Nelson A. Rockefeller

The Reason(s) Behind the No-White-After-Labor-Day Rule (Blame the One Percent!)

Tomorrow is Labor Day - that first Monday of September where people eat, drink and travel, all in the name of summer's end and universal workers' rights. It is the mark of a season's passing and one holiday that comes with a set rule overused in jokes and conversational side comments: you cannot wea ... More >>

It's a Scientology Book Avalanche! RUN FOR COVER!

A slow week was suddenly broken wide open as we were hit with an avalanche of new books, promised books, and barely-begun books with one thing in common: Disapproval of David Miscavige's brand of Scientology. After the jump, we'll tell you about the book that legendary cult-busting attorney Paul Mo ... More >>

What Does Occupy Wall Street Mean For Art?

Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere Tells Us About His Latest Experiment, Favorite Pranks, and Future Plans

On July 16, more than 3,500 New Yorkers converged on Battery Park City, iPods in hand, to take part in the 8th annual MP3 Experiment hosted by Improv Everywhere. Yesterday, we spoke with Improv Everywhere founder, Charlie Todd, about his group of pranksters and this latest experiment, which divided ... More >>

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

Attica Prison Uprising '71 -- Another Voice Heard From

Liz Fink​As this paper's late great photographer, Fred McDarrah, used to say when cornered by readers angry over something they disliked in its pages, "The Voice is many voices." This is why Clark Whelton's article blaming leftists for the bloodiest prison siege in American history -- "Attica: ... More >>

Is the Fuck-You Finger Over?

​NPR asks an intriguing question today. With so many -- of such varied backgrounds, ages, and degrees of fame -- using their middle fingers to express discontent, are we simply growing numb to the shock value of the bird? Does it need a replacement, stat? In the last few months, the gesture ha ... More >>

Shutting Upstate Jails for City Kids Has Made a Fiery Bronx Bureaucrat a Host of Enemies

People upstate consider the Bronx's Gladys Carrión Satan incarnate

John Lindsay Begins a Rough 1969 Re-Election Bid

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 20, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 23 John Lindsay Throws Himself Into the Ring by Mary Perot Nichols John V. Lindsay has been testing the water for the last few weeks. Although it looked rough, Lindsay apparently decided he was a strong sw ... More >>

Bummer, Man: LBJ Getting Serious About This Narc Thing

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 14, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 22 Lining Up the Big Guns; Crackdown on the Way? by Don McNeill A paranoid might observe the proposed increase in federal penalties for the manufacture and sale of LSD, the proposed consolidation of all f ... More >>

Mike Lupica Joins David Paterson Bashing, Loses Mind With Attica Comparison

​Another sign that David Paterson's refusal to quit his day job and go home to his Lenox Terrace apartment is driving reasonable people insane appears in Mike Lupica's Monday political column in the Daily News. All is well and good as Lupica The Lip declares that Paterson needs to quit. Then, ... More >>

Barrett: Harlem's Gang of Four Handicaps the Governor's Race on NY1

If you're a New York political junkie, the best entertainment of the holiday season was the sitdown Michael Scotto had last week on NY1 with the remaining members of Harlem's Gang of Four, David Dinkins, Basil Paterson and Congressman Charlie Rangel. They went on the show to laud gang leader and b ... More >>

ODE TO FREE RENT

Natalie Merchant celebrates the grand opening of Poets House

Senate Coup Plotters' Hidden Agenda

Tabloids call it a circus, but the lobbyists' goal is to squelch reforms

Daily Flog 7/31/08: Shoot for the cops before they shoot you

What Sean Bell's Legacy Needs To Be

A permanent, independent prosecutor to handle police crimes

The Rockefeller Drug Laws: 35 Years of Unjust, Biased Policy

The Dope-Thrill Fugs

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Film at 11

Maysles focuses on turning Harlem kids into auteurs

A Secret History of Gerald Ford

1965

The Miseducation of Elaine Bartlett

New York's war on drugs held her hostage for 16 years. A story of prison, politics, and one woman's pride.

The Next President of the United States, George Pataki!

Close-Up on Battery Park City

A Heartbeat Away

Speculation about a replacement for Dick Cheney just keeps on ticking

The People's Prosecutor

In an Albany primary, a candidate for D.A. attacks the Rockefeller drug laws—and wins

Witnessing An Underdog's Personal, Uncontrolled Fantasy

Movement Hijacked by Hiphop?

Activists Fear a Compromise on Rockefeller Repeal

Humanizing Mike

Why Won't the Mayor Let Us Get Close to Him?

Hiphop Takes Stock in 'Drop the Rock'

Coalition Sets Deadline for Repealing Rockefeller Drug Laws

Lies, Damned Lies, and Campaign Promises

Pataki Spins Houdini Math

Nation

Deconstructing Hairy

Just Say Maybe?

Politicians Posture but Rockefeller Reforms Still Elusive

Tall Tales

With Rivera in Lead, Unions Ditch Dems for 'Lincolnian' Gov

Casualties of Global War

Remembering Attica

Thirty Years Later, the Story of America’s Worst Prison Riot Continues

Seizing the Spotlight

A Stand-Up Comedian Fights the Drug Laws by Working the Media

Mixed Bag

Prisoners' Relatives Assess Pataki's Drug Law Reform Plan

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

The Miseducation of Elaine Bartlett

New York's War on Drugs Held Her Hostage for 16 Years. A Story of Prison, Politics, and One Woman's Pride.

History Repeating

History Repeating

Freedom Fighters

An Unlikely Group of Prisoners' Relatives Battles the Rockefeller Drug Laws

Moderately Republican

The Power of the Maine-stream

Campaigning For Clemency

Just before Christmas Governor Pataki is expected to commute the sentences of a few state prisoners. Will any of these women get lucky?

Is the Party Over?

Ray Harding Throws His Weight Behind the Improbable Betsy

New York's Drug-Law Debacle

Governor Rockefeller started the war on drugs in 1973. His laws have packed prisons, cost billions, and failed to stop the drug trade. On the 25th anniversary, there's new momentum for change.

Rocky's Road

How the Worst Law in the State's History Came To Be