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  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2011

    SHINE ON

    The brightest artists party for a good cause

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Let Four Loko Power Your Car

    Fuel up.​You might not want to put it in your body, but a new use for the caffeinated cocktail in a can Four Loko has been found. According to Salon Food, it might just end up in your car's fuel tank. Ethanol producers are taking truckloads of the stuff off the hands of wholesalers looking to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    A Gink's Last Gasp: Stop, You're Killing Me

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 27, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 35 A Gink's Last Gasp: Stop, You're Killing Me By Paul A. Du Brul I am a member of a minority group. I have lung disease. Every morning and night, I sit before a small gray and blue machine with a white pl ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 20, 2010

    Alternative Guitar Festival

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 27, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 35 A Gink's Last Gasp: Stop, You're Killing Me By Paul A. Du Brul I am a member of a minority group. I have lung disease. Every morning and night, I sit before a small gray and blue machine with a white pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Make Sean Brock's Molecular Shrimp and Grits, From the Guest Chef Menu at Aldea

    Jason MillerShrimp and grits gone molecular.​George Mendes's Aldea has earned praise not only for what he does in the kitchen, but also for when he steps out of the limelight and lets a visiting chef take over his space. The latest special guest in the guest chef series at the restaurant is Se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Street-Level Molecular Gastronomy: Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream at Lulu & Mooky's

    ​The moment when the liquid nitrogen is poured into the ice cream mixture is your dramatic payoff. It was inevitable that the "science chef" techniques employed by such noted chefs as Grant Achatz and Wylie Dufresne would work their way down to the street level - with mixed results, of course ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2010

    The Yes Men Fix the World

    ​The moment when the liquid nitrogen is poured into the ice cream mixture is your dramatic payoff. It was inevitable that the "science chef" techniques employed by such noted chefs as Grant Achatz and Wylie Dufresne would work their way down to the street level - with mixed results, of course ... More >>

  • News

    March 9, 2010

    A New York Operator's Trail of Blood, Bankruptcy, and Brazilian Diamonds

    ​The moment when the liquid nitrogen is poured into the ice cream mixture is your dramatic payoff. It was inevitable that the "science chef" techniques employed by such noted chefs as Grant Achatz and Wylie Dufresne would work their way down to the street level - with mixed results, of course ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    The Anselmo's Crazy Talk Tirade Continues

    Does this say "manufacturing explosives" to you?​ Back in December, Anselmo's Coal Oven Pizzeria closed its doors, and slice fanatics mourned its demise. Then the restaurant's owner got on the Anselmo's website to unleash a tirade on his landlady, whom he blamed for his business's closure. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Michael Voltaggio Gets Molecular on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien

    The winner of season six of Top Chef, Michael Voltaggio, not only just launched his own website with is brother, but also was invited to yuk it up with Conan last night.

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Lulu & Mooky's Brings Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream to Allen Street

    Where liquid nitrogen ice cream is born.​They've been doing this sort of thing in Utah for awhile now, but until last week, New York was bereft of liquid nitrogen ice cream. Per Tasting Table, Lulu & Mooky's, which just set up shop on Allen Street, is now serving 50 flavors of the stuff, which ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 6, 2009

    MERRY PRANKSTERS

    Kiki and Hedwig host the Yes Men

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    Adalen Riots (Adalen 31)

    Kiki and Hedwig host the Yes Men

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    If Tomato Blight Wasn't Bad Enough...

    Farms have not had an easy time of it this year, according to a report just released by the Agriculture Department. The report states that net farm income is forecast to plummet 38 percent in 2009, "$9 billion below the average of $63.2 billion in net farm income earned in the previous 10 years." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    Giada Speaks About Frenemy Rachael Ray; Ground Beef Recalled

    Giada De Laurentiis told Redbook that the rumor about the rivalry between herself and Rachael Ray is not true. "Do we hang out all the time? No. Are we best friends? No," says the Food Network star, but she claims to have no beef with Rach. [People] The latest in food safety scares: beef. A meatpac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Phanton Smell Identified

    NY1 ran a report this morning identifying the phantom smell that arrives from the west once or twice a year in Manhattan (yesterday, in particular), smelling like maple syrup being poured over hot pancakes. Apparently, it comes from a North Bergen, New Jersey flavor house called Frutarom, and a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Jersey Denies Being Source of Maple Syrup Smell

    NY1 ran a report this morning identifying the phantom smell that arrives from the west once or twice a year in Manhattan (yesterday, in particular), smelling like maple syrup being poured over hot pancakes. Apparently, it comes from a North Bergen, New Jersey flavor house called Frutarom, and a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2008

    Tales of the New Depression, Part I

    NY1 ran a report this morning identifying the phantom smell that arrives from the west once or twice a year in Manhattan (yesterday, in particular), smelling like maple syrup being poured over hot pancakes. Apparently, it comes from a North Bergen, New Jersey flavor house called Frutarom, and a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    With Rising Food Costs, Councilman Seeks Ethanol Waiver for NY

    NY1 ran a report this morning identifying the phantom smell that arrives from the west once or twice a year in Manhattan (yesterday, in particular), smelling like maple syrup being poured over hot pancakes. Apparently, it comes from a North Bergen, New Jersey flavor house called Frutarom, and a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2008

    DOUBLE YOLKS

    Two worlds, one party

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2007

    The Teapot Dumb Scandal

    Two worlds, one party

  • News

    February 10, 2004

    Toxic Love

    In Time for Valentine's Day, Oxfam Points to Cyanide and Human Rights Abuses Behind Gold Jewelry

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Pulp Friction

    A New Hampshire Mill Town's Primary Concern: What Else but the Economy?

  • News

    December 30, 2003

    Hydrogen's Dirty Details

    Cleaning Up: Bush's Pals, an Oligarch, and a Siberian Pollution Factory

  • Music

    February 25, 2003

    Gloss This Mess Around

    Two Brothers Walked Into a Bar

  • Film

    March 27, 2001

    Family Trees

    Two Brothers Walked Into a Bar

  • News

    November 28, 2000

    Does Fox Slant the News?

    Investigative Reporters Versus Murdoch

  • Theater

    February 1, 2000

    Monarch Notes

    Investigative Reporters Versus Murdoch

  • News

    April 27, 1999
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    April 13, 1999

    Paper Trail

    The Cat-and-Mouse of the Game of Online Plagiarism

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