Mad Men

Free Energy, Ty Segall and the Problem Facing Guitar-Based Music

Free Energy find themselves in a strange new world. A fuzzy, poppy, rock 'n' roll band inspired by '70s acts like Big Star, Thin Lizzy, and The Cars, they grew up on rock. "Paul and I are both from the same small town," says Evan Wells, who started the band with his brother Scott and their friend P ... More >>

Django Unchained: The Most Moving Scene Quentin Tarantino Has Yet Filmed

Django is Like "Accidental Racist," Except Not Godawful.

Top of the Lake: Peggy Olson Goes to Hell

Elisabeth Moss and Jane Campion bring you Spring’s best new show

Musical Flop About 1960s Infidelity Has Been Brought Back!

I love late-'60's swinging Broadway flop musicals about cheating, so I was excited to hear that The Fig Leaves Are Falling--with a book and lyrics by Allan Sherman ("Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh") and music by Tony Award winner Albert Hague (Redhead, Plain and Fancy)--was coming back. The show was or ... More >>

In Our Nature

Mitt Romney is a Snooki Fan, Reaffirming That He's Out of Touch with America

As reality television slowly drags itself into the oblivion, it is safe to say that we, as a country, are pretty much done with MTV's 'Jersey Shore.' The greased-up guido and obnoxious fist-pumping fad came and went but, nonetheless, it did happen: at one point, the show was the highest rated show e ... More >>

Breaking Away from the Church of Scientology: Reading Marty Rathbun's Manifesto

Between 2004 and 2007, Scientology experienced several defections by high-ranking executives who later wrote books about breaking away from what they characterized as a dangerous and pathological organization. But for many of us who watch Scientology, it is one defector in particular whose story we ... More >>

Q&A: Grasshopper's Josh Millrod And Jesse DeRosa On The Electric Valve Instrument, Working In Advertising, And Improvisation

Every Grasshopper jam starts with a great big nothing sound, on or near the cusp of silence, so soft and unassuming that it almost isn't there. Then, ever-so-glacially, the frame fills with sound: Josh Millrod's penetrative trumpeting fed through the maw of Jesse DeRosa's distortion-hemorrhaging Ele ... More >>

Bobcat Goldthwait's Voice Has Changed

Working outside the Hollywood bubble, the stand-up vet is making comedies in his own register. God Bless!

Spring Guide 2012: The Stabbin' Cabin

Enjoy a rustic bloodbath

Assistance Heads to the Office

Leslye Headland offers up her own Nick and Nora at Playwrights Horizons

Back from War, a Mom and Wife Fights the Consequences in Return

Geoffrey Zakarian on Winning The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs

Photo courtesy Geoffrey ZakarianGeoffrey Zakarian, Chef and Iron Chef​Geoffrey Zakarian is ending the year with a bang. The chef at the National and the Lambs Club can now also call himself an Iron Chef, having beaten nine other culinary pros competing on The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs. We ca ... More >>

Paulette Cooper, Scientology's Original and Worst Nightmare: A Thanksgiving Tribute by the Village Voice

[UPDATE: Think Scientology spying and harassment is a thing of the past? Check out our new story about how the church even spies on its most prominent member, Tom Cruise.] I couldn't think of a better way to give thanks this year than to pay homage to the woman who was there first, paid the highest ... More >>

Young Men's Initiative: The White Mayor's Burden

Bloomberg aims to help the young black and Latino men he has been throwing in jail for a decade

Ryan Gosling at the Wheel in the Retro Thrill Ride Drive

Which Brand of Flosser Will Save Your Life? We'll Tell You!

​Each week, Death by Science kicks down science and technology's door and demands to see where they're hiding the primo goods. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up on canned goods and doomsday porn. This week, we examine the c ... More >>

Frankenstein and Keira Knightley—Don’t Confuse the Two

A March march through London theater (sorry, ‘theatre’)

Top Ten Fattest States: Is Yours on the List, Fatty?

