Michael Cera

Film Summer Guide: Club-going Teens Turn Celebrity Burglars in Coppola's The Bling Ring

Kids in the haul

Arrested Development's Banana Stand Is at Radio City Music Hall Today!

Arrested Development's frozen banana stand will makes its way from London to New York even faster than we thought! The Bluth family business announced last week that it will open shop on Monday, May 13 diagonally across from Radio City Music Hall from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

THE MAN INSIDE HIM

David Cross discusses Arrested Development’s return with Michael Cera

Mark Webber Gets Earnest as Hell in The End of Love

Parquet Courts: Band on a Wire

The Brooklyn band makes the familiar sound new again

Last Minute Music-Inspired Mashup Costumes For Your Already Busted Halloween

Halloween on a Wednesday. It was a massive bummer before Sandy came and took a shit all over it. It makes sense if you've not yet picked out a costume. We've got some last minute, music-inspired costume suggestions. All of them are awful, maybe. But after all that's gone down these last few days, ex ... More >>

A Pie Song from Michael Cera and Reggie Watts

Want to see Michael Cera and Reggie Watts sing a little song about pies and friendship? Yes? Well, here you go. It's a clip from a new IFC show COMEDY BANG! BANG!, which premieres June 8.

Bridge and Tunnel Traps Now Competing With Hipster Traps on NYC Sidewalks

​Jeff Greenspan and Hunter Fine, the artists behind the Hipster Traps that started popping up in New York City last weekend, have moved on to a subculture (?) even easier to stereotype with signifiers: Guidos. The Bridge and Tunnel trap replaces the PBR, American Spirits and bike chain booty w ... More >>

Welcome to the Planet of the Aping in Paul

LOST ART

Honoring the best canceled TV shows

Village Voice Web Awards: The Winners!

​Did you miss our party last night? It was fun. More importantly, people won stuff, like giant foam fingers and real, live cans of Four Loko! Herewith, a recap of the deserving winners of the very first ever First Annual Village Voice Web Awards! Also, our apologies to Best Neighborhood Blog, ... More >>

Michael Cera's Must-See List: Real or Fake? (UPDATE: Seems Real! Photo Proof Inside)

​Going viral this weekend is a handwritten sheet, allegedly penned by movie cutie/h-word poster child Michael Cera, recommending his favorite movies to a young Londoner he met in a coffeeshop. The cafe buddy's cousin got his hands on a scan of the list and posted it to his Tumblr, where it has ... More >>

Michael Cera's Precious Little Life Gets Soul in Scott Pilgrim

This Week in the Voice: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

​Phoenix, Arizona! The fifth most populated city in the country. It's the capital of Arizona, the Grand Canyon State! It's also -- as the center of the United States' immigration crisis with two sides viciously battling over the future of millions of people -- the place where the most people i ... More >>

Interview: Anamanaguchi on the Scott Pilgrim Videogame Score

"I feel a huge connection to Scott Pilgrim: we all grew up playing in bands, we all grew up with the John Hughes-esque emotional drama drowning our lives. So all I had to do was write music and it would work." Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game pixel art by Paul Roberston Every few years, glori ... More >>

Bob Denver's Wife Speaks Out About the Gilligan's Island Movie

​It was inevitable that the three-hour tour would be turned into a two-hour movie. And the original Gilligan's real-life widow,Dreama Denver, is OK with it. Rumors have Michael Cera possibly getting cast as Gilligan, Seth Rogen playing Skipper, and Beyonce vamping it up as Ginger.

