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Pride Issue: Genderqueers Face the Real World

Will Generation LGBTQIA redefine the workplace?

Free Will Astrology: March 7-13, 2012

Sex Mad: Why the Rightblogger Obsession With Ladyparts Never Ends

With all the recent women's health controversies -- Komen/Planned Parenthood, contraception in Catholic hospitals, and Virginia's plan to wand women who want abortions -- and their potential to steer women's votes away from Republicans, you'd think conservatives would prefer to get back to talking a ... More >>

Our 10 Best Beer Bars

​ The craft beer movement, once the province of homebrewers and so-called "beer nerds," has become so mainstream that you'd be hard-pressed to find a bar in New York City that doesn't have at least Brooklyn Lager on tap. But where do you go when you want to find the absolute best brews in the ... More >>

Chance Music Radicals, Experimental Feminists, Proto-Drone Pioneers And More: New World Records Invades The Stone

Eve Belgarian performs at The Stone tonight. ​While reading composer Martin Bresnick's long-but-fascinating personal essay last week, I came across the name of an artist whom I'd never heard of previously. Looking up that obscure name (Eric Stokes) on Amazon and ArchivMusic yielded a couple of ... More >>

Jack Newfield Plumbs the Depths of Reform at the '72 Democratic National Convention

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 20, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 29 Of reform hacks and guideline junkies By Jack Newfield MIAMI BEACH -- Those who say patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels have not fully explored the possibilities of reform. I have reached this ... More >>

Jared Loughner: A Character Sketch Emerges

​Just two days after Jared Lee Loughner fired at least 31 shots in front of an Arizona grocery store, killing six, including federal judge John Roll, while attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a frightening, if scattered portrait has already formed via the media of a disturbed yo ... More >>

Embezzling St. John's University Dean Busted for Using Students as "Slaves"

​Ouch, bad year. Cecelia Chang, the 57-year-old former dean of St. John's University who was charged with embezzling $1 million from the school to use on casino trips, Victoria's Secret lingerie, and her son's education, was busted by the FBI today for bribing students with scholarships and th ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: June 16 through 22, 2010

Allen Ginsberg Explains Timothy Leary

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 12, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 9 Remarks on Leary's Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg By the late '40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dow ... More >>

Fug You -- Hanging with Ed Sanders

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 27, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 15 Rolling Stoned with Joyous 'Pornographer' By Stephanie Harrington Ed Sanders: "Fuck You" editor - publisher - printer - conceiver. Fugs founder. Pharoah fancier fantastic. Classicist, cigar store cle ... More >>

Robert Bergman's New Kind of Rapture

P.S. 1 hosts a coming-out party for a 65-year-old photographer

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 >>

Conrad Shawcross Sails the Gowanus!

Brave brit will not be deterred by PCBs or anti-terror squad

The Summer of Our '80s Youth in Adventureland

Elyse Singer and Neil LaBute Take On Prettiness

Two new American plays argue against the 'virtues' of female beauty

The Mother of Tears: Dario Argento Clowns Himself

The Italian master caps off his horror trilogy with horrific parody

Dreamy Moussaka at Bay Ridge Greek Taverna

But beware of sand sharks

Stable Boys

A horse is a horse of course, of course—but what is a man who has sex with one?

Left to Their Own Devices

In dubious battle: The military's love affair with technology, from video game to secret weapons

Don't Let E3 Distract You!

Better Than Angelina Jolie!

Just Released: Something More Addicting Than MySpace!

Donald Rumsfeld: You Can Help Iraq—Play This Game!

Liars Clubbed

Brooklyn's No Things survive the ax to outskronk their makers

Yale's Fab Four

Deep in the Heart of Texts

Life In A Glass House

Mirror moves: The Sims walk the walk, talk the talk—and play video games, just like us

Of Spirit

The late, great Derrida's last lectures had a mysterious double in the crowd

Whole Hogg

Three books—old, new, and revised—offer entry into the universe of Samuel R. Delany

Acting Up

The revolution will be dramatized

Aeschylus or Swahili?

The changing notions of what students need to know

No Such Thing as Paranoia

On the culture of conspiracism

Remembering To Think

Arendt's silent dialogue: How to fight the banality of evil

Godard Knows

Stuck at the table of contents? Become a great director!

Listings

More Is More

Minority Retorts

Post-Cogging Spielberg's Action Allegory

Being Edwin Abbott

••• How a 19th-century Mathematical Fiction Gave Us Our Point of View

The Reflective Rudy

Mayor Savors His $3 Million Book of Dish: Celebrates Valentine's Day With Tina, Judi, and the Legion of Decency

The Lost Voice of Harry Kondoleon

Bloom-in’ Hypocrisy!

The Moralist’s Big Fibs

Letters

Theater

Longer Harder Faster

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

Fireworks

Otaku: My Favorite Monica

Obsessive Netizens Lionize Lewinsky

Invisible Cities

Breath Trip

Had enough safe sex? Try safe psychedelia.

Legitimate Business

High fashion replaces lowlifes on Mulberry Street

Millennial Rites

A Greek Director Updates the Eleusinian Mysteries