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April 13, 2012
Grindr Awards For Gayest Cities, Beaches, And Marital Destinations
People on the gay sex app Grindr rally know their stuff (even if they never quite learned the proper spelling of Grinder). So the app polled them about the gayest places in the world, and they voted with one hand while doing God knows what with the other. Here are the illustrious winners: Gayest ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2011
Occupy Denver Encampment Broken Up; Flight 587 Memorial; Pacquiao Beats Marquez
Police in Colorado broke up the Occupy Denver encampment, making 17 arrests in the process. The Denver Post reports "Police told the protesters they needed to remove anything that was blocking the sidewalk," and that, according to a spokesperson, "People are still allowed to sleep on the side ... More >>
Film
November 9, 2011
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Police in Colorado broke up the Occupy Denver encampment, making 17 arrests in the process. The Denver Post reports "Police told the protesters they needed to remove anything that was blocking the sidewalk," and that, according to a spokesperson, "People are still allowed to sleep on the side ... More >>
Film
October 26, 2011
Urbanized
Police in Colorado broke up the Occupy Denver encampment, making 17 arrests in the process. The Denver Post reports "Police told the protesters they needed to remove anything that was blocking the sidewalk," and that, according to a spokesperson, "People are still allowed to sleep on the side ... More >>
Books
September 7, 2011
The Voice Recommends: Seven Days in Rio
Francis Levy's comic novel goes whoring in Brazil
Voice Choices
August 24, 2011
LIFE IS A CARNIVAL
Someone have a feather headpiece we can borrow?
Blogs
April 29, 2011
'I Was a Dealer's Old Lady'
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 3, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 18 A dealer's old lady by Elaine Louie I was a dealer's old lady, as were many of my friends. We were part of the radical chic. We weren't gunmolls. On the contrary, we were middle-class women gone vaguely ... More >>
Film
April 13, 2011
Emasculated Bird Can't Get It Up in Animated Yawner Rio
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 3, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 18 A dealer's old lady by Elaine Louie I was a dealer's old lady, as were many of my friends. We were part of the radical chic. We weren't gunmolls. On the contrary, we were middle-class women gone vaguely ... More >>
Film
March 2, 2011
David Perlov's Diary, 1973-1983 Makes Its Belated NYC Premiere at MOMI
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 3, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 18 A dealer's old lady by Elaine Louie I was a dealer's old lady, as were many of my friends. We were part of the radical chic. We weren't gunmolls. On the contrary, we were middle-class women gone vaguely ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2010
Biggest Jesus in World Now Ready to Take Your Money
via CNNThe world's tallest Jesus statue has been completed! He resides in Swiebodzin, Poland. At 170 feet tall, with a huge but handsome noggin that had to be attached by a 700-ton crane, he beats out other, "more delicate" (read: wussy) Jesuses, like the 133-foot Cristo de la Concordia in Bo ... More >>
Film
October 27, 2010
Where Art and Life Intersect, Waste Land
via CNNThe world's tallest Jesus statue has been completed! He resides in Swiebodzin, Poland. At 170 feet tall, with a huge but handsome noggin that had to be attached by a 700-ton crane, he beats out other, "more delicate" (read: wussy) Jesuses, like the 133-foot Cristo de la Concordia in Bo ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 27, 2010
Luisa Maita
via CNNThe world's tallest Jesus statue has been completed! He resides in Swiebodzin, Poland. At 170 feet tall, with a huge but handsome noggin that had to be attached by a 700-ton crane, he beats out other, "more delicate" (read: wussy) Jesuses, like the 133-foot Cristo de la Concordia in Bo ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2010
When Does Cinematic Homage Become a Criminal Act of Thievery?
A new French spy spoof named OSS: Lost in Rio climaxes with a scene on top of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, an obvious homage to Hitchcock, as I was so proud to have brilliantly noticed, applause applause. But when I asked the film's director/co-writer Michel Hazanavicius ... More >>
Film
May 4, 2010
OSS 117: Lost in Rio, A Spy Film Parody
Impeccably cheesy, but the film develops an energy all its own
Blogs
December 4, 2009
Giuliani Will Advise City of Rio on Dealing With Squeegee Men, Murder
While he's deciding whether to run for anything and if so what -- word is, "no" and "the Senate" -- former Mayor Giuliani's taken a gig as a safety consultant to the city of Rio, which recently won the 2016 Olympics gig. It's a big challenge, as Rio is far more dangerous than New York was w ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2009
Clip Job: The Second Annual Village Voice Film Poll (Bonus: The First Poll, Too!)
