P.T. Barnum

Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master's Master

Talking 70mm, Joaquin Phoenix, and researching Scientology for his sixth and most anticipated film

Lloyd Kaufman: The Toxic Director

The filmmaker gets his close-up after 40 years of Troma (more or less)

Fightville

Damien Hirst (1965–2012): In Memoriam

Gagosian Gallery hosts a display of the late artist's spot paintings

The Suckadelic Era

The designer-toy world's biggest jerkbag thinks you're an asshole for reading this story.

Jane's Addiction

Go Figure: Jules de Balincourt's "Premonitions"

A new painting show helps Jeffrey Deitch say goodbye to New York

Live: Elvis Costello Swings by the Financial District

Elvis Costello Jim Brady's Tuesday, June 2 Introduced by Matt Pinfield! We (we = mostly 101.9 WRXP contest winners) have gathered at Jim Brady's, an Irish pub near Wall Street: After ordering a pint, you can turn 90 degrees and watch Sportscenter on a projection screen, and turn another 90 degre ... More >>

Clip Job: Cassius Clay Trades Rhymes with Village Poets

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 14, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 21Coffee-House CassiusBy Stephanie GervisIn one of the most bizarre triumphs since P.T. Barnum had two of his midgets ceremonially married at Greenwich Village's Grace Episcopal Church, in the middle of nineteenth c ... More >>

Coney Island of the Mind: Big Thinkers Consider Coney, Offer Depressing Ideas

Tamil Nadu Bhavan, a New, Strictly Vegetarian Indian Restaurant in Curry Hill

New vegetarian restaurant on lower Lexington Avenue concentrates on India's Tamil Nadu

The End of the New York Underground Film Festival

Marking the final edition of the NYUFF, one-time director Ed Halter looks back. And forward.

Paradise Park: No Thrill Ride

Charles Mee's wilt-a-whirl

Dr. Feelgood

Michael Moore’s pill goes down easy, but his diagnosis of U.S. health care still devastates

The Stuffing Dreams Are Made Of

Saturday 8/12

Planet of the Ape

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

Wurlitzer Dawgs Out!

Walt Whitman, Which Way Does Your Beard Point Tonight?

Bullets and Burritos

Pan-Mexican fare replaces H at Bushwick's premier park

A Legend in His Own Mind

Giuliani, the Great Race Divider, Says He'll Be Europe's Healer

Where The Toys Are

Boss Tweed, de Tocqueville, and Hot Tubs at Here

Bosom Maximus

Trans-Decade Express

NYC Rocks Down to Electro Avenue

The Other Ghosts of Ground Zero

Unlike Other New York Landmarks, the Twin Towers Were Built on Landfill(ed) With Drama of the Past

The Chinese Syndrome

Fame Fatale

To Tell the Truth

Taking Another Stab