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All Art Is Propaganda

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Philip Glass's Life as an East Village Voice

The world-renowned composer is still a neighborhood staple

The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 19: The Squirrel Busters

​On August 5, we started a countdown that will give credit -- or blame -- to the people who have contributed most to the sad current state of Scientology. From its greatest expansion in the 1980s, the church is a shell of what it once was and is mired in countless controversies around the worl ... More >>

Scientology Goons Exposed: "Make Marty's Life a Living Hell" (UPDATED)

​After the jump: An ID of the man, "David Statter," who is behind the Squirrel Busters siege. A stunning article was posted late last night by Corpus Christi Caller-Times reporter Mark Collette: one of the Squirrel Buster's freelancers is blowing the whistle on the Scientology goon squad's ef ... More >>

Scientology's 'Martin Luther' Nails Up His Disputation: Marty Rathbun's Open Letter to his Texas Neighbors [UPDATED]

Rathbun and his wife Monique: Cluing in the neighbors​Updated after the jump: Video from this morning of Scientology's goon squad filming Rathbun's house from a paddle boat! Surveillance never looked so unseaworthy. Somehow, Marty Rathbun continues to outdo himself at his blog, "Moving On Up ... More >>

Janet Reitman: An Interview with the Author of Inside Scientology

Janet Reitman​On Tuesday, we sat down with Janet Reitman, author of the terrific new book Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion, which is just hitting bookstores and will be released officially in July. Inside Scientology is a masterful telling of the Scientology ... More >>

How A Village Voice Reporter Helped Write the Second Verse of Jay-Z's "Public Service Announcement"

​In 2003, this paper sent the writer Elizabeth Mendez Berry to profile Jay-Z on the eve of the release of what was then supposed to be his retirement record, The Black Album. Toward the end of the piece, which was published almost exactly seven years ago, Berry transcribes an interaction she h ... More >>

Andy Warhol's Piss Paintings Aren't Exactly Number One

The brand plays on at the Brooklyn Museum

"Sock Spock" and Other Anti-Vietnam-War-Protestor Sentiments

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 26, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 2 Vigil at the Battery: Backing Up the Troops by Joe Flaherty Apart from the ugly slogans on the signs, the scene at the Battery Park on Saturday was reminiscent of old photos depicting band concerts at ... More >>

Brad Paisley Is Ready to Make Nice

A country star critics can love, with Obama-era tendencies Music Row can tolerate

Jay-Z's Midlife Crisis Is Over

Which doesn't make The Blueprint 3 a classic. But we'll take it. For now.

Jay-Z's "D.O.A" and the Five Auto-Tuned Songs (Among Many) That Prove Him Wrong

Jay-Z and his arch-nemesis T-Pain, together at Summer Jam last night Released late Friday, Jay-Z's new single, "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)," from the now thoroughly-announced The Blueprint 3, is less a Martin Luther-like cry for hip-hop reformation than an awkward slab of concept rap. The concept: ... More >>

Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar

Game Rebellion Party for Their Right to Fight

Brooklyn crew's furious rap-rock taps a new, fresh vein of gangsta militancy

Californian Democracy

Genius mingles with dementia in a crucial seven-disc funk love letter

Freaknik Goes Conscious, But Not Overly So

Pope's No Dope

Think the music industry invented copyrights? Behold the Vatican's old score.

Bawdy Electric

Two recent books don't quite tell all about the Benjamin

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A Fine Line

Art and agitation: Parmigianino as the inventor of a new kind of art-for-art's-sake beauty

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Apology Accepted

When the Pope Says He's Sorry, What's a Jew to Do?