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Free Will Astrology: November 9-15, 2011

It's Good to Be Anita Lo

Photo courtesy of AnnisaShe's smiling for a reason.​People may continue to argue about how hard it is to be a female chef, but one thing it seems that everyone can agree on is that Anita Lo is in a badass class of her own.

The Way Back Is a Grueling Trip

Photo courtesy of AnnisaShe's smiling for a reason.​People may continue to argue about how hard it is to be a female chef, but one thing it seems that everyone can agree on is that Anita Lo is in a badass class of her own.

Belgium Brings the Avant-Garde, Probably No Waffles

Needcompany's The Deer House herds itself into BAM; Les Ballets C de la B experiments at the Joyce

Babies Porn

Is Babies a good movie? of course not. But that's missing the point.

Clip Job: Goldstein Bemoans the Transformation of Judy Collins

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 22, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 10 Pop Bag By Richard Goldstein This is going to be a cop-out column of short ends and gristle. I hope you find it digestible: Judy Collins' transition from Joan Baez's kid sister to Barbra Streisand ... More >>

Call Victoria Beckham's Face "Too Crazy" and Get on the BBC: Our Very Own Sharyn Jackson on 5 Live Today

Any minute now, in between reports of schoolgirls getting their tongues stuck to bus-stop posts, our very own Sharyn Jackson will be on BBC's 5 Live for talking smack in this space about Posh Spice on American Idol. "Victoria Beckham does look sharp," Sharyn wrote. "But her face is just too crazy ... More >>

Nontraditional-Therapy Crowd: Rejoice for A-Cinematic The Horse Boy

Any minute now, in between reports of schoolgirls getting their tongues stuck to bus-stop posts, our very own Sharyn Jackson will be on BBC's 5 Live for talking smack in this space about Posh Spice on American Idol. "Victoria Beckham does look sharp," Sharyn wrote. "But her face is just too crazy ... More >>

'China Underground: Sounds from the Mongolian Grasslands'

Any minute now, in between reports of schoolgirls getting their tongues stuck to bus-stop posts, our very own Sharyn Jackson will be on BBC's 5 Live for talking smack in this space about Posh Spice on American Idol. "Victoria Beckham does look sharp," Sharyn wrote. "But her face is just too crazy ... More >>

Back From the Hunt: Anita Lo In No Hurry to Kill & Dismember Her Next Meal

Anita Lo in Mongolia​Two weeks ago, six women -- five chefs and one "avid foodie" -- took to the wilds of Northern China for a hunting and fishing expedition. Traci des Jardins of Jardiniere and Loretta Keller of Coco500, both in San Francisco, as well as Mary Sue Millikin of Ciudad in L.A. jo ... More >>

Under the Toque: A Spanish Chef in the House at Mercat; Lady Chefs Gone Wild

Ryan Skeen--formerly of Resto, the General Greene, and Irving Mill--has officially been named the new executive chef at Allen & Delancey on the LES. Both chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac have left the restaurant. A new pastry chef has yet to be named. [NY Times] Spanish chef Paco G ... More >>

Spring Guide: Slurp Through the Recession

Ryan Skeen--formerly of Resto, the General Greene, and Irving Mill--has officially been named the new executive chef at Allen & Delancey on the LES. Both chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac have left the restaurant. A new pastry chef has yet to be named. [NY Times] Spanish chef Paco G ... More >>

Wei Dong

Ryan Skeen--formerly of Resto, the General Greene, and Irving Mill--has officially been named the new executive chef at Allen & Delancey on the LES. Both chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac have left the restaurant. A new pastry chef has yet to be named. [NY Times] Spanish chef Paco G ... More >>

Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Stall 38, Golden Shopping Mall

Ryan Skeen--formerly of Resto, the General Greene, and Irving Mill--has officially been named the new executive chef at Allen & Delancey on the LES. Both chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac have left the restaurant. A new pastry chef has yet to be named. [NY Times] Spanish chef Paco G ... More >>

Tuya's Marriage

More clinical than poetic

Generation China

Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland

Letters

Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland

A Young Mongol Herder and a Livestock Plague

Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland

Infant Morality

Jia Zhangke continues to document his rapidly evolving (self-destructing?) homeland

From Mongolia or Outer Space?

Idiosyncratic sci-fi films Sans Soleil and La Jetée hit DVD. Plus, good directors gone bad and bad directors gone worse.

Some Balthus With Your Mao, Sir?

Painter Wei Dong's East-West, sex and dogs free-for-all

'The Cave of the Yellow Dog'

Painter Wei Dong's East-West, sex and dogs free-for-all

'Mongolian Ping Pong'

Painter Wei Dong's East-West, sex and dogs free-for-all

Cindy Sheehan Arrested at the U.S. Mission to the U.N.

State Department calls protest a P.R. stunt

Thanks, Cattle

On thronged Eldridge Street, maybe the best noodles of your life

'Wheel of Time'

Wheeling and Healing: Herzog's Journey to Enlightenment

Mongols on Main Street

Chinese restaurant in Flushing fetishizes a woolly creature

Early Spring

A Brooklyn waitstaff, a sullen teen athlete, and a crying camel step into the spotlight

DVD Playas

Are There Ways Around a Disc's 'Regional Coding'?

Cultural Evolution

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Listings

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Delphine Oracle

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Free to Be?

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Nation

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

NY Mirror

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Journey Men

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Women's Work

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

The Films of Ulrike Ottinger

Jia Zhangke's Lost Highways

Size Matters

At 6-7 and 720 pounds, sumo wrestler Manny Yarbrough is living large. Very, very large.

The 1998 Wacko Awards

At 6-7 and 720 pounds, sumo wrestler Manny Yarbrough is living large. Very, very large.

Eastern Exposure

Curator Gao Minglu Brings the Chinese Avant-Garde West