Larry David

Girls Boy Alex Karpovsky Makes Good

In movies and on TV, the actor is only playing an asshole

Jon Stewart Writes Hostess a Fine Obituary

When bankrupt food manufacturer Hostess announced its plans to shut down and sell assets after a series of nationwide employee strikes, fans wondered what the future might hold for Hostess products like Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread, and Twinkies. On The Daily Show last night, Jon Stewart had a go at t ... More >>

GIDDY UP!

The Jerry Seinfeld show at Lehman College

Q&A: Guy Gerber On Ibiza, Diddy, And Restoring The Mix CD's Glory

Guy Gerber has the kind of summer job that would make anyone jealous. The Israeli producer and DJ is nearing the end of the season in Ibiza, having spent idyllic days working on music by the ocean and neon nights playing his blend of progressive house and melodic techno for the insatiable tourists t ... More >>

Neo-Nazis in Greenpoint: Hipster Hoax?

The Daily News wants to know: Are there neo-Nazis in Greenpoint? The question comes about after a series of pics taken by Brooklyn photog Adam Krause apparently hit the web Monday evening, in which he chronicled five self-professed Polish neo-Nazis. Gawker seems to have broken the story, and did di ... More >>

Man Posts Epic Craigslist Missed Connection for Girl Who Held His iPhone Hostage

​The Lower East Side can be hellish on weekends, sure. Sometimes it can be really hellish, especially on Halloween, when some teenager holds your iPhone hostage and the night degenerates into an almost-brawl in a pizza parlor in which your friends are chasing the girl around, calling her a bit ... More >>

Q&A: Tanlines' Jesse Cohen On Winning The Best Band Twitter In NYC Award, Zucchini-Borne Controversies, And Comedy As Soccer

Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm of Tanlines. ​Giving the Best Local Music Twitter award in our Best of NYC issue to @tanlines was pretty much a no-brainer. The account, which is run by the duo's Jesse Cohen, is heavy on the wry observational humor and light on the "come see our band" or "here's someb ... More >>

The Suckadelic Era

The designer-toy world's biggest jerkbag thinks you're an asshole for reading this story.

Mike Bloomberg Kicks Larry David Out of New York City on Curb Your Enthusiasm

Did you see Mayor Bloomberg's cameo on Curb Your Enthusiasm last night? If not, here you go. Our mayor, who is no stranger to a cameo, was particularly mayoral, banishing Larry David from our entire city for his typical Larry-David-esque misstep (in this case, miming playing violin during Michael J. ... More >>

'Metropolitan Etiquette Authority' Posts New Signs Around New York City

​Jason Shelowitz, or Jay Shells, a New York artist who in 2010 launched a subway etiquette campaign covering all sorts of ills committed by commuters (something we clearly have an interest in as well), and later followed with a "clean up after your dog" series, is at it again. He put up street ... More >>

Bob Turner, Congressional Candidate: No Palestinian Chicken Next to Goldblatt's Deli?

One good nontroversy deserves another. Now that Anthony Weiner has abandoned his post representing New York's 9th Congressional District over rather silly reasons, and will soon be replaced by Democrat David Weprin or Republican Bob Turner, it seems fitting that the special election is being framed ... More >>

KING LARRY

Our favorite whiner is back in town

Al Gore is Not a "Crazed Sex Poodle" in the Eyes of the Law, Cleared of Allegations

​It's been a tough few months for former Vice President Al Gore, who after announcing he and his wife of 40 years, Tipper, were separating, was accused rumored to have been cheating with Larry David's wife. As if the jokes from that to come aren't bad enough, more serious allegations soon surf ... More >>

The Scariest Performer in Town

Ves Pitts​And that's a good thing! CLICK HERE for my interview with Jibz Cameron, whose onstage creation Dynasty Handbag is a whacked-out, needy, electric-haired shock of crazed imagination.

The Most Outrageous Performance Artist in Town!

