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Pee-wee Herman

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    The Best Celebrity Tweets About Obama's Pro-Gay-Marriage Stance

    When history is made, celebrities take to the twitter pad and shoot out their titillating thoughts. Here are some of the best ones that notable people I follow came up with after Obama "evolved" yesterday: Pee-wee Herman: "Thank you, Mr. President, for standing up for equality. Yours Truly, Pee- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    Battlefield Earth: Still Making the World Safe From Scientology Nearly 12 Years Later

    Last night, I noticed this excerpt from a Canadian interview show, and boy, did it bring back memories. It's a priceless reaction by actor Kim Coates when he's asked about Battlefield Earth by CBC show host George Stroumboulopoulos (who mercifully goes by "Strombo"). I mean, imagine having that mov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Tyler Perry Was Spotted Out Of A Dress!

    In his new movie, Tyler Perry's Good Deeds! And it looks as shocking as Pee-wee Herman in a tuxedo! From the trailer, this one looks pretty serious and at times dour, with none of the wigs, frocks, overheated hijinks, and fun of a Medea flick. (There are no screenings, so I have to rely on guessw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Hip-Hop's Top Ten Otis Redding Samples

    ​"Otis" fever is in full effect, thanks to the Otis Redding-sampling song from Jay-Z and Kanye West's much-ballyhooed Watch The Throne project leaking Wednesday night. The track's production, based around a slick chop of Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness," might be the most impressive thing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Rightbloggers Celebrate the Unprecedented Success of Sarah Palin's (10-Theater) Movie Opening

    The Republican 2012 Presidential race, which has given us so much pleasure, remains in flux. Mitt Romney holds a lead, but is unacceptable to "the base" because he once tried to help uninsured sick people; thus, various fringe candidates compete ferociously (and that is the right word) for the right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Dov Charney Is Not Sweating 'Fraudulent' Sexual Abuse Claims, Bankruptcy: Q&A

    ​Troubled clothing company American Apparel is all over the news again. This time, though, the situation seems dire. CEO Dov Charney, who we've spoken to in the past, is being sued for an enormous sum of money by five former employees alleging sexual abuse. Stop us if you've heard this one bef ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 16, 2011

    House

    ​Troubled clothing company American Apparel is all over the news again. This time, though, the situation seems dire. CEO Dov Charney, who we've spoken to in the past, is being sued for an enormous sum of money by five former employees alleging sexual abuse. Stop us if you've heard this one bef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    The 10 Best NYC events of 2010

    Paul Quitoriano​ Whenever we tell people what we do for a living we always get the same thing: "You must know what's going on in the city all the time," and "You must get invited to the best events." Well, yes and yes. But recommending events every freaking day of the year to you eccentric New ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Live: Hall & Oates Do The Hits (And A Few Christmas Songs!) At Beacon Theatre

    Gas up the yacht. Pics by Rob, more below.​Hall & Oates Beacon Theatre Sunday, December 5 Better Than: That part in (500) Days of Summer. Yeah, that's right. Chortle all you want, but this show started with "Maneater" (featuring a lengthy sax solo from an older, bespectacled gentleman in a p ... More >>

  • Film

    December 1, 2010

    What to Buy the Movie Buff Who Has Everything?

    Gas up the yacht. Pics by Rob, more below.​Hall & Oates Beacon Theatre Sunday, December 5 Better Than: That part in (500) Days of Summer. Yeah, that's right. Chortle all you want, but this show started with "Maneater" (featuring a lengthy sax solo from an older, bespectacled gentleman in a p ... More >>

  • Theater

    November 24, 2010

    The Pee-Wee Herman Show and Elf Slide Onto Broadway

    To the playhouse!

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    This Week's Voice: Winter Arts Guide, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, Iron & Wine, the Dipset Reunion, and More

    Nicki Minaj, the O. Henry of rap. Photo by Howard Huang.​In this week's Village Voice, we present our Winter Arts Guide, featuring Mikael Wood on Iron & Wine's new record, Aaron Hillis in conversation with British actress Lesley Manville, James Hannaham's winter books picks, Ben Davis on artis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Pee-wee's Theater Is Ice Cold!

    ​ Pee-wee Herman is doing his zippy Broadway show of bratty antics at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, which is a funny observation in itself, but not so riotous is the fact that the place is colder than showbiz can be after you've had a sex scandal.

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Pee-wee Herman Irked His L.A. Fans

    ​My new best friend Pee-wee Herman inadvertently ticked off some of his La-La-land supporters when he moved his show (the same one that's now on Broadway) to a larger theater. A pretty major comic tells me that he had bought second-row seats to see Pee-wee's show when it was announced for a c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    The Week in Food Blogs: National Sandwich Day; More on the McRib

    This week in food blogs... Eater guessed 10 possibilities for Nate Appleman's next move now that he's left Pulino's. Grub Street discovered that it costs $103 to ship fresh crack pie from Momofuku Milk Bar to the West Coast. Serious Eats celebrated National Sandwich Day with its favorite sandwich ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    Epic Moments in PR and Performance Art: Pee-Wee Herman vs. WWF Wrestlers (Video)

    ​Pee Wee Herman (né Paul Reubens) -- whose Broadway show running right now is obviously the best thing to happen to "legit" New York theater since Cats was euthanized -- decided to do a little promo work to get the word out. At a WWF wrestling match.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    This Week in the Voice: Dan Choi, Bad Lieutenant

