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East River Ferry Service Coming to Brooklyn Next Month

via Brooklyn Paper​If you live in Brooklyn and need to get to downtown Manhattan or Midtown every day for work, you must be hurting pretty badly right now. The L and G trains are always swamped in these summer (read: hot and sticky) months, and there's no other way around it. But starting next ... More >>

Jill Johnston (1929-2010): 'Sappho is rising'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 14, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 2 Dance Journal By Jill Johnston LEUCADIA: 20 miles north of San Diego...because we're sitting here splitting fields and relaxing together and Pauline Oliveros is playing me a tape of a performance of he ... More >>

Bob Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline' -- People Are Missing the Point!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 1, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 29 Obvious Believers by Robert Christgau I think people are missing the point of "Nashville Skyline," which is as it should be, since they were probably supposed to. The beauty of the album is that it is tota ... More >>

Oh, Those Hippies: A Store Where Everything Is Free

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 28, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 50 Everything's Free, But Don't Steal It By Don McNeill The one rule was "No Stealing." Aside from that, it was a free-for-all from the moment the Diggers opened the doors to the Free Store Thursday n ... More >>

Clip Job: NYU's Very Own Vietnam-Era Protest!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 15, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 9 NYU Campus Erupts, but No Berkeley Develops By Don McNeill A $200 hike in tuition sent the Washington Square campus of New York University into unusual convulsions last week. Students protesting the ... More >>

Meet Brooklyn's Prsms: "Four Songs, Clocking in at 4:20" (Plus MP3)

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Prsms. Photo by Monica Dreamer​Brooklyn's Prsms are a full-barrel, closed-fist, no-holds-barred, pig-fucko assault on your senses. Songs are short, loud, ugly and poorly recorded, but played with fri ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Clip Job: Allen Ginsberg, Prince of the Beat Generation

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Nat Hentoff's Greatest Hits

Excerpts from his first 50 years at the Voice

Peace Strike Under Way – No Violence, Police Tactful

Excerpts from his first 50 years at the Voice

High-Stakes Tests

Left behind due to the school system's failures, third-graders learn they're dumb

Big Wolpe

A Virtuoso Evens the Score

Hot Nuts

Revisiting Paul Goodman's Opus

A Principal for All Schools

Learning To Be Lifelong Learners

Where Is the Peace Movement?

Where Is the Democratic Party?