Saratoga

Election Night At Brownsville's Betsy Head Park

The parents sat along the long green benches at Betsy Head Park in Brownsville, watching their sons' Pop Warner football practice. Some discussed the kids' game on Sunday--that fumble at the end of the second half changed everything! Some flipped through newspapers. Some munched on sour candy. The ... More >>

Hudson Valley Mushrooms Hit the Table

Edna Ferber's Giant Gets a Musical Adaptation

Tepid Texas tuner

Traingasm Video A Spoof. Thank Gawd

We're relieved to report that the world is not quite as creepy as we initially thought it was after watching a video of an Upstate man having what can be best described as a "traingasm."A few hours ago, we posted the video -- titled "Excited Train Guy" -- thinking it was legit. Turns out, it's bulls ... More >>

Live: Drake Brings Dipset, Busta Rhymes, A$AP Rocky, And More To Jones Beach

Drake w/ J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz, French Montana Nikon Theater at Jones Beach Saturday, June 16 Better than: That other suburban rap mega-show. Well over halfway through his set, having already given the crowd a festival's worth of openers and played everything but his bigg ... More >>

The Horsies Go To Albany! Cuomo & Co. Reach Deal On NYRA Takeover

Those ponies are in need of some serious government red tape.The Voice reported yesterday on the legislative free-for-all going on in Albany right now, which includes the cyber-bullying law and the teacher evaluation publicity argument, as the session deadline on Thursday approaches. But the Go ... More >>

Parm: Munch a Bunch of Lunch

Dig into a sammy at the new Torrisi Italian Specialties spin-off

"You're So Vain" a Comeback to Mick?

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 30, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 48 Scenes by Howard Smith and Tracy Young THROUGH THE YEARS Mick Jagger has sung a lot of nasties about women. Just some of the titles, like "Stupid Girl" and "Under My Thumb," have been enough to rais ... More >>

Excerpt: The 33 1/3 Book On Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Featuring A Lot Of Money, A Lot Of Cocaine, And A Lot Of Band Bed-Hopping

​Recently, beloved friend-of-SOTC Rob Trucks (last seen chatting with the Big Star tribute crew and exploring Bob Dylan-centric Greenwich Village landmarks) published a book on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, adding to the venerable 33 1/3 series the tale of the fraught, outrageously expensive, doggedl ... More >>

Jeremy Cowan of Shmaltz Brewing Company Talks Geektoberfest, Jewish Celebration & How Sour is the New Bitter

Jeremy Cowan​Jeremy Cowan started Shmaltz Brewing Company back in 1996 out of his San Francisco apartment. Now, the beer is brewed in upstate New York and includes the line of HE'BREW craft kosher beers and Coney Island Craft Lagers. Cowan is busy this week as NYC Craft Beer Week is in full sw ... More >>

Rick Lazio Supporters Wonder What the Hell Happened

​By Samantha Cook "I feel very comfortable about where we are," Rick Lazio told voters during a meet and greet session at New York Penn Station just hours before upstart Carl Paladino destroyed him in the Republican gubernatorial primary, winning 64 percent of the vote compared to Lazio's 36 ... More >>

The Locavore Movement Makes Chefs Travel; Red Hook Vendors Get Achievement Award

​The locavore movement means that chefs must now regularly travel to farms in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. [NY Times] Two of the stars of HBO's Entourage -- Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon -- are among the investors backing a new Saratoga restaurant. [NY Post] Jonatha ... More >>

The Other Gulf Oil Rig Quietly Spilling Right Now: Explained and Exposed

​Here's a strange one: a filing by Ben Raines at the Alabama Press-Register on Monday evening shows up online with a headline announcing "Another Gulf oil spill: Well near Deepwater Horizon has leaked since at least April 30." Some bloggers may have noted it. But why aren't we hearing anything ... More >>

Racetracks One More Thing Suffering from Incompetent Albany Rule

Those of us who selfishly thought of the Aqueduct racino mess merely as a political scandal should be ashamed. The death of the AEG bid for the video slots franchise now leaves a gaping hole, not only in the state's coffers, but in those of the New York Racing Association, which runs Aqueduct and ot ... More >>

Q&A: Phantogram On Eyelid Movies, Recording In The Boonies, Dirty Hip-Hop, And Getting Picked Up On The Internet

Doron Gild, tinyhuman.com​A phantogram is an optical illusion that makes you woozy; Phantogram is a musical duo that toys with hip-hop beats, sleek vocals, and feral guitars in a way that creates a similar hallucinatory effect. Although Sarah Barthel (keyboards/vocals) and Josh Carter (guitar) ... More >>

Our 10 Best Fried Chickens

​Open 24 hours, New Caporal has long served the fried chicken needs of Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights, and its logo is a cowboy chick standing on a clump of foliage with a blazing pistol. Almost everybody loves fried chicken. The dish was brought to America by enslaved persons from W ... More >>

After Nightclub Outrage, New Racetrack Scandal for Paterson

​Poor Governor Paterson can't catch, or even take, a break. Last week he was attacked for going out to a nightclub, for which he had to be cleared by the state's top law enforcement official. Now the Daily News catches him at the Saratoga racetrack ("First the dance club, then the racetrack: G ... More >>

Fighting Foreclosure: Subprime Borrowers Battle (and Beat) Lenders in Court

A Slice of Mafia With Your Sparkling Water?

The city's king distributor of bottled beverages likes the wiseguys

Belmont Park's Backstretch Plays Home To a Most Unusual Day-Care Center

Is there a stranger location for a day-care in New York? Don't bet on it

Living the Political Life Fantastic

Surf, turf, and doughnuts: A state senator dines out on his campaign war chest

The Bruno Files: Exploring the Record of the State Senate Leader Calling for a Spitzer Probe

The immaculate record of the state senate leader calling for investigations of Eliot Spitzer

Playing the Ponies

A corporate watchdog's horse comes in

Mike's Well-Armed Pal

Anti-gun Bloomberg buys ammo for pro-NRA Bruno

Can't Anyone Here Learn to Drive?

In Hevesi's wake, new charges of free car rides for a government spouse at the taxpayer's expense—this time, the wife of former comptroller Carl McCall

Dark Invader

Robbins's restrained foray into Chassidic lore

Renovated Dolls' Houses

Greenberg deconstructs an elegant past; Son dismantles a shattering present

Go West!

Peter Boal takes his classical heritage and his adventurous spirit to Chelsea and Seattle

How to Be Terribly Popular

Summer fare: Anguished dancemaker triumphs over lost loves; Eurydice swings into hell

Horoscope

Timothy's Cause

A Dad's Crusade for Better Mental-Health Care

Cults of Personality

Bush Comes to Shove; Barney Goes for Baroque

Should Writing Hurt?

A Conversation With Master Fictioneer Harry Mathews

Sports

A Sucker's Game

Summer Pleasures

Love and Death in Town and Country

Playing the Polar Ponies

Winter Racing at Aqueduct—Not the Sport of Kings

The Albany Glacier

While Everything Else Changes, the State Legislature Remains Frozen in Time

Hunting New Classics

What to Serve With Vintage Balanchine