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  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Scientology's Secret Vaults: A Rare Interview With a Former Member of Hush-Hush "CST"

    Over the years, we've talked to a lot of former Scientologists, many of whom worked at the church's secretive desert headquarters in Southern California, "Int Base." They were cut off from their families and the outside world, and became accustomed to living in secrecy. But even these people adopt ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 16, 2011

    Free Will Astrology: November 16-22, 2011

    Over the years, we've talked to a lot of former Scientologists, many of whom worked at the church's secretive desert headquarters in Southern California, "Int Base." They were cut off from their families and the outside world, and became accustomed to living in secrecy. But even these people adopt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Q&A With Rusko: "I Don't Think I've Ever Made A Deep Or Serious Track In My Life."

    ​Dubstep is the first thing that comes to mind when people mention Rusko, and that's almost become a disservice to the young UK-born DJ. While Chris Mercer is certainly credited as an innovator of the wobbly, bass-thwarting, and often numbingly gloomy genre of electronic music, he left the dar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    'Miracle' Cat Survives Being Shot in the Head With an Arrow

    A cat less tough than Max.​Adorable animals in trouble! A 3-year-old cat named Max who lives in Live Oak, near Santa Cruz, California, has somehow survived being shot in the head with an arrow. (Remember New York's own Sticky the goose? R.I.P., Sticky.) Anyway, the good news is that Max is oka ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2011

    Japan Quake Death Toll Could Rise to 1300; Nuclear Plant Explosion Causes Radiation Leak, Fear of Meltdown

    Reuters via NYT​The death toll from yesterday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan could rise to more than 1300, government officials told Japanese news media. CNN is reporting that the number of deaths is 900 and is expected to rise. Half the population of one town, Minamisanr ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 2, 2011

    Free Will Astrology: February 2 through 8, 2011

    Reuters via NYT​The death toll from yesterday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan could rise to more than 1300, government officials told Japanese news media. CNN is reporting that the number of deaths is 900 and is expected to rise. Half the population of one town, Minamisanr ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 22, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: December 22 through 28

    Reuters via NYT​The death toll from yesterday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan could rise to more than 1300, government officials told Japanese news media. CNN is reporting that the number of deaths is 900 and is expected to rise. Half the population of one town, Minamisanr ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 8, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: September 8 through 14

    Reuters via NYT​The death toll from yesterday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan could rise to more than 1300, government officials told Japanese news media. CNN is reporting that the number of deaths is 900 and is expected to rise. Half the population of one town, Minamisanr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Harvey Milk's Birthday: Chatting with Cleve Jones

    Tomorrow is Harvey Milk's birthday. It's an official holiday in California for the first time (signed into law last year by the Terminator), and will be marked here in the city by a march beginning at the GLBT Center at noon. Runnin' Scared spoke to the real-life Cleve Jones on the phone (portr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Chatting With Beth Ann Simpkins About Pulino's Pizza, Bi-Coastal Pizza Obsession, and Her 100 Percent Carbohydrate Diet

    Beth Ann Simpkins (left) and Ruth Kaplan are at the helm of Pulino's pizza program.​When Pulino's opens next Monday, it will doubtless draw a stampede of pizza obsessives intent on making their own pronouncements on the pies that emerge from the restaurant's vast ovens. But while plenty of peo ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 2, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: February 3 through 9, 2010

    Beth Ann Simpkins (left) and Ruth Kaplan are at the helm of Pulino's pizza program.​When Pulino's opens next Monday, it will doubtless draw a stampede of pizza obsessives intent on making their own pronouncements on the pies that emerge from the restaurant's vast ovens. But while plenty of peo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Yes in My Backyard: Download a Mixtape of 2009's Best Local Music, Starring Black Dice, Sleigh Bells, Antipop Consortium, and More

