Melvin Van Peebles

Django Unchained Upends the Western

A history of violence

Q&A: Orthrelm And Krallice's Mick Barr On Free Improv & Jazz, Working With "Klassikill" Music Sage Nondor Nevai, And Not Being In Hella

​For starters, Mick Barr is not in Hella. Never was. Sure, the diminutive, scraggly-haired, baseball-capped experi-metal guitarist overlord has collabbed with the San Franisco spazz-proggers' drummer, Zach Hill, on a slew of intense and brain-scorching shredders. But those were just one-offs. ... More >>

From The Archives: Colson Whitehead On The Digable Planets, 1993

​Before he was writing novels about zombies, elevator inspectors and summers on Long Island, the man behind 2010's best literary twitter account worked on staff at the Voice, writing mostly about television but often about books and music as well. To coincided with the release of his new Zone ... More >>

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

Melvin Peebles Gets a BAADASSSSS Review from the Voice

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 13, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 19 Protest package By Michael Kerbel Melvin Van Peebles's "SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG" does for the black movement what "Getting Straight" did for the student movement: reduces it to escapist entertai ... More >>

Freakonomics Not Exactly the Sum of Its Parts

VOICES FROM THE EDGE

Celebrating a great indie publisher

'The Groundbreaking Bill Gunn' at BAM

He should have been a star

Things to do on Sunday for (mostly) free

the National Weather Service is promising 82 degrees and disappearing clouds--Broadway on Broadway - the casts from 20 Broadway shows will be performing live on Broadway between 43d and  47th, starting at 11:30. Michael McKean (Spinal Tap, an upcoming play) is hosting.--Brooklyn Book Festival ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rap's Online Overdose, Our Jazz Consumer Guide, Heaven & Hell, Quentin Tarantino, and More

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha

SEXY BACK

Avant-garde with some brotha-ly love

HOOD LIFE

Classical Theatre of Harlem moves its hit show outdoors

Tribeca Turkeys: We See Movies So You Don't Have To

Every fest has its misses. This year's Tribeca is no exception.

Tom Terrell, 1951–2007

Friends and colleagues remember one of the music biz's few universally beloved men

Hussy 'N' Flow

God-fearing black man tames slutty white girl as Craig Brewer's South rises again

New Doc Examines Van Peebles's Essential Cool

The MVP of Black Cinema

At 73, the original baadasssss shows no signs of slowing down

Music

The Top 40 Picks From the Tribeca Film Festival

The Hit List

Cupid's Cut

Nelson George brings the romance; Cervenka, the metal

Ghetto Blasting

Classical Theatre of Harlem revives the acid groove of Van Peebles's '70s musical

Hoosiers From the Heartland Pay Homage to Hipster Heroes

Who's Your Daddy?

A loyal son imagines the making of his father's influential pre-blaxploitation psychodrama

Downtown Express

25 movies to catch at the Tribeca Film Festival

NY Mirror

Acquiring Minds

Indie works in progress vie for buyers at 25th IFP Market

I, Narcissist

Artist Lucas Samaras Peers into the Looking Glass and Sees Himself Over and Over Again

Hell Hath No Grits

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death

Getting the Shaft

Windows to the Soul

Traveling Miles

Black Theater Honors