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  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Knicks' Point Guard Jeremy Lin Does the Impossible

    Phenoms who come in under the sports radar are almost exclusively confined to baseball. There are so many examples of this that they almost defy counting -- a 19-year-old Dwight Gooden matures early, just a year out of high school and can suddenly throw a 97 mph fastball past experienced major leag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year

    Think of the orange car as a clue. ​The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 25, 2011

    OFF THE WALL

    Skateboarding pros (and Tony Hawk's kid) come out for the big money

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Ron Artest, Queens Hoops Star, Laker Is Suspended After Winning Citizenship Award

    ​Ron Artest--scion of the Queensbridge Houses and one of the greatest ballplayers ever to come out of the city -- has been suspended for clothes lining Dallas Maverick guard J.J. Barea, just a week after he was named NBA Citizen of the Year. On April 26, Artest, a forward for the Los Angeles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?: Can You Name The American Idol Finalists?

    Michael Becker/FOXWho are these people?​ For weeks, our weekly indignity parade "Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?" has been putting our writers at an unfair disadvantage, asking for the intimate details of long dead and gone artists like The Clash, The Doors and Metallica [yeah, no sic]. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    What's Poisoning the Air at Madison Square Garden?

    ​When's a good time to clean your building of asbestos? More like when isn't it a good time to clean out your building of asbestos? Unless the basketball season just started and you're the New York Knicks, in which case, what could possibly go wrong?

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Knicks Win First Championship; Voice Lauds Wilt Chamberlain

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 14, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 20 A Word for Wilt by Andrew Sarris I am convinced that if Wilt Chamberlain appeared on the floor of Madison Square Garden with a supporting team of four arthritic midgets against a team of NBA All-Stars, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Press Clips, Afternoon Edition, Day 1: An Exercise In Branding

    ​And now, for something not-at-all different! I'm gonna start picking off some of my favorite media stories of the day, and throwing them in a new column with an old name: Press Clips. Maybe you've heard of it? I'm not nearly as attractive as the last guy, but I smile pretty. Anyway, we'll do this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    The Top Ten Rap Supergroups That Never Happened

    Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudy Giuliani, Friends Forever: AHNOLD Comes to New York

    ​The LA Times' Gregory Rodriguez worried this morning about New Yorkers dominating the national media conversation and if Los Angeles was a city in need of finding itself needing to "do better to think a little more provincially." Maybe that's what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was trying to rese ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    How Last Night's Pitchfork Office Party with Beach Fossils Really Went Down

    No photos because they searched us for photographic devices on the way in. So Pitchfork had a party in their Greenpoint office last night. The young exuberant fellas of Beach Fossils played. Pitchfork.tv taped it. There was a keg and some awesome vodka made by a neighborhood guy named Tito. Some pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    What Do Lil Jon and Susan Sarandon Have in Common?

    Lil Jon and Susan Sarandon, reenacting the Twins poster. Photo via Complex/Say_WordYo​A love of skateboarding, apparently. Both were at yesterday's Maloof Money Cup at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, a pro skating competition sponsored by the infamous Maloof brothers, owners of the Sacra ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 1, 2010

    BOARDER PATROL

    Skaters compete for the big cash in Queens

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Maloof Money Brings NYC a Massive Skate Party, and a Free Park

    ​In a lonely corner of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in the shadow of Philip Johnson's decaying New York State Pavilion, construction workers are filling the Astral Fountain with huge chunks of styrofoam, which will then be covered with concrete. Is styrofoam really a good idea as a building ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 21, 2009

    IT'S KOBE! LEBRON! . . .

    . . . And, sigh, the Knicks

  • News

    January 1, 2008

    The Prophet Isiah

    Thomas's inane talk about a Knicks championship might actually portend something positive

  • NYC Life

    July 25, 2006

    Life in the Footprint

    Voices of the fading community in the shadow of the Atlantic Yards

  • News

    May 9, 2006

    Fire Storms

    An inferno in Greenpoint highlights a drop in the number of fire investigators

  • Screens

    June 21, 2005

    The Moralgorithm

    How the little black box knew the Spurs would (probably) win the NBA Finals

  • Art

    March 15, 2005

    We Are Theirs

    Ultimately, it doesn't matter if you're seeing Larry King or Owen Wilson or Joan Collins

  • News

    March 30, 2004

    Ratner Rules

    Brooklyn Nets Plan Spares Developer Shaya Boymelgreen's Project

  • News

    January 13, 2004

    Beyond the Pansy Patch

    In the future shadow of the Nets, a Brooklyn nabe remembers what's at stake

  • News

    November 4, 2003

    The Man Who Would Be Kings

    Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies

  • News

    July 29, 2003

    Sports

    Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies

  • News

    July 15, 2003

    Sports

    Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies

  • Music

    May 27, 2003

    Music

    Wannabe 'Brooklyn Nets' Owner Ratner Already Is a Man for All Subsidies

  • News

    May 27, 2003

    The Import of Winning

    Playing the Numbers Game

  • News

    May 6, 2003

    Sports

    Playing the Numbers Game

  • News

    April 15, 2003

    Another Roll of the McDyess

    The Blurry Vision Thing

  • News

    January 14, 2003

    Sports

    The Blurry Vision Thing

  • News

    June 18, 2002

    Hoop Dreams

    Imagine It: Tim Duncan as a Net, and LeBron James as a Knick

  • News

    June 11, 2002

    Sports

    Imagine It: Tim Duncan as a Net, and LeBron James as a Knick

  • News

    June 4, 2002

    The Gulp War

    So How Good Are the Nets? We'll Find Out.

  • News

    March 12, 2002

    Beauty and the East

    Can the Nets Survive a Bashing by the Ugly Stick of Playoff Ball?

  • News

    June 12, 2001

    Iverson vs. Kobe

    Don’t Believe the Hype

  • News

    March 20, 2001

    Sports

    Don’t Believe the Hype

  • News

    February 27, 2001

    Sports

    Don’t Believe the Hype

  • News

    January 2, 2001

    2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

    Don’t Believe the Hype

  • News

    August 29, 2000

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Vets

    Houston Takes the Title in a Year of Transition

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    Sports

    Houston Takes the Title in a Year of Transition

  • News

    June 27, 2000

    The Whys of Grope 'Sex'

    Exploring the Psyche of the Crowd

  • News

    May 9, 2000

    The Same Old Song

    Knicks Heat: A Ragged Rivalry Made of Worn-Out Story Lines

  • News

    April 25, 2000

    Hard Road to Glory

    The Minefields That Lurk Between the Knicks and a Conference Title

  • Film

    April 18, 2000

    Shoot Through the Heart

    The Minefields That Lurk Between the Knicks and a Conference Title

  • News

    February 29, 2000

    Giant Steps

    Kareem’s Hoop Dreams Take Him From an Indian Reservation to the NBA Basement

  • News

    February 15, 2000

    Homeboy

    Lamar Odom Returns for a Garden Party

  • News

    February 15, 2000

    Sports

    Lamar Odom Returns for a Garden Party

  • News

    February 8, 2000

    No Respect

    Mild Manners, Wild Numbers Aren’t Enough for Stephon Marbury

  • News

    December 1, 1998

    Billionaire Boys Club

    The Scoundrels among the NBA owners

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