New Haven (Connecticut)

Hunters Sign to Mom Pop, Announce Tour With JEFF the Brotherhood

File Under: BIG THANGS POPPIN'! Brooklyn cool kids and Voice cover subjects Hunters have just inked a deal with the Mom Pop record label, the home of Big Deal bands like Sleigh Bells, Wavves, Metric, Tokyo Police Club, FIDLAR, Neon Indian, Freelance Whales, etc. etc., so on and so forth. They've a ... More >>

What's the Drunkest City in the U.S.? (Hint: It's Not New York)

Sure, New Yorkers like booze. But, according to a list composed by The Daily Beast, Bostonians like it a lot more. Boston continues its reign as the drunkest city in America with 20.1% of the population identified as "binge drinkers." New York, on the other hand, doesn't even rank in the top twenty. ... More >>

We Asked the Unicorn: An Interview with Ed Askew

If you're the type who gets all doe eyed over every young snot who wears a kaftan and sings of freewheeling mysticism like it's some newfangled thing, you better wise up and pay attention to the man who has been the master of all such things in this city for over 40 years, Ed Askew. The LP he rele ... More >>

Shake Shack Forced To Reveal How Fattening Their Food Is

Shake Shack recently opened their 15th location in New Haven, meaning that the chain is large enough to be required to post calorie counts on their menus. The Wall Street journal reports that a meal consisting of a double-patty ShackBurger, regular fries and a chocolate shake is just shy of 2,000 ca ... More >>

Why We Love Hamburgers: New York's Earliest Burgers

Local chain Joy Burger turns out a modern-day burger, possibly one of 7,000 places in the city that currently do. As the name suggests, the hamburger originated in Hamburg, Germany, perhaps late in the Middle Ages, when mincing techniques usually used to make pork sausage were applied to beef, whi ... More >>

The Band Wagon

Wig Thief Bites Store Owner, Spits Flesh In His Face (Before Biting Cops)

The sun came up today, so, naturally, there's yet another story about a person feasting on the flesh of others. The latest biter is a Connecticut wig thief who took a chunk out of a beauty store owner's bicep yesterday afternoon and then spit the flesh in his face. That, of course, was only before s ... More >>

SCI-FI BLUES

Author Brian Francis Slattery 
brings his banjo to WORD

Our Scientology Puzzle Solved!

In yesterday's story celebrating our commenting community at the end of the year, I mentioned that back in the summer, I had planted a puzzle in our very successful series, The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology. Despite the large readership of that series, no one managed to spot the little visua ... More >>

Flex Doughnuts Pops Up in Grand Central Station Again

Lauren ShockeyDoughnuts galore from Flex Doughnuts​Flex Doughnuts, the sweet counterpart to Flex Mussels from pastry chef Zac Young, has returned once again to Grand Central Station. Like its pop-up last year, Flex Doughnuts will be located in the Zócalo outpost in the food court on the dinin ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street and the End of Zuccotti: What's Next?

C.S. MuncyPolice clear Zuccotti Park on Monday night.​This week, I have a story in the print version of the paper about what would happen if Occupy Wall Street was no longer occupying Zuccotti Park. The story went to print before the city evicted the protesters on Monday night. Some aspects ... More >>

Our 10 Best Things to Eat on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, NYC

​The four-cheese mac-and-cheese at Macaroni, Macaroni is engagingly crunchy. If you haven't been on the stretch of MacDougal Street between Houston and West 4th in a while, you need to pay a visit. This student haunt and historic refuge of Bohos from John Reed to Bob Dylan has lately become ... More >>

We're Really Freaking Happy With the Subway, Apparently

​Despite our own Steven Thrasher's harrowing experience on a smoke-filled 4 train last night, the MTA believes that we are mostly happier with New York City transit than we used to be (and apparently we do, too). According to the results of their just-released 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey ... More >>

Malaysian Noodle Festival Ongoing in the Meatpacking District

​Eight restaurants participated under red paper lanterns. The promotional website malaysiakitchennyc.com staged a noodle-themed event this afternoon on the north end of the Meatpacking District, in the square formed by the confluence of Ninth Avenue, Greenwich Street, and West 14th Street.

