Blogs
May 1, 2013Julia Solis
Spectacle Theater
Thursday, 8pm, $5
There aren't any actual deaths in the ghost story Solis tells, but it's still mighty chilling. In her new photography collection Stages of Decay (Prestel), she chronicles the fallen grandeur of abandoned theaters across America and Europe, affectionate ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013Tomorrow night--February 20 at 7 PM--I'll join a stellar table full of pundits at the Strand, to discuss this year's Oscar race and what it signifies.
Also aboard are Peter Travers from Rolling Stone, Dana Andrews from Slate, and Andrew O'Hehir from Salon.
Voice Choices
January 2, 2013Voice Choices
August 29, 2012Alanis Morissette gets deep with Anthony DeCurtis
Voice Choices
August 22, 2012Voice Choices
August 8, 2012Low Cut Connie and Wussy play mercury lounge
Blogs
June 18, 2012Kitty Pryde
Knitting Factory
Friday, June 15
Better than: Karmin.
What do you want to know about Kitty Pryde's New York debut that you haven't already read? The Wall Street Journal told you Donald Glover was there somewhere taking pictures, as was Tao Lin, who was tweeting with Kitty backstage und ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 11, 2012The swag comedy of Aziz Ansari
Blogs
December 13, 2011In 2009, Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi applied the most apt metaphor for Goldman Sachs that anyone has yet come up with, calling the bank "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." The phrase took ... More >>
Blogs
June 24, 2011Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone wrote another of his highly entertaining, polarizing, acerbic, hyperbolic and metaphor-laden magazine features, online now, this time about Minnesota politician and presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, who Taibbi, right out of the gate, calls "almost certainly t ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2011Mbalax's finest stops by the Blue Note Jazz Fest
Blogs
May 26, 2011OK, technically it's Slow Jam Wednesday-Night-To-Thursday, what with Beyoncé debuting her brassy ballad "1 1" on last night's Idol, the Weeknd dropping "Rolling Stone" later in the evening, and this Pusha T remix of Miguel's sinuous, everything-ruling "Sure Thing" dropping this AM. But Lil W ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2011Oooh. Donald Trump's hair secrets are out. The Daily News recaps what our favorite possible presidential contender/businessman/reality television personage (he who has suddenly lost a bit of popularity) has to say about haircare! From a Rolling Stone magazine interview, in which Trump's locks ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011Sam Zide Dan Weiss is the author of the blog Ask a Guy Who Likes Fat Chicks and he's profiled in our recent feature, "Guys Who Like Fat Chicks." He put together a list of ten hot famous bigger women with the disclaimer that he "tried to mix girls I personally think are pretty with girls you don't ha ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011On Sunday night, Rolling Stone revealed to the world the disturbing existence of a United States "kill team," the members of which actively targeted, killed, mutilated and photographed innocent citizens of Afghanistan. "[A]fter six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American in ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2011If you had asked us after 2007's For Emma, Forever Ago, or even after 2009's auto-tune adorned EP, Blood Bank, we probably would have told you Bon Iver would be crazy to put out an album during the summer. Justin Vernon had made a name for himself by capitalizing on heartbreak, exorcizing awa ... More >>
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February 18, 2011The Canadian mophead told Rolling Stone that it's people's "decision" to be gay or not, and it shouldn't bother anyone.
How sweet! But dumb!
And the inevitable next question would have to be:
"So why did you choose it, ba dum pum?"
Blogs
February 17, 2011Day 2If the (little) reporting and (excessive) analysis surrounding Lara Logan's assault in Egypt have taught us anything, it's that most people are somewhat insensitive or otherwise unprepared and unable to talk about rape without offending, and the Internet can be an awful place. Also, expl ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 9, 2011Guitar master takes the MOMA
Blogs
January 10, 2011When Nicolas Cage makes a piece of caca, he makes sure it's noxious enough to mess up all of civilization.
His latest supernatural action-adventure romp, Season of the Witch, got a staggering 67 terrible reviews the other day and only one good one, according to rottentomatoes.com, starting t ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
September 2, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 35
The McCartney Burial: 'His ego was his amigo'
By Blair Sabol
Maybe it's time for A.J. Weberman to change his script -- or better yet, to get off the stage altogether. Being the foremost Dylanologist, ... More >>
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November 23, 2010Listen, he's Bob Dylan, and I'm honoring this.Bob Dylan
Terminal 5
Monday, November 22
Better Than: That tour he did awhile back with John Mellencamp, probably.
You want to know what he looks like, but you already know: dapper, dignified, craggy, with a hat so wide and round and stiff it co ... More >>
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October 22, 2010Doree Shafrir -- who was responsible for, among other things, being one-half of the author of the blog-to-book phenomenon that was Postcards from Yo Momma and being responsible for the "Hipster Grifter" story during her tenure at the New York Observer in addition to being among the few to sur ... More >>
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August 16, 2010General Stanley McChrystal has a new high-falutin' academic gig! After that whole whoopsie over the Rolling Stone article in which he was quoted making disparaging comments about President Obama and other White House leaders -- and then fired from his post as commander of the Afghanistan war ... More >>
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July 10, 2010Guess what it stands forRolling Stone writer and pro shit-talker Matt Taibbi called the ESPN LeBron James special The Decision "a landmark moment in the history of human self-involvement." That's one of the most polite ways anyone has referred to the LBJ week-long free agency spectacle. Every ... More >>
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June 23, 2010AP• General Stanley A. McChrystal, top commander in Afganistan, has submitted his resignation over his critical remarks -- including saying Obama appeared "uncomfortable and intimidated" during their first meeting, and dismissing Vice President Biden as "Bite Me" -- in the latest issue of R ... More >>
Music
March 9, 2010Tips on how to expand its reach—or blow it up entirely
Voice Choices
February 2, 2010They're mad as hell . . .
Blogs
December 4, 2009Reviews of Rolling Stone: Drum King, the videogame brand extention undertaken over the summer by the once venerable rock mag, were not kind. I'm From Rolling Stone, the MTV-sponsored reality TV show, limped through ten episodes in the spring months of 2007, and was promptly cancelled, althoug ... More >>
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November 11, 2009Image via the decapitator's photostreamThe mysterious street artist known only as the Decapitator is in town, decapitating things. The culture jammer caused a huge stir in London last year, after Carrie Bradsaw was seen carrying her own head in a detourned version of a Sex and the City advert ... More >>
Columns
May 20, 2009Voice Choices
May 13, 2009Toast Bob Dylan by getting toasted
Voice Choices
April 22, 2009And you see your gypsy, times 1,000
Voice Choices
March 11, 2009Music
August 5, 2008Let the Hit Factory help you out, boys
Voice Choices
July 9, 2008Tod Seelie goes from Vice to solo show
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January 30, 2007Critics' polls have evolved and arguably withered lately, but at least we didn't vote for Timbuk 3
Music
January 23, 2007Music
December 20, 2005NYC Life
November 1, 2005Drinks with stand-up comedian Aziz Ansari
Music
December 14, 2004Bottoms up! OU812! 5150! Hike! Stop! Hammer-on time!
NYC Life
November 23, 2004Can Marshall come out and play? On his new album, Em just wants to be unremarkable.
Music
March 9, 2004Local punk-funkers score unprecedented low-grade coup
Music
September 16, 2003Music
September 18, 2001The End of Frivolity as We Know It
News
February 29, 2000Can New York Musicians Download Success Off MP3.com?
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March 30, 1999News
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