Oscar Wilde

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COMICS UNBOUND

MOCCA Fest turns 10

Congealed Weapons in Massacre (Sing to Your Children)

José Rivera's play stages a slaughterhouseful of ideas

Happy Absinthe Day!

Today is National Absinthe Day, another booze holiday that kicks off a month known for combining drinking with the color green.

The Year's Most Present Actress By Far

​I think that sounds nicer than "omnipresent," since it's not her fault that every movie she's ever done seems to be coming out all at once. She's Jessica Chastain, the 31-year-old beauty who's showing her range--and incredible aptitude for achievement--in the following 2011 films:

The 20 Most Important LGBT Figures In History

Bayard Rustin​According to this assessment on bilerico.com, it's a mixed bunch through history. Authors, artists, politicians, civil rights leaders. Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Abe Lincoln... (On the floor with that last one? Well, sorry--I guess Abe freed his boyfriend's trouser snake.) ... More >>

Top 10 Literary Wedding Toasts

​"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?" --Groucho Marx You've all heard horrible stories about rambling, disconnected, unrehearsed, and even madly embarrassing toasts given at wedding banquets, sometimes ruining friendships and causing brides and gr ... More >>

What the Great Gay Authors Ate

In many cases, gay authors are also aesthetes, and who'd be surprised to learn that they often take an enthusiastic interest in food? (Read about this week's Big Gay Food Blog here.) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ​Even by modern standards, Wilde was flamboyantly "out." He toured America in velvet ... More >>

LEATHERWOMEN

A controversial film returns

Eighteen Months Later, Bosie Tea Parlor Is Opening

The Bosie of Oscar Wilde fame. He probably drank a lot of tea.​Way back in October of 2009, we heard that the West Village would be getting a shiny new tea parlor featuring blends from L'Âge de Thé, a fine-tea company co-owned by Kiley Holliday, the country's youngest tea master.

WILDE WORLD

Roundabout's revival of The Importance of Being Earnest

Veritas and The Twentieth-Century Way Look Back at the Gay Past

Police entrapment and Harvard harassment in two FringeNYC shows

Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party Queries U.S. History

Part One of a two-part article about homosexual identity

1970: A First-Person Account of the First Gay Pride March

Remembering the March, a year after the Stonewall riots

The Yippies Are Here! Plans for a Grand Central Party, Which Will Go Horribly Wrong

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 21, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 23 Scenes by Howard Smith LAST YEAR the name of the game was the "Be-In," this year it looks like "Yip-In." At midnight on Friday, March 22, the yippies...will have a Yip-In in Grand Central Station. At l ... More >>

The Scottsboro Boys and Neighbors Display Racial Caricatures, Rain Serves Up Family Puzzles

RIP Gay Bars

via Next Magazine​The aughts saw the death of a whole slew of gay establishments where we drank, canoodled, and made all new frenemies, and fortunately, Dan Avery of Next magazine has taken the time to put them all together into a handy little souvenir commemorative map to enjoy while savoring ... More >>

Nestle Crunch Info Line Joke is Fun

​Is blogging journalism? Who cares? If you call the Nestle Crunch Hotline at 800-295-0051, you will be given the opportunity, after the English and Spanish prompts, to choose Pig Latin. Thereafter come a variety of funsies. It ain't Oscar Wilde and it ain't new, but it is Monday and you probab ... More >>

Clip Job: The Gay Agenda Exposed! In 1966!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

VICE SQUAD

Party like it's 1895

A Beautiful Life: Misery Pile-Up About An Abused Teenage Runaway

Three Foreigners Who Made Baron Cohen's Brüno Possible

FREE LOVE

A rare screening of Jim Henson's hippie doc

Oscar Wilde Bookshop Closing

After 41 years in the West Village, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop, believed to be the city's oldest (maybe the world's oldest) serious gay and lesbian bookstore, is slated to close on March 29. "Unfortunately," said owner Kim Brinster in a statement, "we do not have the resources to weather the current ... More >>

Clip Job: The Irish Rule the Obies

Your Face or Mine?

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Pre-Coital Clubbing

At Lincoln Center, the ambiance of felching. Elsewhere, smoking gossip.

Wilde in Captivity

Faust Things First

A mammoth production of the epic verse gets a stateside staging

Girls Gone Wilde in an Amiable if Undemanding Adaptation

U-Turn to Hell

British Riff-Meisters and Shrieker Confront the Humorless

What One Calls Life

Merlin Holland dusts off the transcript of Oscar Wilde's first trial—bigger, longer, uncut

Shopping With Pride

Of Golden Eyelashes and Angel's Wings

Horoscope

Something Wilde

Will Self's New Dorian Meets Gray Expectations

I Want Dandy

To Eire Is Human

No Means Yes!

A School For Salomes

••• The Origins of the Modern Striptease

Justify Your Existence

NY Mirror

Cruise Control

Why Is It Libelous to Call an Action Actor Gay?

Centrally Dislocated

Life’s Full of Drama; Too Bad the Stage Isn’t

Queer as Frock

The Liberating Power of Clothes

Heady Intentions

Mark Erbaugh

(NYU student; production assistant)

Parallel Lives

NY Mirror