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The Village Voice Welcomes Scott Foundas, Our New Chief Film Critic

Between the end of the world, and the end of the campaign, and the end of Lucasfilm, this has been the news week to end all news weeks. (And Newsweek!) But here at the Voice we're happy to report on one choice bit of unabashed good news: that Scott Foundas will be joining us as our new chief film cr ... More >>

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So: What's the First Professional Review of The Social Network (AKA The Facebook Movie) Say?

​Facebook just released their newest innovation that furthers the social network's reputation as a product meant to track your every move like the digital shock-collar we all know it is but have yet to fully come to terms with as (or have already given up on fighting). Which is also perfectly ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The 10th Annual Voice Film Critics' Poll, the Decade's Best Theater, Art, Dance, and Books, Harvilla's 'Worst Lyrics of the Decade,' and More

If you want to actually read this thing, by all means, click here.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla stages a brutal, single-elimination, March Madness-style tournament to determine the worst lyrics of the decade. Spoiler: the Black Eyed Peas are very much involved! Elsewhere, Christo ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Jawbox, Pill, Holiday Music Roundup, Best Books of 2009, Avatar, and More

Who had this photo in their office pool a decade ago? Jawbox on Fallon. Photo by Anything Photographic.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla ventures up to 30 Rock to have lunch with Jawbox on the eve of the D.C. punk band's one-off reunion on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, while Jayson G ... More >>

We See Invictus, The Lovely Bones, and A Single Man So You Don't Have To

Is there an Oscar at the bottom of that scrum? Oh no, there isn't.​Have you heard? It's Oscar Season! That couple of weeks at the end of the year when the studios put away all their horror and Gerard Butler films and instead release The Good Movies. And one after another, the good movies thi ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rihanna, BlakRoc, Palin's Going Rogue, The Road, the Future of La MaMa, and More

Blakroc. This picture just stays being funny. Photo by Jonah Schwartz​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla parses Rated R, the new album from "publicly wounded robo-r&b ice princess" Rihanna, Tom Hull returns with another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide, Phillip Mlynar chats with the ... More >>

This Week's Voice: R.A. the Rugged Man, Lil Wayne's The Carter Documentary, Zadie Smith, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Urs Fischer, and More

R.A. the Rugged Man: More dirty laundry than you can imagine. Photo by Calvin Godfrey.​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Westhoff recounts the long, setback- and STD-ridden journey of Long Island's own R.A. the Rugged Man, Jed Lipinski talks to the players involved with the semi-embargoed Lil ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​When their pets die, most New Yorkers can't bury them in the backyard. They can put the earthly remains in the trash (properly marked). If that's too weird, there are people who will handle the deceased animals. They are, as you might imagine, an interesting bunch. Steven Thrasher walks among ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Michael Jackson's This Is It, the True Story about Girls, Julian Casablancas, Weezer, Luc Sante's My Life in Poetry, and More

Girls, probably telling the truth. Photo by Sandy Kim.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla reviews Michael Jackson's mercifully goofy and cheerful This Is It, Reyhan Harmanci does some reporting and fact-checking on the improbably ridiculous backstory of San Francisco duo Girls, Andy Be ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Best of NYC, Them Crooked Vultures, Vince Aletti's Disco Files, Real Estate, Antichrist, and More

In this week's Village Voice, we present our annual Best of NYC issue, featuring New York's best in Arts and Entertainment, Shops and Services, People and Places, Sports, Recreation, and Sex, Bars and Clubs, and of course Eats and Treats. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla gets to know the deliciously indulge ... More >>

This Week's Voice: 50 Cent's The 50th Law, Brad Paisley, Bob Dylan, Where the Wild Things Are, the Andy Williams Memoir, and More

Who moved my cheese? Illustration by Shane Harrison.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla reads 50 Cent's surreally insightful self-help book, The 50th Law: "This book is actually kind of sad, in the bleakness of its cutthroat, shoot-nine-times-or-be-shot-nine-times worldview. Trust no o ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Fall Arts Guide, The Beatles Box Set, Jay-Z's Blueprint 3, Yo La Tengo, Whitney Houston, and More

