Pulitzer Prizes

I Swear, I WILL Become Kid Rock's Personal Bartender

There are those rare moments -- once in a hundred lifetimes, perhaps -- when one man's destiny is laid bare before him, as if God's secret designs had been suddenly revealed. One wouldn't expect to find such an epiphany in the press release discard pile, but yesterday I stumbled upon my life's true ... More >>

Tom Hanks In Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy: My Review

There's a lot of narration in Nora Ephron's last work, Lucky Guy, but that quickly becomes the point. A swirling drama set in various tabloid newsrooms starting in the 1980s, when scandal, corruption, and suicides ruled the headlines, this is first and foremost a play about the art of storytelling. ... More >>

Picnic Gets Another Broadway Revival

Out of the '50s basket

New Girl in Town: Happy Interlude

Eugene O'Neill gets a shot of musical good cheer

The Lurid Pleasure of Killer Joe

Finger-lickin' wrong

4Knots Music Festival: Set Times, Afterparty Details Announced

The Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival takes place this Saturday at Piers 16 and 17 of the South Street Seaport, and if you want to plan your day out we have the set times for the day, which will include performances by Archers Of Loaf, The Drums, Crocodiles, Hospitality, Bleached, Nick Waterhous ... More >>

Jonathan Toubin To Host 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty; Delicate Steve Added To Festival Lineup

The Voice's 4Knots Music Festival is a little more than a month away—it takes place Saturday, July 14, at the South Street Seaport's Piers 16 and 17—and New York's foremost purveyor of soul sides, Jonathan Toubin, will host the afterparty, scheduled to go live right after the main show e ... More >>

Archers Of Loaf, Team Spirit, Doldrums, And Devin Added To 4Knots Music Festival Lineup

The 4Knots Music Festival—taking place on July 14 at the South Street Seaport, and already featuring The Drums, Hospitality, Bleached, Crocodiles, and Nick Waterhouse—has added Team Spirit, Doldrums, and Devin to the bill, as well as the mighty Archers Of Loaf. Check out Dan Weiss's hist ... More >>

Tupac Shakur, the Los Angeles Times, and Why I'm Still Unemployed: A Personal History by Chuck Philips

Last week, a trial in Brooklyn started off with a strange twist. At the federal criminal trial of James Rosemond -- a/k/a Jimmy Henchman -- one of the first things Rosemond's attorney did was kick an unemployed journalist named Chuck Philips out of the courtroom by naming him a witness in the case. ... More >>

Clybourne Park Director On How She Dealt With The Horror

This week's column catches up with all the big Broadway shows of the season via my interviews with a slew of deeply honored Tony nominees. One of them, Pam MacKinnon, deserves a separate writeup. Pam did the socko direction for the Pulitzer wining Clybourne Park, which takes off from the racial pr ... More >>

Mark Your Calendars: The 2012 4Knots Music Festival Is Slated For July 14

The 4Knots Music Festival—the Village Voice's contribution to the many free shows happening around the five boroughs during the summer months—will take place at Pier 17 on the South Street Seaport this July 14, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Participating acts and further details on associated ev ... More >>

NY Post Op-Ed: NYPD Wrongly Profiled, Not Muslims

The New York Police Department, not Muslims, is the victim of profiling. At least that's what one op-ed writer at the New York Post wants you to think. Dr. Qanta Ahmed, a physician in New York and author of In the Land of Invisible Women took to the tabloid's opinion pages today to explain that ... More >>

Grace Lee Boggs, Nonagenarian Activist, Speaking At The New School Tonight

Grace Lee Boggs, the 96-year-old political activist from Detroit, will be speaking at the New School tonight. The Voice had the chance to interview Boggs on Friday and will be posting our interview next week. Though confined to a wheelchair, the nonagenarian activist keeps up a busy work and travel ... More >>

Jules Feiffer, Former Voice Cartoonist, Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Jules Feiffer, the cartooning legend who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his work at the Voice (and many other kudos over the years!), will receive another prestigious accolade in April: the 2012 John Fischetti Lifetime Achievement Award, given by Columbia College Chicago. Feiffer is also an Obie- ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Leaving L.A. Weekly for L.A. Times

Jonathan Gold spoke before a rapt audience last May at NYC's Housing Works in support of his wife Laurie Ochoa's literary journal, Slake. Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic and prose stylist Jonathan Gold is apparently leaving our sister paper LA Weekly. The rumors began last Friday, when Go ... More >>

WORDS LIVE ON

Poets honor a Spanish Harlem hero

Scientology Wants It Both Ways: The Church's Opposite Legal Strategies In Florida and Texas

Back in November, the St. Petersburg Times uncorked its best expose of the Church of Scientology yet -- "The Money Machine," a look at Scientology's incredible appetite for fundraising among its members. Just three months later, two court cases are putting an exclamation point on that investigative ... More >>

Cynthia Nixon In Wit: My Review

Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning 1995 play Wit finally makes it to Broadway in a Lynne Meadow-directed production starring Cynthia Nixon as a poetry professor named Vivian Bearing who's bearing a lot, actually. Vivian has been diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer, and as she embarks on eight ro ... More >>

Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers

Tom PalumboJack Kerouac, on the road somewhere ...​ For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: December 21-27, 2011

Larry King: "I Don't Miss The Kardashians"

​TV interviewing legend Larry King gets a Friars tribute Monday night at the Sheraton. In anticipation of that glittery gala, I turned the tables and gave Larry a grilling. Here's part two of our chat. Me: Hey, Larry. You're doing TV specials these days. What else?

