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December 27, 2011
I Got Two Amazing Christmas Gifts!
I got dozens of them, actually, but two stand above the pack for their unique mixture of kitschy appeal and downright usefulness. First of all, I can now brush my teeth to the sound of Justin Bieber singing "U Smile!"
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Two Christmas Songs I Really Hate!
I know "hate" and "Christmas" probably shouldn't be in the same sentence, so how about "despise"? Anyway, I absolutely loathe "The Little Drummer Boy". I find it slow and tedious and pretentious and annoying. Hearing it over and over again is the equivalent of putting hot pokers under my n ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
Santa Claus Is From Chelsea
Everything you thought you knew about Santa may be a lie! According to the New York Historical Society, Santa is not, despite all of our assumptions, a native North Pole-ian, complete with North Pole-like ideologies, politics, and annoying habits. He's actually a sophisticated New Yorker hail ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
The Business of Being Santa
The "Santa industry" is a particularly good one to be in if you're a portly old white man, apparently. A company called Thumbtack did a study of the business of being Santa Claus and found that it's a pretty sweet deal a lot of the time. Of the 169 Santas that Thumbtack interviewed, the avera ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2011
Eggnog the Artisanal Way? Ronnybrook Farm Is Happy to Coat Your Lips
Lauren BloombergA bottle of the seasonTraditionally, the holiday season starts on Black Friday -- a/k/a the day that crazed shoppers brave getting pepper sprayed and/or trampled in the midst of retail madness. However, there are other (read: more sensible) signifiers that Santa Claus is comin ... More >>
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December 6, 2011
Seven Spots to Eat a Feast of the Seven Fishes
Andy Ciordia/FlickrExpect fish, fish, fish, and more fish. Christmas is a-coming, and while the kiddies might be all excited about Santa Claus's visit, the more food-focused will be looking forward to the Feast of the Seven Fishes, one of the most gluttonous culinary traditions of the season. ... More >>
Art
November 23, 2011
Holiday Guide: Arts Picks
Andy Ciordia/FlickrExpect fish, fish, fish, and more fish. Christmas is a-coming, and while the kiddies might be all excited about Santa Claus's visit, the more food-focused will be looking forward to the Feast of the Seven Fishes, one of the most gluttonous culinary traditions of the season. ... More >>
Film
November 23, 2011
Arthur Christmas
Andy Ciordia/FlickrExpect fish, fish, fish, and more fish. Christmas is a-coming, and while the kiddies might be all excited about Santa Claus's visit, the more food-focused will be looking forward to the Feast of the Seven Fishes, one of the most gluttonous culinary traditions of the season. ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2011
James Beard's 10 Greatest Quotes
NBC via GourmetJames Beard didn't live in Greenwich Village for nothing. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1903, his earliest culinary memories included having his mother and the family's Chinese cook make food for him when he came down with malaria at the age of three. After a stint of living in P ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
Comments of the Week: Village Voice T-Shirt Giveaway!
This week we're starting a new feature in which we give away Village Voice t-shirts to some of our esteemed commenters. We've judged this week's crop and have come away with some winners. If your comment was picked, email web editor Francesca Stabile to claim your prize. Because there's nothi ... More >>
Film
April 20, 2011
The Strange Stuff: Cinemania at Tribeca 2011
This week we're starting a new feature in which we give away Village Voice t-shirts to some of our esteemed commenters. We've judged this week's crop and have come away with some winners. If your comment was picked, email web editor Francesca Stabile to claim your prize. Because there's nothi ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Study Finds 83% of Subway Announcements Are Clear and Accurate, But Uh: No
A new survey by the Straphangers Campaign claims that 83% of subway announcements, including routes, stations and transfer options, are both clear and accurate, making it seem instantly to anyone who has ever been on the subway that something is wrong with this study. New trains with pre-reco ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
Fashion Week: Porter Grey, Richard Chai, and Backstage at Duckie Brown (VIDEO)
Freakazoid fashion alertNormally we'd never wake up so early, not even for the first day of Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, especially not in this crazy cold weather, but it's as though something bigger was pulling us out of bed yesterday morning. Could it have been the Santa Claus-like man w ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
Dirty and Offensive Christmas Songs!
The only way I can deal with the annual onslaught of cheery and/or solemn Christmas songs is to make up filthy, raucous versions of them and make those the official hymns of the season. It's painfully immature, for sure, but it helps cut through the cheap sentiment and relentless faux glee t ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
The Top 10 Christmas Albums Of 2010
No.Ah, another shitty year is ending, and we find ourselves trying to buy our way out of it with Christmas presents while struggling to block out the same old endless stream of yuletide muzak. Luckily, there's always a few notable holiday-album standouts to break the tedium, this year includi ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2010
This Year's Letters to Santa Kind of a Buzz Kill
We can blame the recession for a lot of things, but one of the lesser expected ramifications is that children are no longer writing their id-driven "ME ME ME!" missives requiring flat-screen plasmas and XBoxes and Shetland ponies from the man at the North Pole. Now, they're asking for educati ... More >>
Theater
December 8, 2010
Ho! and Looking at Christmas Stuff New York's Stockings
New pieces by Brian Dykstra and Steven Banks join a Yule-logged season
Film
December 1, 2010
Santa Goes Dark in Rare Exports
New pieces by Brian Dykstra and Steven Banks join a Yule-logged season
Blogs
November 30, 2010
The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #19: Ringo Starr featuring Joss Stone, "Who's Your Daddy?"