Q&A: Comedian Charlyne Yi Talks About Getting Booed, Shaving Her Head, and Her 'Pretentious' Poetry

Charlyne Yi, pre-head-shaving anticsLast year, actress-comedian-writer-musician Charlyne Yi won a screenwriting award at Sundance for the film Paper Heart, in which she plays a character named Charlyne Yi who sets out to make a documentary about the meaning of love and falls for a character named Mi ... More >>

Brian from Wisconsin Wants to Meet NYC Ladies, Hatches an Internet Scheme to Make It Happen

​Oh, the innocence of youth, plus the tech-savvy of youth! Meet Brian, the adorably awkward lil guy (think Michael Cera's love child with Neil Patrick Harris, or a skinnier Anthony Michael Hall circa Sixteen Candles, or maybe a young, blond, Wisconsin version of Woody Allen) behind dating blog ... More >>

WE HEART CHARLYNE

The star of Paper Heart comes to UCBT

A Very Long Conversation with Comedian Reggie Watts About Williamsburg, Touring with Conan, and Brian Eno Birthday Parties That Is Totally Worth the Read

Any attempt to describe what Reggie Watts does onstage will inevitably fail to convey the dizzying heights of absurdity the man regularly achieves, but here it goes. First, the Seattle-via-Montana transplant constructs backing tracks via carefully controlled beat-boxing and judicious use of loopin ... More >>

T.J. Miller Is Main Selling Point of She's Out of My League

Jerzify Your Favorite Indie Stars: Thom Yorke, Feist, Hipster Runoff, and More

Leslie "The Opportunity" Feist This isn't the dumbest way we've ever spent an hour in the workplace, but it's certainly up there. The most idiotically laughable meme of the past few days goes to Jerzify Yourself, the inevitable Jersey Shore personal-transformation site in the glute vein of such pop ... More >>

Week in Review: Let Us Soak in Positive Forces

New Year's Eve...no idea, basically. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we learned that Animal Collective's manager is apparently endowed with a baby leg, in the one dark place where that would be a meaningful statement, we did our best to otherwise cleanse the ol' SOTC soul, apologizing to ... More >>

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 >>

Michael Cera Stars in Islands' Video "No You Don't"; Official Screening with "Guest Celebrity DJ" Tomorrow Night at Legion Bar

Gotta hand it to Islands. In the unforgivingly ADD era of 24-second music-news cycles, one absolute no-fail way to reignite interest in a blogline-moldy, indie-hyphenated record is to have Michael Cera star in your video. This is a far better tactic then asking every viral video goof within WiFi r ... More >>

Youth in Revolt, with Michael Cera as Every Role Michael Cera's Ever Had

Cult novel must continue its search for a worthy film adaptation

Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi All Kinds of Adorable in Paper Heart

On the Gleeful, Disarming Dissonance of Micachu & the Shapes

Enter the labyrinth with Mica Levi

Skills Like This Descends into Obnoxious Quirk-Fest

Pulp Fictions: Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe and Hellen Jo's Jin & Jam

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe By Bryan Lee O'Malley Oni Press You probably know somebody like Scott Pilgrim. Hell, you may even be somebody like Scott Pilgrim, whether you know it or not. Bryan Lee O'Malley's cute and feckl ... More >>

Let's Get Your Obligatory Hipster Runoff Update Out of the Way, Shall We?

Having chatted via IM with (bet-hedging ahead) someone claiming to be Carles, the enigmatic proprietor of memesphere giant Hipster Runoff , I suppose it behooves us to acknowledge this new Tao Lin Is Carles theory making the rounds, if only to express sadness about the ongoing, mundane, headache- ... More >>

GREAT JOB, GUYS!

Tim and Eric bring their absurdity to the stage

THIS CHARMING BAND

Bishop Allen are too cute to miss

More from the Fucked Up/Rogan Store Debacle, Featuring the Vampire Weekend Dude

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist: About A Boy, and Not Much Else

Adam Green on His Biggest NY Show Ever, Drinking Jager in NY, Waking Up in Berlin

The Pillow Fight of Her Life

On the precipitous rise of the cloying, maddening, occasionally devastating Kimya Dawson

A New Crisis for Britney's Sister?

Watching a career sore. And hearing amid the praise for Day-Lewis: 'Huston. We have a problem.'

The Comedy of Power

Yes, yes, we know. This was the YEAR OF APATOW. Beg to differ?

Knocked Up

Teen pregnancy, hilarious and sweet, in the indie-licious Juno

The Charm Offensive

Beirut's pleasant globetrotter landscapes are wide-eyed but not terribly deep

Nerd Love

Geeky, freaky teen virgins attempt to get knocked up in Superbad, produced by guess who?