Quebec

NYPD Officers Suing Chopper Companies for Crash-Landing

On September 22, 2010, an NYPD helicopter crashed in Jamaica Bay. The six officers onboard had been patrolling the sky because President Obama was in town for a meeting at the United Nations. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS New York that the pilot "heard a loud bang and then lost altitude r ... More >>

16 Arrested In Student Debt Protest Last Night

Several hundred people marched through the West Village last night in what has become a weekly protest against growing student debt. The march was framed as a gesture of solidarity to the general strike currently roiling Quebec, and the marchers adopted several of the signatures of that strike, ban ... More >>

AUDIO: "Touch Me," Creepy Scientology Goon Repeatedly Tells Protester

"Touch me" the man says again and again. "Touch me." In what should go down as one of the most skin-crawling audio tapes in recent Scientology history, we hear a church operative repeatedly challenge protester David Love to provoke an incident so that Love can find himself in a world of legal hurt ... More >>

Ween: In Memoriam

"There are things in my life that no one can understand except Aaron," Mickey Melchiondo noted of his bandmate Aaron Freeman in 2007, when they—as Dean and Gene Ween—put out their last album, La Cucaracha. "We kind of have a parallel life. We went through everything together: junior high ... More >>

New York Holds Demonstration In Solidarity With Montreal's Student Strike

Yesterday marked the hundredth day of Quebec student's strike, the fourth day since the Quebec government passed an oppressive law intended to break the strike, and, as hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets in defiance of the law, possibly the single largest act of civil disobedience in ... More >>

Matzo Balls And Disco Balls: Pairing Great GoogaMooga's Food And Music Offerings

This weekend Prospect Park will host Great GoogaMooga, a festival that brings together some of New York's best restaurants and musicians from New York (disco technicians Escort; bouncy Brooklyn rockers Fort Lean) and outside the city (Saturday's headlined by the hip-hop polyglots The Roots, while Su ... More >>

David Edgar Love: "I Think I Have Scientology By The Balls"

When I talked to David Edgar Love by Skype at his Montreal apartment Wednesday evening, he sounded exhausted -- he'd had only an hour of sleep in the past two days. "I'm pretty tired. I was up until about 5 this morning, then I had mnql1 wake me up at 6 and had that radio interview," he says, cred ... More >>

My Dinner at Daniel

Wait! Where's the letter grade? From the outside, it looks like a hotel, with potted plants on either side of the door. But once inside the solemnity of the place overwhelms you, as you traipse past a bar on one side, small flock of cocktail tables on the other, then up to a reservations desk that ... More >>

Take Cover from the Space Storm! Two Solar Flares Hit Earth, NASA Says

Today's space-weather report tells of a different kind of sunny sky: Two flares, including the second biggest of the Sun's 11-year solar cycle, hit earth early this morning and could cause the biggest solar storm in five years, NASA says. Now, what the hell does this mean, exactly? Every so often, ... More >>

Live: Gene Ween Gets Somber And Silly At Brooklyn Bowl

​Gene Ween Brooklyn Bowl Saturday, December 3 Better than: An acoustic show directly under the J train. They don't come much more underrated than Aaron Freeman, who performed a solo show under his usual nom de plume, Gene Ween, amid the clatter of falling pins at Brooklyn Bowl on Saturda ... More >>

Did You Use a Chase ATM Near Union Square in January or May?

Not a Chase ATM, though we'd probably avoid this one.​Two men have been arrested and face charges "including burglary, criminal possession of forgery devices, and larceny," reports the New York Times, for installing devices in card slots of 11 ATMs at four different Chase locations around Unio ... More >>

M. Wells To Sell Tourtières for Thanksgiving

​Doesn't this look better than a dry turkey? Though M. Wells, the Long Island City diner, is now a memory, some of its traditions live on. One is the making of rustic Quebec seasonal pies come holiday time. These were at one time one of the more spectacular entrees on the M. Wells menu. Par ... More >>

Do Not Ask to Borrow Sugar: Danger Around Every Corner in Good Neighbors

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Today in El Diario: New Yorkers Shafted by Con Ed on "Green" Fund

​Green flight: Energy fund leaves city Con Edison clients in New York have been billed for $342 million since 2004 to subsidize renewable energy. But less than 1 percent of that money -- $ 8 million -- has been used for area green electricity projects, the Spanish-language daily reports. New ... More >>

Study Finds Foods Labeled 'Organic' Seem Tastier; Parents Parade Their Foodie Tots

​A recent study suggests that consumers thinks foods labeled 'organic' are tastier, higher in fiber, and lower in fat and calories. [LA Times] Wendy's is hoping its natural sea salt fries will take a bite out of McDonald's market share. It reported that in a blind taste test, 56 percent respo ... More >>

