New Haven (Connecticut)

After Fifteen Quiet Years, Rodan's Jeff Mueller and Tara Jane O'Neil Speak

Indie four-piece Rodan formed in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1992 and played their last note together in 1994. In that time the band's core, guitarists Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller and bassist Tara Jane O'Neil, plus a carousel of drummers, Jon Cook, Jon Weiss and Kevin Coultas, recorded a whole lot of ... More >>

H.R. of Bad Brains is Not Crazy, Insists Jamie Saft

With a monstrously flowing godlike beard, multi-instrumental guru Jamie Saft resembles a Hasidic mountain man who should be jamming on meaty blues licks with his beloved ZZ Top instead of the downtown avant-gardist and John Zorn ensemble vet for which he's known. The catch is, dude actually makes hi ... More >>

Defend Your Ballot: Rob Sheffield, Pazz and Jop 2012 Contributor

You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>

Lisa Lampanelli's Heading to Harlem for You Know What!

The comic wears her (dark) heart on her (gastric) sleeve

MTA's "Hurricane Plan" Calls For "Orderly Shutdown" If Frankenstorm's Winds Top 39 MPH

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) just sent us its plan for what it will do if the storm that's predicted to basically be the storm to end all storms hits New York City.For now, the MTA is suspending construction on almost all subway construction projects it had planned for the weekend ... More >>

The House I Live In Pushes the Straight Dope

Powerful voices (but not the director's) explain the failed war on drugs

Q&A: Pizza Punkers Little Seizures On Their Old Bands, Good Parties, And The Power Of Vietnamese Sandwiches

Little Seizures are a one-yearish-old band populated by roughly 80%, uh, wizened local punk veterans. Their howling and chutzpah heave out like a bunch of brats, though, and it's especially evident on their brand-new 7" "Pizza Punk," which bounces around with Johnny Thunders-like riffs, Angry Samoan ... More >>

Mayor Mike Bloomberg, United Federation of Teachers Agree on Evaluation Guidelines

Teachers and top pols in Albany have come to a last-minute evaluation agreement that should safeguard some $700 million in imperiled federal education funds -- barely making Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Feb. 16 deadline. And New York City has come to its own evaluation accord at 5:30 a.m., just in time for ... More >>

Q&A: Hospitality's Amber Papini On Competing with NYC Noise-Rock, Signing with Merge, And The Red Hook Scene

​As the Billyburg/Bushwick/Greenpoint underground overloads itself with crude art-noize slop, the clean-cut, pop-obsessive whizzes in the Red Hook-based Hospitality are quite the welcome anomaly. With an indiepop aesthetic as charming as their band name, singer/songwriter/guitarist Amber Papin ... More >>

A Replacements Doc With No Replacements Music: Color Me Obsessed

Godlike Yale Boy Chooses Football Over Rhodes Scholarship As World Watches

Yale University​Have you been following the saga of Patrick Witt, the most perfect college student in the United States? Witt, class of '12, is a gentleman athlete and scholar who has been faced with a difficult situation: do a Rhodes Scholarship or play quarterback in the annual Harvard-Yale ... More >>

Jesse Prince Back From the Brink; Scientology Petition Takes Off: It's The Thursday Stats Roundup!

Jesse is back!​There's been a lot of disturbing news for Scientology watchers to sift through lately -- what with mothers separated from their sons, and a woman stalked because she's trying to design a better ice-maker, it's been a weird and depressing week. But last night, we were stunned by ... More >>

Scientology Overseas: More Bad News in Australia, Israel, and the UK

Chris Guider, the latest Scientology executive to leave and say that David Miscavige gets slappy​Reporter Steve Cannane e-mailed this morning to alert us to a story on Lateline, a program on Australia's ABC network. The piece describes the defection of yet another Scientology executive who say ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's Bright Idea

From the toxic right, a surprisingly healthy notion?

Sharon Van Etten Playing Bowery Ballroom In January

​Politely acidic Brooklyn folkie Sharon Van Etten is a burgeoning SOTC obsession -- her intoxicating sophomore album, Epic, is a killer if you're in a particularly emotionally vulnerable mood. (YIMBY'd closing track "Love More" especially.) She hasn't played around here lately, alas, denying u ... More >>

Jack Newfield on John Lindsay's Re-Election: No Cosmic Significance

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 13, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 57 There Was No Mystery by Jack Newfield Columnists and politicians seem intent on extracting cosmic meanings from John Lindsay's re-election victory. They see the end of the two-party system, a mandate ... More >>

Drug Rehab in the Vietnam Era Gets Politicized, Cultish

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 21, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 6 Schism on 14th Street: The Daytop Explosion by Joe Pilati Power is a drug too. All of the antagonists in last week's controversy surrounding Daytop Village, the highly successful five-year-old narcoti ... More >>

On the Johnny Depp-Narrated Doors' Doc When You're Strange

Don't forget about Jim Morrison

The Chemistry of Squash

What a racket—giving urban kids a shot a premier prep schools

The Pied Piper's TV Party

Marveling at the eloquent insanity of the Dirty Projectors' new Black Flag tribute

Use Your Illusion

Stephen Duncombe explains why the left should indulge Americans' fantasies

Doctors With Borders

Bioethics matures into a formal academic field—and faces an identity crisis

Million-Dollar Blocks

The neighborhood costs of America's prison boom

Unpopular Vote

A compilation of electoral college crash courses

Freezing Outside of the Box

Apprentice hopefuls show their drive, street smarts, and audacity in the financial district

Bougainvillea, Part Two

Moving Words

Yale University Press post-Haskell: Will it still publish dance books?

Letters

Mob Rules

••• A Sociologist Unravels the Ties Binding Organized Crime

Hail Fellow Well Set

Fluff Jews

'Heeb' Magazine Mixes Humor and Politics

Ticket to Nowhere

Pataki Court Decision Cites Schools as Track to Service Careers

Letters

Classical/Opera

Never Forget

Letters

Montesinos’s Revenge

Extra, Extra! CIA’s Drug Warrior Was a Thug!

New Haven Vice

• • • Secrets From the Staxxx

Letters

Branching out in Brooklyn

The Ralph Lemon Twist: New Recipes for Dance at the Next Wave

Legal Needles

A New Law Bodes Change for Drug Users

One-bedroom apartment with sleeping loft in renovated tenement

Circus Maximus

Letters

Free Speech for Sale?

The Hillary Clinton Cheat Sheet

A Guide to the Scandals and Issues That Could Stall Her Senate Run

Life After Wit

Director Derek Anson Jones Returns to MCC

Mixin' It Up

He'll Go On

John Turturro Plays Beckett's Serious Games

Upswing

Erection Results