John Brown

A Barbecue Run Through Three Boroughs With Texas Monthly's Daniel Vaughn

The beef rib at Mighty Quinn's is so big, it must be butchered with a plastic knife. It's not uncommon in barbecue states to do an extreme barbecue run that includes three or four pits in an extended afternoon of gorging, driving, sightseeing, and breaks along the way for bursts of healthful exerc ... More >>

Alchemy, Texas Replaces Ranger Texas Barbecue

Alchemy's rich and black-pepper-dotted prime rib When New York barbecue legend Robert Pearson departed the final location of his Queens establishment, Pearson's Texas BBQ, in 2005, he left it in the hands of his able pitmaster, Angel Domingues, and the new owner, Cenobio Canalizo, both natives of ... More >>

Laugh if You Like, Texas, but New York is Now a BBQ Capital

Fat and Happy

Thirty Acres, Spicy Bampa, and More to Cook at Choice Eats This Year

Within 30 minutes of announcing our first round of restaurants participating in Choice Eats this year, we sold out of VIP tickets! But don't worry, you can still find general admission tickets ($50) to the Voice's sixth annual tasting festival, which will give you access to food and drinks from ov ... More >>

First Round of Participating Restaurants Announced for 2013 Choice Eats, Tickets Go on Sale Tomorrow

The Village Voice is proud to announce the first 15 restaurants selected for its sixth annual Choice Eats tasting festival, to be held March 19th at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lower Lexington Avenue. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, January 16 at noon. Regular tickets, which guarantee ... More >>

Don't Stop Smoking at BrisketTown

A new barbecue joint lights up Williamsburg

Comparative Brisketology

The smoked beef brisket at BrisketTown, 12/1/12. Note the thick smoke ring and the moistness of the meat. Smoked 12 to 16 hours. This week Counter Culture traipses in to BrisketTown, Dan Delaney's new brisket-focused barbecue, spawned in Williamsburg via a number of pop-up single day barbecue even ... More >>

Don't Forget to Check Out The Village Voice 2012 Best of NYC Food & Drink Section

On Wednesday, we published this little thing called "Best of NYC." The hard copy is available right now in little red boxes all over the city, but in case you're one of those "digital only" people, we've got you covered. Head to the Best Of NYC section on the Village Voice website, and get lost in t ... More >>

Whipped Baccala at Caffe Storico, Dish #41

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Fresh Churros and Hot Chocolate | Revisiting John Brown Smokehouse]

Revisiting John Brown Smokehouse

A luscious assortment of barbecue from the relocated John Brown is Dish #43 in our countdown. Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team. [See More 100 Dishes: Hot Bo ... More >>

Amorino Gelateria Debuts Cart Truck Mobile Location in the Seaport

Two attendants are required to operate the new concession -- though both must arrive by separate means, as you can see from the small cab. [Oat Meals Slated To Open in the Village | John Brown Smokehouse Moving, To Feature Beer Garden & Live Music] Fork in the Road's third favorite gelateria in t ... More >>

John Brown Smokehouse Moving, To Feature Beer Garden & Live Music

Pitmaster and owner Josh Bowen (right) reports that the barbecue will be moving soon. John Brown Smokehouse, one of the city's best barbecues, will be closing this coming Saturday, June 30 and relocating from its current Long Island City storefront, reports pitmaster Josh Bowen in a letter to Fork ... More >>

Our 10 Best Lamb Dishes in NYC

At Boukies: What could be better than a rack of grilled lamb chops bolstered with lemon potatoes? Lamb is the new beef, and Brooklyn is its greatest borough. Whether cooked well-done or rare; barbecued, roasted, boiled, or merely seared; well-spiced or left au naturale; the flavor bursts in your m ... More >>

Our 10 Best Chicken Dishes in NYC

Who wouldn't want this Peruvian rotisserie bird from Inca Chicken? And it comes with fries. Chicken is such a versatile bird! While McDonald's tries to disguise it, the yardbird's nature keeps asserting itself again and again. The skin is great, the organs are great, the appendages better than oth ... More >>

This Week's Specials: Middle Eastern Restaurants, Five Kinds of 'Cue

See what we've been up to at Fork in the Road this week: We've got our 10 picks for Middle Eastern restaurants in the city. Following his review of John Brown Smokehouse, Robert Sietsema runs down the five best barbecue dishes he had at the restaurant.