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. This is a compilation of 2009's best local music, lovingly curated by YIMBY columnist Christopher R. Weingarten Your curator this evening, lost in the Death By Audio maze. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Yes In My Backyard: Download Star Fucking Hipsters' "3000 Miles Away"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Banned in NYC. Photo by Alyssa Tanchajja​>New York's Star Fucking Hipsters are a joyous, double-middle-fingers-ablaze coup on political punk rock--pretty much inventing "bubblegum crust" in one grung ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Clip Job: Kesey on the Lam, Voice Goes to 15 cents!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 12, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 30 The Voice Will Be 15c Increased production cost and the expansion in the size of the paper have made it necessary for The Voice to raise the price of newsstand copies by five cents. Next week The Voice w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2009

    Booze News--A New Beefeater Gin & Mezcal's Cult Following

    A new study suggests that patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who drink wine before their diagnosis have a reduced risk of relapse or death. The five-year survival rate was 70 percent for wine drinkers and 65 percent for non-wine drinkers. [US News via Alcademics] Randall Grahm, the winemaker at Bon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Undertaker Gets Cremated

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 12, 2008

    Free Will Astrology: August 13 to 19

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 2, 2008

    Free Will Astrology: July 2 through 8

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2007

    CMJ Day Four: Fuckups and Miracles

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • Art

    July 25, 2006

    Mr. Happy

    In a law professor's debut novel, Homo academicus meets pseudologia fantastica

  • Columns

    June 20, 2006

    Horoscope

    In a law professor's debut novel, Homo academicus meets pseudologia fantastica

  • Music

    September 14, 2004

    Chapels of Love

    Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

  • Columns

    September 7, 2004

    Horoscope

    Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

  • Columns

    April 13, 2004

    Horoscope

    Eager young bands kneel down to altar, re-create history of psychedelic rock in own image

  • NYC Life

    February 24, 2004

    Island Riddim

    Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May

  • NYC Life

    February 10, 2004

    Bougainvillea, Part Two

    Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May

  • NYC Life

    February 3, 2004

    Bougainvillea

    Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May

  • Music

    July 29, 2003

    Music

    Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May

  • Columns

    July 1, 2003

    Horoscope

    Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May

  • News

    April 15, 2003

    Vanishing Liberties

    Where's the Press?

  • News

    March 18, 2003

    Illness as Metaphor

    Labor Groups Consider Calling in Sick to Protest War With Iraq

  • Columns

    December 31, 2002

    Horoscope

    Labor Groups Consider Calling in Sick to Protest War With Iraq

  • Music

    October 8, 2002

    Rocket Reducer No. 6200

    Labor Groups Consider Calling in Sick to Protest War With Iraq

  • Columns

    July 2, 2002

    Horoscope

    Labor Groups Consider Calling in Sick to Protest War With Iraq

  • Columns

    January 29, 2002

    Horoscope

    Labor Groups Consider Calling in Sick to Protest War With Iraq

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Mr. Hot Potato

    California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm’s Length

  • Specials

    March 20, 2001

    Letters

    California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm’s Length

  • Columns

    February 27, 2001

    Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys

    California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm’s Length

  • Dance

    October 24, 2000

    Good Guys

    Hot Young Talent at ABT

  • News

    August 15, 2000

    'We Couldn't Move Quickly Enough'

    Witnesses Say Cops Shot People in the Back; ACLU to Sue

  • News

    April 11, 2000

    Passing for Normal at Santa Cruz

    Red-Letter Day for a Counterculture Experiment

  • Columns

    February 29, 2000

    NY Mirror

    Red-Letter Day for a Counterculture Experiment

  • News

    February 15, 2000

    I, Mitnick

    After a Year in Solitary Confinement, the World’s Greatest Hacker Has a Lot to Say

  • News

    January 4, 2000

    Heroin Hassles

    Medical and Legal Issues Keep Overdose Antidote Out of Users' Hands

  • Specials

    December 7, 1999

    Letters

    Medical and Legal Issues Keep Overdose Antidote Out of Users' Hands

  • Specials

    February 9, 1999

    Letters

    Medical and Legal Issues Keep Overdose Antidote Out of Users' Hands

  • Music

    August 11, 1998

    Raising Cain

    Medical and Legal Issues Keep Overdose Antidote Out of Users' Hands

  • NYC Life

    August 4, 1998

    Clark Bar

    One-bedroom apartment in four-story prewar building

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