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April 16, 2012
Q&A: Big Baby Gandhi On Rap Battling At Nine, Rebelling In The Facebook Era, And Getting Das Racist's Attention With Negative YouTube Comments
"Gandhi Mandhi was the name that they called him/ Now the honeys call me Young Kama Sutra/ Old white people real mad 'cause I'm the future." That cheeky rap is from "Boogie Nights," a jubilant track on Das Racist affiliate Big Baby Gandhi's recent mixtape No1 2 Look Up 2. The free tape is packed wit ... More >>
Art
April 11, 2012
Allan Stone's "World in a Box": Cornell's Buddies
"Gandhi Mandhi was the name that they called him/ Now the honeys call me Young Kama Sutra/ Old white people real mad 'cause I'm the future." That cheeky rap is from "Boogie Nights," a jubilant track on Das Racist affiliate Big Baby Gandhi's recent mixtape No1 2 Look Up 2. The free tape is packed wit ... More >>
Columns
November 30, 2011
Special Mexicans Are Racist Edición
"Gandhi Mandhi was the name that they called him/ Now the honeys call me Young Kama Sutra/ Old white people real mad 'cause I'm the future." That cheeky rap is from "Boogie Nights," a jubilant track on Das Racist affiliate Big Baby Gandhi's recent mixtape No1 2 Look Up 2. The free tape is packed wit ... More >>
News
October 26, 2011
Let It Bleed
Hard at work on his eighth novel, Deadwood author Pete Dexter still packs a punch
Blogs
September 29, 2011
My Shocking Experience With Christina Dearest
In 1998, Christina Crawford, renowned author of the legendary revenge memoir Mommie Dearest, came to Town Hall to sell copies of the new edition of her book after being interviewed onstage by critic Rex Reed. In that Q&A, she graciously reiterated all the awful things Mommie did to her as we wept i ... More >>
Blogs
August 15, 2011
Why Is Bill O'Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee's Gangster Glorification?
"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
My Weirdest Pitches Of The Week
Think the life of a gossip columnist/blogger is all sawdust and tinsel? Well, here are some of the pitches I've gotten this week, to give you a hint of the reality behind the glitterdome: *"Andrea Bocelli rides the East River ferry"
Blogs
July 14, 2011
Rick Jacobs, Founder of the Courage Campaign, On Pepsi and Corporate Giving
Steven ThrasherJacobs at the Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal signing ceremonyLast week, we wrote about how the Courage Campaign won $50,000 from the Pepsi Challenge, and our concern about the ways in which Pepsi was able to use an LGBT advocacy group to market its product in the non-profit arena ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Courage Campaign and Pepsi: Is $50K the New Sell Out Price for LGBT Non-Profits?
Yesterday, we got an email from the Courage Campaign with the subject line, "We won! Here's what's next." We assumed it would be a belated fundraising appeal responding to New York's Marriage Equality Act, asking for donations to fight on the federal level. Instead, what we found when we op ... More >>
Theater
July 6, 2011
Pontiac Firebird Variations Drives Into the Ice Factory
Aztec Economy re-gears the House of York
Blogs
June 28, 2011
Bringing Borscht Back; Queen Mary 2 Fails Health Inspection
After a few years of folly -- i.e., focusing on healthy snacks -- it appears that PepsiCo is turning its attention back to Pepsi. [Wall Street Journal] Cold borscht certainly isn't as hip as it used to be back in the 1950s, but Marc Gold, CEO of Gold Pure Food Products Co., hopes to bring th ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Interactive Mommie Dearest Was A Scream
Mommie Dearest is the unwitting 1981 comedy about celebrity child abuse, but it was funnier than ever at last night's interactive version of the camp classic at the Ziegfeld. The event ballsily started with go-go boys running down the aisles with empty popcorn buckets that the audience was ... More >>
Blogs
June 20, 2011
Ray Kelly, NYPD Commissioner, Loves a Good Tie, Hoodie
Today's edition of Women's Wear Daily profiles the style of a somewhat unlikely fashion character, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. On a night out on the East River, Kelly sports "a charcoal Martin Greenfield hand-tailored suit" with a "Charvet tie, so pink it practically reflects the faraway P ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2011
American Idol Goes Really, Really Country
Michael Becker/FOXOh boy, here we go. I can't possibly overemphasize how not excited I was to watch this Idol finale: Two perfectly decent singers who stick entirely within their genre--the exact same genre, even--and who both ran out of interesting tricks and wrinkles weeks ago. TMZ had a st ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden's Compound: Photos From Outside, the Neighbors Speak
Outside the compound, via @ReallyVirtual.Sohaib Athar, or @ReallyVirtual, the civilian who accidentally live tweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden on Sunday night, went from several hundred Twitter followers to nearly 100,000, basically overnight. Athar, who describes himself as "an IT consulta ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Michelle Obama Writing a Healthy Food Book; Coffee The Musical Coming to Broadway
Vikram Chatwal is being sued by the group that owns such Meatpacking spots as Abe & Arthur's over the deal he had allegedly promised them to run hospitality operations for his forthcoming Downtown Dream Hotel, which he later gave to the group that owns Marquee. [NY Post] Michelle Obama will ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
The Best Things I Ate While at SXSW Interactive
The kimchee fries from the Chi-Lantro BBQ truck made a magnificent lunch one day. At the SXSW Interactive festival -- which started last Thursday, and concluded today -- I represented the Village Voice at a panel called "Bite Me" organized by chow.com concerning the ethics of food writing. ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
Restaurants Love a Monday Valentine's Day; Pepsi to Launch Skinny Can to 'Honor' Women
McDonald's is getting its chipotle on with a new Chipotle BBQ Bacon Angus burger priced at $3.99 and available through March 31. [Nation's Restaurant News] Restaurants are happy that Valentine's Day is on a Monday night because Mondays are usually slow for business. [Nation's Restaurant News ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #4: How Many '60s Bob Dylan Albums Can You Name?
