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    May 1, 2012

    May Day! The Voice Staff's Live Coverage of Occupy Wall Street's M1NYC

    Good morning, and welcome to the Village Voice's liveblog of May Day 2012, as the Occupy Wall Street movement calls for a "General Strike" and a day of protests around the city. Our reporters and photographers are fanned out across the boroughs. We'll be liveblogging their dispatches right here and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Matt Taibbi Joins Occupy Wall Street for Anti-Corporate Protest

    Occupy Wall Street protesters held their biggest march so far this year today as part of a nationwide "Shut Down the Corporations" day of action. Several hundred occupiers gathered in Bryant Park this morning before marching east on 42nd Street to the global headquarters of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    You Might Be Pregnant! Pfizer Recalls 1 Million Birth Control Packs

    ​Time for Plan B? Nearly 1 million packs of birth control pills are getting recalled by Pfizer in the U.S., because a packaging screwup boosts your chances of pregnancy (via Time). Oy. The pharmaceutical giant says that women with these sketchy scripts -- such as Lo/Ovral-28 tabs and Nor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2011

    Scientology Freakout: Commenters of the Week!

    "You'll know the Marcabians by their atom bombs and fedora hats, dear."​Things just keep rolling along here at Runnin' Scared's fortified underground bunker, where we keep an eye on all things Scientology while waiting for the invading Marcabian fifth fleet. It's been another eventful week! W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Tom Cruise Not a Kook! Pfizer Protest Linked to Scientology, But Don't Tell the Protesters That

    ​A friend to Runnin' Scared sent us some very interesting photos from the site of a protest yesterday outside the Pfizer building on East 42nd Street. She noticed right away a reference to everyone's favorite Scientologist, Tom Cruise, in one of the signs, which read, "Tom Cruise Not a Kook! ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    New Mets Co-owner Destroyed World Economy, Is Brewers Fan

    ​Talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat: This week, Mets owner/accused Bernie Madoff unindicted co-conspirator Fred Wilpon 1) was the subject of a New Yorker profile in which he dissed his three best players, then had to apologize via clubhouse speakerphone, 2) was the subject of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    10 Astounding Nutritional Discoveries of the Future

    ​Too many Omega 3's will quite literally turn you into a fish! Nutritionists tend to be full of shit. One day they tell you to eat margarine, then change their minds and say margarine will kill you. Generated by meaningless correlation studies and based on shaky science, so it is with most o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Live: Dan Friel And Happy New Year Steam Up The Showpaper 42nd St. Gallery

    Please, touch the bears. All pics by Rebecca.​Happy New Year/Dan Friel Showpaper 42nd St. Gallery Saturday, January 22 Since October, nestled among imposing buildings like Pfizer headquarters and the Helmsley Hotel, an East 42nd Street storefront has hosted an unlikely tenant: the Showpaper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Fast Food Chains to Redouble Efforts to Fatten Americans in 2011

    Victoria BekiempisDunkin's sausage pancake bites: part of a growing arsenal.​Donna Simpson, New Jersey's most famous fat lady, used Thanksgiving to remind America that she is still committed to one day weighing 1,000 pounds. And thanks to some recent menu updates, she'll be getting plenty of h ... More >>

  • Film

    November 24, 2010

    Love & Other Drugs Desperate for Your Attention

    Victoria BekiempisDunkin's sausage pancake bites: part of a growing arsenal.​Donna Simpson, New Jersey's most famous fat lady, used Thanksgiving to remind America that she is still committed to one day weighing 1,000 pounds. And thanks to some recent menu updates, she'll be getting plenty of h ... More >>

  • News

    August 4, 2010

    Shutting Upstate Jails for City Kids Has Made a Fiery Bronx Bureaucrat a Host of Enemies

    People upstate consider the Bronx's Gladys Carrión Satan incarnate

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Live: The Dirty Projectors Bring The Getty Address to Lincoln Center, Pay Homage to Don Henley

