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Man Man's Honus Honus Hopes He Lives Long Enough To See Their New Album Come Out

"I'm not a woe-is-me person, and this band isn't a pity party for me --it's a celebration of an accidental career," says Ryan Kattner, aka "Honus Honus," frontman of the long-running Philadelphia junkyard-carnival rock orchestra Man Man. From a tour stop in Cleveland -- it's the band's first run of ... 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 Must Stop Pretending there are Two Sides to the Gun Control Debate

The argument against gun control should've gone out the window the moment 20-year-old Adam Lanza walked up to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and with completely legal firearms he plucked from his mother sometime before shooting her multiple times in the head, blew through a wa ... More >>

Some Rich, Famous People Still Act Like They're Broke!

The wonderful thing about being wealthy is that some people want to stay that way. Or maybe they want to project the image that they're not wasteful, because that would seem creepy and inappropriate. Or they are sometimes flamboyant with their wallets, but seize a bargain when one's available, eve ... More >>

Cursive+Cymabls Eat Guitars

Fantasy Island: Alexander Payne's Feel-Good Hawaiian Excursion, The Descendants

NYFF: Life is (Alexander) Payne

James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced

opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tears​It's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>

tUnE-yArDs Announces New Album, Plays MHOW In May

​Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>

Ask the Critics: Now Accepting Your Burning Questions

The New Yorker​Next week we'll inaugurate a new feature: Ask the Critics. You ask a question, any question (ideally food-related) and either Robert or I will answer it here. Feel free to try to stump us: Where should you bring your vegan, celiac-diseased mother who refuses to eat anything th ... More >>

The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

Board of Elections Picks New Voting Machines; Scanners Go In This September

​The Board of Elections has finally picked a supplier for new, state-of-the-art voting machines for New York City: Elections Systems and Software of Omaha. Our own Julie Bolcer reviewed their machine and those of competitors last Februrary. ES&S makes paper ballot optical scan (PBOS) machi ... More >>

Lore Segal, Rudy Wurlitzer, and Luc Sante (Re)visit Those Dazed '70s

A wild decade, reissued

David Sax Talks About Saving the Deli and the Enduring Appeal of Hot, Fatty Meat

Tabletmag.com​Two years before David Sax was born, his paternal grandfather died while eating a smoked meat sandwich from Schwartz's Hebrew Delicatessen in Montreal. But the food that caused his grandfather's literal downfall was also his legacy: it "pickled my soul with a craving for salt, ga ... More >>

Jazz Consumer Guide: A Summer Suite of Harmonic Disorder

Transcending roots and relishing every moment, whether you've got the rhythm section or not

Autolux Supposedly Coming to New York This Fall, May Actually Play All Tomorrow's Parties NY This Time, Babies Be Damned

Maura Lanahan Autolux, the Los Angeles art-fuzz trio that blogs forgot, has been annoyingly dormant for the last few years: after releasing the sublime full-length Future Perfect, and touring throughout 2006, they virtually disappeared. Last fall, they booked for All Tomorrow's Parties New York, bu ... More >>

Clip Job: Voice Goes to Omaha, Shocked to Find It Not Like N.Y.

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 6, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 16Not Much Dolce Vita in the 'Real' AmericaBy Melvin ShestackThis summer I traveled to America's heartland -- or, as I was told by a fashionable lady in Omaha, "the real America, just the best place to bring up chil ... More >>

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Clip Job: MacDougal Street's Son-of-a-Beats

Clip Job: What Would Jesus Bomb? Part 2

Clip Job: What Would Jesus Bomb?

The Faint's Fasciinatiion: Hot-Fudge Basslines and Thom Yorke's Farts

A welcome reboot leads to goodsongs and better random noises

Cursive at the Mercury Lounge Tonight

No "Sex" for You: The Sex and the City Premiere Freeze-out

American Idol's Overdog Status

Loving the Skin They're In

Declining to pogo in place, lady-led locals rise above the clouds

Flabby White Guys Wrestling With Racism

Erratic Erotic Nebraska Electro-Rockers Shape Their Chaos

Full-Time Omaha Young People and Their Tap Dancer Get Sex Wild

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Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring

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