Roy Edroso

Students Can Get Plan B Pills At A Few NYC Public Schools Now

The last thing hardcore right-wing conservatives need is more cannon fodder for their whole "America is burning to the ground" argument. But, whatever; we're not worried about them here - that's fellow Voice scribe Roy Edroso's job.According to the Post, the Department of Health confirmed that ... More >>

Scientology Watchers: A Message from Tony Ortega

Tony O goes Clear!To the readers of this blog... Today, Paul Thomas Anderson's movie The Master opens in a few theaters here, and the media reaction has been electric. We've all watched as interest in Scientology has skyrocketed this summer, and it seems to have reached some kind of culmination thi ... More >>

Live: Philip Glass Brings Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, And Music In 12 Parts To The Park Avenue Armory

The Park Avenue Armory on Friday night. ​This year's Park Avenue Armory Tune-In Music Festival was dedicated to honoring composer Philip Glass (who, in turn, turned over a large chunk of it to honoring Allen Ginsberg). Sound of the City attended three of the weekend's five offerings, which clo ... More >>

Same-Sex Marriage Takes New York By Storm in 2011, Tosses Salad in Iowa in 2012

​Happy New Year. We're kicking things off here this January by taking a quick look at how same-sex marriage affected life in New York in 2011, and how it's shaping up primary politics in Iowa in advance of tomorrow's caucuses. Gay marriage, of course, just became official in New York last ye ... More >>

Sad Sack Uncle Sam Stumbles Around Chinatown in New Beast Installation

​Last month, the street artist Beast made the New York City subway map, usually a "limp dick," into an erect penis thrilled over the death of Osama Bin Laden. Yesterday he was back at work with a new installation he calls "Sam & Fred & Mike & Tom & Jerry go to China," which depicts a dilapidat ... More >>

Dan Halloran Lacks All Evidence in Sanitation Snow Charges, Times Says

Our favorite heathen​Merlin's beard, freshman Councilman Dan Halloran is in the spotlight again! America's highest elected Heathen, and perennial favorite Runnin' Scared Councilman, is in the hot seat today after charges that union sanitation members acted cold-heartedly during Snowpocalypse.

Carolyn McCarthy Preps New Gun Control Bill; Pro-Glockers Up in Arms

LI rep Carolyn McCarthy​There's nothing like knowing there are crazed gunmen out there with elected officials squarely in their sites to focus political attentions. Which is why it will be interesting to see if official Washington has a stronger reaction to a planned political assassination wi ... More >>

A Very Special Announcement: Changes at The Village Voice

​Hello, Runnin' Scared readers! We have a special programming announcement for you all! Are you ready? You look ready. Here we go:

The Non-Crazy Responses to "White America Has Lost Its Mind"

​After twice publishing examples of the nutcases and bigots who responded to last week's cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind," we thought we'd share some of the other kind, the people who read, understood, and were moved. In fact, the majority of about 1,000 e-mails sent to writer S ... More >>

This Blog Is The Shit: Runnin' Scared Takes Home 2010 Alt Weekly Award

Pictured: Village Voice editor Tony Ortega hoists Runnin' Scared's Atl-Weekly Award, flanked by staff.​Not that you didn't already know, dear reader, but as the young people would say, "game recognize game," because we have just been officially told we are what the young people would call ... More >>

Gay-Basher Serves 21 Days in Prison for Brutal Attacks on Three Men

​Right now pretty much everyone and their mother knows that Lindsay Lohan just got 90 days in jail for probation violation. In a far less publicized sentencing, Driton Nicaj, a 20-year-old man who assaulted three gay men on the Upper East Side in 2009 (including one attack that was originally ... More >>

Photos: Barack Obama Is Hanging Out in the East Village Like Right Now

We'd like to welcome our new office neighbor for the day, President Barack Obama, who got started speaking at the Cooper Union about five minutes ago. In the meantime, Cooper Square and the East Village has turned into a bona fide shitshow.

