Lenny Bruce

H.R. of Bad Brains is Not Crazy, Insists Jamie Saft

With a monstrously flowing godlike beard, multi-instrumental guru Jamie Saft resembles a Hasidic mountain man who should be jamming on meaty blues licks with his beloved ZZ Top instead of the downtown avant-gardist and John Zorn ensemble vet for which he's known. The catch is, dude actually makes hi ... More >>

21 & Over Just Dares You to Get Offended

Slideshow: The 20 Most Tolerable Party Movies

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III: What Makes Charlie Douche?

Roman Coppola Gives Charlie Sheen the 8 1/2 treatment

Best in Show: Jim Lambie's "Spiritualized" at Anton Kern

Plus: Ed Sanders's memoir Fug You

Lenny Bruce's Mom: California Health Nut

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 21, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 42 Lenny & a mother's love By Arthur Bell LOS ANGELES, California -- I ring a doorbell where it says Sally Marr, and an invisible voice calls Arthur, is that you, c'mon in. I walk into a courtyard. Lawn ... More >>

Losing Satchmo and Jim Morrison The Same Week

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 15, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 28 Jim Morrison By Don Heckman It was another one of those times, last week. In one day the papers reported the deaths of Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter Charlie Shavers, and rock star Jim Morrison. Only t ... More >>

Peter Saul's Thrilling Tastelessness

Haunch of Venison helps the painter celebrate five decades of luridness

Brooklyn's Own King of Chutzpah, Phil Silvers, Now on DVD

On the Johnny Depp-Narrated Doors' Doc When You're Strange

Don't forget about Jim Morrison

Clip Job: Newfield Makes the Case for Bob Dylan

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 26, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 15 Brecht of the Juke Box, Poet of the Electric Guitar By Jack Newfield Norman Morrison burned himself to death to protest the Vietnam war, and when reporters visited his spare room they saw quotes fro ... More >>

Clip Job: The Defend Bob Dylan Rally!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 7, 1965, Vol. X, No. 51 Dylan in October By Jack Newfield They booed Bob Dylan at Newport in July, they insulted him at Forest Hills in August, but last Friday at Carnegie Hall they screamed for more of his "rock folk" poetry ... More >>

Not Even Larry David Can Salvage Woody's Whatever Works

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

The Five Most Miserable Christmas Songs

Stephanie Harrington: A Singular Early Voice at the 'Voice'

Anthology Takes a Tour of the Bonnie and Clyde Director's America

(Arthur) Penn in the margins

Rest In Peace, George Carlin, and Thanks for Disturbing It

Yippie Apocalypse in the East Village

A feud of staggeringly stupid proportions

Bill Hart, 1937–2008

Sam Shepard remembers his late friend and theater colleague

The Wooster Group plays someone else's Hamlet

. . . and both teams lose

The Judge and the G-Man

A radical on the bench weighs an FBI agent's fate

The Goulden Age

Only in the early '70s could Elliott Gould have been a matinee idol. Since then? The Brooklyn schlemiel's long goodbye.

Take 'Em to Church

Richard Pryor, 1940–2005

Used to be a genius, I ain't lying, booked the numbers didn't need paper or pencil.

'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'

Marching to Montgomery: The Cradle Did Rock

Books

Letters

The Art of Party Crashing

Artists and activists stockpile Dick Cheney jokes, Dubya drag, and phalluses in preparation for the Republican invasion

Mad Skills

There's much more to Will Elder than Little Annie Fanny

Listings

Pot, Porn, and Strawberries

Talking to Reefer Madness Author Eric Schlosser About the Nation’s Shadow Economies

One-Bedroom Apartment in London Terrace

For Adults Only

Radical Revisions of the Spiritual Life

On the Road

Fling Time in a Quiet Town

'8 Mile' Lines and On-the-Job Bondage in Toronto

Will Morgenthau Do Justice?

The First Trial Judge Was Over His Head

Who Did Kill Christ?

A ‘Blood Libel’ Igniting Pogroms

Glitzkrieg

And It's Twisty Too

Drug War Goes on Trial

Mexican Banker Sues 'Narco News'

Letters

Celebrity Bigots

Why Hate is Hot

Down By Law

When Movie Moguls Wage War to Protect Copyright, the First Amendment Ends Up on the Cutting Room Floor

The French Fried

Paglia’s North American Heroes

Solanas Lost and Found

Valerie shot Andy when he couldn't find her play. Rediscovered, Up Your Ass opens at last.

Flashbacks: The Year in Movies

Class clowns

The Felonious Faxman

There Were No Threats in the 'Criminal' Faxes

Border Crossings