Liberia

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 >>

Tim Hetherington: It's War

This Week in the Voice: Rikers Violence, Out of Control

This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman has obtained photos of Rikers inmates with severe knife wounds and beatings to the face, neck, and arms, writing: "Four years ago, the Voice first wrote about the violence at Rikers, which was not only condoned but also promoted by jail officials in a ... More >>

Kaia: Please Boer Me

Happily, New York gets some more South African food

Andy Rourke of The Smiths to DJ at Choice Eats; Sixth and Final Group of Participating Restaurants Announced

Fork in the Road is proud to announce former Smiths bass guitarist and veteran DJ Andy Rourke will be spinning the wheels of steel at this year's Choice Eats tasting event. Which raises the question: Can you pogo while eating?

Oh, Happy Day! Choice Eats Unveils Even More Restaurants

The Village Voice's fifth annual tasting event is rapidly approaching, and if you haven't yet purchased your tickets, here are seven more reasons why you should. Choice Eats has just announced that Despaña, Four & Twenty Blackbirds, Jimmy's No. 43, Nunu Chocolates, Peppa's Jerk Chicken, Xe M ... More >>

Art Versus Politics, 2012

Three Voice critics debate the issue in the age of Occupy and Ai Weiwei

The Human Experience-ish: Day-in-a-Life Movies at Doc Fortnight

Updated: Choice Eats Announces Additional Participants, Still More Coming Up

​Mile End's legendary smoked-meat poutine, with curds and gravy, of course. Choice Eats proudly announces the fourth group of restaurants, bakeries, and other purveyors of delicious foodstuffs to its Tuesday, March 13 festival line-up. Newcomers include: Bep, Brooklyn Brine Co., Fay Da Bake ... More >>

More Choice Eats Restaurants Revealed!

It's time to invest in that pair of elastic sweatpants you've had your eye on. The third round of restaurants participating in The Village Voice's tasting event, Choice Eats, is out -- and, boy, is it a tasty bunch.

Choice Eats 2012: Second Group of Participants Announced

The celebrated stuffed eggplant at Bay Ridge's Tanoreen, one of the festival participants The Village Voice has announced a second group of 17 restaurant, bakery, and chocolatier participants for its Choice Eats food festival. These join the 21 announced last Wednesday, bringing the total to 38 so ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Ambassador, and experimental methodology

​Mads Brugger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars Von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my Top 10 for 2010. In Chapel, Danish journalist Brugger posed as the di ... More >>

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded; Protests in Russia; Hollywood Gunman

​Three women received the Nobel Peace Prize today at a ceremony in Oslo. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, social worker Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni journalist and activist Tawakkul Karman were all "chosen for their non-violent struggle against injustice, sexual violence and repression." ... More >>

'Que Bajo'

Best of 2011 Eats & Treats: Dessert Edition

​It's finally here! Our Best of 2011 issue hit kiosks today. It's chock-full of great things to eat and drink. Wondering what the city's best Liberian and Hawaiian restaurants are? We've got you covered. New York's best uses for Velveeta and kimchi? Yep, we've got that, too. Space limite ... More >>

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 >>

Our 10 Best West African Restaurants in NYC

​The peanut-dusted lamb kebabs called suya from northern Nigeria, available at Brooklyn's Buka In the late 80s, the typical Senegalese immigrant was a guy who furtively sold counterfeit watches and handbags on the street. He took his meals at temporary restaurants set up in SRO hotels rooms ... More >>

Tim Hetherington, Restrepo Director and War Photographer, Killed in Libya

​Tim Hetherington, the director and producer behind the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo about his time spent as a journalist in Afghanistan, was killed on Wednesday in Misurata, Libya, while working as a photographer during the conflict. Chris Hondros and Guy Martin, also journalists, we ... More >>

Get Your Ticket and Start Dieting Now: A Choice Eats Update

​Time to invest in a pair of pants with an elastic waistband. The good folks over at Choice Eats have informed us that 82 restaurants and eateries are currently participating in what's shaping up to be the best tasting event of all time.