BlogBeat: Denton's High Marks, Newsweek's Not-So-Secret Weapon, New Hires at Village Voice and Paris Review

​Another Monday, another BlogBeat column. Hopefully, unlike last week's column, this one won't cost us $20,000 a year in advertising money. A former employment situation with Nick Denton and Gawker is assessed, the face behind Newsweek's newest weapon talks, and new hires emerge at the Paris R ... More >>

Obama's New Bank Laws Would Re-Criminalize Wall Street Shenanigans; Panicky Dems Finally Listen to Paul Volcker

Volcker: He told Obama so.Finally, Barack Obama today unveiled a proposed major curb on Wall Street that would revive the "spirit of Glass-Steagall" — the Depression-era law that would have prevented last year's Wall Street meltdown if it hadn't been abolished during the Clinton administration ... More >>

U.S. Stops Deporting Haitians -- It Took an Earthquake

Haitian deportees, pre-earthquake, at one of Homeland Security's many fine detention centers. It took an earthquake, but the U.S. government is finally stopping its regular deportation of Haitians back to their homeland. But it's only for now. Offers to Haitians of the coveted Temporary Protected ... More >>

Crime Beat: Brooklyn Dog-Killer's Plea Deal is Killed. (And Michael Vick Wants to Have Dogs Again.)

The ultimate put-down: Oreo, after owner Fabian Henderson threw him off a roof and before the suffering dog was euthanized. Scumbag dog-killer Fabian Henderson won't get off easy with probation after all, it seems. The Brooklyn teen threw his pit bull, Oreo, off the roof of Red Hook Houses last Jul ... More >>

Crime Beat: Precinct of the Week -- Rugby-Remsen Village! (Plus a Comparison With Williamsburg)

See the crime reports compiled by EveryBlock.com Congratulations to the 67th Precinct in Brooklyn, our Precinct of the Week. No offense to the good people and good cops there in the heart of Brooklyn and including the Rugby-Remsen Village neighborhood, but there was actually plenty of offense durin ... More >>

Jockbeat's World Series Wrap

​First of all, on behalf of those at the Village Voice who are Yankee fans, let me thank Roy Edroso for the headline on his piece, "Congratulations Douchebag Yankee Fans." We accept your congratulations, and we assume you mean douchebag in the best possible sense. And, yes, we are doucheba ... More >>

Allen Barra Remembers Soupy Sales

​As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children's programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. There were exceptions: Chuck McCann, who read the funnies to us on Sunday morning, and Sandy Becker of Sandy's Hour, who died in 1996, are fondly remembered. But ... More >>

Letters: August 25, 2009

The Week in the Voice

Those Newburgh 4, arrested last month and charged with trying to blow up synagogues in a terror plot, were drawn into their alleged conspiracy by an informant known as Malik, working with the FBI to get out from under his own criminal record. Witnesses say that in addition to subjecting the men to c ... More >>

Letters

This Week in the Voice

Before he became Mayor Bloomberg's 2009 campaign manager, Bradley Tusk had been a Lehman Brothers lobbyist, a Parks Department functionary, a Chuck Schumer spokesman, a Bloomberg adviser -- and, for four years, Rod Blagojevich's deputy governor. Among Tusk's assignments under Hot Rod was a dicey f ... More >>

Ray Kelly's Social Life? Fabulous, Darling!

Daily Flog: Obama strikes first in stab at replacing Cheney

Letters 10.29.08

Daily Flog: It's so bad that capitalists plan to help proles

Daily Flog: Break out the campaign! Party at the Waldorf!

Letters 9.04.08

Daily Flog: Russian Bear Goes Bullish; Pakistan Dithers; Obama Strikes Back

Flog Follow-Up: McCain's Up. Why Wouldn't He Be?

Rightbloggers on McCain's Chocolate Sandwich

RightBloggers on Obama Tour

RightBloggers on the New Yorker's Obama Cartoon Cover

Proxy Wars: RightBloggers Attack Obama Via Jackson, Gramm, Schumer, and Bernie Mac

Knocked Up: Slutfishing in Gloucester with the Rightbloggers

Rightbloggers on Father's Day, Guns, Knives, and Unloved Commuters

Where's Johnny? Ignoring McCain, Rightbloggers Obsess on Obama

Sex and the City Journal: Rightbloggers at the Movies

Killing "Whitey" or Not? Rightbloggers React to Michelle Obama Rumors.

Defending Big Oil and Other Delights of the Right-Wing Blogosphere