Lesser Version

Mordecai Richler gets a downgrade

Hugue Dufour Wants You to Eat His Tourtière

​Dessert enthusiasts may insist that 2010 was the year of the pie, but M. Wells' Hugue Dufour would like you to know that the meat pie is eternal. Called the tourtière and a fixture of menus throughout Québec during the winter months, it's currently being served at Dufour's Long ... More >>

French-Accented Cocktail Bar, 1534, Debuts in Nolita Tonight

Jacques, looking thirsty.​For those who don't know the significance of the year 1534, it marks the date French explorer Jacques Cartier set out to discover a Western passage to Asia and instead landed in Canada -- specifically, in what is now known as the province Quebec. A new cocktail bar, l ... More >>

Tourtières & Nuns' Farts at M. Wells Ce Soir

What is that heavenly scent?​Here in America, November is all about Thanksgiving. We spend the whole month talking about that big turkey dinner we're going to have at the end of it. But in Quebec, Thanksgiving is already over and done with. November instead marks the beginning of tourtière se ... More >>

M. Wells Will Open for Dinner Tonight to Serve a Mushroom Menu

CHOW.comThe lovely lobster mushroom.​Although there's still no sign that M. Wells will be opening for dinner anytime soon, the restaurant will be extending its hours tonight in order to serve its customers a menu featuring mushrooms harvested from the Gaspé peninusla, Québec, and ... More >>

Pumpkin Ale Taste-Off

​"It's like every brewer has to make a pumpkin ale now," said the bearded fellow at Whole Foods' beer shop. "But if you don't like any of these," he continued, gesturing to my shopping bag, "I think you should probably just give up on pumpkin ales." Pumpkin ales start popping up everywhere i ... More >>

M. Wells, a Diner in Long Island City, Queens: Report from the New Culinary Frontier

​A tasty Quebecois mutation of eggs benedict featuring fresh peas and salt cod. There's really nothing visually arresting about the down-at-the-heals diner at the corner of 21st and 49th Avenue in Long Island City, which sits at the head of the Sunnyside Yards -- formerly the world's largest ... More >>

Four New Tracks You Haven't Heard from Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

​The four tracks that already leaked from The Most Anticipated Album Drop of the Third-Quarter of 2010 -- the Arcade Fire's The Suburbs -- have been met with mostly unmitigated, exuberant joy (also matched by the city at-large, who got an extra MSG date added recently). There's the waning folk ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The 2010 Summer Guide

​As you emerge from the schvitzy oven that is New York's subway system today, indulge in that new heat and sunshine with the help of the Voice's special pull-out 2010 Summer Guide. Keep yourself busy above ground during the three-month sweat-stained shitshow that is a summer in New York City, ... More >>

Health alert issued for mumps outbreak in Brooklyn

​The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued an alert (pdf) to healthcare providers in response to a record mumps outbreak in New York and New Jersey. The CDC traced the path of infection back to an asymptomatic 11-year-old boy who carried it from an epidemic in England to an ... More >>

Blame French Canada: New York's Maple Syrup Rival

frostnova/flickrSyrup: a sweet boon for the state?​ First, it taunted us with its poutine and smoked meat sandwiches. Now, Quebec has become the target of Senator Charles Schumer's new maple syrup scheme. According to a Times opinion piece, he hopes to have New York eclipse French Canada as th ... More >>

Lipsynch—Robert Lepage’s 8½-Hour Flight—Touches Down at BAM

¡Ask a Mexican! Canada Goosed

Questions from the Great White North

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B in Spanish?

Spotted in Valparaiso, Chile: chorrillana at local favorite greasy spoon J Cruz. This mess of fries, chunks of steak, onions and melting cheese is like Quebec poutine's fatter, sexier and sluttier cousin. Not for the prudish nor the faint of heart.

Black Names+Hollerado

POP Montreal Interview: Poster Boy Jack Dylan

Up the Yangtze's Beautifully Observed Struggle

A Chinese flood zone documented

Tabloided: The News Says 'Burn in Hell'

Pouting for Poutine at The Inn LW12

Does Canada really have its own cuisine?

'Disappearances'

The story of Wild Bill, who isn’t wild, and Quebec Bill, who isn’t from Quebec

Fashionistas and Soul Men Highlight Diverse Festival

Letters

Three More Political Docs Prepare New York City for the RNC

Vive la Danse

From Paris in the spring to a Delancey Street parking lot, the French make their move

North to the Avant-Garde

The Festival de Théâtre des Amériques in Montreal

Headin’ South

Dance Track

From Brooklyn to Australia, Choreographers Are on the Move

First Tear Gas, Now Bullets

Activists Weigh the Cost of Confrontation

Tearing Down the Wall

Two Views of Democracy Battle in Quebec City

Hemisphere A-Go-Go

Toking on Free Trade, Rich Americans Party On

Our Year in Sports

SINCE CANADA CAME ALONG

Trip Teases