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Rex Reed Still Not the World's Worst Film Critic by Any Measure

New York Observer film critic Rex Reed is such a reliable source of outraged blog posts he's probably just a neck lipo away from getting his own E! reality show. His review of V/H/S/2, written after he skipped out on the latter three-quarters of the film, inspired the headline "Rex Reed Still World' ... More >>

Beaten on Gay Marriage, Rightbloggers Begin Berating Straights

Maybe it's because everyone's sick of fighting over gay marriage. Maybe it's because our rightblogger friends' tactic of Adam-and-Steving the issue hasn't helped their increasingly hopeless cause, even within the Republican Party. In any case some of the brethren are working a new angle. Well, not ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 3-9, 2013

The Oral History of Kid Rock's The Polyfuze Method

Though it's practically needless to say by now, this Saturday -- March 16 -- is a date that most rock fans have long had circled on their calendar: The 20th anniversary of Kid Rock's remarkable second album, The Polyfuze Method. See also: Scott Stapp Clears Up That Story About the Orgy on Kid Rock' ... More >>

Pols Irked By Those Awkward Teen Pregnancy Ads On Subways

Two weeks ago, we here at the Voice reported on the new campaign conducted by the Department for Social Services. Along with a YouTube video series and teen texting program, anti-teenage-pregnancy ads that should make you feel uncomfortable were introduced to straphangers on subways across the five ... More >>

Jackie: First Lady Problems

The Women’s Project stages American premiere of Nobel winner’s play

Bloomberg's Flock of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Are Probably Coming to Eat Us

Over the weekend, Mayor Bloomberg quite generously donated $350 million to Johns Hopkins University, bringing his total contributions to his alma mater to a whopping $1.1 billion. The Times has the exclusive story of Bloomberg's philanthropic track record, including fun mayoral trivia (he's 70! he c ... More >>

Free Will Astrology

The Eye of the Storm

Mike Bloomberg, Health Cop: Where's The War On Wheaties?

Mayor Mike Bloomberg has declared war on sodium, baby formula, sugar and, most recently, soda. But if Hizzoner is so concerned with your health, where's the war on Wheaties?Wheat is actually pretty horrible in terms of its ability to turn people into unhealthy fatsos. And unlike soda, it apparently ... More >>

In Paris: Russian Gadgets

It's Baryshnikov versus stage effects at the Lincoln Center Festival

One Year Ago Today: Did the Squirrel Busters Mark the Beginning of the End of Scientology?

On April 18 last year, a man named Marty Rathbun opened his door at the sound of knocking and was presented with the sight you see here. Three men on his porch holding video cameras, and with backup cameras strapped to their foreheads. They were each wearing sky blue T-shirts that featured the same ... More >>

VIDEO: Proof that L. Ron Hubbard Was the Most Awesome Human Being Ever

Just a few weeks after the Scientologists at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida experienced it for themselves, here it is: video from this year's L. Ron Hubbard birthday event. On March 13, LRH would have turned 101 years old (if he hadn't so wisely dropped his meat body in 1986 to research hig ... More >>

Newt Gingrich is a Ridiculous Candidate for President -- Which Explains His Rise

Last week, when we told you Newt Gingrich was the GOP's flavor of the month, you could have been forgiven for being skeptical. That Newt Gingrich? The former Speaker of the House who pissed off most of the country by shutting down the government? Who was fined by Congress for ethics violations? Who ... More >>

Who Is the Greatest Living Playwright?

We ask theater writers to name their pick

Olsen Twins' Sister Getting Oscar Buzz!

Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Olsen -- younger sister to those eternally cute little monkeys the Olsen twins -- started getting Oscar buzz a while ago, as my eyeballs rolled like pinballs. What next -- a Nobel Prize for Jaleel White's cousin?

Paul Krugman's 9/11 Blog Post is Baffling

​Nine years, 23 hours, and 55 minutes after American Airlines Flight 11 flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, economist Paul Krugman published a peculiar post to his New York Times blog. He titled it, "The Years of Shame," and it briskly bemoans the fact that 9/11 has become a w ... More >>

Women Who Want Men to Like Them Pretend to Hate Math

Barbie is so brave.​Science proves that there is a reason all your female friends fake not knowing how to calculate the tip (unless, of course, they truly are terrible at calculating things -- could happen!). Four new University of Buffalo studies have found that when a lady wants to be consid ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's Husband Is Even Worse Than She Is

​Republican hopeful Michele Bachmann isn't exactly a beacon of illumination on the gay rights issue. In fact, if Obama hasn't "evolved" yet on gay marriage, she hasn't even gone beyond the paleolithic stage. But her husband makes her look like a Nobel prize winner by comparison.

Roger Maris for the Hall? No, It's Still Not a Good Idea

​Every few years, like a bad idea whose time has come, the argument for Roger Maris and the Hall of Fame springs up again. There have been several lately, no doubt spurred by the 50th anniversary of the Maris-Mantle home run chase in 1961 when both Yankee sluggers went after Babe Ruth's single ... More >>

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

The Dalai Lama makes his way to Jersey

The Belarus Free Theatre Arrives With Being Harold Pinter, Zone of Silence, and Discover Love

La MaMa and the Public host the return of the now famous troupe

Today in El Diario: Peruvians Face Awful Presidential Choice

​Ex-militant vs. Authoritarian for Peruvian President In Peru's upcoming presidential runoffs, the Andean nation is faced with two polemic picks for the next head of state: leftist ex-militant Ollanta Humala and Keiko Fujimori, daughter of ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who many fear will vio ... More >>

Snooki Appearance Controversial Among Everyone Except Toni Morrison

​Boy, are parents mad about Snooki's recent appearance at Rutgers. Both about the concept of it, and the cost (almost $10,000 more than they pay in yearly tuition). And everyone else is freaked out by the fact that Shnickers was paid $2,000 more than what Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is being ... More >>

The 2011 Shorty Awards: We Came, We Drank, We Tweeted

"Green will get you anywhere," we were told.​Last night, @NickGreene and I attended the Shorty Awards, the official awards ceremony for Twitter and social media, a/k/a, "the Oscars of Twitter" and all that that implies. Here is our story. Jen: HEY, so, the Shorty Awards was surprisingly enjoy ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 23-29, 2011

1 in 8 New Yorkers is on Oxy

​If you were wondering why 13% of the commuters on your subway car this morning were drooling and looking into space, the Wall Street Journal may have a clue: prescriptions for oxycodone, the generic name of the powerful pain pill OxyContin, have doubled in New York City between 2007 and 2010. ... More >>

In Tucson Shooting Fallout, Rightbloggers Find a New Public Enemy #1: Paul Krugman

If you've quit paying attention to the Tucson shooting case, first of all, congratulations. Here is what you've missed: The nearly-assassinated Democratic Congresswoman is getting better, and the public discussion of her shooting is getting worse. There's just too much nonsense being circulated to ... More >>

Belarus Free Theatre's Being Harold Pinter Is No Slight Ache

The Eastern European Company Makes It Bravely to Under the Radar