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Composer David Earl Buddin Can Totally Relate to Lindsay Lohan

In 2012, the Voice doled out honors to David Earl Buddin, tabbing him New York's Best Composer for very good reason: he's a beer-swillin', chain-smokin', gloriously prolific pioneer of electronic music and ringleader of the honky tonkin' trio of high rolling drunkards, American Liberty League. As ... More >>

A Few Teachers Beg Albany to Help Evaluate Them in New Ad Campaign

It's not every day that employees ask their higher-ups to evaluate them more rigorously, but that's what a few city public school teachers asked for in an ad campaign launched by Educators 4 Excellence yesterday.

Leonid Sokov's Cocktails and 500 Cocks

On the artist's dissident mash-ups

Subway Commuters Should Expect a Repeat of Thursday's Long Lines on Friday and Possible Delays for "Next Several Years"

"This is bullshit," a Hispanic twenty-something said. Fidgeting, he looked at the subway entrance, then to his phone, then down the block to the ever-growing line of tired commuters, then back to his phone. "It's my girl's birthday. I'm supposed to go see her." He took one last glance toward the ent ... More >>

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Have a Ball (And Puck and Uppercut): NYC Is Sportstown, U.S.A.

Live: Rock And Roll Shape-Shifts And Settles Into The Ding Dong Lounge

Strapping Fieldhands w/Escape By Ostrich, Harpoon Forever, Aaron Rosenblum Ding Dong Lounge Saturday, July 28 Better than: Being in the maze. There aren't many people actively watching the bands at the Ding Dong Lounge on Saturday night, though the music doesn't get ignored either. In one part of ... More >>

Here's An Interview With Tyler Clementi's (Now) Gay-Friendly Parents

For the first time since the man who drove their son to suicide was released from jail (after a laughable 20 days behind bars), the parents of Tyler Clementi are speaking out.Jane and Joe Clementi, and his older brother James, sat down with NBC's Lester Holt to talk about their son's tragic death (T ... More >>

Schools Ignore Gay Bullying at Their Own Peril

An Education in Abuse

Don Giovanni Keeps the Jersey-Punk Dream Alive

Local hits for the drunk and alone crowd

Reality-TV Porn

When their reality-TV star fades, some male contestants turn to gay porn

Dog Eat Dog Lost & Found

The Lower East Side trio's music gets rescued from the No Wave depths

Top Five Train-Wreck Rappers

​The Berkley-based rapper Lil B plays the Highline Ballroom on Thursday; for curious New York gawkers, it's a chance to see the world's foremost proponent of a new movement you could kindly term train-wreck rappers -- those artists whose every youthful indiscretion, ill-advised comment, physic ... More >>

The 10 Gayest Political Stories of 2010

Ring ceremony: Reid and Choi2010 was one of the gayest political years ever. Here's our take on the 10 gayest stories we reported on — throughout the five boroughs, the nation, and the world.

Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

And proud of it

School Funding Grossly Unfair in NY — Even Jersey is Better

It's not exactly news that kids in poor school districts get screwed in New York state, but a new study quantifies exactly how. A report from Rutgers University and the Education Law Center in New Jersey has found that, when it comes to equitably distributing money and other resources to rich and p ... More >>

Tyler Clementi's Suicide and What Dan Savage Is Doing About It

Tyler Clementi​The death of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, who appears to have committed suicide after his roommate allegedly broadcast a video of him having a sexual encounter with a man, is a sad event that can't help but shine a light on Dan Savage's new YouTube project, "It Gets Better." ... More >>

MSG Reno to Exile Liberty ... to Newark?

​Proving the old line that the best way to find real news in the Times is to read the stories end-to-beginning, the Paper of Record offers up a classic buried lede in its article today about the upcoming renovations to Madison Square Garden. Round about the sixth paragraph, sportswriter Richar ... More >>

Jersey man who shut down Newark Airport charged with misdemeanor

​Haiphong Jiang, the Rutgers grad student whose romantic impulse control shut down Newark Airport for six hours, delayed travelers nationally and exposed a gaping hole in Newark's security was taken into custody by Port Authority Police last night.

Corzine Still Leads in Jersey Despite Voter Hatred

A new poll of "likely voters" shows Jon Corzine maintaining his 3-point lead over Chris Christie for the governorship of New Jersey. Whereas the previous poll gave Corzine a 40-37 edge on Christie, in today's Rutgers-Eagleton tally each of them lost a point, presumably to third-party challenger Chri ... More >>

Ronald Tavel, 1941-2009

by Michael Feingold The sad news arrived late Wednesday afternoon of the passing of playwright, novelist and screenwriter Ron Tavel, one of the formative figures of the off-off Broadway movement in the 1960s and 70s. He was equally significant in cinema for his contributions -- as conceiver, writ ... More >>

Meet New York's Sex Bloggers

The 12 months of the internet’s sultriest sharers

They Might Be Giants

Let's hope Coughlin's crew leaves the bad ball in foggy London

Analog Hero for the Digital Age

With the Mac kid at his side, John McClane is back and he's just . . . too old

Walk Unafraid

Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

Finding a Solution to One of the World's Biggest Problems

Over the Edge

The suicide of a 14-year-old boy

Intimate Strangers

The hidden costs—and benefits—of shacking up

Close-Up on Two Bridges, Manhattan

Undercover Mother

Back to school: A professor spends a year as an undergrad to study college life

High Interest in Low Interest

Student borrowers scramble to beat a deadline for cheap rates

High Fidelity

From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

Teens' Sexual Rights

Educators argue that adolescent sexuality is healthy and vital

Coffee Now, Grad School Later

An art lover's ramble through Williamsburg

I, Breadwinner?

Your dad had a job, a wife, a house. You've got loans and fear of commitment. Hello, manhood.

We Need You

It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

Fiddling With Fiddler

Can the Broadway Revival of Everyone's Favorite Jewish Musical Ignore Today's Radically Different Cultural Context?

Oh, Those New Urbanists

Demonstrators Regroup, Plan MLK Day Actions

Activists Focus on the Mounting Costs of War

Anchored by Ballads

Peggy Seeger, First Woman of Folk, Returns to New York

Abbondanza Downtown

Controlled Chaos Rules at FringeNYC

Maps and Chaps

••• The New Geography Reaches Critical Mass

Louis Armstrong 1901–1971

How Columbia Can Save Itself

Confronting Your Accusers

Pigskin Pioneers

Slow Racial Progress and a Cloud of Dust

Nation

Objects of the Game

Olympic Female Athletes Are Disrobing for the Cameras at a Record Pace

Paper Trail

The Cat-and-Mouse of the Game of Online Plagiarism

There Goes The Neighborhood

The Nets may be set to pave over a Newark community. Will the Yankees do the same in the Bronx?

Coming Clean

Reading the Suds of History

Life On The Run

If charisma made you faster, an American might actually win the New York Marathon