​In this week's Village Voice, we unveil our 2009 Fall Arts Guide: Dan Weiss on the Jane Austen alt-rock of Brooklyn locals the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Jed Lipinski in conversation with George Packer on the occasion of the author's forthcoming Interesting Times: Writings From a Turbulent ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rap's Online Overdose, Our Jazz Consumer Guide, Heaven & Hell, Quentin Tarantino, and More

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​New Yorkers can do a lot of things other people can't: ride the Staten Island Ferry at midnight, have lunch in Central Park, etc. But we can't buy a damn bottle of wine at the grocery store. This year we had a chance to change it -- but the state's liquor stores and their lobbyists blocked it ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Antibalas Offspring Fu-Arkist-Ra, Jovanotti, and No, Pollution,

Jackie SnowJovanotti In this week's Village Voice, Carol Cooper writes about Italian stadium pop star Jovanotti. Michael Downes introduces Antibalas offspring Fu-Arkist-Ra. Adam Ganderson digs into the toxic stew you ignore and finds No, Pollution, who are defiantly not on Twitter. In Film, Scot ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Jane's Addiction, 'Muslim Voices,' Francis Ford Coppola, The Hangover, Exit Art's 'Negritude,' The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, and More

Jared GruenwaldTropicalia in Furs In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Charly Wilder tracks down an East Village storehouse of Brazilian psychedelia at Tropicalia in Furs. Phil Freeman on the Jane's Addiction reunion and three-CD, one-DVD box set, A Cabinet of Curiosities. Andy Beta talks ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Ciara and Chrisette Michelle, Bob Dylan, Outrage, Ben Greenman's Please Step Back, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla takes a trip to the r&b salt mines with Ciara and Chrisette Michelle. Edd Hurt on Bob Dylan's Together Through Life, during most of which Dylan apparently carries a gun. Justin Farrar laments the end of USA Is a Monster. Brad Cohan anticipa ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Booker T. Jones, Akron/Family, Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor, The Girlfriend Experience, Jim Jarmusch, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla visits Booker T. Jones at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where the indomitable MG finally embraces his inner surly rock star. Aidan Levy in praise of Marc Ribot, style-morphing guitarist icon extraordinaire. Jesse Jarnow on the otherworldly ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Neko Case, Asher Roth, Sonic Youth and Merce Cunningham, Tribeca Film Festival, Tyson, Lit Seen, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla joins with the rest of Neko Case's lovestruck/dumbstruck audience. Zach Baron on the upper-middle-class and rising rapper Asher Roth. Rob Trucks walks down Broadway with Scottish indie-pop enclave Camera Obscura. Jason Gross at Merce Cunnin ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Remember the epidemic years of AIDS, when infected New Yorkers fought to get into untested drug trials? People fought to get infected babies into those trials, too. Some of them, because of the nature of the trials, were given placebo drugs. Some made it, some didn't. Not much has been written abo ... More >>

This Week's Voice: "New Directors/New Films," DOOM, John Updike and John Leonard, Goodbye Solo, Best in Show, and More

Clockwise from top left: Autumn, fest-opener Amreeka, Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds, Cold Souls, and Mid-August Lunch. In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Phillip Mlynar asks DOOM, rap's biggest enigma, if he's heard any good jokes lately. Larry Blumenfeld crosses borders, hearts with th ... More >>

This Week's Voice: U2, The-Dream, the Pogues, Private Century, Kat Long's New Book, and More

Courtesy Def Jam In this week's Music Section, Rob Harvilla takes U2's new No Line on the Horizon, force quits, and moves to trash. Restart and reboot yourself. Clover Hope on The-Dream's sublime new Love vs. Money. Tad Hendrickson rolls triumphantly forward with The Pogues, eyes as glassed over ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Roots, K'Naan, Leonard Cohen, Examined Life, Best in Show, Mourning Becomes Electra, and More

