Farber 1917-2008

Remembering the painter, professor, and underground model for scores of American film critics

Holiday Lights

Plus cartoons at MOMI and Fosse at the Walter Reade

1907, 1957, and...Now?

Welcome to Off-Off-Broadway's newest theatrical discovery—the past

Omission Accomplished

Transport Group leaves out the props; The Internationalist leaves out information

Love Pains

In the cruel world of Red Light Winter, love's young dream always takes the Rapp

Monsters in a Box

Kong is king, Lewton is lurid, and Ross is the boss in holiday DVD round-up

Popular Parsing

On the most American of American movie critics

Another op’nin’, another show: Dances without story don’t cut it

For the Children—Klein Should Resign

Where Was the UFT? And the Principals’ Union?

The Music TV Wars

Reality Killed the Video Star

Houses of the Unholy

As the Lights Go Down

Pauline Kael, 1919–2001

Now Hear Disc

A Blizzard of CDs Puts Some New Spins on Show Music Style

Family Matters

Vaughn Sills’s Rural Group Portrait

Richard Widmark’s High-Low Country

Tuner Salad

Good, Bad, and Recycled, Musicals Are What’s Going On

Local Color

Lucidity on Fire

Side Shows

Soap of the Earth

Farming in a PBS Fishbowl