Miss America

In Pictures: Red Hook's Fairway Reopens Today! Mayor Bloomberg and Miss America Visit

Fairway's Red Hook location has been closed since Hurricane Sandy thrashed the piers, flooding the waterside grocery store and damaging its internal structure so badly it's taken months to gut and rebuild. To mark the grand reopening today, Mayor Bloomberg paid a visit and spoke to the crowd in th ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 1/25/13

Here are the ten best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

I HEART BK!

Celebrate New York City’s favorite borough

I'm Picking Mr. Paddles Tonight In Chelsea!

Someone's going to get whacked tonight, and they definitely want it, so bring it on. And apparently they want it extra hard because along with the paddling there could be a crowning!

KISS Drummer Peter Criss Absolves Himself of All Responsibility

Playing the blame game in his new book, Makeup to Breakup

Photo Of Mr. Nude Belvedere Winner, Below

Yesterday, I told you about the illustrious Mr Nude Belvedere pageant held at Daniel Nardicio's Spartacus bash at the Belvedere Guest House in Cherry Grove. It was everything Miss America should be. Well, below is the photo of the fablous trilogy of finalists.

And The New Miss'd America Is...

Sabel Scities, the Portland-born dazzler who regularly plays at Stonewall and other NYC clubs! Miss'd America is the annual Atlantic City beauty pageant that has become way more enjoyable than tired, old Miss America. (The latter has gals dressed weirdly like hos as they perform classical music an ... More >>

Did You See a Scientology Ad This Weekend?

Update: After the jump, we'll show you the church e-mail that confirms just about everything we were told by Jefferson Hawkins about this sudden ad campaign. The Church of Scientology bought network TV ad time in a big way this weekend. On Saturday, we started noticing Twitter users complaining tha ... More >>

Seventeen Still Missing From Cruise Ship; Miss America Crowned; Three-Alarm Fire In Bushwick

After three more people were found alive Sunday, at least 17 people are still missing from the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that ran aground off the Italian coast Friday night. Francesco Schettino, the captain of the ship, has been arrested for, according to CNN, "investigation of manslaughter, ... More >>

NYC's 10 Weirdest Restaurants

​Hmmmm, will flying to Mars for dinner make me seasick? There has always been an element of zaniness in the New York dining scene, ever since pretty girls started selling hot ears of buttered corn down on Delancey Street in the 19th Century - or maybe even before that, because a restaurant b ... More >>

Barcade's Joe Stickney Talks Craft Beer and the Best Video Games to Play While Drinking

​ Could there be a better dude bar than Barcade in Williamsburg? Not only is it filled with vintage video games, it also boasts 25 beers on tap and the official Good Beer Seal for carrying quality American craft beers. If you're not a beer geek, don't worry, the staff here is very nonjudgmenta ... More >>

Where Have All the Hipsters Gone?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 32 Where have all the hipsters gone? By Bill Amidon What's going on around here? Where the hell is everybody? I've been living in the West and East Villages for the past 13 years and I'v known a gang of ... More >>

ME VS. YOU

Why can’t we all get along?

Here She Comes, Miss'd America

​ Well, that's actually the second runner up in the photo. (And though her cones look vaguely Madonna-esque, she' s actually doing Gaga--and very well, thank you.) Below I'll show you which drag queen won the splashy pageant in Atlantic City on Sunday after judges like myself, Mark Segal, Coc ... More >>

Fox Shoots Man; Murdered Journalist's Ashes Poured into Times Square Subway Grate (Weekend Links)

​Happy Sunday! Enjoy your brunches and precious, precious sleep while you still can. Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 33. There's a joke about "man bites dog" here that I'm not quite coming up with, but yesterday a fox managed to shoot its would-be hunter in Belarus. It escaped ... More >>

Amanda Cohen Enlightens Us on the Topic of Canadian Thanksgiving

​What can one say about Thanksgiving that hasn't been said already? Absolutely nothing. Which is why we find ourselves thinking about our friends to the north, who already celebrated Thanksgiving a month ago. Canadian Thanksgiving, like Canadian Nanaimo bars and Canadian curling, is a subject ... More >>

Broadway Casting Buzz

​Guess who I hear just got offered the role of the female Mad Hatter in Wonderland: A New Alice. A New Musical Adventure, the weirdly titled Frank Wildhorn musical coming to Broadway in April?

Best Atlantic City & Vicinity Eats: White House Sub Shop

​Cheesecake at the sub shop: As we rose to leave, a bevy of Miss America candidates burst in the door, beaming. In its emphasis on gambling and the general encouragement of vice, our own Atlantic City is the spitting image of Vegas; in fact, many of the casinos have the same names. But in one ... More >>

Kelly Cutrone Promotes New Book, Assures Everyone She Is Not a Lesbian

​Kelly Cutrone, the abrasive reality-TV star and founder of fashion public relations agency People's Revolution, talked to a group of well-dressed, mostly insecure young women today in Bryant Park. A few guys, assumed gay, were also in the audience of about 150 people.

Rush Limbaugh Says He's an Assman; Outrage Ensues

Radio host and Miss America Pageant judge Rush Limbaugh said on the air today, "I love the women's movement -- especially when walking behind it." Jezebel is not amused ("Need a shot of rage to get you going?"); Think Progress' Amanda Terkel notes polling that shows "not that many women really lik ... More >>

Big Day for Gay Marriage from Jersey to D.C. to San Francisco

​It's a big day for gay marriage across the nation. In San Francisco, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that a potential legal revolution to overturn Prop 8 will not be televised live, though it will be YouTubed. The judge will preside over the federal trial, Perry v. Schwarze ... More >>

ALL GROWED UP

Happy birthday, Dixon Place

I Am Legend Star: I Am Straight!

Wynonna's backwoods backstory (and other therapy issues)

The Mind-Body Problem

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful—and smart: College students who model

Justified?

Wondering if Timberlake's clothing line is worth it

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Teens' Sexual Rights

Educators argue that adolescent sexuality is healthy and vital

Miss America Would Be Quaking in Her Dyed-To-Match Heels

Bush Begone

Anti-RNC parties bring back lewdness, courtesy of the First Amendment

Beer Babe

Wink, Wink

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Dance

Fuck 'Em on the Dancefloor

Post-Disco Pervs Get Dicks in the Mix and Treat Cootchies Like a Maze

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Listings

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Survival of the Fiercest

Five New York Girls Strive for Drag Divinity at the Miss Continental Pageant

Me, My Panties, and the Mayor

A Woman’s Place

Jane Chastain, Sports Broadcasting Trailblazer

Who Stole Feminism?

Times of Tumult

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Babes In Boyland

Pumping it up in the Pines

Thorns and Roses

Here she comes, International Ms. Leather

Letters

The Iceman Cometh Back

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''I can't believe that all the underground insanity I skanked around for years now comprises cute touristy entertainment.''

MTV Contest Hacked

Home of the Moan

'The Vagina Monologues' Seizes the Means of Production