Julie Christie in 'Darling'Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 17 Films By Andrew Sarris The Second Annual Village Voice Readers' 10-best poll, held this year in conjunction with my Films in Focus program on WBAI, received entries from a ... More >>
Dance
October 20, 2009
"Insects and Acrobats Are the Same to Me," An Interview With Choreographer Deborah Colker
Julie Christie in 'Darling'Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 10, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 17 Films By Andrew Sarris The Second Annual Village Voice Readers' 10-best poll, held this year in conjunction with my Films in Focus program on WBAI, received entries from a ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2009
Chicago Loses Olympics Bid; May Still Get Boondoggles, Graft (Update: Rio Gets The Gig)
Chicago has dodged a bullet, being eliminated in the first round from 2016 Olympics consideration. (Tokyo is also out; Madrid and Rio de Janeiro remain in the running.) The Times says not to worry -- sometimes a loss is almost as good as a win. How so? Jay Kriegel, director of the New York's ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2009
Live: On A Boat For Fogo Nas Aguas, Which Translates To "Scantily Clad Samba Dancers"
DJ Comrade, and his cadre of dancers. Pix by Puja Patel, more belowLast night was the summer's (make that "summer's") last Fogo Nas Aguas (Fire on the Water) Brazilian dance party. Founded by Brazilian-born resident-DJ Fabio Soul, the weekly event started out as a favela-focused fete ... More >>
Art
May 27, 2009
Beate Gütschow at Sonnabend Gallery; 'Chance Encounters' at Ludlow 38; MOMA's 'Polish Posters, 1945-89'
DJ Comrade, and his cadre of dancers. Pix by Puja Patel, more belowLast night was the summer's (make that "summer's") last Fogo Nas Aguas (Fire on the Water) Brazilian dance party. Founded by Brazilian-born resident-DJ Fabio Soul, the weekly event started out as a favela-focused fete ... More >>
Film
March 25, 2009
ND/NF: Sophie Barthes Has a Chickpea For Your Soul
DJ Comrade, and his cadre of dancers. Pix by Puja Patel, more belowLast night was the summer's (make that "summer's") last Fogo Nas Aguas (Fire on the Water) Brazilian dance party. Founded by Brazilian-born resident-DJ Fabio Soul, the weekly event started out as a favela-focused fete ... More >>
Music
June 10, 2008
Sergio Mendes's Encanto
South American giant mixes it up with a Black Eyed Pea or two
Film
June 3, 2008
The Political Is Personal at the Human Rights Watch Fest
Putting a human face on global atrocity
Music
January 1, 2008
Live Earth
On the mysterious, mesmerizing, and politically defiant globe-trotting record label Sublime Frequencies
Columns
May 8, 2007
Horoscope
On the mysterious, mesmerizing, and politically defiant globe-trotting record label Sublime Frequencies
News
February 20, 2007
Letters
On the mysterious, mesmerizing, and politically defiant globe-trotting record label Sublime Frequencies
Dance
February 13, 2007
Heat Up the Frost
Choreographing the march of time as a slow freeze
Film
October 10, 2006
'Justice'
Choreographing the march of time as a slow freeze
Film
November 22, 2005
Film
Choreographing the march of time as a slow freeze
NYC Life
August 16, 2005
The Squid Are Coming
Related is trying to get a zoning variance so they can build even bigger
Music
June 14, 2005
Two New Compilations Document a São Paulo Scene You Never Knew Existed
Related is trying to get a zoning variance so they can build even bigger
Film
May 31, 2005
Latin Quarter
South American HRW docs confront the ethics of filmmaking
NYC Life
January 11, 2005
Italo Don
DJ Dan Selzer of NYHappenings reveals his dark secrets
Music
December 14, 2004
Booty Call
DJ whoops butt disco from hills of Brazil, mashes up rising star who dances like a spaz
Books
August 24, 2004
Blame It on Rio
Humanitarian Rufin tries to put the story back in history
Music
August 10, 2004
His Favorite Things
Reconstituting the legacy of a major Brazilian composer
Film
June 15, 2004
Aspiring Actors and Accidental Stars in New Brazilian Films
Reconstituting the legacy of a major Brazilian composer
Music
January 20, 2004
La Villa Strangiato
Ayn Rand's favorite Canuck power-prog trio colonizes Brazil
Film
October 14, 2003
Streets of Fire
In Bus 174, José Padilha pieces together a hijacker's hell
Film
October 7, 2003
A Brazilian Street Kid Holds a Bus (and a Country) Hostage
In Bus 174, José Padilha pieces together a hijacker's hell
NYC Life
July 22, 2003
Listings
In Bus 174, José Padilha pieces together a hijacker's hell
Film
July 8, 2003
The Outside Chance
Lust for Life
Film
July 1, 2003
Rio Men Have Curves
Brazil's Working-Class Heroes
Film
October 29, 2002
Carnival of Roles
Brazil's Working-Class Heroes
Art
February 12, 2002
Downward Spiral
The Guggenheim Museum Touches Bottom
NYC Life
August 22, 2000
Loft in Former Brewery
The Guggenheim Museum Touches Bottom
Specials
June 13, 2000
Letters
The Guggenheim Museum Touches Bottom
Film
July 6, 1999
Living on the Edge
The Guggenheim Museum Touches Bottom
Dining
January 26, 1999
Buena Ideya
The Guggenheim Museum Touches Bottom
Dining
November 10, 1998
Beany Babies
The Guggenheim Museum Touches Bottom
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