Sesame Street

Muppets Are Coming to the Museum of the Moving Image

Come 2014-2015, New Yorkers are going to be able to meet Miss Piggy in the ... felt. On Monday, the Museum of the Moving Image and Mayor Bloomberg announced the creation of a new gallery that will house 400 puppets, costumes, props, and miscellany donated by the family of Jim Henson, the visionary b ... More >>

Pro-Burger American Meat Is Not Entirely Propaganda

FoxNation Equates Black Men With Chimps, Transgender People with Mrs. Doubtfire

Angry link-aggregatin' shithole FoxNation.com is the website of choice for white people who can't get through the day without saying "I'm not racist, but here's the problem with [INSERT OTHER RACE HERE]." Most days, the site's main page offers a couple dozen misleading or made-up headlines designe ... More >>

Paper's Nightlife Awards Were Dazzling, As Usual

Last night at Webster Hall, Paper brought together a wealth of shimmery, hipstery lovers of stars and bars to celebrate the joys of NYC nightlife (and also to toast the mag's Mickey Boardman's birthday with vats and vats of Hennessy). I was there to add my typically sour note as presenter of the Pe ... More >>

Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best

Me So Hungry, And You Delicious!

Just a reminder that food (and Sesame Street) can make life better. Hope everyone has a great weekend, and see you back here on Monday.

Here Is Wheelchair Sports Camp's New Life-Affirming Video, "Where We All Live"

We'd like to direct your attention to the new video released by CMJ 2011 underdogs Wheelchair Sports Camp, the little Denver band who came to New York this past fall and demonstrated so much fortitude of character they ended up on our front cover. Since we last heard from the psuedo-hop trio, they'v ... More >>

STRINGS ATTACHED

An onscreen ode to puppets

Sesame Street's New Hungry Muppet Is No Laughing Matter

The new face of poverty on Sesame Street​In an effort to raise awareness about poverty and hunger, the makers of Sesame Street are introducing a new Muppet to the neighborhood. Her name is Lily, and her family has an "ongoing struggle with hunger."

Intríngulis’s Alien Encounters

INTAR hosts Carlo Albán’s tale of illegal immigration

Spanish History Meets Insane Clown Posse in The Last Circus

Bert and Ernie Have No Sexual Orientation?

​That's what the Sesame Street producers swore in their response to the petition asking the two male roommates to get married. Said the officials: "Bert and Ernie are best friends. "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most ... More >>

I Know Why Bert And Ernie Can't Get Married

​Fans of cloth creatures with hands inside them have rallied to sign a petition urging Sesame Street roommates Bert and Ernie to tie the knot, as I've always felt would be the perfectly natural thing for these ultra close and very fashionable puppets to do. There's apparently just one reason ... More >>

Inside the Bert and Ernie Marriage Campaign

​Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie have been living together for 40 years. And now, an online petition demanding that Sesame Street allow Bert and Ernie to wed is circulating. As of this posting it has almost 4,500 signatures. "Let us teach tolerance of those that are different," the petition's d ... More >>

Help! Blandness Has Taken Over Our Culture!

... and the bland plays on

The Muppets Take Queens

The 5 Best Google Doodles

​Every once in a while Google likes to surprise us with a treat, a little gem on their homepage that makes searching the internet fun. In honor of the birthday of Les Paul, the Google Doodle today is a working guitar, encouraging every asshole in the office to take a stab at "Stairway to Heave ... More >>

QUACK UP

Remembering Sally Cruikshank’s delightful ducks

John DeLucie Working on Bruno Jamais, Still a Fame Whore

Portrait of the artist as a publicity construct.​John DeLucie's plans to pipe more outlandishly hyped food down New York's gullet are steaming right along.

Are Mexicans Cry-Babies?

