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Medical Marijuana Ban Doesn't Hurt Disabled, Court Says

More weed news from the West Coast: A federal court in California just ruled 2-1 that cities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries -- and that doing so doesn't violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. As detailed by the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appea ... More >>

Will the NYPD's Muslim Spy Scheme Threaten Investigations?

No surprise here: Spying on Islamic communities might make Muslims mistrust police, creating difficulties in gathering intel, the FBI's top cop in New Jersey says. Religion News Service (via Washington Post) reports that Muslims are now wary of law enforcement after reports revealed that the NYPD ... More >>

Scientology Scuffle Over Xenu: When a Protester is Attacked!

Getting a face full of unhappy Scientologist​Tommy Gorman has a pretty in-your-face way of protesting the Church of Scientology. He positions himself outside the entrance to San Francisco's Scientology "org" holding a video camera and another device that plays an audio recording. As workers a ... More >>

A Scientology Countdown Announcement: Before We Start the Top Ten, a Programming Note

Who's number one?​Tomorrow morning, we begin to reveal the final ten in our big countdown, "The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology." Today, however, we wanted to provide a programming note and announce some addenda. As we predicted from the beginning, our readers have been vocal about their ... More >>

Here Are Some Details About La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, Opening Next Month

WikipediaGastón Acurio​September and its attendant flurry of high-profile restaurant openings are but two weeks away, and to get the ball rolling, here are some details about La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, the Peruvian restaurant Gastón Acurio is set to open in the former Tabla space ... More >>

If You Can't Eat Leavened Goods, You Might as Well Eat the Best Matzos: A Taste Test

Lauren ShockeyWWJE? (What Would Jesus Eat?)​Ah, Passover. When it comes to Jewish holidays, this one isn't as culinarily exciting as say, Purim (which involves getting drunkie drunk and eating hamentaschen), or Hanukkah (one word: latkes). However, food plays an important part of the ritual ... More >>

San Franciscan Visits New York, Isn't Impressed

​Although last year's Le Fooding proved that in a San Francisco-New York smack down, almost everyone lost, at least one man has done his bit to incite a new skirmish in the non-existent battle.

Will a New Label-Reading App Change How We Buy Food?

Go Fooducate yourself.​Get ready to be Fooducated. A new iPhone application called Fooducate promises to change the way Americans do their groceries and even eat them. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, it works by scanning the barcode of a product in order to translate the contents int ... More >>

Andrew Sarris: Heteros Have Problems Too

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 4, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 5 Heteros have problems too By Andrew Sarris I am 42, going on 43, and I have never had a homosexual experience. Thus, if only by the process of elimination (and an ecstatically happy marriage), I must q ... More >>

Cathie Black, That Cosmo Girl, Deserves a Chance. For Now.

​Granted, it's hard to see how the tools for putting out Cosmopolitan (this month's lead article: "First, Take Off His Pants") and Seventeen ("Amazing Hair") instantly translate into running the nation's largest and most troubled public school system. But for the moment anyways, it might be wo ... More >>

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Will Go On Indefinitely, Court Decides

​The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has given the Pentagon permission to continue discharging soldiers under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" the law's constitutionality is appealed, which could take months or even years to determine. In September, U.S. District Judge Virginia Philips had ruled that t ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 29 through October 5, 2010

Brandon Spikes Video: Illegal Use of Hands?

​Well, now that the agent for New England Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes has come clean (so to speak) that it is his client in the infamous sex video - you can watch it here for yourself -- only one major question remains: How will the NFL react? Well, actually, make that two major quest ... More >>

Frank Bruni Calls Keith McNally a 'Horrible Man'

Grub StreetA horrible man?​"I do not go to Keith McNally restaurants anymore," quoth Frank Bruni. " I would have loved to have given Minetta Tavern a horrible review, because McNally is a horrible man." The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Bruni--who actually gave Minetta Tavern three sta ... More >>

KFC's Pink Bucket Campaign: A Breast for a Breast?

Your fried chicken, pinkwashed to perfection.​Practically in the same breath as launching its Double Down Sandwich stunt, KFC debuted its Buckets for the Cure campaign, which promises to donate 50 cents from every pink bucket sold to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. Since April 5, t ... More >>

Obama Outrage Du Jour: Won't Meet With Hippies in San Francisco

Fresh from disgusting the nation with his so-called "Nobel 'Peace' Prize," President Obama's latest outrage is that he will not meet with hippies in San Francisco, but will instead meet with rich people at a Democratic fundraiser there. "Hiding from the leftists in San Francisco," says Michelle Mal ... More >>

Clip Job: Ginsberg and Orlovsky -- Legalize Pot!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 31, 1964, Vol. X, No. 11Pickets for Pot Push LegalizationBy Mary Perot NicholsIn a light drizzle on a gloomy last Sunday, a dedicated picket line marched in front of the City Department of Welfare's headquarters on the east side of To ... More >>

Clip Job: Pete Seeger Banned by ABC

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 18, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 26Footnotes to 'Hootenanny'By Nat HentoffSingers Tom Paxton and Barbara Dane and the Greenbriar Boys (a bluegrass unit) have turned down appearances on ABC's "Hootenanny" series for the same reason that Joan Baez re ... More >>

'Shoe intifada' vowed; we quake in our boots

Free Will Astrology: April 15 to 21

Hearst CEO Sues His Mommy

Exclusive: Esquire's owner isn't playing nice with his 84-year-old Florida retiree mother

Law and Order: Iraq Victims Unit

Queer in the Crib

Gay adults like to say they were born that way. So where are the gay children? Everywhere? Fabulous, baby.

To Catch a Predator

In his hunt for the Zodiac killer, David Fincher forgoes the personal for the process, and in the process Nathan Lee geeks out.

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Flashback: Here Comes John Roberts, There Goes Roe v. Wade

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood is only the start

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Morning Report 8/28/05
A Gratuitous War's 'Death Gratuity'

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Morning Report 3/18/05
Congress on Steroids

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Unpopular Vote

A compilation of electoral college crash courses

Harrumph Roast

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Dust Raking

Stop the presses! Liberal journos donate to Democrats! Plus: N.Y.C. protesters spark mad tab disease

Mouse Trap

Who's the holder of the copyright that's ripe for piracy?

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The Art of Howe

Selling the Mets' New Manager Short? Not a Good Bet.

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

Fentanyl Story Quietly Absorbed By Media

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Jock Lit

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The Olympic Leap

Will the 2008 Games Push China Into Change?

Schmooze or Play Hardball?

New D.C. Gang Poses Media Dilemma

Timor Ease

Clinton Makes Hay in Asia Mess

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