F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. Far be it from me to make life harder for the least embarrassing living Beatle... but, wow, someone just double-parked his Yellow Submarine in Creepytown.
Film
November 24, 2010
Winter Guide: Lesley Manville Is the Toast of Mike Leigh's Latest Film, Another Year
A guide to winter movie releases
Blogs
November 19, 2010
Santa Claus is Coming to Town, or at Least to Rolf's
EV GrieveLights! Glitter! Reindeer! If the cheftastic display at Barneys has kindled the holiday spirit within, get thee to Rolf's, the restaurant that doesn't know the meaning of holding back when it comes to Christmas.
Blogs
November 15, 2010
The Doorman Has the Dirt: NYC Real Estate's X-Factor
Doormen: a crucial role in the makeup of our metropolis for many, many people, not just the rich assholes! Many people in New York City spanning the lower-middle to the upper-upper classes of this city have doormen, whose influence is profound on both the residents, the management, and the re ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2010
NYC Parents Now Outsourcing the Tooth Fairy
When I was a little kid, I had a little tooth-shaped pillow with a pocket on it. When I lost a tooth, I'd put it in the pocket, go to sleep, and lo and behold, come morning there would be a dollar instead of the tooth! To this day I have no idea how my mom pulled that off without waking me up ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Nudity Seriously Freaking People Out
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 23, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 15 Scenes by Howard Smith VALERIE [SOLANAS] was back in court last Friday. This time to find out whether the court psychiatric clinic report agreed with Mattawan State Hospital's verdict when it release ... More >>
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April 9, 2010
The Fourth Annual Village Voice Readers' Film Poll -- The Best Films of 1967!
"We rob banks."Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 17 Films by Andrew Sarris The readers of The Village Voice have responded in unprecedented numbers to the fourth annual poll of ten-best lists. For the record, the previous winners are "D ... More >>
Music
December 15, 2009
Holiday Music Roundup '09
Weird Christmas records: They're not just for Dylan anymore
Blogs
December 11, 2009
Q&A with Jeffrey Solomon (Santa Claus Is Coming Out): on GLSEN and Gay Santa
This morning's Times rounds up some of the further-out holiday-themed entertainments playing in New York now ("Come On, Santa, Put Your Clothes Back On"). Among these is Jeffrey Solomon's Santa Claus is Coming Out at The Kirk on Theater Row, in which Santa is gay, a little questioning kid wan ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2009
Sidewalk Santas aren't coming to town
Volunteers of America's 109-year-old Sidewalk Santa program is taking place online for the second year this christmas. The non-profit VOA says they can't afford to pay and administer the formerly homeless men who traditionally dressed as Santa Claus and rang bells by chimney-shaped donation b ... More >>
Columns
December 24, 2008
Ask a Mexican: The War on All-Year Christmas
Happy holidays, gabachos and wabs!
Blogs
April 23, 2008
Tina Fey Dissed Me and Probably Doesn't Even Know It
Happy holidays, gabachos and wabs!
Film
November 20, 2007
Be My Oswald
Happy holidays, gabachos and wabs!
Film
October 31, 2006
'The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'
Happy holidays, gabachos and wabs!
NYC Life
November 29, 2005
Holiday Bargain Shopping With La Dolce Musto
Happy holidays, gabachos and wabs!
NYC Life
November 15, 2005
. . . And to All Some Good Nights
Festive fun that's both naughty and nice
News
November 16, 2004
Naughty & Nice
Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive
Music
December 9, 2003
God Is My Co-Pilot
Unvarnished and unhinged gospel music, from 1902 to 1960
Music
December 2, 2003
Music
Unvarnished and unhinged gospel music, from 1902 to 1960
News
November 25, 2003
Hot for Santa
A brief but startling history of the chocolate Santa Claus
Music
February 18, 2003
It's the Tune, Stupid
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
Music
January 14, 2003
Escape Claus
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
Columns
January 14, 2003
Horoscope
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
NYC Life
December 24, 2002
A Murray Murray Christmas!
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
News
November 19, 2002
Cheap Cheer
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
Columns
July 2, 2002
Horoscope
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
News
November 27, 2001
Holiday Happenings
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
Theater
November 28, 2000
Eddie Goes to Radio City
Lou Harrison, 1917–2003
News
December 14, 1999
The Loophole Clause
On the Street With a 12-Step Santa
NYC Life
December 29, 1998
Song of My Elf
One-Bedroom Apartment in Six-Story Tenement
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