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Summer Books Guide: Padgett Powell's You & Me: A Novel

Live: The MATA Festival Brings Brooklyn's Drones And Whirs To Roulette

2012 MATA Festival Roulette Friday, April 20 Better than: Figuring out how to play the Koyaanisqatsi German Blu-ray on an American TV. Between Charles de Gaulle interpreted by a coloratura soprano, a Deliverance-style duel pitting a player piano against a live pianist, and a 13-piece chamber suite ... More >>

LMFAO I Can Move Shit with My Mind: Teens with Superpowers in Chronicle

2012 MATA Festival Roulette Friday, April 20 Better than: Figuring out how to play the Koyaanisqatsi German Blu-ray on an American TV. Between Charles de Gaulle interpreted by a coloratura soprano, a Deliverance-style duel pitting a player piano against a live pianist, and a 13-piece chamber suite ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 4-10, 2012

2012 MATA Festival Roulette Friday, April 20 Better than: Figuring out how to play the Koyaanisqatsi German Blu-ray on an American TV. Between Charles de Gaulle interpreted by a coloratura soprano, a Deliverance-style duel pitting a player piano against a live pianist, and a 13-piece chamber suite ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: December 21-27, 2011

2012 MATA Festival Roulette Friday, April 20 Better than: Figuring out how to play the Koyaanisqatsi German Blu-ray on an American TV. Between Charles de Gaulle interpreted by a coloratura soprano, a Deliverance-style duel pitting a player piano against a live pianist, and a 13-piece chamber suite ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: May 11-May 17, 2011

2012 MATA Festival Roulette Friday, April 20 Better than: Figuring out how to play the Koyaanisqatsi German Blu-ray on an American TV. Between Charles de Gaulle interpreted by a coloratura soprano, a Deliverance-style duel pitting a player piano against a live pianist, and a 13-piece chamber suite ... More >>

10 Great Food Moments in Literature (Plus Dining Guide!)

Sarah DiGregorioTrade plot twists for the pretzel kind.​ Somewhere on a dusty chunk of earth bordered by two rivers, a king's BFF got shit-faced on beer, then started yelling at the hooker who was trying to ply him with alcohol. You might think this titillating bit marks the beginning of a Mid ... More >>

Scumbag Steve Meme Man Is Actually A Sweetheart

​Plato once asked, "Is it a meme because you declare it or do you declare it because it is a meme?" (Actually, maybe that was the Philosoraptor?) Well, Scumbag Steve, the brown-capped, thuggish meme originating from Reddit gave his first public interview about going viral to Know Your Meme (of ... More >>

"Try Lots of Things in College" and Other Words of Wisdom

Sunday's New York Times opinion section features short letters from adults to college students, in which the authors pretend they're the sages behind "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)." It's teased as "Advice for freshmen from the people who actually grade their papers and lead their class disc ... More >>

'Summer Group Show' at David Nolan; Anne Ryan at the Met

Plus 'Julian Dashper (1960-2009): It Is Life' at Minus Space

Music Critics and Winnie the Pooh

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 18, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 40 Autohype by Richard Goldstein Autohype. I first heard that word from Robert Christgau (writer, critic, and as harmless as Winnie the Pooh). We were sitting within shouting distance of each other at Mont ... More >>

Dominic McGill's 'FuturePerfect'; Joachim Koester at Greene Naftali; Nicolas Touron's 'The Kingdom'

Plus Cheryl McGinnis Gallery's 'Reconstructing Paper'

Leaves of Grass Goes Up in Smoke

Plus Cheryl McGinnis Gallery's 'Reconstructing Paper'

Message From Mark Morris: Look, but Don’t Forget to Listen

Plus Cheryl McGinnis Gallery's 'Reconstructing Paper'

Local Girl Burns Cat to Death in Oven

We thought about skipping this, but since we already softened you up with a torture story we guess you can stand to hear that a 17-year-old in The Bronx burned a kitten to death in an oven, and the Daily News got the kitten's picture (right) from Facebook. Her name is Tiger Lily -- the kitten's, not ... More >>

Quick Hits

Medical headline of the day: "Diet is Important Indicator of Health." Gorbachev and the Rockin' Russians versus Zombie Stalins. Or maybe you'd prefer to hear a solo on a drum kit made out of ice. The 15 Stupidest Puns from the New York Post's Front Page. New York magazine is creeped out that ... More >>

What Was Plato's Retreat Really Like?

In this week's column, I talk about American Swing, a new documentary about the legendary '70s sex club Plato's Retreat. Well, I've now seen the movie twice and here's the really shocking thing--it turns out the club was straight! Yes, you must believe me, it was a haven for rampant hetero sex! Br ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

The American military presence in Afghanistan costs about $16 billion a month. What are we getting for the money? "Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation" by P.J. Tobia. When Alan Hevesi was the city's, then the state's comptroller, Jack Chartier and Hank Morris were his "two loyal gatekeepe ... More >>

Behind the Scenes of that Hetero Sex Club!

Plus the Hookies, contrary Mary, and Jerry's real kids.

LIVE FLESH

The original Wife Swap

Cabaret Society in Désir

See a fake Josephine Baker and a real cat

Free Will Astrology: August 20 through 26

See a fake Josephine Baker and a real cat

Asian American International Film Festival

Christine Choy's Long Story Short, John Wootak Kwon's Always Be Boyz, and more

Retro Man

Christine Choy's Long Story Short, John Wootak Kwon's Always Be Boyz, and more

Retro Man

Christine Choy's Long Story Short, John Wootak Kwon's Always Be Boyz, and more

Mything Persons

Target Margin makes ancient Greek texts lively; Sarah Ruhl gives Eurydice the death blow

Take 'Em to Church

Target Margin makes ancient Greek texts lively; Sarah Ruhl gives Eurydice the death blow

Horoscope

Target Margin makes ancient Greek texts lively; Sarah Ruhl gives Eurydice the death blow

Unfucking the Donkey

Advice for weary, wandering Democrats

NY Mirror

Advice for weary, wandering Democrats

The Literary Olympics

At the 440 B.C. Olympic Games, a hot young author made the scene—Herodotus!

Horoscope

At the 440 B.C. Olympic Games, a hot young author made the scene—Herodotus!

Horoscope

At the 440 B.C. Olympic Games, a hot young author made the scene—Herodotus!

Forever Bummer

Paul West's Novel Blends 9-11, Philosophy, and Nigella

Imaginary Lives

Paul West's Novel Blends 9-11, Philosophy, and Nigella

Does Bland Equal Bad?

Testing the Limits in Little Manila

Horoscope

Testing the Limits in Little Manila

Lost at Sea

Testing the Limits in Little Manila

It's All Greek to Mee

Testing the Limits in Little Manila

Letters

Testing the Limits in Little Manila

Satchmo, The Philosopher

Testing the Limits in Little Manila

A Universal Alphabet

• • • Or, When Was It Decided That Chris Baty Considered His Letter?

Stop Making Sense

• • • How Automatic Writing Can Free Your Mind and Change the World

Listings

• • • How Automatic Writing Can Free Your Mind and Change the World

Dream On

• • • How Automatic Writing Can Free Your Mind and Change the World

Schooled for Scandal

• • • How Automatic Writing Can Free Your Mind and Change the World

From Here to Infinity

• • • How Automatic Writing Can Free Your Mind and Change the World

Triumph of the Ill

Trash Talking With Mad Scientist Paul Verhoeven

Breaking the Waves

Trash Talking With Mad Scientist Paul Verhoeven

Rumbling in the Bronx

Spike Lee spins a raucous '70s morality tale