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July 17, 2013Film
November 28, 2012Theater
November 14, 2012St. Ann's Warehouse brings a noted adaptation to Brooklyn
Dining
October 17, 2012Is Napoleon dynamite in a new wine bar?
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September 19, 2012Blogs
August 10, 2012[See More 3 Good Things: Insidious Punch | Hungry Vassar Girls]
1. Goats! They're cute, and they love to climb things, like this cool tower with windows and a wooden spiral staircase, located on the grounds of South African winery Goats do Roam. [Atlas Obscura]
2. A brief history of oven temperatu ... More >>
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July 4, 2012Columns
May 2, 2012Voice Choices
April 11, 2012New cinema from the continent
Dining
March 21, 2012Happily, New York gets some more South African food
Blogs
March 21, 2012At Kaia, your bunny chow comes with a full range of chutneys and other condiments.
It sounds really playful, doesn't it? But the South African specialty of bunny chow has some darker underpinnings. A specialty of the city of Durban, and specifically of the ethnically Indian population there, it co ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher discovers that some nonprofit managers in New York -- including at the Jewish Guild for the Blind -- aren't just rich, but among society's wealthiest: "Although he runs a nonprofit, Alan Morse is comfortably in the 1 percent that Occupy Wall Street ... More >>
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February 22, 2012Film
January 25, 2012Blogs
January 25, 2012This week in the Voice, out today: Gus Garcia-Roberts profiles Victoria Jackson, chronicling how the former Saturday Night Live star became a Tea Party darling: "Her comedy career, which took her from Johnny Carson's stage in Los Angeles to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, long ago squeaked it ... More >>
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December 21, 2011Blogs
December 16, 2011This weekend, Occupy Wall Street is planning to attempt an occupation of Duarte Square, which is owned by Trinity Wall Street, an Episcopalian parish downtown. The plans have been in the works for some time; a few people have been holding a hunger strike for almost two weeks to get Trinity to ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2011Drunk people tend to have unsafe sex, a new study has found.
The results of the research, soon to be published in Addiction, come shortly after South African reports revealed equally shocking news -- that drunk people often hook up casually.
Blogs
November 29, 2011A startling new report could soon challenge a widely accepted belief -- that alcohol encourages responsible sexual decisions.
Blogs
October 20, 2011Puja PatelWith more than a thousand bands in the city for CMJ, there's a strong chance you'll happen to run into one on the streets, hanging out after a show, or taking advantage of an open bar at a blog party. Here we'll check in with musicians we spot during the festival to see how they're ... More >>
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August 15, 201174 Orchard Street has had a rocky time of it over the past few years. In 2008, Sonia Rose moved in. In 2009, it moved out. Later that year, Bunny Chow, a South African restaurant, decided to have a go at it. But despite some truly excellent food slang and the efforts of one engagingly bizarr ... More >>
Film
July 13, 2011Blogs
June 17, 2011While lawmakers debate gay marriage up in Albany, down here in the city the United Nations took a historic step on gay rights, narrowly passing a gay-rights resolution today.
CNN reports that the resolution was introduced by South Africa, and passed with "23 votes in favor, 19 opposed and three abs ... More >>
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March 30, 2011Films made during the Apartheid get their U.S. debut
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March 9, 2011Voice Choices
March 9, 2011Joseph Shabalala’s group continues to thrive
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December 10, 2010F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here.
How to be a rock critic in 2010 in two steps:
1. Use the safety of the internet to laugh and point at people who look and act different than you.
2. When these people hit critical mass, proclaim them "secret gen ... More >>
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December 8, 2010Blogs
December 6, 2010Sarah DiGregorioLamb bunny chow, now sadly a thing of the past.Bunny Chow, Orchard Street's "very curious" South African restaurant, is done and gone, and now, according to a liquor license application on the CB3 site, some of the folks who brought us Los Feliz may be taking over the space. ... More >>
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October 26, 2010What a pleasant surprise to stagger into the Guggenheim Saturday and, in the midst of the museum's YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video exhibit -- an elaborate display of 25 clips guest-curated by a panel featuring everyone from Laurie Anderson to most of Animal Collective to Ryan McGin ... More >>
Art
July 27, 2010Three photo shows at the Jewish Museum, the Studio Museum, and Yossi Milo Gallery
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July 15, 2010According to a new Pew Research report, we are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma (or maybe that was Winston Churchill talking about Russia) but at any rate, damn, we are confusing! And complex! And, chained to our computers, all the better to tweet to other persons who are chaine ... More >>
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July 10, 2010The hookers are starving! Everyone believed that the sudden appearance of thousands of testosterone-oozing nationalists in South Africa would be a boon to the sex trade. As it turns out, no one is horny. Or they're just more interested in seeing art galleries and museums. What a classy bunch.
Blogs
July 6, 2010Beer-happy Copenhagen is getting its own cocktail culture, with several serious cocktail bars cropping up in recent years, and the debut of Copenhagen Cocktail Club, a group of bartenders dedicated to "promoting and developing the art of drink and bar and cocktail culture in Denmark and acros ... More >>
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June 28, 2010Yes, the single dumbest musical instrument and temporary obsession of people who are hellbent on annoying you into going all Jack Nicholson in The Shining since dudes were playing the "Star Wars" theme on the nose flute, the Vuvuzela -- that stupid South African horn people can't stop blowing ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2010
Splendid: From Brooklyn Vegan comes word that the South African rave-rap Meme to End All Memes known as Die Antwoord has booked their first NYC headlining show, at MHOW July 25. Tickets on sale Wednesday. This just one day after that big-ass Hard Festival thing at Governors Island with M.I.A. and ... More >>
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June 15, 2010As cocktail culture evolves and the drinks themselves get more intricate, the job of naming them has become a craft in itself. Sip a Penelope Cruiser at 675 Bar, or a Chupacabra at Fatty 'Cue.
[NY Times]
A new DIY winery is coming to Williamsburg, where you'll be able to do everything from s ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
We defy you to unironically enjoy this song.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa kicks off on June 11th. Sports-wise, the tournament promises to be thrilling, with 32 teams from around the world pitting their varied domestic styles and approaches to the game against each other in a bid to deci ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2010Last time this happened, Vice blew threw $250,000 and Titus Andronicus's Patrick Stickles ended up with red handprints on his neck and a sad, outraged story to tell. This time, semiconductor manufacturing unit Intel will foot the bill, and it's hard to imagine crazed South African rappers Die ... More >>
News
June 8, 2010What you need to sound like you understand fútbol
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March 24, 2010The MOMA covers three decades of William Kentridge
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March 16, 2010Blogs
February 9, 2010There will be chow As we told you yesterday, LES South African restaurant is listed for sale by Misrahi Realty. But don't count the chow out yet.
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February 3, 2010Bradford Cox a/k/a Atlas Sound (that's him to the left) could've been a hypnotist in a prior life—if in doubt, stop by the Bell House, where he'll put the audience in a trance with subdued fluorescent vocals layered over tamed, fraying guitars and electronic noise that bubbles to the su ... More >>
Dining
January 5, 2010The Lower East Side greets a South African restaurant
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September 1, 2009Voice Choices
June 3, 2009Blogs
May 5, 2009In these days of master mixology and cocktail snobbery, cream liqueur can be a hard sell. But Bailey's tastes like watered down chocolate milk next to the silky, complex cream that is Amarula from South Africa. Made from the famed fruit of the marula tree--you know, the one you've seen on the Discov ... More >>
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