Chad Griffith In this week's Music Section, Rob Harvilla profiles the new kings of late-night, the Roots, as they prepare to take Manhattan. Peter S. Scholtes on the shifting republic of K'Naan, a deft Somali rapper risking wackness in the name of peace. Kevin O'Donnell introduces the ball of exc ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Rob Harvilla on The Roots, hip-hop's favorite live backup and Jimmy Fallon's house band. Tim Elfrink and Jesse Hyde on how Guantanamo's custodians are coping with their mission and prisoners in the infamous prison's last days. Scott Foundas calls the new Harrison Ford vehicle, Wayne Kramer's Cro ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Lily Allen, Van Morrison, Max G. Morton, Brian Evenson, Katyn, Paul Graham, and More

Joseph Pickard In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on the vicious, precocious, but oddly winsome bad-sex revenge fantasies of Lily Allen. Scott Foundas revisits Astral Weeks with Van Morrison. Cristina Black profiles self-taught learner Lissy Trullie. Tal Rosenberg visits wi ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Cat Power, Jazz Consumer Guide, Martha Cooper, Gomorrah, The International, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America, and More

Cat Power photo by Stefano Giovannini In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla does live karaoke at the Apollo with Cat Power. Tom Hull gives us 2009's first Jazz Consumer Guide. Aidan Levy on downtown jazzbo Andrew D'Angelo's fight with cancer. Annie Fischer remembers the young ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Hipster Runoff, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Great Depression Double Bills, Piero Manzoni, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla gives us "Hipster Runoff Explained (Maybe)," a possibly illuminating chat with the Internet's latest mystery man. Stephen Slaybaugh investigates the sweet pop pleasure of the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Aidan Levy on the ambitious 'Searc ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Graham Rayman has been following the "Fight Club" cooked up by Rikers Island guards for a couple of years, and the Bronx D.A. has started dishing out charges. Inmates used and rewarded as enforcers, beatings arranged so as not to leave marks, victims intimidated into silence (and a few killed) -- t ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Death of the Record Industry, Kurtis Blow, Godard's Made in U.S.A., the Future of Art Criticism, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla talks to Rolling Stone vet Steve Knopper about his new book, Appetite for Self-Destruction, and the bitter decline of the music industry. Ben Westhoff breaks bread with Kurtis Blow in Harlem's only hip-hop church. Ross Simonini plumbs the ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Ninth Annual Village Voice Film Poll, the Third Annual Voice Jazz Poll, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, the Third Annual Voice Jazz Critics Poll: Essays, RIPs, and more. In Film, the Ninth Annual Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll. Plus Ella Taylor on Holocaust movies Good and Defiance, and Scott Foundas on Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life. In Books, Tom ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Neil Young, Marnie Stern, Jonathan Franzen, Benjamin Button, and More

This Week's Voice: The Worst Lyrics of 2008, Fall Out Boy, and The Wrestler

This Week's Voice: Dan Deacon, the Web Sheriff, Best Books of 2008, Che, and More

This Week's Voice: Hamell on Trial, T-Pain, Roberto Bolaño's 2666, Quantum of Solace, and More

This Week's Voice: Chunklet, Gang Gang Dance, Changeling, Elizabeth Peyton, Crust, and More

This Week's Voice: Hip-Hop Honors, Kind of Blue, the Streets, Body of Lies, and More

Letters 10.01.08

This Week's Voice: Mickey Rourke and The Wrestler, Solange Knowles, ATP, TV on the Radio, Jonathan Ames, the New York Film Festival, and More

This Week's Voice: Brooklyn Book Festival, MySpace Music, the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading, Sue Williams, and More

This Week's Voice: David Byrne & Brian Eno, John Carpenter, Serrano's 'Shit,' Paul Auster, and More

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Hoaxster

A chat with con-man Clifford Irving