Making sense of lachrymose singers and other burning questions

Soon Your Cell Phone Will Tell You if You Have Herpes

​Hot on the heels of (but completely unrelated to) Sesame Street's "There's an App for That" there really is an app for that...that being that unpleasant burning sensation. Doctors and technology experts in the UK are developing tiny computer chips that you'll be able to plug into your compute ... More >>

Kermit the Frog Brings the Green, Freaks Out Silly People

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 29 'Sesame Street' Learns It's Paved with Gold By Carol B. Liebman The Children's Television Workshop, producers of "Sesame Street," was attacked this spring by tv critics of the Times and the Daily News for ... More >>

Katy Perry Brought Sex to Sesame Street

​Or at least she tried to with her saucy duet with Elmo (the red creature that you tickle, not the restaurant that serves gay meatloaf in Chelsea). But uppity folk booted the "gurl" and her cleavage right into the garbage can along with Oscar the Grouch. Yes, Sesame Street shitcanned busty K ... More >>

Week of Media Shitcanning Madness Continues: CNN's Jon Klein, NBC's Jeff Zucker

​Locally, we've seen some pretty intense media cannings take place, specifically at the New York Daily News, which also goes without mentioning Katy Perry being booted off Sesame Street. Well, this morning, news went wide of two more big ones: CNN president Jon Klein is out, and NBC-Universal ... More >>

Breaking: Katy Perry's Boobs Too Much for Elmo, Sesame Street to Handle (Video)

​Why in the world would Sesame Street pull a segment featuring Elmo and Katy Perry singing a rewritten song of hers?

My Boyfriend Is a Zombie Might Be Better Off Dead

William Electric Black's flesh eater sing and dance at TNC

Anthony Bourdain's Second Book Out Soon; Eric Ripert Was Not Always a Gentle Giant in the Kitchen

​Anthony Bourdain's follow-up to Kitchen Confidential is coming out June 8. The book, entitled Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, includes a chapter called "Alan Richman Is a Douchebag." [Grub Street] Two chefs in Portland -- one of whom was Brady Low ... More >>

Puppets Were Up In My Face!

I've been interviewed by all the greats from Oprah Winfrey to Al Goldstein, but I'd never been interrogated by two felt creatures until May and Ted cornered me on my couch for some heavy duty grilling the other afternoon. It was as if Sesame Street and Avenue Q had suddenly intersected with MY bl ... More >>

Young Jean Lee's Latest at Soho Rep: So Lear and Yet So Far

The Bard and Big Bird collide

SUNNY DAYS

Sesame Street via Lafayette Avenue

'718 Sessions Present Danny Krivit & Osunlade'

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​ Jung's Red Book at the Rubin, w/admission

Conservatives Enraged By 2007 Sesame Street Episode Get Apology from PBS

​As often happens in the madhouse that is the rightwing blogosphere, a conservative recently got mad about an old TV show: Big Hollywood denounced Sesame Street for a 2007 episode in which Oscar the Grouch said, "I am watching 'Pox' News. Now there is a trashy news show." The episode actually ... More >>

PEOPLES IS PEOPLES

Can you tell me how to get to Court Street?

Soupy Sales, 1926-2009

Local children had a number of crappy shows with which to entertain themselves or drown out their parents' drunken yelling in the 60s. Most of the hosts were anodyne, cheerful dopes like Officer Joe Bolton. But Soupy Sales, who has passed away at age 83, was different. He was hard-working and rubb ... 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 >>

The New Fame: Sanitized Moppets Sing the Body Generic

A drag-queen-less field trip to Lucky Cheng's

Bloomberg's New Swine Flu Plan: "Flu Centers," Sesame Street

​We might call this "David Rosen gets action": Mayor Bloomberg has outlined the city's new plans to meet the swine flu threat. Along with free vaccinations for grade school students, the city will turn some of its medical clinics into "flu centers" at which citizens may obtain information and ... More >>

50 Cent to Elmo: "I Saved Your Life!"

This is a Jimmy Kimmel Live clip of 50 Cent dousing Sesame Street's Elmo with Vitamin Water after celebrity chef Adam Perry had shaved the furry red creature and began barbecuing him. Nobody promotes new albums like 50 Cent, whose War Angel mixtape--the cover of which seems to borrow both the apoc ... More >>

Fried Green Tomatoes, Shrimp, and Grits at BedStuy's Peaches Market

A Southern-style café that fits in like it's been there for years

Runaway Ravioli

Batali defector gets innovative on Avenue B

aNYthing to Be Hip

Kid America Alum Opens Shop on Hester

The World's Runnerup Rock Duo Proven Immobile in 197/32 Time

Horoscope

Mandela Anniversary Fest Takes on Apartheid, AIDS, and Afro-Cuban Jazz

And the Winner Is . . .

And We All Shine On

Boys in the Adulthood

Pop-Rock Sounds Console Those Growing Up, or Refusing To

Living a Full Life

Schmoozing with the Original Sweater