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Kenya

  • Books

    March 28, 2012

    Spring Guide 2012: Granta Eyes the African Short Story

    Continental rift

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2012

    OWS Resurges In Zuccotti Only To Face Eviction and Arrests; Floor Collapses At St. Patty's Day Party; Two Arrested In Chelsea Murder

    Occupy Wall Street roared back to life yesterday, as protesters marched and attempted to re-occupy Zuccotti Park. They were met by police who closed the park and violently arrested occupiers. Head over to the account by the Voice's Nick Pinto, who was on the scene, along with photographer C.S. Muncy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Cool Interactive Map Shows You Which City Blocks Use the Most Electricity

    A new interactive map tool, created by the Modi Research Group at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, reveals some unsurprising patterns about New York City's energy consumption. The tool can tell you, down to individual buildings, which parts of the city used the most ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2011

    If You're Not Geoffrey Mutai, You Lost the New York Marathon, Loser

    via WikipediaThe guy who beat you.​Today, the New York Marathon course record was shattered by Geoffrey Mutai. The 30-year-old Kenyan ran it in 2:05:06, beating the previous record by 2 minutes and 37 seconds. Mutai also won the Boston marathon earlier in the year and set the course record for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Three Women

    The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni rights campaigner Tawakkul Karman. They're being recognized "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full partici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    10 Years After 9/11, We're Still Nervous: Why That's O.K.

    ​Yesterday, along with a lot of grief and terrible sadness, there was also courage, and hope to move on, while, of course, "never forgetting." And there was a lot of nervousness. Nervousness about a possible terror attack, which we had been warned there was a "credible" threat of. Nervousness ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 7, 2011

    LIL TUNE-SHE

    tUnE-yArDs rEtUrNs tO nEw yOrK

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Saif al-Adel Is al Qaeda's Next Top Bad Guy

    ​In the vacuum left by the demise of Osama Bin Laden, a man known as Saif al-Adel ("Sword of Justice" to you; other aliases include Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi and Ibrahim Al-Madani) has been appointed interim leader of Al Qaeda, reports CNN. Al-Adel, who is Egyptian, was once a Special Forces off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Barack Obama's Grandma in Kenya Targeted by Al Qaeda

    ​Grandmothers should be sacred. And yet, here we are, with Sarah Obama, President Barack Obama's step-grandmother living in Kenya, being threatened explicitly by Al Shabaab, the Somalian chapter of Al Qaeda. Obama's granny has been given extra security, which she says she doesn't mind. "My lif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Barack Obama's Birth Certificate: Here It Is! But Something About It Looks Fishy...

    ​Kenya, East Africa?! It says so right there on the paper... (Haha, just kidding.) That's the birthplace of Obama's father, who shares the name Barack Hussein Obama, but was not birthed on August 4, 1961. Our president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Shut up, birther idiots. Shut up, Donald Trum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2011

    Donald Trump's Letter to The New York Times

    ​Remember when Gail Collins called out Donald Trump for being a totally not viable presidential candidate in her column last week? Did you think The Donald was just going to take that sitting down? No, no, no. This week he responds in the pages of the Times. He really, really hates Gail Collin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2011

    So What If There's a Deadly Cobra On The Loose!

    Hiiiiiii!​Hey, if you were thinking about going to the Reptile House at the Bronx Zoo today, think again! A venomous cobra escaped from its abode and is slithering around waiting to kill people. So the Reptile House is closed, sorry.

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2011

    Rightbloggers Find the Lesson of the Japanese Disaster: We Need More Nuclear Power Plants! (Plus Obama Sux!)

    Last week Japan was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and volcano. As the country tries to come back from this series of disasters, donations are pouring in from world citizens. Rightbloggers are doing their part, too. They're using the catastrophe as a teachable moment to explain that Obama sucks, glob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    The 10 Best Rightblogger Rants of 2010: Obama vs. Jesus, The Sperm Donor Menace, And More!

    What a horrible year it's been. There's been something to annoy everyone, and everyone took full advantage: The health care bill, the Tea Party, the BP spill, the Ground Zero Mosque, the Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart rallies, the Republican Comeback, the enhanced TSA patdowns, WikiLeaks -- and every bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Andrew Sarris: Heteros Have Problems Too

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 4, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 5 Heteros have problems too By Andrew Sarris I am 42, going on 43, and I have never had a homosexual experience. Thus, if only by the process of elimination (and an ecstatically happy marriage), I must q ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2010

    Gebre Gebremariam Wins NYC Marathon

    via Avi Gerver for The New York Times​Rescued Chilean miner Edison Peña, noted New York hater, did not win the ING New York City Marathon. That honor went to Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia in his first time at the competition. On the women's side, Edna Kiplagat of Kenya finished victorious. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Rightbloggers Go Alex Jones, Denounce Bipartisan "Ruling Class," Propose Groovy Revolution -- to Elect Republicans

    Recently the top Google Trend item -- with "volcanic" traffic -- was "Obama Deception Censored." The phrase relates to filmmaker and Infowars proprietor Alex Jones' claim that his movie Obama Deception had been "erased, obliterated, censored" from YouTube via a hacked password. (He doesn't explai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Heads Up, New York -- After Times Square Bomb Attempt, Rightbloggers Will Pretend to Care About You Again

    Bad news, New Yorkers: Once again, rightbloggers are pretending to care what happens to you. You may remember that right after 9/11 it became trendy for conservatives to gush over New York and Rudy "America's Mayor" Giuliani. Then, when it became apparent that New Yorkers still weren't going to vo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    This Weekend! Toro Y Moi, Ruby Suns, Holy Ghost!, Bear Hands, Gil Scott-Heron, Talib Kweli, Spoon, Deerhunter, Basseko Kouyate, Miike Snow, Crystal Stilts, Love Is All, Lymbyc System, Glass Ghost, And The Big Pink

    Making up for last week's paucity of shows thanks to SXSW and MtyMx, the city has an overstuffed dance card this weekend. First, chilllwave maestro Toro Y Moi will be playing with Tropicalia breakbeat-borrowers the Ruby Suns at Brooklyn Bowl. To quote one of the latter's tunes, "Kenya dig it?" Hol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Birther of a Nation: Poll Finds Less Than Half of Republicans Think Obama Was Born in U.S.

