Myanmar

Free Will Astrology: April 10-16, 2013

At Lotus Blue, Tribeca Makes Room for the Food of China's Far-off Yunnan Province

Even noodles get the blues

The 18 Best Food Books of 2012

Hey, it's been a pretty good year for food books! Among the hundreds of new cookbooks, essay collections, and food memoirs that we read, here's a handful that really stood out:

They Call It Myanmar

Lick Some Balls at Yunnan Kitchen

Potato balls, we mean. At a new Lower East Side Dai spot.

This Week in the Voice: 4Knots

This week in the Voice, out today, Eric Sundermann headed to Hoboken, where he chats with San Diego-based Crocodiles, which is performing at 4Knots: "In 2009, they released their debut, the bedroom-recorded, grungy Summer of Hate. And even though Endless Flowers is only the band's third full-length, ... More >>

COMIC CHRONICLES

A graphic novel turns sacrosanct

Vandals Advocating Free Subway Rides Spawn Investigation; OWS To March Across Brooklyn Bridge; Pena Witness 'Disturbed'

Police are now looking for a group of vandals that worked Wednesday morning to let subway riders at thee stations across Manhattan and Brooklyn ride free. The group -- wearing masks, hoods and gloves -- chained open emergency gates, taped over the MetroCard readers and posted signs that read, "custo ... More >>

Q&A: Mission of Burma's Peter Prescott On Boston Punk, Singing Drummers, Volcano Suns And Kustomized

In a recent convo with Sound of the City, Sebadoh/Dino Jr icon and ex-Amherst punker Lou Barlow waxed nostalgic for Boston's music scene, both snickering at the hardcore simpletons brutalizing innocents in the pit and in awe of American underground rock trailblazers like Mission of Burma. Alas, punk ... More >>

Liz Taylor Late to Her Own Funeral; Earthquake Kills 74 in Myanmar; 100-Year Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

​• Elizabeth Taylor was late to her own funeral, because she asked to be. She was laid to rest in L.A.'s Forest Lawn Memorial Park yesterday in a ceremony that began 15 minutes late at her stipulation. Westboro Baptist, who'd threatened to picket, did not appear. Taylor shares a "large, mult ... More >>

Wednesday Night's Big Guest at Yo La Tengo's Final Maxwell's Show? Probably The National

Take it with a grain of salt, but we hear pretty reliably that the big guest for Yo La Tengo's eighth-night finale at Maxwell's will be none other than Brooklyn's the National. If true, they'd follow a murderer's row of guests YLT have already had out to Hoboken this year: M. Ward and tonight's Vi ... More >>

The U.S. Is More Corrupt Than 21 Other Countries, Which Is All Bernie Madoff's Fault

​The most and least corrupt nations have been "diagnosed" by Transparency International in their 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the "perceived levels of public sector corruption" in 178 countries around the world. Corruption levels go from "very clean" to "highly corrupt" an ... More >>

The Early Word: Guerrilla Ice Cream

The Velvet Revolution on the left, the Red Corridor on the right.​ Ice cream flavors are typically a pretty straightforward affair. Their names tend to be limited to their primary ingredients, with notable exceptions like Rocky Road, Moose Tracks, and Jacques Torres' Wicked coming out of the ... More >>

1, 2, 3, PARTYY!

MoB just get better with age

FATHERS AND SONS

Music and mayhem with MoB and Fucked Up

Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country, and Risking Their Lives Doing It

This Week in the Voice

Photo by Cary Conover. What were the Obies like? We noticed mainly free drinks. James Hannaham saw a lot of winners of color ("Black is definitely the new black"), and many other details. List of laureates here; slideshow here. Michael Feingold starts his Obie meditation by talking about depart ... More >>

CMJ: School of Seven Bells at Fader Fort; Lissy Trullie at Webster Hall's Studio

CMJ Day 3: Thank God Mission of Burma Has a Drummer

Cindy Bernard: 'Silent Key'

HELPING HANDS

An evening with Orhan Pamuk and Salman Rushdie

Letters 7.16.08

Letters 6.11.08

Pacifism Fails in the Face of Sovereign Evil

If the U.N. won't act on its own mandate, then we should use force to combat immutable evil

Kill One for the Gipper

20 years later, our bandanna’d national treasure is still kicking ass and taking names

Wear Red on Saturday for Burma

Robert Mugabe Meets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Recurring Curry

Burmese returns to Queens with a bang

For Those About to Doc

Rock and roll as a cause, a cage, and a job

Mission Re-Accomplished

Boston postpunk legends return for more guttural howls and first-lady jokes.

Shrimp Mountain

Kinky new Flushing Thai offers oddball cuisine collection

Burma Rave

Far Asian psych rockers sling icy pellets, run gorgeous rings

Whodunit: The British Consulate Bomb

An Embarrassing Display of Riches

The Sound of Sirens

Your one-stop listening station for the Voice's big beach music festival

Up in Smoke: What John Cougar Mellencamp Wanted to Say

East Via Shortwave

Sun City Girls tune their static into freaky Asian frequencies, keep changing the channel

War and Remembrance: Children Draw the Battle Zone

Mission of Burma

In a Curry: China, India, and Thailand Meet in Myanmar

Cross Purposes

Federally Funded Missionaries Threaten a Southeast Asian Culture

Film

Burma Save

Fable Scraps

Daniel Mason Picks Up the Pieces and Writes a Novel

Carl McCall's Secret Self

A Look Inside the Bizarre World of His Pension-Fund Proxy Votes

Sweatshop Blues

Garment Workers Face Down Cops in Slave-Labor Uniforms

Music

Magnificent Obsessions

Riot Boys and Girls

A Mad, Mad World

The UN's Millennium Summit Brings a Globe's Worth of Protest to New York's Streets

Gay Is Global

Three decades after Stonewall the movement it spawned has become a worldwide symbol of freedom