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THE GOOD OLD DAYS

Who says you can’t go back in time?

'Tune in Screening: Psychedelic Moving Images From Socialist Yugoslavia 1966-1976'

Cold War films of desperate abandon

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Our 10 Best Places to Eat in NYC on Gay Pride Weekend

​Stucco-covered Julius' may be the city's very first gaystropub. Why is the weather always hot as hell during Pride Weekend? Your best refuge -- before, during, or after the march -- is in a well-air-conditioned restaurant for a meal or snack (with a frozen cocktail or two, if you prefer). ... More >>

Godard's Sensuous State of the Union in Film Socialisme

The Horror of NOT Being on the White House Enemies List

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 5, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 27 How come you're not on the list? by Phil Tracy No revelation to come out of the Watergate hearings so far has had such damaging results as the publication of the White House "enemies" list. It strikes t ... More >>

Bob Dylan's New York City: Why It Never Got Better Than 1961

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in New York City, we're rolling out a host of essays, videos, old Voice clips, and assorted fanfare. Here, professor, author, and critic David Yaffe explains why 1961 was the year Dylan could never forget, and never duplicate. A simpler time ... More >>

Live: A Revitalized Ozzy Osbourne And Rob Halford Stay Young At Madison Square Garden

Good advice. Pics by Phil Freeman, more below.​Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Halford Madison Square Garden Wednesday, December 1 Better than: Any other Ozzy performance of the 2000s. Ozzy Osbourne is turning 62 on Friday. That makes him older than his new guitarist (the shredtastic Gus G. of Greek power ... More >>

Smothers Brothers Fired For Being Too Damn Funny

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 17, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 27 TV by Stephanie Harrington CBS's cancellation of the Smothers Brothers show raises an interesting question of responsibility. In the first place, one is led to assume that it was a case of firing witho ... More >>

The Neverending Search for a Legal Herbal High

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 5, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 8 Scenes by Howard Smith WITH A LITTLE HELP from my readers, I've been compiling a legal list of herbs that improve a high. The latest additions -- Kava kava, Rat Root, and Rue -- get you there all by th ... More >>

Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

This latest from the cottage industry of Cohen-in-concert memorabilia

Clip Job: Goldstein Bemoans the Transformation of Judy Collins

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 22, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 10 Pop Bag By Richard Goldstein This is going to be a cop-out column of short ends and gristle. I hope you find it digestible: Judy Collins' transition from Joan Baez's kid sister to Barbra Streisand ... More >>

Clip Job: Joan Baez An Old Pro at 25

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 38 Joan Baez, Untrained Voice of Confidence By James Kempton She never stumbles She's got no place to fall --Dylan, "She Belongs to Me" It seems uncharitable to permit Bob Dylan the opening statement on Jo ... More >>

Clip Job: The Original Head Shop, and Congress Drops Acid with Allen Ginsberg

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 23, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 36 Scenes By Howard Smith One of the primary satisfactions of using drugs is the element of ritual -- rolling, tying up, snorting. All contain sexual sublimations that could, and maybe do, make a religion. ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 25: Weezer, "Heart Songs"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Rivers Cuomo cooks up his own "American Pie," and music dies all over again.

Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85

​Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Reverend Billy Campaign Update: Recuperates from "Palpitations," As Mayor Will Fire Ray Kelly

Photo by Brennan Cavanaugh We caught up with Reverend Billy, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of New York we interviewed in April, and asked how the campaign was going. We're in the third act of this drama. The opening act was orientation -- the whole world of politics, a steep learning cur ... More >>

Summer Guide: Amadou & Mariam's A Global Affair

Damon Albarn lends this "blind couple from Mali" a dash of Britpop

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG with Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Oscar the Grouch

Pete Seeger only turns 90 once, so why not have a big party? True to the folk singer's activist legacy, this packed Madison Square Garden celebration was a fundraiser for the Clearwater sloop and sailboat-centered foundation that Seeger built in 1969 to raise awareness about a then-near-dead Hudso ... More >>

NYC HEARTS JOHN LENNON

Artifacts of the rebellious Beatle

THIS LAND IS PETE'S LAND

A progressive hero celebrates the 9-0 with a few friends

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Neko Case

Haunting, Defiant Dispatches from Zimbabwe's Chiwoniso

Spring Books Preview: Martin Amis, Plane Speaking

Flying himself into the world of geopolitics

Dont Look Back

MLK Day Special: A Pretty Sunset, "Got MLK?" MP3

65 Revisited

Like a Complete Unknown: I'm Not There and the Changing Face of Bob Dylan on Film

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

The 'Grass Grows Greener on the LES

Bluegrass jams take hold in Manhattan, amateur pickers both invited and encouraged

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

State of the Union Not Looking So Stately

Big Bush speech creates campaign atmosphere in D.C.

Channeling the Sixties

A mature woman revisits the music her young self loved, creating a rich solo dance journey

Marching to Montgomery: The Cradle Did Rock

New Scorsese Documentary Only a Pawn in Dylan's Game

The World at Our Feet

As days grow short, dancers from around the planet visit our city to share their visions

Big Ole Time

Country-blues revivalists wail against wars for Phish-heads

The Joan Baez of Jazz

A great tradition strives to keep itself young by discovering its inner Melissa Manchester

Sincerest Flattery

Wear Your Lucinda Like Heaven

Folking Around

Where the Action Isn’t

Cool and the Gang

The Fall '99 Collections

The Iceman Cometh Back

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