    Maybe you heard that top conservative magazine National Review dissed the birthers -- that is, the folks who believe Obama is not really President because he was born in Kenya or somewhere like it. But it's going to take more than that to bring this patriotic movement down! According to a Daily Kos/ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Man Booker International Prize 2009 Nominees Announced; Jay McInerney, Jane Smiley Exchange Words

    Daniel S. NeunerAmit Chaudhuri, Tina Brown, Andrey Kurkov, and Jane Smiley Last week brought the announcement of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 Judges' List, the official shortlist for the sixty thousand pound, every-other-year prize for "one writer's continued creativity, development and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Clip Job: The Timbuctoo Scene

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 29, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 23The Timbuctoo SceneDear Sir:Well, I have made the Timbuctoo, Timbuktu, Timbukou, Tombouctou SCENE. I left a copy of The Village Voice pasted on the wall of my pad there. I rented a pad -- a whole house -- for $5 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Roastarama!

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 29, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 23The Timbuctoo SceneDear Sir:Well, I have made the Timbuctoo, Timbuktu, Timbukou, Tombouctou SCENE. I left a copy of The Village Voice pasted on the wall of my pad there. I rented a pad -- a whole house -- for $5 a ... More >>

  • Film

    November 12, 2008

    War Child

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 29, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 23The Timbuctoo SceneDear Sir:Well, I have made the Timbuctoo, Timbuktu, Timbukou, Tombouctou SCENE. I left a copy of The Village Voice pasted on the wall of my pad there. I rented a pad -- a whole house -- for $5 a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Dead presidents in Africa and on Wall Street

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 29, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 23The Timbuctoo SceneDear Sir:Well, I have made the Timbuctoo, Timbuktu, Timbukou, Tombouctou SCENE. I left a copy of The Village Voice pasted on the wall of my pad there. I rented a pad -- a whole house -- for $5 a ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    January 1, 2008

    Time Is Money

    Looking for that upper-crust watch on the Lower East Side

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2007

    New African/Jamaican Comes to Clinton Hill

    Looking for that upper-crust watch on the Lower East Side

  • Columns

    August 15, 2006

    Horoscope

    Looking for that upper-crust watch on the Lower East Side

  • Music

    February 21, 2006

    Old-Fashioned Amenities

    Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

  • Screens

    January 3, 2006

    Group success

    Need some cash? Try Web-based fundraising with the craigslist.org of free exchange.

  • News

    August 24, 2004

    Barred From the Ballot Box

    On the anniversary of women's suffrage, a case for letting people with felony convictions vote

  • News

    July 27, 2004

    Shovin' It

    Democrats and hardballing pundits, pleasantly embedded in the economic elite

  • News

    March 2, 2004

    The Energy and the Ecstasy

    Getting to Spring With a Credit Card and a MetroCard

  • Film

    February 10, 2004

    Teenage Nightmare

    A lyrical drama and an intimate doc contemplate the placelessness of African teenagers

  • News

    October 28, 2003

    Sports

    A lyrical drama and an intimate doc contemplate the placelessness of African teenagers

  • Specials

    August 26, 2003

    Letters

    A lyrical drama and an intimate doc contemplate the placelessness of African teenagers

  • Film

    January 7, 2003

    Search and Rescue

    A lyrical drama and an intimate doc contemplate the placelessness of African teenagers

  • Art

    March 19, 2002

    Darkness Visible

    A lyrical drama and an intimate doc contemplate the placelessness of African teenagers

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    Pilots’-Eye View

    The Crash of Flight 587 Raises Questions About Training and Air Traffic Control

  • News

    October 30, 2001

    Remembering the L.A. 8

    The INS and Its Critics Take Lessons From a Relentless Pursuit of Immigrants

  • News

    September 4, 2001

    A Summit of Their Own

    Youth Demand Action Outside the World Conference Against Racism

  • Columns

    June 12, 2001

    Horoscope

    Youth Demand Action Outside the World Conference Against Racism

  • Theater

    May 15, 2001

    Tryst and Shout

    Youth Demand Action Outside the World Conference Against Racism

  • News

    October 3, 2000

    Sports

    Youth Demand Action Outside the World Conference Against Racism

  • News

    April 11, 2000

    Voice Writer Wins Pulitzer

    International Reporting Prize Goes to Schoofs AIDS Series

  • Music

    February 16, 1999

    Consumer Guide

    International Reporting Prize Goes to Schoofs AIDS Series

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    We're Saving Our Own Lives

    Black activists will confront killer diseases at upcoming AIDS forum in Harlem

  • News

    November 3, 1998

    Life On The Run

    If charisma made you faster, an American might actually win the New York Marathon

  • News

    May 19, 1998

    Next Frontier

    If charisma made you faster, an American might actually win the New York Marathon

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