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John Wilcock

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    June 15, 2010

    WARHOL FOREVER

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    December 24, 2009

    Clip Job: Wary, Post-'Jesus' Beatles Meet the NY Press for Shea Show

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 25, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 45 John, Paul, George, Ringo: Cool Duel with the Press By James Kempton A press conference is where photographers jostle for the same shot as the one in the files and the reporters ask questions about th ... More >>

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    November 13, 2009

    John Wilcock Heads to the EVO

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 3, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 16 The Village Square By John Wilcock (With this column John Wilcock ends his regular weekly series "The Village Square" in The Village Voice. He has become an owner of a new newspaper, the East Village ... More >>

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    October 5, 2009

    Clip Job: Wilcock Recalls The Founding of the Voice

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives July 8, 1965, Vol. X, No. 38 A Few Notes About The Village Square By John Wilcock In the beginning was a sign in the window of the Eleven Arts Bookshop on Sheridan Square. I had been in New York one week, had been nosing around the Vi ... More >>

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    October 2, 2009

    Clip Job: Arch Rivals -- Protesters and Cops

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives July 1, 1965, Vol. X, No. 37 Dawn's Early Light Saw Anti-War Banner on Arch By John Wilcock For about one hour early one morning last week a 30-foot banner fluttered from the top of Washington Square arch. Bearing the message END THE ... More >>

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    August 31, 2009

    Clip Job: What's Happening with Happenings

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 21, 1965, Vol. X, No. 14What's Happening with HappeningsBy John WilcockThe worst thing that ever happened to "happenings" was that somebody started to call them happenings. Now we have the interesting situation of people who decide tha ... More >>

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    August 21, 2009

    Clip Job: LSD in Churches by 1984 -- Timothy Leary

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 10, 1964, Vol. X, No. 8An Interview with Timothy LearyBy John WilcockTimothy Leary and Richard Alpert, former Harvard professors, have been experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs (mainly LSD and psilocybin) for 4 1/2 years. They main ... More >>

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    July 3, 2009

    Clip Job: Wilcock Fed Up with Blue-Nosed Bureaucrats!

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 9, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 25The Village SquareBy John WilcockThe things that have been happening here lately have just about driven me up the wall with outrage and frustration. Who are these so-called "judges" and "licensing officials," et cete ... More >>

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    June 11, 2009

    Clip Job: This Chick has Wilcock Down Cold

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 19, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 9The Greenwich Village Scholarship (2)The Greenwich Village Scholarship, despite the rather tongue-in-cheek way in which I presented it (November 7), was a serious attempt to show upper Eastside chicks that the Vil ... More >>

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    June 10, 2009

    Clip Job: Oswald Tipster Nuts, and Wilcock Somehow Not Guilty Again!

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 12, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 8FBI Discovers 3 are 1The distance from Wiggins, Mississippi, to Greenwich Village proved to be only a subway ride on the E train. Stephen H. Landesberg of Forest Hills, Queens, was picked up on December 5 followin ... More >>

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    June 3, 2009

    Clip Job: Wilcock Looking for the Right Chick

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 7, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 3The Greenwich Village Scholarship, 1963By John WilcockSo when I inaugurated the Greenwich Village Scholarship last year, the idea in my mind was that all over America were college girls who couldn't make up their m ... More >>

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    June 2, 2009

    Clip Job: Wilcock Somehow Not Guilty

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 31, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 2Wilcock AcquittedVoice columnist John Wilcock, 36, was acquitted of disorderly conduct and causing a crowd to collect at new York City Criminal Court on Monday. The charges had been filed against him by a police se ... More >>

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    May 5, 2009

    Clip Job: First Voice Appearance of Walter Allen, a/k/a "Woody"

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 13, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 34The Theatre of PsychodramaBy John WilcockWalter Allen's main problem with women has usually been that he wants to assume the submissive role. We went to the Theatre of Psychodrama together recently, and when Profes ... More >>

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    April 3, 2009

    Clip Job: Luring a Sucker -- er, Scholar, to the Village

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 10, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 12The Greenwich Village ScholarshipBy John WilcockLetters from girls as far away as Eugene, Oregon, and Valparaiso, Indiana, brought applications for the Greenwich Village Scholarship -- a weekend in the Village a ... More >>

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    December 30, 2008

    The New Yorker Looks at the Village Voice

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    December 15, 2008

    Clip Job: The 'Espresso Underground' Fights The System

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    December 10, 2008

    Clip Job: Lenny Bruce, With His Shirt Off

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    November 5, 2008

    Clip Job: Where's the Yachting News?

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    October 13, 2008

    Clip Job: The Voice Makes a Move

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    September 11, 2008

    Clip Job: The 1960 Folding Bicycle

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    April 10, 2008

    Clip Job: The World's Biggest Underground Bar

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    April 3, 2008

    Clip Job: I've Got a Crush on Shari Lewis

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    March 12, 2008

    Clip Job: The Precursor to Vandelay Industries

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    March 5, 2008

    Clip Job: The Typical Village Girl

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    February 15, 2008

    Clip Job: Billie Holiday and Computerized Dating

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    February 12, 2008

    Clip Job: Old-School Social Networking on Sutton Place

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    January 15, 2008

    Clip Job: December 12, 1956

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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    January 14, 2008

    Clip Job: December 5, 1956

    We commend to you Louis Menand's New Yorker piece, "It Took a Village: How the Voice changed journalism." You'd expect us to do that, of course, but we aren't just reflecting perceived flattery. The article is mainly about the past, after all, and might just as easily be taken as a rebuke (as at P ... More >>

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