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What's Happening This Week: Fatty Crab Boil, Omnivore Food Festival

Tuesday, September 18 Crab Boil. Fatty Crew Hospitality Group announces the seventh anniversary of Fatty Crab this month. To celebrate, the restaurant will be hosting a Maryland-style crab boil from September 17 through October 17. It's serving blue crabs with "Malay old bay" seasoned water, steamed ... More >>

Live: Alvarius B Sings Songs Of Love And Spleen At Union Pool

Alvarius B w/Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett Duo Tuesday, September 4 Union Pool Better than: Getting drunk with your conspiracy-theory spewing uncle. Before his performance as the pseudonymous Alvarius B (with all the trippy venom that implies), former Sun City Girls member Alan Bishop chats p ... More >>

Q&A: Redd Kross's Jeff McDonald On "Familiaritus," Why 2NE1 Are The New Ronettes, And How Survivor Is Like Being In A Band

Legendary L.A. groovy punks Redd Kross are back for reals with a new album, Researching the Blues (Merge), and soldiering on with their insistence that punk is indeed groovy. They were never strictly "punk" according to the norms of the early-'80s California scene they grew up in; nor did they alway ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: No More Prescription Pot in Malibu?

Medical marijuana is soon to be no more in Malibu, Calif. Federal law enforcement authorities' continued pressure on dispensaries has already prompted one of the town's prescription pot shop to close. The city's second store will shutter July 1, according to media reports.

Supper at the Darby Restaurant; Free drinks at Virgil's

A round-up on June's hottest restaurant deals and events: Summertime Supper at The Darby The Darby restaurant is hosting it's first-ever Summertime Supper, a $45 three-course, prix-fixe dinner Monday to Friday nights from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm. Live music will begin at 7 pm. Dishes include oysters on ... More >>

Florencia 13: Gangsters Get Their Burritos

California expats find themselves a clubhouse in NYC

Robert Sietsema at Florencia 13; One NYT Star for Alison Eighteen

In this week's Voice, Robert Sietsema tests out Cal-Mex specialties and margaritas at the Village's Florencia 13: "You should start your meal with a flaming margarita, though that flame is confined to a small slice of cucumber floating on top. It's indicative of a playful element in Mexican cuisine ... More >>

Get Ready for a Coconut Rum-Tequila Mutation; Get to Know Calvados This Fall

​Now that Halloween is over, it's time to note that Thanksgiving is only 24 days away. Pumpkin martinis with your turkey? [Washington Post] Glenfiddich is releasing 11 special bottles to mark the 110th birthday of the distillery's founder's granddaughter. [Drinks Business] Ne-Yo, the R&B sin ... More >>

Mario Batali Busts a Move, Eats Doritos and Could Have Been Your Pool Boy

photo by Melanie Dunea PamEven more Mario.​ Yesterday, we sat down with Mario Batali to discuss his new cookbook, Molto Batali: Simple Family Dinners from My Home to Yours; his new show, The Chew; and his ever-changing role as a food icon. Today, he reveals what he might have done had the whol ... More >>

Malibu Beach, 1965. Identify The Stars

I see at least three Oscar winners in these silent but riveting home movies taken by Roddy McDowall in Malibu in the kicky '60s. There's Jane Fonda, Ruth Gordon, and Julie Andrews, and of course, Tammy Grimes and...

Win Tickets To See Ciara At A To-Be-Disclosed Location This Thursday

We are giving away a pair of tickets to see the R&B singer Ciara in New York this Thursday, when she stops here on the Radio Maliboom Boom Tour, sponsored by Malibu Rum. (Recall her fantastic hit "Like A Boy" above; there's more from her on YouTube, too.) To enter, send an email to sotc@villagevoic ... More >>

Ex-Scientology Actor Attacks Ex-Scientology Plaintiff in TMZ Story Clearly Not Planted by Scientology

Marty Rathbun and Jason Beghe​After spending more than a week frozen in a mixture of glycol and alcohol, this thetan is ready to re-enter the volcano! We're going to pierce the WALL OF FIRE! (Um, actually, it was a case of walking pneumonia, but whatever. It's good to be back to work.) And wh ... More >>

Move Over, Teen Mom, It's Teen Magicians in Make Believe

REALITY BITES

Crystal Skillman's Cut

The Death of Deodorant: New York Times Loves Stinky Pheromones

Does 'dirty girl' Cory Kennedy smell?​Sunday's New York Times Style section -- the infamous, the one and only -- features the front page story entitled "The Great Unwashed," about those cretins who don't shower every day or use deodorant. "Ever." The horror! Some of them, like the Times' first ... More >>

Let's Head To Malibu With Nice Jewelry On

​I'm so tired of wearing cheap costume jewelry to dank holes where you can't even see it anyway. Let's pack up the bags under our eyes and head to the exotic pages of Malibu magazine, whose September issue features dazzling jewels created by a friend of mine, Christian Freedom for Travesty Bi ... More >>

See The Restored Star Is Born This Sunday!

​No, not the Streisand version. The only way to restore that would be to shred it to pieces and sprinkle it all over Malibu. I'm talking about the 1954 Cukor-directed gem with Judy Garland at her most tremulously vulnerable and James Mason as her noble husband who marches into the ocean as s ... More >>

Hole at Terminal 5: Is Courtney Love Scary? Not Anymore.

Hole Terminal 5 Tuesday, April 27 "Courtney Love is scary," is how the first Village Voice piece about Hole and its "genre-defying," Kim-Gordon-produced triumph Pretty on the Inside began. Published February 1992, this was the month after Nirvana's epochal Nevermind displaced Michael Jackson's pe ... More >>

My Favorite Things

​Hollywood's voyage to the Third Dimension is continuing apace with announced plans to re-release newly 3-D-ized versions of 2001, Star Wars, and The Passion of the Christ, but the first 3-D musical -- an all-star remake of The Sound of Music -- is proving to be more difficult than anticipated ... More >>

Go See Phish At Least Once

Hello from Madison Square Garden, where once may be enough

Shwayze+Cisco Adler

Bones' Beat: Are You With Me? at Small A Projects

This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, does some close reading at Small A Projects's Are You With Me? This is, after all, the art world's ultra meta-question, right? People who don't like to party say that the contemporary art world is both a party and about parties. The grouch's eye cann ... More >>

The Mountain Goats, Articulately Enraged

THE SIMPLE LIFE

Catherine Opie moves from shockers to suburbs

GET PUNK’D

Where loud and fast still rules

Could Barbra and Brolin Play a Married Couple? They Already Do!

Wednesday 4:2

NYUFF IS ENOUGH

Film fest takes its final bow

A Drag Movie About Streisand. Discuss!

'Kickin' It Old Skool'

Cheap Cocktails, Disco-Punk, and a Naked Midget by Way of the N Train

Horoscope

A Shag and a Shrug in an Entertaining but Corny Adaptation

Can a 'New' Old Bar Rescue the Meatpacking District?

The answer: Probably not

NY Mirror

Morgan Geist Compiles and Remixes Eurodisco Wonders

Bizarre Boozin'

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Drinker's Paradise

Chill Out With Frozen Daiquiris, Cool Coladas, Iced Vodkas, and Much, Much More

Caught In The Act

So You Wanna Be a Wanksta

More Maladies at the Malibu

Dem District Leader Secretly Tapes SRO Tenant

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Women at Risk

From Brazil and Brooklyn, Panties Are Part of It

Minstrels All

Creature Comforts

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