    Twitpic via joe_saturday​The Dirty Projectors Allen Room, Lincoln Center Friday, February 19 The Allen Room's dazzling floor-to-ceiling glass vista is guaranteed to metaphorically enhance whatever you happen to hear there. Case in point: On Friday night those double layered panels refracted 5 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    China to Ban Public-Space Smoking in 7 Cities

    ​The anti-smoking ban pioneered in New York have finally caught on in its natural home of Red China, where the totalitarian government has ordered a ban on smoking in indoor public spaces in seven provincial capitals. It's up to the local governments of Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenyang, Harbin, N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2009

    Kelo outcome shows Atlantic Yards risk

    The outcome of New York's embattled eminent domain development projects is called into question by the economic development project which made them possible. The Pfizer research facility at the center of the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision is closing, taking over 1,400 jobs with it. The 5 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    From baseball to hardball: George Mitchell lands in Mideast to probe the deadliest beanball war -- Jews vs. Arabs

    The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is now in for some really heavy lifting: the testosterone-laden, rage-filled Arab-Jew death dance i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Hard Line Drives: Viagra and Baseball

    The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is now in for some really heavy lifting: the testosterone-laden, rage-filled Arab-Jew death dance i ... More >>

  • People

    January 29, 2008

    Can I Sue Somebody for Fisting-Induced Fibromyalgia?

    The Wall Street Journal, reporting from Davos, asks (gulp), "Is Capitalism, as We Know It, Dead?" Pumped up from his experience as chief investigator of steroids abuse in baseball, George Mitchell is now in for some really heavy lifting: the testosterone-laden, rage-filled Arab-Jew death dance i ... More >>

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    January 9, 2007

    Revolutionary War

    A Columbia radical from the '60s walks the campus with his not-so-radical son

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    June 13, 2006

    Rudy's Bank Balance

    A Columbia radical from the '60s walks the campus with his not-so-radical son

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    June 13, 2006

    Targeting the Testers

    Animal rights activists move beyond fur and the circus

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    March 1, 2005

    Unslick Dick

    Girl pornographers just want to have fun, and do, in Sweet Action

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    September 7, 2004

    The GOP as Charity Case

    Just the conventional tax break, please—helping out the republicans

  • Columns

    March 2, 2004

    Unslick Dick

    Just the conventional tax break, please—helping out the republicans

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    October 8, 2002

    Pataki's Sick Department of Health

    How a Collusive Contagion Has Infected a $34 Billion Bureaucracy

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    May 28, 2002

    Listings

    How a Collusive Contagion Has Infected a $34 Billion Bureaucracy

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    January 8, 2002

    Prescription: Euphoria

    New Research Brings Ecstasy Back to the Couch

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    June 19, 2001

    Acting Up Again

    AIDS Activism Goes Global

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    November 21, 2000

    Features

    AIDS Activism Goes Global

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    September 12, 2000

    A Mad, Mad World

    The UN's Millennium Summit Brings a Globe's Worth of Protest to New York's Streets

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    August 15, 2000

    The ‘Miracle’ of Joe Lieberman

    Not All Jews Feel ‘Validated’ by Gore and God

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    July 18, 2000

    Turning Point

    The International AIDS Conference Makes a Commitment to Saving Third-World Lives

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    May 30, 2000

    Sports

    The International AIDS Conference Makes a Commitment to Saving Third-World Lives

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    April 4, 2000

    Giving It Away

    An American Pharmaceutical Giant Offers to Donate an AIDS Drug to South Africa

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    March 21, 2000

    The War For Drugs

    South Africa Organizes Against the High Price of AIDS Medicines

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    December 28, 1999

    Part 8: Use What You Have

    Treating AIDS Without Money

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    November 9, 1999

    Letters

    Treating AIDS Without Money

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    October 26, 1999

    Longer Harder Faster

    From Sex Parties to Raves, for Both Men and Women, It's Not Bob Dole's Viagra Anymore

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    October 19, 1999

    The crying game

    From Sex Parties to Raves, for Both Men and Women, It's Not Bob Dole's Viagra Anymore

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    July 7, 1998

    Lab Rats

    A new book revisits shocking experiments on Pennsylvania prisoners

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    May 12, 1998

    Pop Up Pill

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