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Muslim Hunting: David Horowitz's Antagonistic Career

Smear Machine

Fear and Loathing in Tampa

From cash-hungry strippers to protesters dressed as vaginas, your gonzo guide to the Republican National Convention

Romera: Looking Back at the Brief Life of New York's Neurogastronomy Restaurant

Over the weekend, Romera, the "neurogastronomy" restaurant located in the basement of the Dream Hotel, shuttered after only six months in business. For those who had eaten at the restaurant recently, the news didn't come as any big surprise. Although the chef, Dr. Miguel Sanchez Romera, had modifie ... More >>

Tom Cruise Denies Paying for Indian Extras to Cheer Him, And More Thursday Scientology Stats!

Each Thursday at 2 pm, Scientology staffers rush to turn in their weekly statistics. We like to do our part by rounding up the week's stories around the world and tallying up how the church fared. This week, we have items from India to Australia, but first, friendly correspondent Angry Gay Pope s ... More >>

Bad Lip Reading: An Interview With the Man Behind The Beautiful Nonsense

BLRHerman Cain, only slightly less coherent when given the Bad Lip Reading treatment.​For several months, it's been hard to take a stroll around the internet without tripping on the Bad Lip Reading video series, which overdubs new speech onto familiar popular videos. The results bear a super ... More >>

Our 10 Best Museum Restaurants

Not long ago, the museum cafeteria was where you lunched on sad ham-and-cheese sandwiches while resting your weary feet after gallivanting through crowded exhibits. No more. New York City boasts not only some of the best museums in the world, but also some of the top museum eateries, offering up e ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Wives Could Be the Key to Punishing Pakistan For Their 'Double Game'

​Updated below American officials have had it up to here with the "double game" Pakistan is playing, benefiting from billions of dollars in U.S. aid while also likely harboring the terrorists we're hunting. President Barack Obama said Sunday on 60 Minutes, "We think that there had to be some ... More >>

Were the Newburgh 4 Really Out to Blow Up Synagogues? A Defendant Finally Speaks Out.

Was David Williams IV a terrorist? Or was he just out to make an easy score by scamming the government's informant?

After the Shellacking, the Return of the "Arrogant Obama" Meme

Hey sheeples: Barack Obama thinks he's better than you. Obama gets a lot of this from conservatives, and has since before he was elected. He's been called "arrogant" by thousands of them, including Karl Rove and Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton. But this week he got a heavier dose of it than usual, ... More >>

Dish No. 40: Tabla Frankie Cart's Roasted Vegetable Frankie

​ Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: Roasted vegetable frankie ($8) at the Tabla Frankie Cart (11 Madison Avenue, 212-889-0667).

The Many Thankful Screw-ups of Broadway Bomber Faisal Shahzad

​ There are a slew of new details today on klutzy failed car-bomber Faisal Shahzad's many missteps. Each one is deserving of a separate prayer of thanks that our latest attacker may have held an MBA, but apparently fell well short of the threshold for a Boy Scout preparedness badge. First the ... More >>

2009, The Year of the Snuggie: A Handy Timeline From "The WTF Blanket" to Weezer's Wuggies

The people behind the Snuggie know they are bugging the crap out of you, and it's working out pretty well for them. The cultural impact of the sleeved blanket, largely due to those unbelievably campy commercials by Allstar Marketing Group, might've exceeded that of any other "As seen on TV" produc ... More >>

First Light: Satyajit Ray From the Apu Trilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy

It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

Jackson Heights with Suketu Mehta: A Secret Grocery

"When my relatives came from India," says Suketu Mehta, author of Maxium City, "they would want to see two things: The Statue of Liberty, and Sam and Raj's appliance shop." We're standing in front of Sam and Raj's, which is still on 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, where Mehta's relatives wo ... More >>

From baseball to hardball: George Mitchell lands in Mideast to probe the deadliest beanball war -- Jews vs. Arabs

The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is now in for some really heavy lifting: the testosterone-laden, rage-filled Arab-Jew death dance i ... More >>

Hilarious Will Ferrell Interview!

A Q&A before he brings Bush to Broadway.

Liveblogging the State of the City, If We Can Stand It

We'll give it a shot, anyway. The Mayor is going to give this annual speech today at Brooklyn College. Let's begin: 1:21 p.m. Brooklyn borough president/buffoon Marty Markowitz tells a few jokes. He has "declared Brooklyn a Republic," but collegially tells Queens beep Helen Marshall that "whatever ... More >>

Real motherfuckers: AIG still hands out bonuses

American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

That's Our Hillary! Pols, Rightbloggers React to New Secretary of State

Wedding Crashers

What comes after the nuptials in Susanne Bier's Danish melodrama? A hell of a lot more than the reception

Bloody Royals

Elkavya unites the best of Bollywood past and present

Only Emotion Endures

Contrary to Corinthians, a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Especially absolute rhythm.

Bored in the U.S.A.

Axl Rose's refusal to release a new record is a powerful work of art all its own.

The Interpreter

The Rise of Fareed Zakaria: Muslim, Heartthrob, Super-Pundit

Film

Of Human Bondage: Dogme Godfather Braves an Obstruction Course

Letters

Raging Bulls

High Fashion and Exploitation

Holy Waters

Spiritual Life Returns to New York Harbor

Film

Land of Hype and Glory

Oh Calcutta!

Kids in Captivity

Scared and Alone, Nearly 5000 Children Wind Up in INS Detention Each Year

Caught in the Middle

Can Moderate Muslims Be Heard Over the Radical Roar?

Unpatriotic?! Moi?

Me and My Sims

Three Days in the Most Surreal Game on Earth

Music

Queens For A Day

Part 5: Death and the Second Sex

A guru smolders

We're Queer, We're Here

Lesbian and Gay Immigrants are Changing New York

Shoot To Kill