Jibz Cameron's hot at the Hot! Festival. Plus The Kids Are All Right and Kisses

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

SAG Award Nominations Heat Up Movie Prize Fever

​Hot on the heels of the big critics' awards and the Golden Globe nominations, the Screen Actors Guild has unveiled its annual award nominations for films and television. SAG has been handing these out for 16 years, but only in the past few years has awards fever caused non-professionals to pa ... More >>

Staten Island D.A. Tries Shame to Stop Christmas Shoplifters, Again

​Last Christmas season, Staten Island D.A. Daniel Donovan cracked down on shoplifting at the Staten Island Mall by putting pictures of offenders in an attractive video display. This year he's doing it again. You can see the video at the D.A.'s web site, complete with 1980s movie theater trai ... More >>

J.B. Smoove

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Twitpic by StWiltshire. The last full week of the election campaign was sorta fun -- as it should have been with Mayor Bloomberg spending $37,000 an hour on it. And it worked: the big papers endorsed him, as did another Democrat, and polls showed him way out of Bill Thompson's reach. We still su ... More >>

Q&A: Bill Maher on Catholicism, Obama, Gore Vidal, Polanski, and Never Making Another Movie

Photo courtesy Alberto Tolot/HBO Way back during the Clinton Administration, Bill Maher had the wonderful idea of letting a comedian -- himself -- talk regularly with politicians and political commentators about current events on TV. Politically Incorrect turned poli-chat into something non-wonks ... More >>

Outrage du Jour: Larry David Pees on Jesus

​On the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode aired on Sunday, Larry David took a leak, some of it got on a painting of Jesus, a Catholic saw the painting later and thought the painting had miraculously wept, etc. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch readers find this (at present) the "cringe-iest"moment in ... More >>

Letters

Interview: Woody Allen on Whatever Works, The Meaning of Life (or Lack Thereof), and the Allure of Younger Women

The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works -- his 40th for those keeping count -- signals a return for the filmmaker in more ways than one. For starters, it is his first film to shoot on location in New York since Melinda and Melinda in 2004, interrupting a half-decade European vacation during which ... More >>

Times Makes Us Less Likely to Give Up Our Seat in the Subway to the So-Called "Disabled"

The Times addresses a pet peeve of ours: letting infirm, pregnant, and otherwise challenged people take your seat in the subway. They are inspired by a new, passive-aggressive, thoroughly Bloombergian subway sign that says of seat-offering, "it's not only polite, it's the law." Nannyism of the worst ... More >>

Not Even Larry David Can Salvage Woody's Whatever Works

Plus: Israel's own neurotic Etgar Keret's $9.99

Times Reveals Ambition, Dyslexia of Ari Emanuel, Brother of Rahm and Charlie Rose

The Times' front page story on actual liberal Hollywood elite Ari Emanuel -- super agent to the stars, brother to Rahm (and black sheep/bioethicist Ezekiel), and nothing to do with Obama we swear middle America -- is laudable for its omission of the words "Entourage," "Jeremy," and "Piven." Too bad ... More >>

It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

Glen Pourciau's Invite Shacks Up In Raymond Carver Land

Domestic realism from the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award

An Interview With Woody Allen

Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in NYC and Puccini for L.A. Opera

This Week's DVDs: Into the Wild, Radiant City, More

Stranded by Oscar

Provincializm #11: Black Kids in Florida

Currin Events

Money shots: Lasciviousness, voyeurism, and the inner life of paintings

Education Listings

Mistress of Her Domain

New Christine resembles old Elaine—not that there's anything wrong with that

Black Power Rangers

How to tell white folks the truth: Boondocks creator McGruder and his underage stand-ins

Extra-Ordinary Rendition

New HBO comedy confirms there are no small parts—nor actors wih small egos

Extinguished Journalist

The story behind Ed Klein, author of the latest Hillary-bashing tome

Dear Bush Beat: Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

Central Asian Indie Wastes Post-Apocalyptic Landscape

Telly Tubby

Famished for more sitcom stardom, Alley eats her way to the top, one fat joke at a time

The Half-Life of Celebrity

Let them eat stars: Pop-culture vultures circle the flesh of the semi-rich and famous on VH1

This Charmless Man

Seinfeld without Seinfeld? The humor may be surlier but it's just as annoyingly addictive

The Pleasure Channel

The Year in TV

The Loser's Circle

A Vegas Dramedy and a 'Seinfeld' Castoff

Mulholland Sex Drive!

Film

Large and in Charge

Seined, Sealed, Delivered