Nobel Prizes

Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Three Women

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni rights campaigner Tawakkul Karman. They're being recognized "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full partici ... More >>

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

The Dalai Lama makes his way to Jersey

I Have a New Motto That Will Save New York City!

​You have to believe me on this one. Lord knows mottos have lifted our town's sprits in the past--inspiring sayings like "I love New York" and "Fun City" (though that one quickly became ironic, sure enough). So here's the new motto I've concocted to elevate our town from its slump, and I'm o ... More >>

POWER OF WORDS

Celebrating why PEN is mightier than the sword

Free Will Astrology: March 23-29, 2011

Celebrating why PEN is mightier than the sword

Fateless

Celebrating why PEN is mightier than the sword

Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked

Pictured, Left to Right: Youth and Skill, Old Age and Treachery​Well-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, "starting some shit." And he's starting it inside the New York Times, with ... More >>

LUCK OF THE IRISH

Seamus Heaney shows you his country

A Room and a Half, An Ecstatically Fanciful Film By Andrey Khrzhanovsky

Seamus Heaney shows you his country

Democrats Poised for Disastrous Health Care Victory; Obama Bows (While Seated!); Avatar Attacks The Troops

We have been following with less than our full attention the progress of the health care bill, but we surmise it has just made a great gain in the Senate -- not because of anything the Democrats have said (who listens to them anymore?), but because we saw this at National Review: "The story of ... More >>

Clip Job: Barbara Long Takes Apart The Archer-Griffith Bout Of 1966

Barbara Long, the Voice's no-nonsense boxing critic​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 21, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 40 On One Hand in a Two-Handed Society By Barbara Long Three one-handed wonders showed up at Madison Square Garden last week. Joey Archer was there to tak ... More >>

Ben Bernanke Named Time Man of the Year, in Honor of Achievements TBD

​"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>

Rightbloggers Agree With, Denounce Obama Nobel Speech

Rightblogger reactions to Obama's Nobel Prize Speech are coming in: Since the President forthrightly defended his Afghanistan surge before the Peaceniks, they all loved it. Ha! Just kidding. They mostly hated it, or more specifically him.

One More River

Rightblogger reactions to Obama's Nobel Prize Speech are coming in: Since the President forthrightly defended his Afghanistan surge before the Peaceniks, they all loved it. Ha! Just kidding. They mostly hated it, or more specifically him.

Gravel-Voiced Chick With Dick Sings "I Am What I Am"

That's all you need to know about this amazing clip--except that the foxy lady also claims to be a nominee for the Nobel Prize in medicine. Check it out and see if you give Desire Dubounet the hook or the ovation. I personally feel she couldn't hit a note with a fly swatter, but who cares? The fe ... More >>

ARTS & REVOLUTION

Bringing about social change one artwork at a time

Rightbloggers Defend America Against Dangerous Nobel Peace Prize

This week Time magazine had an interesting feature on the Obama Administration's alleged realization that it needed to strike back at "what the White House believes to be misleading or simply false claims..." You have to wonder what took them so long -- and whether such a counter-attack could pos ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: PAP SMEAR

​Karma's a cruel mistress. A bitch, even. There is something to be said for honoring the Code of War. Hnoor among thieves, etc. As much as I wanted to, I refrained from texting asinine comments to my Sox fan buddies. I doubt they would show me the same courtesy. Actually, I know they wouldn' ... More >>

Barack Obama Nobel Peace Prize FTW (Update: Rightbloggers React!)

​ Apparently somebody thinks promising to close Gitmo and stop torture, making a speech to the Arab world, and in general not being so much of a dick as most recent Presidents deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. What do we know? Maybe all previous winner Muhammad Yunus' microlending doesn't have ... More >>

Obama Accepts Nobel Prize, Signaling End of Failed Presidency

​President Obama, despite the urging of his mortal enemies, appears to have accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he is "both surprised and deeply humbled." Rush Limbaugh calls the award an "embarrassment," which surprises us, as we thought Limbaugh incapable of embarrassment. At National Re ... More >>

Smithfield Foods Getting Out of Hog Business; Zane Lamprey Trades Glass for Fork

​Norman E. Borlaug, a plant pathologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in industrialized food production, which fought starvation worldwide, died Saturday in Dallas. Borlaug felt that environmentalists were hampering world food production by attacking the use of pesticides. ... More >>

10 Stupidest Things Said About Obama's Cairo Speech (So Far)

There have been some intelligent criticisms of Obama's Cairo speech to the Islamic world from the right and the left. As followers of our rightblogger columns will expect, though, there have also been some idiotic ones. Here is a quick round-up of the dumbest bits so far. 10.) Andy McCarthy, Natio ... More >>

Documenting Family at the Festival of Jewish Theater

There have been some intelligent criticisms of Obama's Cairo speech to the Islamic world from the right and the left. As followers of our rightblogger columns will expect, though, there have also been some idiotic ones. Here is a quick round-up of the dumbest bits so far. 10.) Andy McCarthy, Natio ... More >>

Election Remainders: Toni Morrison

There have been some intelligent criticisms of Obama's Cairo speech to the Islamic world from the right and the left. As followers of our rightblogger columns will expect, though, there have also been some idiotic ones. Here is a quick round-up of the dumbest bits so far. 10.) Andy McCarthy, Natio ... More >>

Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize

There have been some intelligent criticisms of Obama's Cairo speech to the Islamic world from the right and the left. As followers of our rightblogger columns will expect, though, there have also been some idiotic ones. Here is a quick round-up of the dumbest bits so far. 10.) Andy McCarthy, Natio ... More >>

The Tree of Life

There have been some intelligent criticisms of Obama's Cairo speech to the Islamic world from the right and the left. As followers of our rightblogger columns will expect, though, there have also been some idiotic ones. Here is a quick round-up of the dumbest bits so far. 10.) Andy McCarthy, Natio ... More >>

HELPING HANDS

An evening with Orhan Pamuk and Salman Rushdie

Sasa Stanisic Turns Gruesome History Beautiful

A debut novel offers a haunting look back at the Bosnian conflict

New York African Film Festival

A debut novel offers a haunting look back at the Bosnian conflict

Free Will Astrology: February 20, 2008

A debut novel offers a haunting look back at the Bosnian conflict

Bush's Buddha Road Show

A debut novel offers a haunting look back at the Bosnian conflict

To Serb With Love

Peter Handke offers up his Don Quixote defense

Giving Us Pause

Nobel laureate Harold Pinter: The silences demarcate the warring lines on the battlefield of words.

Iberia Breaks From Europe in Digital-Magical-Realist Fable

Nobel laureate Harold Pinter: The silences demarcate the warring lines on the battlefield of words.

Get the Word Out: All-Star Reading Celebrates Generosity

Nobel laureate Harold Pinter: The silences demarcate the warring lines on the battlefield of words.

Nobel-Winning Wangari Maathai on Democracy

Amid frenzied talk of freedom, a seasoned voice from Africa

It's the Stupid Economy

Amid frenzied talk of freedom, a seasoned voice from Africa

Slavic Essayist Dreams of Communism and Joan Collins

Amid frenzied talk of freedom, a seasoned voice from Africa

Carter Hounded by Kwangju Massacre

Nobel Laureate's Clouded Role in Slaughter of Korean Dissidents

The Great Gadfly

Nobel Laureate's Clouded Role in Slaughter of Korean Dissidents

Hunting Down Anthrax

Old Science Fights New Biowar