Completeness Maneuvers Student Affairs

Itamar Moses's new play updates some familiar relationship neuroses

Taylor Branch Says NCAA and Colleges Using Athletes to Make Billions; Argues Jocks Should Be Paid

​Writing for the Atlantic Monthly, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Taylor Branch offers a powerful indictment of the hypocrisy built into college sports, where universities make billions off of athletes who are essentially working full-time jobs for free.

Fall Arts: Lydia Millet Turns the IRS Literary

I love the tax man

Out-of-Work Journalists: Want to do Scientology's Dirty Work?

​We know things in the newspaper and magazine rackets are really grim right now. Every time we put up a job opening, we get hundreds of applications from folks looking for work. (Hey, and we're about to put up another one, for copy chief, so all of you copy editors out there, get your resumes ... More >>

MOVING INK

Get out the black spandex

Hello Hello Ai Weiwei

Will the Chinese star's detention force the art world to better confront human rights?

Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Outs Himself as an Illegal Immigrant

Vargas​In Sunday's edition of the New York Times Magazine, online today, a former Washington Post reporter and senior contributing editor for The Huffington Post, Jose Antonio Vargas, tells the story of his own life as an undocumented immigrant. Sent by his mother to the United States from the ... More >>

Michael Bloomberg Sued by Reporter Over Cathie Black Freedom of Information Requests

​Today, I am suing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Last year, Bloomberg baffled New Yorkers when he appointed publishing executive Cathie Black to be the city's next schools chancellor. Black was an unpopular choice, and for months, responses to her appointment ran the gamut of ridicul ... More >>

Summer Guide: Lisa D'Amour's Motor City Bayou

First new trees, then off to Detroit for the wide-ranging playwright. Plus, summer theater picks.

Murray Chass Reveals His Struggles at the New York Times

MurrayChass.com​Murray Chass took the opportunity of Jorge Posada's recent troubles with the Yankees to discuss his own problems with the New York Times. It's a rare peak inside a newspaper that has kept its internal troubles largely out of the public eye while it, like all other newspapers, s ... More >>

Q&A: Maria Schneider On Boys' Clubs, Brazilian Influences, And Being A "COM-PO-SER"

Dani Gurgel​ Maria Schneider laughs at your genre distinctions; like Duke Ellington, she aims for a stylistic plateau "beyond category." For decades, that has meant music that can be both soaringly lyrical--no apologies, academics--even as it finds root in some deeply original orchestration. ... More >>

Tony Kushner Will Get CUNY Honorary Degree After All

​Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning playwright of Angels in America, will be receiving a honorary degree from the City University of New York next month after all, at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice's graduation ceremony on June 3rd. Kushner was under the impression th ... More >>

PRINT LIVES ON

West Coast lit mag gets a taste of the East

Live: Steve Reich Brings "WTC 9/11" To Carnegie Hall

© Stefan Cohen​ Music of Steve Reich Bang on a Can All-Stars and Friends (feat. Bryce Dessner), eighth blackbird, Kronos Quartet, So Percussion Carnegie Hall Saturday, April 30 Better than: The ritual, anniversary replay of news broadcasts from the morning of 9/11. There is no other way to ... More >>

The Comics Issue: If Cartoons Are So Big, Why Don't They Pay?

Drawn and nickled and dimed

Lanford Wilson (1937-2011)

Remembering the American theater's poet of embattled dreamers

JAZZ GURU

A genre leader heads a new ensemble

Fuck You, Anonymous! I've Had It With Mouthy Web Cowards

A one-finger salute to you knee-jerk douchebag Web whiners

Good People Heads Back to Southie

Frances McDormand stars in David Lindsay-Abaire's new drama

Rightbloggers Compare Large National Protests (Union) Unfavorably with Large National Protests (Koch Brothers)

Last weekend rallies were held in all 50 states in support of the teachers' union in Wisconsin. And at the Wisconsin state capitol, at least 70,000 people came out on Saturday to protest Governor Walker's attempt to break the union. Sounds like a big deal, right? Hundreds of thousands of people tur ... More >>

Troy Donahue Explains Charlie Manson's Appeal: "His Cock."

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 29, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 30 Troy Donahue was always just like he is By Ron Rosenbaum Why interview Troy Donahue anyway? "Believe me, you won't believe Toy when you see him," the press agent tells me. "He's a bearded hippie! And be ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

BOOKSHAKALAKA: The National Book Awards Jam Throws Down for 2010

The 2010 National Book Awards at the Cipriani Wall Street ballroom. All the people who were at these tables are still hungover.​An unlikely ballroom of people in the troubled business of literature -- publishers, editors, writers, reporters, and respective sycophants -- gather yearly to ostens ... More >>

David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'

An election-season essay

A Journey Through the Tangled Case of the Central Park Jogger

When Justice Is a Game