In the '70s and '80s, knowing Bob Dylan was one of the most crucial skills of being a good rock critic, right alongside "a smug sense of entitlement" and "snorting this whole table of blow." But how does he fare among a new generation of critics? For young rock writers, Bob is basically an in ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Sacrilegious Super Bowl XLV Doritos Ad Yanked By Frito-Lay
I thought the ad -- recently screened on AOL, so it's still being mainstreamed on some level -- was funny, and a little stoopid, too. It's really like something you'd see in a Luis Buñuel movie, like The Phantom of Liberty or The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: A group of congregants li ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2010
Jimmy McMillan, "Rent Is Too Damn High" Guy, Has Not One But Two Signature Thanksgiving Dinners
Former highly unlikely New York gubernatorial candidate and "Rent Is Too Damn High" party leader/handlebar mustache-haver Jimmy McMillan has generously offered up not one but two possible Thanksgiving dinner plans to WNYC. You may choose between "Middle Class" and "Po Folk" menus.
Blogs
October 26, 2010
Here's My Newest Broadway Show Idea
There's a Broadway musical on the boards called Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which got pretty favorable reviews, right? So I've got a great new idea: A show called Bloody Bloody Michael Jackson!
Blogs
October 12, 2010
Gap's Mistaken Redesign, Plus 9 Other Logos No One Needed to Mess With
In the wake of the Gap logo brouhaha, a/k/a, the making of an already ugly logo into an uglier one "circa 2010," allow us to present you with nine more of the most unfortunate logo redesigns we've lived through. There should be a T-shirt attesting to this, except there's no way in hell we'd w ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2010
Shepard Fairey's Joaquin Phoenix: Comeback, or Final Blow?
Shepard Fairey, creator of the frequently vandalized mural on Houston and Bowery, is back in the game with a series of street installations depicting bearded crazy person/actor Joaquin Phoenix. Vulture reports that the Joaquins have been spotted in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Bo ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
Paul the Octopus Stars in New Pepsi Ad -- How Does He Measure Up to the Geico Gecko?
Paul the octopus may be retiring from his duties as World Cup clairvoyant, but instead of turning in his application to become a Wal-Mart greeter, he went for something a little more high-profile. His likeness will appear in Pepsi ads with his tentacle wrapped around the can and the caption, ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 22, 2010
The Apples in Stereo
Paul the octopus may be retiring from his duties as World Cup clairvoyant, but instead of turning in his application to become a Wal-Mart greeter, he went for something a little more high-profile. His likeness will appear in Pepsi ads with his tentacle wrapped around the can and the caption, ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
It Lives: Paterson's Soda Tax Is Now a Modified Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax
voxefxtm/FlickrIn March, Governor Paterson announced plans to ditch his soda tax, thanks to $1.3 billion of federal stimulus money. But the soda tax is apparently still alive and well, and living under an assumed name: it's now called the modified sugar-sweetened beverage tax.
Blogs
April 27, 2010
KFC's Pink Bucket Campaign: A Breast for a Breast?
Your fried chicken, pinkwashed to perfection.Practically in the same breath as launching its Double Down Sandwich stunt, KFC debuted its Buckets for the Cure campaign, which promises to donate 50 cents from every pink bucket sold to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. Since April 5, t ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
Vendy Awards Head to L.A.
