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The Rules of Getting Laid, According to World's Worst Self-Help Book

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. The Rules for Getting Laid Author: David Graff & Ray Schwartz Date: 1999 Publisher: Drill Press, Madison, Wisconsin Discovered at: The Second Best Thrift Shop, A ... More >>

These Are the Worst Band Names in Indie Rock

This past Saturday, at the soon-to-close Maxwells, Scottish indie quartet We Were Promised Jetpacks performed. It served to remind us just how great a band this is. Sadly, we frequently forget, thanks to their stupid fucking name. We think these guys would be a lot bigger if it weren't for the annoy ... More >>

Big Question Looming As To Iron Man's Future

The problem with success is in trying to keep it, especially when your pricetag is so high and the sands of time are slipping through the hourglass. Robert Downey Jr. has had a triumph in the Iron Man films, and part 3 is such a blockbuster it's expected to surpass $400 million dollars--that's a lo ... More >>

French Montana's Excuse My French Listening Party - HiLo - 5/7/13

Better Than: Keeping track of when Excuse My French is finally coming out. French Montana has three glittering chains around his neck (one of which is a jewel-studded Pillsbury Doughboy), a pinkie ring so large and sparkly I consider whether it's been wholly carved out of a giant diamond, and fresh ... More >>

Hollywood Likes Its Assault Weapons, Thank You Very Much

After the tragedy at Newtown, New York had one of the quickest legislative responses in the country. A month later, the state Senate and Assembly had voted to expand the state's definition of assault weapons, banning military-style upgrades on semi-automatic rifles and certain features on handguns, ... More >>

Five NSFW-ish Photos From Diplo's Trap Hawk Down Tour

Four cities, four shows and one DJ! Diplo traveled in style via helicopter for his Trap Hawk Down tour Sunday. Starting the night with an early bird special in Baltimore at 6pm, he then flew his way through Philly, Atlantic City and finally New York City at 3:30 am, where he played Westway. Diplo tu ... More >>

The Top 10 Films of 2012

The end of cinema? Hardly.

You Don't Have to Watch the Olympics Closing Ceremony Tonight But You Should

It's been two never-ending weeks since we witnessed the Queen and James Bond fly in on some sort of parachute thing over the Thames River. And Mr. Bean. And the timeline of London's growth, from the capital of a colonial power to a lovable, quirky center of British haute couture. Yes, the Olympics a ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: The Stabbin' Cabin

Enjoy a rustic bloodbath

'Enter the Dragon': The First Classy Kung Fu Movie

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 30, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 35 Getting the thrust of Kung Fu by William Paul "ENTER THE DRAGON" is the first classy Kung Fu movie specially designed for Western audiences, and that's not to be confused with first-class. What it do ... More >>

American Idol Season 10: The Kids Honor People Who Are A Bazillion Years Old

Michael Becker/FOXC'mon, dude, you probably never even had detention. ​ Gwen Stefani was on this week's American Idol because somebody paid somebody so she could hawk the clothing line that she apparently still has. But this wasn't Ska Week or New Wave Week or Neptunes Week, as awesome as eve ... More >>

Assange Allegedly Abused Cat

​Julian Assange, the founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, is something of a James Bond villain, running around the world trying to bring down governments, sometimes looking dapper, sometimes smelling bad, and maybe sexually abusing women. (It's complicated.) But his creep factor is only g ... More >>

Sexy Spy Anna Chapman is Still Around, Starring in a New Year's Video

It's somewhat exciting to watch failed Russian spy Anna Chapman cling to fame in her native land, mostly because we all helped create her. With the collective assistance of the New York tabloids, along with the panting blogosphere, men's magazines and of course her fans in the motherland, Chapman ha ... More >>

Year in Film: Hoberman's Top 10

Old timers, newcomers, and even Leo make the list

Watch Erykah Badu and Rick Ross Assassinate Someone in the "Window Seat Part II/Turn Me Away (Get MuNNy)" Video

Is there an odder couple in rap currently than Miami fantasist Rick Ross and the neo-soul nudist Erykah Badu? Their work together so far--"Maybach Music III," off Ross's Teflon Don, and this new "Window Seat" remix--has zeroed in on perhaps the one thing these two disparate characters have in comm ... More >>

Anna Fermanova, the Latest Hot Spy, Has Hot Facebook Photos, Too!

​Brace yourself for the hotter, blonder, Russian Anna: Anna Fermanova. The new improved Anna attempted to smuggle high-tech night vision googles (worth $15,000 and considered weapons) from the United States to Russia, and she now faces a federal felony charge, according to The Smoking Gun. Not ver ... More >>

Real-Life Russian Spies Arrested in New York Area

​A bunch of tri-staters hailing from New Jersey, Yonkers, and Manhattan were arrested this weekend for being spies. Russian spies. How very James Bond. According to the Justice Department, as part of a multi-year investigation in four states, eight people were arrested on Sunday for allegedl ... More >>

Killing Women Takes Aim at Assassins

Marisa Wegrzyn's play examines feminism in an unusual workplace

Mulatu Astatke Gets Cooler Still

The Ethio-jazz godfather returns

New York's Best Escort!

Straining at the ropes at the International Escort Awards.

Dead: World's Shortest Man, He Pingping, 21

​Last night, the world's shortest man died. He Pingping of Wulanchabu, China, at 29 inches tall the Guinness Book of World Records' shortest man on earth, died at the conspicuous age of 21 last night of heart complications in Rome. He was supposed to appear on an Italian children's show the ne ... More >>

The Oscars' Six Most Outrageous Moments

Statues of no limitations—the Academy Awards bring the crazy

The Decade in Film: A Timeline

A lot can happen in 10 years. Here, the highlights.

Corridor of Mirrors

J.J. Abrams's Star Trek

Proof that a franchise can live long and prosper

The Kirov and Les Ballets C de la B Seen Through the Lens

Live: Tina Turner Celebrates Her 69th Birthday in Newark

James Bond Endorses Barack Obama for James Bond

Free Will Astrology: October 1 through 7

Journey To The Center of the Earth: Pretty Much a Demo Reel

Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, a Deadpan Bond Parody

Or, rather, a Jean Bruce parody. Same thing, basically

Nick Lowe Inexplicably Remains Dapper as Hell

The London Glitz

U.K. performance troupe Duckie likes crotches and bubbly

Alt.Claude

The other Chabrol? Turns out, not so good

About This Garbage Greatest-Hits Album...

TV in the Park

A gruff but still inspiring Television set: perfect for Father's Day weekend

Resistance Is Feudal

Play it again, samurai: Sword plays and bandit ballets in this razor-sharp summer series

Girl Afraid

In CUNY's pulp-fiction reprints and Daphne Gottlieb's poetry, the last one alive is a feminist

The Book Of J.

Politics, pop culture, popcorn: Hoberman screens the '60s

Indian Soul to Melt Your Mind

No Cool Remove: Reissue Unveils a Bollywood of Tangible Passion for American Ears

Theater

Sites Unseen

Private Dick

Sound Investitures

Smoke and Mirrors

Music

The Seven-Year Switch: Documentary Portraits of Growing Up in Public

City Limits

NY Mirror

Faye said she felt Chinatown 'gave people something to put their dreams on.' (It's better than a wire hanger.)

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