Software Development

100 & Single: "Call Me Maybe," Justin Bieber, And Teenpop Idols' Ongoing Love-Hate Relationship With Radio

After three weeks of patiently waiting at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100, Carly Rae Jepsen this week became the first solo female Canadian since Céline Dion to top America's premier song chart. Right on schedule for the start of summer, the ubiquitous "Call Me Maybe" finally climbs into the penthouse ... More >>

BLOOD TIES

Ellen Ullman tells Maud Newton 
about her new novel

How Much Do I Love The Ovation Channel?

Ovation generally shows a lot of documentaries about creative artist types, which is a huge notch above reality shows and absolutely fine with me. But lately, every time I click on it, they're airing one of my all-time favorite camp movies. Mahogany! Sparkle! Gypsy! Mommie Dearest! A Choru ... More >>

TALKIN' ABOUT TONIGHT

Fucked Up's name says it all

D-I-WHY NOT?

Homemade robots smarter than we are

How Can Andy Cohen's Show Ever Get Canceled?

​I'm not saying it should be, mind you. The man is clearly some kind of genius, with his popular programming choices for Bravo, which include his very own chat show on that very same channel. But if the ratings ever tumble, what will happen to his show?

Year in Film: Culture High

Young guns of the local rep scene

TEACHER’S PET

Can Jame Franco write, too?

'Playtime Presents Willie Graff & Chymera'

Vijay Iyer Trio

IN FOR THE KILL

British synth-pop duo take Manhattan

Junior Boys

New Yorker Review Makes Writing Classes Look Fun, Useless

Louis Menand's New Yorker review of Mark McGurl's The Program Era, a history of the rise of university writing programs and workshops, is subtitled, "Should creative writing be taught?" Despite itself, the review does not encourage a positive answer. Menand tells us that "by 1975, there were fiftee ... More >>

Clip Job: Computers Taking Over World, 1963 Edition

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 21, 1963, Vol. IX, No. 5The Little Machine That Couldn'tBy Mary Perot Nichols...A recent story in the New York Times headlined "Electronics Ends Housing Muddle"...could easily have led the unwary reader to believe that it was all coming ... More >>

Feardotcom

Ghosts in the machine: Internet horror dials up moody milieu of scary cyberspooks

The Moralgorithm

How the little black box knew the Spurs would (probably) win the NBA Finals

Buggin' Out

Abort, Retry, Fail?

Hire Level

Everyone Hates Miss Popular

Code Warriors

Inside Dope

Hometown Boy Sells Crack Online

Pure Play

Pure Play

At the re:play Conference, the Gaming World Longs for Legitimacy

Code Free

Unleashing Progressive Politics on the Technopoly

Smashing Windows

Linux, the David of Operating Systems, Poses a Threat to Microsoft's Goliath