Street food fest hits La La Land.Last Month, Sean Basinski, founder of the Vendy Awards, told Fork in the Road about his hope to take the Vendys cross-country with the help of funds from Pepsi's Refresh Project. Unfortunately, the Vendys didn't win the $25,000 prize, but he decided to take th ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
Rightbloggers Agree: Passage of Health Care Bill an Affront to Jesus
Jim Hoft's obstreperous Gateway Pundit blog is associated with the conservative Catholic magazine site First Things. That may seem odd to those of us who know Hoft best for his non-sectarian ravings against Pepsi Cola and Honest Tea as "in the tank" for President Obama or, more recently, items like ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
Joel Dennis Out at Adour; Jason Bunin In at the Ainsworth
Joel Dennis is leaving Adour Alain Ducasse to "pursue other opportunities." A rumor that former Essex House chef de cuisine Didier Elena may replace him hasn't been confirmed, but Sylvain Portay, who has worked with Alain Ducasse for 25 years, will act as the interim chef. [Grub Street] Jaso ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Did Coke and Pepsi Get the Governor to Go Soft on Soda?
The Governor hears out Coke & Pepsi.Gov. David Paterson is not known for his moral character, but could he have let Big Soda sway him on the soda tax debate? Despite campaigning aggressively in favor of a penny-per-ounce tax on the price of soda and other sugary drinks, Paterson recently met ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2010
Jamie Oliver Starts a Food Revolution; Michelle Obama Gets Pepsi & Coke Support
Dozens of seniors in Brighton Beach have been complaining about the poor quality of their daily Meals on Wheels lunches. The problem, they say, started last year when the Jewish Association for Services to the Aged abandoned its own kitchen in favor of catering services. [NY Post] Pepsi and ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2010
Pepsi Bows Out of Super Bowl in Favor of, Perhaps, Funding National Vendy Awards Tour
guardianTaking a celebration of street food on the road. Pepsi opted out of the most expensive and coveted advertising time slot of the year: Super Bowl XLIV. Instead, the company announced it was placing its ad dollars in community projects, such as its new Pepsi Refresh Project. The initiat ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2010
Super Bowl XLIV Ads Mediocre; Michelle Obama Fights Child Obesity
Wal-Mart is testing the idea of switching to private-label spices by replacing McCormick products with its own generic brand in some stores. The chain is currently responsible for 11 percent of McCormick's sales. [Wall Street Journal] Weight loss success stories marketed by such fast-food ch ... More >>
Blogs
December 24, 2009
New Drinking Glass Guesses What You're Drinking
This new plastic drinking glass can identify at least three beverages, but can it do more? Gizmodo reports that Serbian designer Damjan Stankovic has come up with a plastic cup that can reveal the variety of beverage that is poured into it.
Blogs
December 18, 2009
Pepsi Shuns Super Bowl XLIV; Padma Lakshmi Among People's 'Most Intriguing'
Only 91 contaminants of the 60,000 chemicals used in the U.S. are regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act, which means that a number communities' drinking water may be legal, but laced with cancer-causing agents. [NY Times] The White House vegetable garden has been planted for the winter wi ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2009
VIBE Magazine Will Be A Magazine Once More
And Chris Brown and Drake will be its "first" cover subjects, reports Ad Age. We will now ceremoniously omit the joke about how certain creative entities went down in public flames and are now both on the comeback trail--we love VIBE and its dispossessed staff too dearly (plus very occasional ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2009
In Japanese Cola Wars, Yet Another New Pepsi
Just months after Pepsi launched its new flavor, Shiso, in Japan, Tokyo Mango notes that the company is introducing Azuki or red bean to the Japanese market. Shrewd... still, it's no mini Coke.
Blogs
June 26, 2009
From the Voice Archives: Simon Frith on Wacko Jacko in London, Circa 1988
In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Simon Frith's London dispatch--it ran in Frith's regular 'Brit Beat' column--on the bonkers media spectacle that broke out when Jackson came to town in 1988. Wack Attack By Simon Frith August 16, 1988 "Pandemonium broke out in Soho, ... More >>
News
May 27, 2009
See Dick Pay Jane: Chaste Dating for Cash
Recession desperation produces a quaint throwback
Blogs
April 9, 2008
Joan Crawford Was a Drunken Slag! No, Really!
Recession desperation produces a quaint throwback
Music
September 25, 2007
The Collage King of Queens
A walking tour and songwriting lesson with Fiery Furnaces guru Matthew Friedberger
News
October 24, 2006
The Man Who Wanted to Know Too Much
Why does Walter Mack keep getting fired?
NYC Life
April 22, 2003
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Why does Walter Mack keep getting fired?
NYC Life
March 4, 2003
Off the Wall
An Extreme Painter Lays It Out
Theater
November 26, 2002
Radiohole Pillages Mutes, Canada
An Extreme Painter Lays It Out
NYC Life
August 13, 2002
One-Bedroom Co-Op in 42-Story Citylights
An Extreme Painter Lays It Out
NYC Life
July 9, 2002
Close-Up On: Long Island City
An Extreme Painter Lays It Out
Music
January 5, 1999
Not Yet Uhuru
Mzwakhe Mbuli in Mandela's South Africa
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