Manitoba

The Good Book: 5 Great Readings This Week

Jonathan Lethem and Jessica Hagedorn 
Greenlight Bookstore 
Wednesday, 7:30pm, Free A quick word on Jonathan Lethem--he's awesome. That's it. Because this guy is one of our favorite native sons. The author of Motherless Brooklyn (Vintage) and The Fortress of Solitude (Vintage) has the ability to ... More >>

Twitter Has Ruined the Art of the Musician Feud

Remember when musician fights used to be interesting--or at least memorable for more than two minutes? It's hard to imagine as we expend Twitter scrolling energy on Azealia Banks v. Angel Haze, Gaga vs. the Osbournes, Deadmau5 vs. Madonna, and the rest of the noise. Yet unbelievably, there was a tim ... More >>

The Top 20 12-Inches Of 2011

The debate between digital digging and its analog analogue is the same useless arguing as the one pitting digital playback against the analog kind. In 2011, if it sounded good, it was worth listening to. The resulting stew was a mix of past and present where classic house met nu-disco and created a ... More >>

'A Celebration of the Legendary Don Hill'

John Lindsay Lame Ducks Himself

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 15, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 11 John Lindsay: Goodbye to all that by Clark Whelton It had been raining through the early spring afternoon, but 30 minutes before John Lindsay was due to land in Milwaukee the weather turned around and ... More >>

Study Finds Foods Labeled 'Organic' Seem Tastier; Parents Parade Their Foodie Tots

​A recent study suggests that consumers thinks foods labeled 'organic' are tastier, higher in fiber, and lower in fat and calories. [LA Times] Wendy's is hoping its natural sea salt fries will take a bite out of McDonald's market share. It reported that in a blind taste test, 56 percent respo ... More >>

Canadian sex-ed comics are, like everything Candian, hilariously reasonable

​ Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Big Break Comics Author: Paul McNally (words) and Chris Hlady (pencils/color/desig ... More >>

For Your Sunday-Night Entertainment Consideration: "The Continental Rock 'n' Roll Reunion Concert"

​CBGB gets most of the press (and T-shirt sales), but don't forget the other cheerfully seedy downtown rock club made famous in our neighborhood: The Continental, still lurking at Third Ave. and St. Mark's Place, nowadays best known as the "5 Shots of Anything for $10" dive bar but boasting a ... More >>

BABE BRIGADE

Gotham Girls Roller Derby burn up the track

Wayne Kramer, Handsome Dick to Play Sing-Sing

If you like Johnny Cash at San Quentin, you'll love Wayne Kramer at Sing Sing. The legendary MC5 guitarist, who did two years at Lexington for pushing coke, is working with addict outreach group Road Recovery, and after doing a benefit concert for them at the Nokia Theatre on May 1, he'll go the n ... More >>

Everyone Is Just Jealous: Studies in Crap Brings it On With 1983's CHEERLEADING!

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. CHEERLEADING! Author: Pauline Finberg & Peter Filichia Publisher: Scholastic Date: 1983 Discovered a ... More >>

New Yorkers Prepare for the Age of Obama

photo by missheather Everything is, or can be, a New York story, and New York news outlets carry the local angle on the Inauguration. "People -- many from New York -- arrived in [Washington] to witness history," reports NY1. "I made hotel reservations in March," Djamillah Samad of the Bronx tells ... More >>

Kill Worthless Punk Nostalgia: 'Punk Shrine' CBGB

Parties With a Girl Flavor: Dyke Nightlife

Can't dykes all just get along?

Werner Herzog and Guy Maddin Go Into Deep Freeze

Lessons from the darkness: Herzog treks to Antarctica, and Maddin to the tundra of his youth

MONDAY | 5.19

TOO TOUGH TO DIE

Joey Ramone lives

Tribeca '08

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One Last Howl at the Marquee Moon

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Reindeer Games

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An Alternative Universe

Why should indie-rock bands go pop when webzines everywhere think they’re so cool?

Golden Shower of Hits

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NY Mirror

Sex Is Comedy

Rotterdam Bends to Conquer

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Manifest Destiny

The Return of the Dictators

Sports

Three Degrees Celsius and Rising

Canadian Hip-Hop Thaws Out

Blueshirt Bullshit

The Rangers May Suck, But They Aren’t ‘Doing Nothing’

Look Homeward

B Is For Bistro

The Bittersweet Transformation of Avenue B

Smoke and Jeers

Million Marijuana March Protests NYC's Record-High Pot Arrests