Blogs
May 17, 2013Dance music's least likely purist, Pasquale Rotella, head of Insomniac Events and the brain's behind this weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival, has been making people dance for the last twenty years, throwing parties everywhere from L.A. warehouses to New York stadiums. Yesterday, we spent an hour talk ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2013When it's cold outside, what can be as comforting and delicious as a soft, warm cookie fresh from the oven? Filled with melted chocolate chips and smelling of butter and cinnamon, it sounds like one of the best ways to warm up. It would seem, then, that Insomnia Cookies has struck gold with its conc ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 26, 2012Voice Choices
November 21, 2012Voice Choices
October 3, 2012Voice Choices
August 29, 2012How important is sleep? Very.
Film
August 22, 2012Isn't as good as on the radio
Blogs
June 10, 2012[Update at 2:48 a.m]:
EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom.Electric Daisy Carnval in Las Vegas tonight was shut down temporarily as a result of high winds buffeting tall sound st ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 11, 2012Voice Choices
March 21, 2012A look at the works of Sara Driver
Voice Choices
January 18, 2012Breaking up is hard to do
Voice Choices
August 17, 2011Take in experimental theater and dance at the Dream Up Festival
Blogs
May 21, 2011Lately, it seems as if everything has to be turned into a diagnosis and a treatment. Trouble sleeping? You probably have restless leg syndrome. Bored at work? You probably have ADHD. Check your Facebook a bit too often? You probably have an internet addiction. And while we won't deny a mild c ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 9, 2011Mike Birbiglia shares his relationship horror stories
Voice Choices
February 16, 2011Actors read stories from Electric Literature
Blogs
January 6, 2011Rebecca MarxInsomnia's chocolate chunk on the left, Sarivole's on the right.
Insomnia Cookies has sat on West Eighth Street since 2008, and during that time has cultivated the loyalties of numerous NYU students thanks to its namesake product: cookies delivered throughout the wee hours, usual ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 4, 2010Our patience is running as thin as her sobriety
Blogs
June 22, 2010
In action at LPR.
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Monday, June 21
Darcy James Argue would like us to know that CDs and "stylish T-shirts" are available for purchase, so as to "finance my big-band habit," which is "worse than crack." He then turns his attention back to co ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2010Film Festival brings biking to the big screen
Voice Choices
May 4, 2010Laugh along with Mike Birbiglia
Blogs
February 11, 2010When Alec Baldwin's 14-year-old daughter Ireland couldn't rouse him late last night, she called 911 and the Emmy winner ended up at the hospital.
There was talk of a possible OD, but apparently Alec had simpy taken some sleeping pills.
He was released not that long afterward.
But questions ... More >>
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February 2, 2010Blogs
January 10, 2010Daniel Kelley, the special education teacher who was struck Tuesday by a car driven by a Brooklyn woman under the influence of painkillers, an anti-anxiety drug and a sleeping pill, died this morning in Staten Island University Hospital. He was 23 years old.
Voice Choices
December 22, 2009Voice Choices
December 15, 2009Real life killed our childhood heroes
Blogs
December 7, 2009Well, you've heard it all about Tiger Woods by now: the growing number of alleged romantic conquests, the Ambien sex --
Wait what?
"Uchitel told friends that she and Tiger liked to have sex while taking the drug Ambien. Uchitel told one pal, 'You know you have crazier sex on Ambien, you get ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2009A superhuman student recital
Voice Choices
September 22, 2009Ornette's here to tickle you
Voice Choices
October 8, 2008Mike Birbiglia shares his struggles with sleepwalking
Voice Choices
July 29, 2008Film
March 18, 2008Painfully long for an art-school video project
Film
March 11, 2008Watch Charlize Theron suffer!
Books
September 25, 2007A first-time novelist gets her hands wordy
Film
July 10, 2007NYC Life
July 3, 2007. . . before going to hell, he eats dog and peeks in a Korean housewife's urn
Music
February 27, 2007For the week of March 7-13, 2007
Theater
July 18, 2006Insomnia's sleepless in Babel; Kat Kat's grifter reunion
News
April 20, 2004Theater
January 6, 2004News
August 11, 1998Is New Drug a Workaholic's Dream—or Nightmare?