​Americans are the most obese people in the world. Big whoop, if Swedes had the option of eating a Baconzilla at 2a.m. from Checkers' late-night drive-in, those furniture-building fjord jockeys would have some extra winter weight too. Behind eating, Americans' second favorite pastime is readin ... More >>

Floyd Cardoz, George Mendes, and Suvir Saran Will Compete on Top Chef Masters

Bravo​Now that Top Chef All Stars is kind of, sort of beginning to draw to a close, Bravo wants us to start thinking about the next season of Top Chef Masters.

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Is The Savviest Crazy Cat Lady Of All Time, And We've Got The Stats To Prove It

Bethany Cosentino and her alleged muse​You can summarize Best Coast's roughly 1,040,000 Google-search results in just seven words: "boy," "love," "summer," "weed," "cat," "cat," and "cat." This is remarkable because a) frontwoman Bethany Cosentino has been anointed indie-rock's first ever "cra ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to The Suburbs

Michael Musto's Year in Review

Social and economic turmoil? Don't ask. At least we had Lady Gaga to tell us what to do.

Gloria Steinem Says Cathie Black's Problem is Named Bloomberg

​Here's Gloria Steinem on her fellow Ms. Magazine veteran, Cathie Black, summing up the politics surrounding the publishing exec's now-wobbly appointment as schools chancellor: Black, says Steinem, "is now paying the price of people's resentment of Bloomberg. ... People resent his third term. ... More >>

The Kristin Davis Post-Election Party: Pretty Much What You'd Expect

​By Brianna Strange "Who's Kristin Davis?" The woman at coat check had no idea what was going on. That is probably fair, given that the crowd wasn't what you'd expect at a typical post-election party for a gubernatorial candidate. Kristin Davis isn't your typical candidate for Governor of Ne ... More >>

Fashion Week: threeASFOUR Bring Fashion to the People (Sort of); Tavi Works the Night Shift at Alice Olivia; Kanye West and Alexa Chung Check Out 3.1 Phillip Lim

David WentworthTake me to your leader.​ "Yeah, that's right, I'm talking to you, asshole!" screamed one man at another before the threeASFOUR show. However, we should be clear that this man wasn't exactly an invited guest. He was taking it all in from a bench on the perimeter of the concrete r ... More >>

Fashion Week: M.I.A. Checks Out Alexander Wang's Construction-Worker Chic; Kim Kardashian and Jessica Szohr Sit Front Row at Jill Stuart; Prabal Gurung Wows Us With Color

David WentworthM.I.A., Ryan McGinley, Lenny Kravitz​ An enormous balloon sculpture hovered over the stage at Alexander Wang's show at Pier 94. Was it supposed to be a cloud? An alien spacecraft? A giant water raft? Whatever it was, there was certainly enough hot air in the room to send it into ... More >>

NFL Kicks Off, Determines Future of 3-D TV

​Though the NFL season officially started on Thursday, today is the day you will lose your fathers/husbands/boyfriends/Sunday yoga partners for the remainer of the year and then some. Fantasy football is the new Jonathan Franzen. It's all happening. But leave it to the New York Times to find a ... More >>

Jake Zavracky of Lowlands Talks Happy Hour, Booze in Beer & the Allure of Miller Lite

zavracky.comJake Zavracky​Jake Zavracky is living the dream: tending bar by day and making music by night. Or is it the other way around? In any case, when he's behind the bar at Lowlands, the beer garden that opened in Gowanus earlier this year, he aims to please. What's on tap that's season ... More >>

NineteenEightyFour at the Austrian Cultural Forum; Megan Prelinger's Another Science Fiction

An exhibit and book look back at the future

Formula Works in Get Him to the Greek

Sex, drugs, rock 'n' Apatow

Broadway Star Makes AIDS and Jesus Funny!

The Limelight's born again, and so am I

Fassbinder's Sci-Fi World on a Wire at MOMA

Bad Girls Gone Worse: Rihanna, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga

While they seethe and snarl, Taylor Swift emasculates with a smile