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A New Yorker's Response to TripAdvisor's Best Pizza Survey: Seriously?

On August 7, TripAdvisor proclaimed New York City the fourth best city in the United States for pizza. That means that based on a survey of its members, the greatest city in the world lost supremacy of one of its iconic images to a beach town, a strip in the desert, and, worst of all, Boston.

You Guys Wanna See the World's Weirdest John Denver Concert?

John Denver is coming to town, and he's bringing his old bandmates with him. Together, they're kicking off the "Rocky Mountain High Concert" U.S. tour in Westbury on Friday (at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury), and then looping back around to Best Buy Theatre on Tuesday, February 12. And they'll be pla ... More >>

Free Will Astrology

Is This the End of the Culture War? Nah -- Too Much Money In It.

Recently at The Week, rightwing author Michael K. Lewis penned a provocative column called "The culture war is over, and conservatives lost." He was echoing what many rightbloggers have been saying since the recent election -- that after two consecutive victories by the Kenyan Pretender, conservativ ... More >>

Alexander Jentzsch, Son of Scientology's President, Memorialized At Sea

Yesterday, Karen de la Carriere memorialized her son, Alexander Jentzsch, who was found dead at a home in Los Angeles on the morning of July 3. He was only 27 years old. Because the Church of Scientology would not give her access to her son's ashes, Karen had rose petals cast on the Pacific Ocean a ... More >>

Katie Holmes Will Get Custody, But Tom Cruise Will Save Face For Scientology: Using Marty Rathbun and L. Ron Hubbard as Guides

This afternoon, Tom Cruise's former auditor, Marty Rathbun, laid out his predictions for how the Cruise-Holmes divorce is going to go, based on his extensive history helping to run the church. Rathbun predicts that Tom Cruise will give up sole custody of Suri as long as Katie Holmes goes along with ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: November 23-29, 2011

Russian Mars Probe Will Probably be the Latest Thing to Crash into Earth

via Wikipedia​In September, NASA's UARS satellite plummeted back to Earth, scattering debris over the Pacific Ocean. In October, Germany's ROSAT orbiting telescope reentered our atmosphere and crashed somewhere in Southeast Asia. Following this pattern of space crap falling back to Earth comes ... More >>

German Satellite to Crash into Earth Today or Tomorrow

via German Aerospace CenterThere's the bastard!​Apparently, it's satellites-crashing-to-Earth season. Space.com reports that Germany's 2.7-ton ROSAT satellite is estimated to fall to Earth sometime between 2 p.m. today and 8 a.m. tomorrow. Last month, a decommissioned NASA satellite crashed in ... More >>

Satellite Has Fallen, Location Unknown; 43% Think Obama Is Better Than Bush; Putin To Run For Prez Of Russia Again

​UARS -- the 6-ton satellite that just maybe was going to hit you -- fell back to earth sometime between 11:23 p.m. Friday and 1:09 a.m. Saturday EDT, NASA has said. But even though it "penetrated the atmosphere" over the Pacific Ocean, when and where it exactly fell is still unknown, so let t ... More >>

Military's Hypersonic Aircraft Goes Really Fast, Gets Lost

via DARPA's news release.​An unmanned aircraft engineered to go 20 times the speed of sound was lost on its second test flight Thursday. The BBC reports that scientists lost track of the Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle 2, or HTV-2, shortly after it detached from a rocket high above the Californ ... More >>

Where Can I Get Oaxacan Food in NYC?

​Don't expect to find any Oaxacan food here. The name? A total sham! Lauren S. asks: Where can I get Oaxacan food in New York City? Dear Lauren: This question always makes me sad. In brief, there is no Oaxacan food in Gotham. I'm not really sure why, since it would be easy enough for someon ... More >>

Ibogaine: Can it Cure Addiction Without the Hallucinogenic Trip?

The substance has helped addicts kick heroin, meth, and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

New York Has a Mystery "Missile," Too!

​Remember that mysterious vapor trail that appeared over L.A. on Monday? The one that set off speculation about UFOs or an enemy missile attack that nobody (not even the Pentagon) could immediately explain? Well, now New York has one too! (Of course we do.) The New York Post says a local photo ... More >>

Jet Blue Contest Winner Tells All

​ Surely you remember my contest where the best travel essay won a free month on JetBlue. Well, Courtney Sampsell nabbed the prize, and though she never sent me a postcard, she did come home with a lovely new essay about the experiences she enjoyed around the country, and that's good enough ... More >>

The Joy of Despair: "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 1, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 1 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris "THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?" has finally come to the screen 34 years after the publication of Horace McCoy's classic wouldn't-that-make-a-wonderful-movie novel. I read ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: August 25 through 31

Strange Snacks of the World: "Chewing Gum of the Orientals"

Joe DiStefano​ ​ In addition to a full complement of Southeast Asian ingredients (fish sauce, noodles, curry pastes, sambals, etc.) Malaysian grocer Old Town on the second floor of the Flushing Mall has its share of strange snacks. Amid a rack containing durian candy and other goodies, t ... More >>

Jodie Sweetin is a Recovering Addict Too!

​You know, I'm so tired of everryone acting like Mackenzie Phillips is the only headline-making onetime user who's currently on TV Land. To remind us of her travails with coke, crystal, ecstasy, and booze, Jodie Sweetin has written a memoir called Unsweetined, which deals with her own prematu ... More >>

Weekend Special: Fish-Head Fence in San Gregorio, California

​ This remote cove can be attained only by cluching a nylon rope and rappelling down a steep cliff face. The area surrounding San Francisco Bay--anchored by the city of San Francisco in the north and San Jose in the south--is a welter of densely populated towns and superhighways and high-tech ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 1 through 7

From The Crap Archives: GOALS: This Is Your Life

Ted Nugent Says, "Fuck You"

Morning Light's Squeaky Clean Disney Agenda

McCain's Perfect Veep: Ted Stevens

Clip Job: Where Were You When FDR Died?

Drawn Together

The surging popularity of yaoi—graphic boy-on-boy comics—might be the genre's downfall

Trouble in the Air

Reagan's mass firing of air traffic controllers made American skies much less safe in the 1980s. Is Bush's flight plan the same?

The Naked Crustacean

High and Low: Soft Shell Crabs

Close-Up on Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Escape to Baja

Hang like a celebrity in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

Aide spent a quarter of a million dollars on food, fun, and travel

Polar Eclipse

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Pirates of the Caribbean

Record execs hoist soca as the island flavor of the season

God Takes on Illinois

Breaking the Waves: Z-Boy Trades Skateboard for Surfboard

Horoscope

Cyborg Liberation Front

Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights

Horoscope

The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

How a Politically Tied Aide Spent a Quarter of a Million Dollars on Food, Fun, and Travel

Badly Drawn Boys and Girls

Space Cadets

The International Space Station's Operational. Want to Visit?

Surfing Up Democracy

Blue Dog Dems—and Their Corporate Sponsors—Hear It From the Beach

Nation

The Poetry of the DMZ

Nation