    ​Lt. Daniel Choi resembles so many other American soldiers in many, many ways: as a late 20s West Point grad who loves his country, a born-again Christian, as a soldier who's served two tours in Iraq, and as a soldier who's been kicked out of the military. But even that isn't the distinguishment t ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 27, 2010

    Countess LuAnn Meets Pee-wee Herman

    Awards—they're a girl thing. Mostly, anyway, but the shows are bitchin'

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Countess LuAnn Meets Pee-wee Herman

    CLICK HERE for my zingy column in which offbeat celebs like Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and Pee Wee Herman come together in a big ball of glittery mayhem, and I emerge the wiser for it. *Find out Pee Wee's blistering response to Carl Paladino.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Live From The Bizarre But Much-Improved Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards

    Mia Moretti, co-winner, Best DJ (seriously). Pics by Puja, more below.​"There's nothing that says 'party' and 'class' like a bomb-shelter basement in Midtown," joked drag comedian Murray Hill last night. "This is bullshit!" It was one of the many loving jabs taken at the sixth-annual Paper Mag ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 13, 2010

    PEE-WEE PLUGS IN

    And New York is his playhouse

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    How Kanye West's Twitter Killed Music Magazines

    ​Today, Slate posts "an all-access, totally non-exclusive interview with the would-be king of hip-hop," Kanye West. The conceit is as follows: though the rapper stopped giving many interviews in the aftermath of his mother's death, in 2007, he's lately been on "a new-media-heavy promo offensiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2010

    Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman, Is a Righty, Thus Didn't Masturbate in Public

    ​Paul Reubens, the Pee-wee Herman actor demonized by two sex charges, is now offering up proof that his infamous public onanism, all the way back in 1991, is entirely untrue. And he has proof, because he is right-handed. That's merely the most salacious bit in the September issue of Playboy, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Thu Tran Gets Set to Bring Her Food Party Back to Your Television Set

    Photo courtesy of IFCThu Tran, hostess with the mostess.​ On April 27, the IFC Channel will roll out the second season of Thu Tran's Food Party. Simply put, Food Party is a collection of 20 15-minute episodes dedicated to the cooking adventures of Tran and a cast of puppets. But beyond that de ... More >>

  • Music

    February 16, 2010

    Re-Surrender to Jonathan Richman

    The troubadour returns to regale you with tales of cell phones, lesbian bars, and smelly ponds

  • Voice Choices

    March 4, 2009

    LOLITA COMPLEX

    Thank heaven for little girls

  • Voice Choices

    April 1, 2008

    OUT IS IN

    Gay performance festival leaves nothing out

  • Art

    June 5, 2007

    Ears to David Lynch!

    Obsessive? Artist Christian Tomaszewski rebuilds the world of Blue Velvet.

  • Columns

    November 7, 2006

    Riding the Shortbus

    Tristan recounts her experience as a "sextra" in the provocative indie flick

  • Film

    May 16, 2006

    Art School Essentials

    Sprawling series takes in agit-docs and animation

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    What's Stranger Than Paradise?

    Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

  • Screens

    December 14, 2004

    TV

    Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

  • NYC Life

    November 23, 2004

    The End of Eminem

    Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.

  • News

    November 16, 2004

    Naughty & Nice

    Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive

  • News

    October 19, 2004

    Flower Power

    The dame from Oz gathers her gladiolus for her Broadway return

  • Books

    April 29, 2003

    The Strokes

    Spanking the Modern Monkey

  • Specials

    February 4, 2003

    Letters

    Spanking the Modern Monkey

  • News

    January 14, 2003

    Persecuting Pee-wee

    A Child-Porn Case That Threatens Us All

  • NYC Life

    November 12, 2002

    One-Bedroom Co-Op In 1898 Tenement

    A Child-Porn Case That Threatens Us All

  • Music

    October 8, 2002

    Music

    A Child-Porn Case That Threatens Us All

  • Music

    May 7, 2002

    Born in Flames

    A Child-Porn Case That Threatens Us All

  • News

    January 30, 2001

    Who’s Sorry Now?

    Jesse Jackson Marches in the Penitents Parade

  • News

    December 26, 2000

    Irony on the Rise

    The 'Times' Strikes a Pose

  • NYC Life

    December 5, 2000

    Stars and Bars

    Law-Breaking Celebrities Like Robert Downey Jr. Are in the News Again. Interested?

  • NYC Life

    August 8, 2000

    Bed Behavior

    Elizabeth Hurley Is Publicly Dissing Hugh Grant for Watching TV During Sex. How’s Your Behavior?

  • Columns

    November 9, 1999

    The XXX Files

    Elizabeth Hurley Is Publicly Dissing Hugh Grant for Watching TV During Sex. How’s Your Behavior?

  • Art

    August 10, 1999

    Fame Fatale

    Elizabeth Hurley Is Publicly Dissing Hugh Grant for Watching TV During Sex. How’s Your Behavior?

  • Film

    November 24, 1998

    Running on Empty

    Elizabeth Hurley Is Publicly Dissing Hugh Grant for Watching TV During Sex. How’s Your Behavior?

  • News

    September 29, 1998

    The Veep and the Big Creep

    The decision to impeach may turn on the investigation into Al Gore's wrongdoings

  • Columns

    July 28, 1998

    NY Mirror

    The decision to impeach may turn on the investigation into Al Gore's wrongdoings

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