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    January 11, 2012

    100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

    A 'power list' for the rest of us

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Audrey Silk, Smoker's Rights Advocate, Weighs In On Today's Smoking Ban Poll

    FacebookAudrey Silk​NY1 and Marist released a poll today about the two-month-old ban on smoking in public parks, beaches, and plazas. Sixty nine percent of respondents said they were in favor, although opinions were split on whether the new measures are actually working. More surprisingly, 40 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2011

    Homophobia On The Short Line Bus

    ​Singer Ari Gold says he was on a Short Line bus this weekend that was less than civil, especially when it comes to civil rights. Gold was holding hands with a man in the front seat. Says he: "The driver told us if we wanted to continue sitting together, we had to sit in the back." Frustra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    Taken for a Ride: Another MTA Select Bus Horror Story

    The MTA's new cash cowThe only thing that's certain about the MTA's Select Bus is that people are being taken for a ride by the setup through which passengers have to buy tickets before boarding. The city has handed out more than $1 million in summonses to riders, so the Select Bus "has increasingly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    How A Village Voice Reporter Helped Write the Second Verse of Jay-Z's "Public Service Announcement"

    ​In 2003, this paper sent the writer Elizabeth Mendez Berry to profile Jay-Z on the eve of the release of what was then supposed to be his retirement record, The Black Album. Toward the end of the piece, which was published almost exactly seven years ago, Berry transcribes an interaction she h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Live: Big Boi Does The Hits At Brooklyn Bowl

    ​Don't bother requesting anything, he's already gonna play it​Big Boi Brooklyn Bowl Monday, September 6 Better than: The vast majority of other greatest-hits sets performed in bowling alleys. So Big Boi, as someone in his management circle is explaining before tonight's festivities beg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    When Rand Paul Rules the World

    Mr. Lunch Counter​Rand Paul, son of Ron and now the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, was taken to task yesterday for the purity of his libertarian views. His creed of anti-government liberty is so unalloyed by silly notions of fairness or anti-racisim, Paul was taken to task by li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    I Went to Harlem in Ermine and Pearls

    ​Well, in pants from Old Navy, a polyester button-down shirt, and one of my pullover sweaters from The Cosby Show. And I had a blast!

  • Theater

    September 29, 2009

    Channeling the Abolitionist in Frederick Douglass Now

    And coming of age in A Boy and His Soul

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Thank You, Carrie Prejean!

    No, seriously! I want to thank the half-a-Miss-California for brightening my world in a variety of ways, not all intentional but definitely all substantial. Thank you, Carrie for being so narrow minded that your stance blew up into a big media story and I got booked on a kazillion TV shows! Simila ... More >>

  • Music

    January 21, 2009

    Rappers for Obama, and Vice Versa

    Why Young Jeezy and his revitalized ilk owe our new president more than he owes them

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    On track: Barack Obama's conjunction junction

    Can't get enough of Obama's January 17 train ride. Here it is again. Even before today's inauguration, Barack Obama's whistle-stop trip to D.C. brought the best of two worlds to America. Besides being just a really cool thing to do — complete with speeches by the mellifluous new president t ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 26, 2008

    Isn't Obama a Doll?

    Yes and no. But there are lots of small consolations.

  • Film

    April 22, 2008

    Tribeca '08

    See these movies

  • People

    August 21, 2007

    Don't Call Her Rosa Parks

    What part of 'illegal' doesn't Elvira Arellano understand?

  • Columns

    July 24, 2007

    Fame Is Such a Drug. . . I Mean, Drag

    And trying to be famous? Let me tell you about it.

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2006

    Carrion's Mission Accomplished

    And trying to be famous? Let me tell you about it.

  • People

    June 6, 2006

    Love Actually

    Talking with Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2005

    Tick Tock Transit

    Talking with Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day

  • News

    December 6, 2005

    Richard Pryor, 1940–2005

    Used to be a genius, I ain't lying, booked the numbers didn't need paper or pencil.

  • News

    November 15, 2005

    Letters

    Used to be a genius, I ain't lying, booked the numbers didn't need paper or pencil.

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    Banned From the Barbershop

    The quiet death of a fighter for civil rights

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    Letters

    The quiet death of a fighter for civil rights

  • News

    October 25, 2005

    The Drama's Non-Supporting Cast

    The quiet death of a fighter for civil rights

  • News

    October 25, 2005

    Just Say No

    Ms. Rosa Parks's great refusal as an exemplary tactic for the age of online consumption

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

    From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Marching to Montgomery: The Cradle Did Rock

    From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .

  • News

    September 20, 2005

    Cindy Sheehan's Big Week in Washington

    The ailing peace movement finds new life in a grieving mom

  • News

    September 20, 2005

    Veterans, Grieving Families Give Somber Mood to Iraq War Protest

    The ailing peace movement finds new life in a grieving mom

  • News

    September 13, 2005

    NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan

    City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried

  • Film

    March 22, 2005

    Timid Script Stifles Bernie Mac in Race-Reversed Remake

    City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried

  • News

    June 1, 2004

    A Nation of Millions

    Hip-Hop Convention seeks answer to what's holding young America back

  • Columns

    April 20, 2004

    Horoscope

    Hip-Hop Convention seeks answer to what's holding young America back

  • Columns

    March 9, 2004

    Horoscope

    Hip-Hop Convention seeks answer to what's holding young America back

  • Music

    October 21, 2003

    Rousing Constituencies

    Old dogs singin' slow songs and fairygodmotherfuckers for discerning dilettantes

  • News

    January 14, 2003

    An Indispensable Gay Man

    His 1963 March on Washington 'Woke Up America'

  • News

    January 7, 2003

    Foucault's Turntable

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • Film

    September 10, 2002

    Clipped Wings

    To the Manor Bored

  • Music

    April 30, 2002

    Sugar Daddy

    To the Manor Bored

  • News

    February 26, 2002

    A Woman for Her Time

    In Memory of Stonewall Warrior Sylvia Rivera

  • Specials

    March 20, 2001

    Letters

    In Memory of Stonewall Warrior Sylvia Rivera

  • News

    September 5, 2000

    Political Putdown

    Green Party Goes to Court Over Use of Paper Ballots

  • News

    May 9, 2000

    Keeping Up With the Napsters

    At Pho, a Thousand E-mails a Month Track the Great Digital Debate

  • Books

    March 28, 2000

    Out of the Shadows

    At Pho, a Thousand E-mails a Month Track the Great Digital Debate

  • News

    February 22, 2000

    Nation

    At Pho, a Thousand E-mails a Month Track the Great Digital Debate

  • Home

    February 15, 2000

    Rev That Azz Up

    Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

  • Books

    January 11, 2000

    King Spin

    Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

  • Long Island Voice

    November 16, 1999

    The Democrats' bash

    Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

  • Columns

    November 17, 1998

    NY Mirror

    Limelight's updated layout is sort of like Jocelyne Wildenstein's new face— not better or worse, just different.

  • Music

    October 27, 1998

    F(reakiness) M

    Limelight's updated layout is sort of like Jocelyne Wildenstein's new face— not better or worse, just different.

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