Choice Eats Now Has a Foursquare Badge

Better than a Girl Scout badge.​Exciting news from the Department of Choice Eats: The Village Voice is partnering with Foursquare and introducing a special Choice Eats badge for this year's culinary tasting event.

My 10 Favorite NYC Dishes of 2010

​10. Smoked Meat Poutine at Mile End - It's hard to imagine an American restaurant improving on this working-class Montreal standard, but Boerum Hill's Mile End has done the trick, by garnishing the poutine with another Quebecois specialty, smoked meat, in addition to curds, fries, and gravy. ... More >>

Best of NYC: Our Critics List Their 10 Favorite Dishes

Robert Sietsema, Sarah DeGregorio, and Rebecca Marx recap their respective years in food

Where Can I Get Great Carryout on the Way to Kennedy Airport?

​ A luscious spice-rubbed rotisserie chicken from Pio Pio may be just the ticket. Ann P. asks: I'm flying to California next week, driving myself from the Upper West Side to Kennedy Airport, where I'll leave my car in a long-stay lot while I'm away. Here's my question: I hate airline food ... More >>

Captured in Afghanistan: American Soldiers Like Fish in a Barrel in Restrepo

Doctors Without Borders, Living in Emergency

Robert Sietsema at Maima's; Sarah DiGregorio at Paulie Gee's

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema has the "one of the hottest things" he's tasted all year: Liberian pepper shrimp at Maima's in Jamaica, Queens. Sarah DiGregorio samples the pie at Paulie Gee's, where the crust "burrows into your brain -- a stretchy, bubbly, char-spotted pillow of a bread, th ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: The NYPD Tapes

​Who knows what goes on behind the closed doors, locked file cabinets, and day-to-day routines of the NYPD? Other than them, nobody. Which is one of the reasons why one of New York's Finest saw fit to record his life among their ranks, and shed light on some of the darker aspects of those who ... More >>

Set Sail for Maima's Pepper Coast

Munching shrimp heads at New  York's only Liberian restaurant

West African Pepper Shrimp from Maima's in Jamaica, Queens

​The incendiary, mouth-searing, mind-bogglingly-hot pepper shrimp at Maima's. It always happens. No sooner had I assembled a collection of the hottest dishes available in city restaurants for the Spring Supplement, than I stumbled on another that put the others to shame.

My Movie Club Moves On Up to the St. Regis!

​A couple of months ago, reps from the swanky St. Regis Hotel on Fifth Avenue asked for my favorite restaurants and neighborhoods for some promotion they were doing, promising a free, ritzy weekend there as a reward. I was sure this was one of those large-scale scams, like when I almost went ... More >>

Edgar Allan Pho: World of Taste in the Bronx

Southeast Asian nabe surrounds horror master's cottage

New Nigerian Rocks on Hendrix in East New York

Exterminating Angel

The twisted relationship of the goth girl, her preppy sister, and their murdered father

Diaspora Cinema

From South Africa to North Carolina, fest explores the black experience

The Ugly Stick

Severed heads, devouring monsters, Marilyn Manson—Umberto Eco gazes at the grotesque

'Lady Vengeance'

How Brigitte Harris asphyxiated and castrated her father and won over politicians

Status Ain't Hood Interviews M.I.A.

What's Up, Docs: MOMA's Sixth Annual Nonfiction Festival

War and Fleece: Niccol-Plated Gun Runner Satire Shoots Blanks

Hannah and Her Dreamers

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

Haiti? What's in It for Us?

Horoscope

Trying Times in Little Liberia

On Staten Island, Reflections of a War-Torn Country

Diamonds in the Rough

Liberia: Ripe for Colonizing?

Invisible Jihad

Where Democracy Fails, Terrorism Grows in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Stranger

The Liberian Avenger

Obscure Journal Takes on the Glossies

The Long-Playing Duke