John Brown Smokehouse: Long Island City Gets a Great Barbecue

Queens now tastes a little like Kansas City

John Brown Smokehouse: 5 Best Kinds of 'Cue

Located in a working-class corner of Long Island City, John Brown Smokehouse has only been opened since August 2011, but has quickly risen to be one of the city's best barbecues. John Brown Smokehouse is a quirky sort of barbecue joint, like Fette Sau prone to smoke a strange collection of meats. ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Occupy Spring

This week in the Voice, out today, Nick Pinto tells the story of Occupy Wall Street's warm-weather return: "Dedicated Occupy activists dismissed the possibility that the movement had already run its course and promised an 'American Spring,' kicking off a new season of activism with May Day events co ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at John Brown Smokehouse; No Times Stars for La Mar Cebicheria

See what the city's restaurant critics have been up to this week: In the Voice, Robert Sietsema tries some Kansas City 'cue at John Brown Smokehouse in Queens: "Like all great barbecues, John Brown tends to be quirky and uneven; you wouldn't want it any other way and will quickly zone in on the th ... More >>

NYC's 5 Wildest Sandwiches

A B.L.T. made with smoked pork belly -- which is nothing like bacon -- at John Brown Smokehouse Tired of the same old bologna with American cheese on a roll with lettuce and mayo? Here are some of the stranger alternatives the city provides.

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

​Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically. Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CD ... More >>

Fairway Comes to Queens on November 16

Lauren BloombergPlease cheese. Queens will dairy up like this Stamford locale.​ Queens county is growing into a major culinary player. It has its own BBQ house (LIC's John Brown Smokehouse), a lauded fusion restaurant (Sunnyside's Salt & Fat), and now...it's own Fairway Market.

NYC's Ten Worst Tenants

We hope you don't live next to these people

Top 10 Rap-Related Reality-TV Moments

​"Reality rap" was once a phrase invoked by gangsta rappers to defend their music against moral outcry from the mainstream media and pesky suburban dwellers. These days, the term largely refers to the slew of emcees lining up to star in their own TV shows. While Boogie Down Productions associa ... More >>

Tonight! Holy Fuck, Adam Green, Nickel Eye, Vivian Girls, Reading Rainbow, Harlem, Gang Gang Dance, Hot Chip, Titus Andronicus, Das Racist, Boy Crisis, TOBACCO, Real Estate, HEALTH, Andrew WK, Cold Cave, 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q, And Charlotte Gainsbourg

Norman Wong​Take a look above at Holy Fuck. Those blank, wide-eyed creatures make berzerker caveman grooves, a primitive stomping of drums and keyboard mashing. This vented fury is best exemplified by their MySpace quote: "Who the fuck is Bilbo Baggins?!" They begin your Friday night at Cake S ... More >>

H. Rap Brown: "If You Can't Give a Gun, Give a Dollar"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 2, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 3 John Brown's Roll to Rap Brown's Rock by Stephanie Harrington Rap Brown talked to the honkies last Friday night. The occasion was the National Guardian's 19th anniversary (and fundraising) meeting. An ... More >>

Titus Andronicus Get That Sinking Feeling

Nutrition Advocate and Pain in the Ass MeMe Roth Profiled in Times

Remember that council bill proposing that fast food places be "zoned" away from schools? Councilmember Eric Gioia was assisted in that crusade by National Action Against Obesity, which we noted at the time was also campaigning against girl scout cookies. And that's what rang a bell when we were read ... More >>

Second New, Free Bob Dylan MP3, A Phrase We're Getting Used to Typing: "I Feel A Change Coming On"

Newsweek, of all cultural edifices, is the sole US possessor of the streaming audio to the title track of Bob Dylan's new album I Feel A Change Coming On--until tomorrow, anyway, when it hits the man's own website. The Times Online, overseas, pairs their copy of the mp3 with an inspired interview ... More >>

BLACK MAGICK IN SCIENCE

Alchemy becomes TV on the Radio

Miss Rap Supreme: Not That Great, Ultimately

Miss Rap Supreme: My New Favorite Show?

Alamo Race Track's Black Cat John Brown

New Wave grit from Amsterdam—why not?

The (White) Rapper Show: Grand Finale

The Great White Hope Makes Good

Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show marks its cringe-worthy and triumphant debut

The (White) Rapper Show: Still Great

Mims' "This Is Why I'm Hot": Rap as Aggressive Emptiness

The White Rapper Show: The Best Thing on TV

Requiescat in Pace

The Second Civil War

Facing the facts in slavery satire's rewritten history

Snoop Dog — No Second 'G,' G

Morning Report 11/14/05
Deaths by Torture Don't End Questioning

It's the Balm

Grace and truth: Marilynne Robinson returns to fiction

Hannah and Her Dreamers

In Russell Banks's latest novel-cum-confession, Monrovia is hell and chimps are free

Next Stop, Nevada!

Feds to Move Nuclear Material From Los Alamos to Site Near Yucca Mountain

'Liberty Is a Fragile Thing'

McCarthyism Can Rise Again

Sports

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