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Michael Atkinson

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: The 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

    This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher's listing of the 100 most powerless New Yorkers. Among them: weed-delivery guys and the transgendered sex workers of Hunts Point. Maura Johnston notes the many aesthetic links between David Lee Roth and Kanye West.

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Diddy, R. Kelly, Justin Townes Earle, and More

    Request "Ass on the Floor." Photo by Travis Shinn.​In this week's Village Voice, Brandon Soderberg chats with Diddy on the eve of the release of his long-awaited Last Train to Paris, Mikael Wood rounds up the current crop of 2010 quiet storm r&b (R. Kelly, Ne-Yo, Jamine Sullivan, Faith Evans, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2010

    A LONG TIME AGO

    In a world before luxury condos and Whole Foods

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Waka Flocka Flame, Sharon Van Etten, Group Home, Unearthly Trance, and More

    BOW-BOW-BOW-BOW. Photo by Donna Permell​In this week's Village Voice, the great Sean Fennessey explains why Waka Flocka Flame is yelling at you, Grayson Currin profiles local ethereal folk lady Sharon Van Etten, Phillip Mlynar on Group Home's tribute to their former mentor, Gang Starr's Guru, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    This Week in the Voice: The Endless Bummer of Staten Island

    ​All the way out on the south shore of Staten Island lies a quiet, tucked-away community called the Cedar Grove Beach Club, a "poor man's Bermuda" for the few Staten Islanders who knew about it and summered there. That's all over now, as the city's Parks Department plans to turn the 200-acre p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Laurie Anderson, Devo, Theo Bleckmann, Omar Souleyman, and Ahem, "Jersey Shore"

    Carrie SchechterIf you think I could possibly resist using this cover, you're wrong ​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla interview Laurie Anderson, Francis Davis visits the Murray Hill apartment of jazz vocalist Theo Bleckmann, Richard Gehr basks in the sheer urgency of the polarizing 'Syr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More

    tUnE-yArDs, now proudly R-rated. Photo by Chrissy Piper.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard Stern's favorite headbanger, Richard Chri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Spoon's Transference, Bull Riding at MSG, Weasel Walter, the 2009 New Yorker Cartoonist Final Standings, and More

    Spoon, doing less with less. Photo by Autumn De Wilde​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on Spoon's defiantly skeletal Transference, Phil Freeman goes bull riding at MSG's arena rock rodeo, and Brad Cohan meets the new kid in town (and old head extremist drummer) Weasel Walter. In Boo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Vampire Weekend, Ke$ha, MC Paul Barman, Rosanne Cash, and More

    The cast of Survivor: Upper West Side. Photo by Soren Solkaer Starbird​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla wrestles with Vampire Weekend's vastly ambitious, vastly improved Contra, Ben Westhoff hangs out in MOMA's outdoor sculpture garden with MC Paul Barman, Ryan Dombal chronicles the ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2008

    Cinema 101

    Film critics teach you how to be as snobby as they are

  • News

    August 1, 2006

    Letters

    Film critics teach you how to be as snobby as they are

  • News

    June 6, 2006

    Letters

    Film critics teach you how to be as snobby as they are

  • News

    May 30, 2006

    Letters

    Film critics teach you how to be as snobby as they are

  • News

    May 2, 2006

    Letters

    Film critics teach you how to be as snobby as they are

  • Film

    March 14, 2006

    Global Swarming

    Precocious kids and old joys at 35th annual showcase of up-and-coming directors

  • Screens

    February 21, 2006

    Rack Focus

    Precocious kids and old joys at 35th annual showcase of up-and-coming directors

  • Specials

    October 4, 2005

    Letters

    Precocious kids and old joys at 35th annual showcase of up-and-coming directors

  • Specials

    September 13, 2005

    Letters

    Precocious kids and old joys at 35th annual showcase of up-and-coming directors

  • Specials

    July 19, 2005

    Letters

    Precocious kids and old joys at 35th annual showcase of up-and-coming directors

  • Film

    June 21, 2005

    Film

    Precocious kids and old joys at 35th annual showcase of up-and-coming directors

  • Specials

    June 14, 2005

    Letters

    Precocious kids and old joys at 35th annual showcase of up-and-coming directors

  • Film

    April 5, 2005

    The Top 40 Picks From the Tribeca Film Festival

    The Hit List

  • Film

    March 15, 2005

    In This World

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    December 28, 2004

    Letter to the Editor

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    September 7, 2004

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    July 27, 2004

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Film

    March 23, 2004

    New Directors/New Films

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    January 13, 2004

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    December 30, 2003

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Film

    November 11, 2003

    Film

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    August 26, 2003

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    August 5, 2003

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    July 22, 2003

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    July 15, 2003

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    July 1, 2003

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    March 11, 2003

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    November 26, 2002

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    June 18, 2002

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    March 19, 2002

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    November 13, 2001

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    October 9, 2001

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    June 12, 2001

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Books

    March 20, 2001

    I Lost It at the Movies

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • NYC Life

    February 27, 2001

    Listings

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    February 15, 2000

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    February 8, 2000

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Home

    December 28, 1999

    Flashbacks: The Year in Movies

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    May 18, 1999

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Specials

    March 23, 1999

    Letters

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

  • Film

    November 17, 1998

    Voice Film

    Rappers in Cuba, pilgrims in Mecca, killer fish in Tanzania, James Carville in Bolivia

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