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Nile Rodgers Explains the "Deep Hidden Meaning" of "Get Lucky"

If you've listened to the radio in the past week, chances are, you've heard a Nile Rodgers song--and probably more than one. Besides co-writing and playing guitar on Daft Punk's internationally chart-annihilating hit, "Get Lucky," Rodgers has produced so many number one singles and albums in the las ... More >>

The Top 10 Beyonce Collaborations

In the sports entertainment universe, wrestler Rob Van Dam is "the whole damn show." In the fictional sphere of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, ascending to international tennis is "making the show"; in the real world, that's what aspiring baseballers think of as earning a spot on a MLB team. ... More >>

Every Person, Place, and Thing on Magna Carta Holy Grail: A Checklist

If while listening to Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail, you experienced an indescribable sensation that you were actually listening to an encrypted invitation to a very luxurious party with a super exclusive guest list and even more ridiculous gift wish list, you were right!!! We made note of every pe ... More >>

Oscar winners! Rock legends! Sperm donors! All in one room!

Yesterday's stars at today's prices

Paris Jackson Explains Her Father's Behavior

I've written before about how I like Paris Jackson's feisty realness. And now, the late Michael Jackson's teen daughter speaks out about the way he treated his kids in public.

Scientology on the High Seas: A Bunch of Dope Smokers, Say the Greeks!

In November we started a new feature here on Fridays: the Voice has obtained hundreds of copies of L. Ron Hubbard's previously unpublished "Orders of the Day," which he gave to crew members as he sailed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Our documents cover the period from late 1968 through 1971, a ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Beyoncé's Unlikely Pazz & Jop Coup

If the triumph of tUnE-yArDs in this year's Pazz & Jop albums poll was one of the biggest upsets in the poll's history, then the companion singles poll offered one of its most predictable winners to date: Adele's "Rolling In The Deep." Smart money had been on that song taking the prize since it bega ... More >>

Pazz & Jop's Album Results Get Soundscanned

The incredible shrinking album

Q&A: Talibam! On Going To Bed And Discovering Atlantis, Meeting Macaulay Culkin, And Starting The Post-Goof Movement

Talibam! with Sam Kulik The ubiquitous brainiacs behind Brooklyn's maniacally creative and hilarious duo Talibam!--beardo keyboards squelcher Matt Mottel and bizarro drums wizard Kevin Shea--are airing out their gripes, sort of, as they chill in their Wall Street studio at the Swing Space, an under ... More >>

NYC's Golden Gossip Era Fades

Gotham gossip loses grip, fights off rabble. Rattled tattletales tell all.

Michael Jackson's Kids Have Inevitably Tragic Lives

​The day the internet exploded, triggered by the death of Michael Jackson, is approaching its one-year anniversary. The outpouring of re-grief in the media -- also known as clamoring for stories on sticky summer days -- has already begun, ushered in by the Associated Press and their release of ... More >>

Who Should Star in Annie and Funny Girl?

​Both amazingly fun musicals are headed to Broadway as I wet myself with excitement, and neither has been cast yet. So it's up to us to start pitching for our faves: For Annie, how about Sarah Jessica Parker--who once played the title role--as the lovably evil Miss Hannigan? The stunt-casti ... More >>

Summer Guide: Kelis Tries For A Rebound

With her new album Flesh Tone, the "Milkshake" singer tries on some club-pop

Michael Jackson's Kids Come Out From Under His Shadow

​ It's only since the death of their father, pop legend Michael Jackson, that his children have been able to rip off their coverings and appear unashamedly in public. And I bet it's doing them a world of good!

The "Delicious" Bea Arthur Remembered

Some of the biggest names in 1960s-80s showbiz were at the Majestic Theater today for the geriatric alternative to Fashion Week: a memorial to Bea Arthur, who passed away this April from cancer at the age of 86. Hundreds of theater and TV bigwigs shuffled their walkers into the rows for an "afternoo ... More >>

Is Janet The Most Annoying Jackson?

Plus Nancy Giles plays with her hair. And acid redux: Elliot Tiber and Demetri Martin talk about Taking Woodstock.

Live Blogging the Michael Jackson Memorial

Live Video streaming by Ustream For all the lovely grace notes, homages, and eulogies that have flowed from any number of erudite and compassionate individuals in the wake of Michael Jackson's untimely death at the young age of 50, a celebrity's death is not over in American until the huge, gaudy, ... More >>

Damien Hirst's Shark, Georges Seurat's Drawings, Scott Hug's Celebrity Silkscreens

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Movies To Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival

Becoming Kevin Aviance, Again

A year after he was bashed in the East Village, a New York diva is ready for his second act

This Is Constantine Maroulis. He Wishes You Knew That.

In which an American Idol runner-up tops it all by blow-drying his chest

Cease the Day

From Russian gloom to New World ecstasy: Saul Bellow, 1915-2005

DJ Kicks

Nine sane and rewarding life choices we promise you will not get punished by God for

Michael Atkinson's Top Ten

Education

Tales of the Kefir Furnaceman

• • • A Roving Ethnographer’s View From the Factory Floor