New Year's

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Resolution Diet Be Damned: The "Butter Burger" at Prune

We're almost two weeks into January, and for those of you still dieting, we offer our congratulations--reluctantly. It can't be easy to live in a food city such as New York and spend your days and nights chugging down BluePrint Cleanse cashew drinks and eating raw kale chips. So bravo, we guess. Now ... More >>

The Exquisite Torture of Tasting Menus

If you think chefs are going too far with their rigid tasting menus and impossible reservation systems, you'll love Corby Kummer's description in February's Vanity Fair of ambitious young chefs as "an army of fresh-faced Stalins" torturing us with their too-long, expensive tasting menus. I've endur ... More >>

Support Sandy Stricken Restaurants on New Year's Eve

No doubt about it, New Year's Eve is stressful. There are so many options, yet none of them seem like they'll live up to the hype New Year's Eve is supposedly all about. But this year, there's hope! All over the city, restaurants that were devastated by Hurricane Sandy are back and ready to throw ki ... More >>

The Good Fork Will Reopen in Red Hook, Plus Free Tours of Chelsea Brewing Co.

Thursday, December 27 Beer Dinner for Holiday Hurricane Relief at Alewife: Long Island City brewery Alewife will host a holiday meal fit for a beer fanatic. For $50, try brews from Smuttynose, Lagunitas, Oskar Blues, Dogfish Head, Greenport Harbor, and Bronx Brewery, all paired with a six-course men ... More >>

Best Buffet Of The Year: Boardwalk Empire Bash!

Just when I've gotten used to fighting for Triscuits in public, last night restored a hack journalist's faith that there's money out there somewhere and people will actually spend it on food for the comp-buffets-to-munch bunch. After a Ziegfeld screening of Boardwalk Empire's third season premiere, ... More >>

Reggie Allen, 'MetroDunce,' Indicted on Weapons Charges

Reggie Allen is no criminal mastermind. Cops say that 34-year-old Allen brought two loaded firearms -- including a Tec-9 semi-automatic pistol and a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun -- into a crowded Times Square subway station on New Year's Day.

Hot Chocolate Month Starts Tomorrow at City Bakery

Stephbond / FlickrWhen it's cold outside, go for some warm cocoa​Chocoholics, rejoice: The happiest time of the year is almost here! Sure, February might be a crap time of year for some people, namely those with Seasonal Affective Disorder and all single people around the 14th, but for cocoa l ... More >>

Patti Smith Moving Her New Year's Party Out Of Bowery Ballroom

Last week Patti Smith performed her annual series of year-end shows, and the Times reports that at the end of her Saturday-night gig she had an announcement: This year's New Year's residency would be her final one at the Bowery Ballroom. No word on where Smith's shows ringing out 2012 will be just y ... More >>

What Do You Do At Midnight On New Year's?

Creepy confession: Every year, when the clock strikes 12 on New Year's Eve -- or actually, a few moments before that -- I run to the nearest bathroom and dutifully lock myself in like self-exiled royalty. I detest cheap sentiment and can't stand the idea of kissing each person in the room in celeb ... More >>

New York Neighborhoods Make List Of Top NYE Destinations

Oh, New Year's Eve. The most dreaded of holidays is fast approaching. CBS New York reports that the Times Square Ball is being installed today. But where should you venture come December 31? Luckily Priceline.com made a list of the"Top 50 New Year's Destinations for U.S. Travelers." (Read: "top New ... More >>

Geoffrey Zakarian on His Holiday Plans: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Geoffrey ZakarianGeoffrey Zakarian eats pizza on Christmas!​Yesterday we spoke with Geoffrey Zakarian, chef at the National and the Lambs Club about his big win on The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs. Today he reveals his plans for Christmas and New Year's, and what trend he'd most ... More >>

NYE Guide: Wild Card

Something different

NYE Guide: Shows

Live music to sound off the new year

Osama Bin Laden Eyed 10-Year Anniversary of 9/11 For Terrorist Attack

​A "rush examination" of the evidence gathered from Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Pakistan reveals that the Al Qaeda leader was still involved in thinking up future terrorist attacks, despite now-outdated guesses from analysts that he may have become more of a figurehead in recent years ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best BYOB Restaurants