Vincente Minnelli, Master of Style and Substance

The director's Hollywood spectacular at BAM

A Little Journey--Rachel Crothers's Rail Tale

It's strangers on a train, 1918, at the Mint

One Metro-North Train Car Has Secret Wi-Fi

​There is, apparently, one train car on the New Haven line of Metro-North that has a secret. A secret called "Wi-Fi." Via Second Avenue Sagas, the MTA is keeping mum about which car it is because service is "not ready for prime time." Of course, it would be easy enough for a person to identify ... More >>

'East Coast Rapist' Tried to Hang Himself in Jail

The rapey police sketch of Thomas.​Aaron Thomas, the "East Coast Rapist" accused of raping 17 women in four states over the last 13 years, tried to hang himself in his jail cell last night. Thomas was arrested on Friday and held on a $1 million bond in New Haven, CT. The East Coast Rapist's ... More >>

Laurel Nakadate, Pickup Artist

It's panties and panting at P.S.1's 'Only the Lonely'

DARK OBSESSION

How Anne Frank’s diary reached the American masses

Free Weed for Food Donations in California; New York State Fires Kosher Food Inspectors

​The Granny Purps, a medical marijuana dispensary in California, gave patients free joints for every four cans of food they donated, with a maximum of three a day. Some 11,000 pounds of food were collected. [NPR] A look at the PepsiCo Science Park in New Haven reveals an earnest effort to fin ... More >>

The Blizzard of 2010: We'll Be Telling the Grandkids About This One!

Tompkins Square Park, through the snow.​Is there a name for this thing yet? Snowmaggedon? Thundersnow? Blizza-palooza? That day people were trapped outside of New York City, while those (okay, one or two) inside it actually skied to work? And the rest of us hunkered down and tried not to have ... More >>

Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips

Photo courtesy The Old FieldOld Field Vineyard is worth visiting for the grounds alone​ In honor of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, we devote our top 10 list this week to food-centric day trips. Our list contains a lot of good eating, most accessible by train or bus, all within range for low- ... More >>

Fringe (Festival) Benefits

A play or two from outer space, but some hit closer to home

The Glass Menagerie, The Fairy Queen, and A Cool Dip—Productions or Battlefields?

The Hold Steady Announce New Record: Heaven Is Whenever, Due in May

Judson Baker​Here's to ending the longest drought between Hold Steady albums, ever. In the two years since the Brooklyn band released the hardcore revival moment Stay Positive, the former five piece toured endlessly and, at the tail end of last month, bade farewell to keyboardist and chief mou ... More >>

Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85

​Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>

The Tentacles of Foreigners

Highbrow? Lowbrow? New York welcomes Spaceman Blues's alien invasion.

Ed Levine's Last Meal . . .

. . . calls for the cosmic oneness of perfect fried chicken

Pynchon Me, I'm Dreaming

A sprawling, overstuffed new novel brings us anarchy in the U.S.A.

'Conventioneers'

Sideswiped

Joe Lieberman: Republican Posterboy

Out with Rumsfeld, in with the senator from Connecticut?

1966–1975 Peace & Protest

From the Summer of Love to Women's Lib, Gay Rights and Black Panthers

Yale's Fab Four

Deep in the Heart of Texts

Mix-And-Match Loving: Interracial Transgender Coupling

Not Your Chick

Before riot grrrls were born, libbers mocked rock's males

The Blue-Blood Revolution

A movement to help the poorest students grows—at the Ivies

Hall of Mirrors

Trained in technology, Anthony De Ritis fools the ear by mixing DJ Spooky with orchestra

African Journal

Three South Bronx restaurants take you to the heart of Africa

The Illusion Fields

A lot of skill and talent has gone into The Frogs, but somehow there's no creative pooling

Go 'Head, Fred!

Boondocks and motherland sing that song to da rhythm of da boogie da bang bang da bong

Letters

The Burning of Bleak College

The New World Border

International Theater in the Post–9-11 Era

Voice Education Supplement

• • • Spring 2001

Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys

NY Mirror

Quit Playing Games (with my heart)

Rock 'n' Roll Hockey