The Village VoiceYou won't find booze (or meat) on Angelica Kitchen's menu. But will it make our top 10?​ It's time to get drinking again now that the grace period for New Year's resolutions has ended. (Who really keeps their do-gooder promises past February 1? Anyone?) Ordering off the wine ... More >>

Live: Optimo Regale 14-Hour Party People At The Bunker

​Optimo and their fans, up all night. Pics by Chris, more below.​The Bunker's Eighth Anniversary With Optimo, Donato Dozzy, and Derek Plaslaiko 1/7/10 at Public Assembly Better than: Watching Antony Hopkins play Hitler in The Bunker. Any party in New York that reaches even its first an ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 5-11, 2010

Filipino Politician Photographs Killer Aiming Gun Just Before Assassination

​Today's most viral photo has a dark, but amazing back-story and ends with some justice. Reynaldo Dagsa, a local councilman in the Philippines, was shot and killed on New Year's Eve, just after taking a photograph of his wife, daughter and mother-in-law. Also captured in the shot? Dagsa's kill ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Drinks

Festive libations for you and yours

Donate Food to Get Tickets to See the New York Yankees

yankees.com​ 'Tis the season to be charitable, and The New York Yankees are once again sponsoring a holiday food drive on December 16 in which donors can receive two tickets to see the team play in 2011. Simply donate 30 pounds of non-perishable food items. Giving is great, but 30 pounds of ... More >>

Facebook Predicts You Will Break Up in Two and a Half Weeks

​Some of us break up all willy-nilly, whenever we feel like it. But others among us are predictable. We like to break up at specific times of year. And we then, predictably, like to let Facebook know about that. Hence this fascinating "Peak Break-Up Times" calendar from David McCandless and Le ... More >>

Miserable White Folks, Done Right, in Helena From the Wedding

Dick Nixon Anoints a College Football National Champion Early

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 8, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 2 The Politics of Pigskin: A Guide to the Bowl Games by Clark Whelton Like it or not, Richard Nixon has had considerable success with his policy of making political goo-goo eyes at the Silent Majority and ... More >>

Week in Review: Let Us Soak in Positive Forces

New Year's Eve...no idea, basically. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we learned that Animal Collective's manager is apparently endowed with a baby leg, in the one dark place where that would be a meaningful statement, we did our best to otherwise cleanse the ol' SOTC soul, apologizing to ... More >>

A First-Hand Report of New Year's Eve at M2

​That's a large-scale club in New York where Mariah Carey was the night's big wow-apalooza to usher in the teens (meaning the decade) with. Says the attendee, "M2 was at thrice capacity with bridge & tunnel douchebags.

Here Is a Photo of U2 Frontman Bono Sweating Profusely Next to Swizz Beatz

WE ALREADY STARTING OUR NEW YEARS PARTY SHOWTIMEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​Rap music just needs to take a deep breath and step away from the rock luminaries. Seriously. This means you too, Jay-Z. [@therealSwizzz, via Vulture]

OUT WITH THE OLD . . .

. . . and in with the love!

An Interview With Virgin Donald Cumming

Slick Rick Interview

Urban Resolutions

New Yorkers revisit last year's promises and share hopes for 2006

Rockie Weekly Horoscope December 16-22

NY Mirror

Resolution '05

Larry Tee, Justin Bond, Moby, and more wish upon a star

No Thanks for the Memories

The Imagined Universe of an Outsider Artist Par Excellence

Company Agenda

Swimming

Wet Dreams

Monsters Ink

In the genetic chamber of horrors, normality is skin-deep—and immortality will kill you

Music

Disappearing Acts

NY Mirror

Cheap Cheer

Turning (Japanese) Point  

New Year Revolutions

The City's Clubs Ring in 2001 on Full Plates

Full-Court Press

Knicks Clamp Down on the Working Media

No Meltdown-JustT Letdown

The Other New York City Opera

Chinese Traditions Survive a Transplant

Stardust Memories

A Place Called Chiapas