South Dakota

State Settles With Five Illegal Payday Lenders for Less Than $310K Combined

Payday loans--short-term, high-interest cash advances that often target low-income communities--are illegal in New York state. A 1976 law made it a felony to charge borrowers an interest rate above 25 percent. Because payday loans operate on quick lending cycles--usually two weeks--the annual intere ... More >>

Medical Marijuana: North Dakota Might Consider Prescription Pot

In a few months, North Dakota voters might decide whether to allow prescription pot as a painkiller. The Associated Press has the story: Medical marijuana propopnents are collecting signatures to put the measure on November's ballot. North Dakota's legislature has never weighed the issue, the AP ... More >>

This Year's DocuWeeks Festival Makes a Strong Case for Real Life

The world comes home

Nine Food TV Shows We'd Love To See

​How did food television become so boring and predictable? Umpteenth season of Top Chef? Yawn. Endless cupcake wars? Yawn. Paula Deen pouring more butter into the cake? Yawn. Guy Fieri tucking into another giant hamburger? Zzzzzzzzz. Well, the time has come to invent new types of food-themed s ... More >>

Let It Bleed

Hard at work on his eighth novel, Deadwood author Pete Dexter still packs a punch

Bien Cuit's Zachary Golper Works 19 Hours a Day, and Doesn't Know How to Sleep Anymore

Zachary Golper and Kate Wheatcroft, Bien Cuit's co-owners. ​Yesterday, we spoke with Zachary Golper, the co-owner of Smith Street's new Bien Cuit bakery, about the career path he followed from Portland, OR, to Philadelphia to Brooklyn, and the decidedly personal relationship between a baker an ... More >>

Mountain Lion Traveled 1,500 Miles Cross-Country to Get to Connecticut

​Like many an aspiring New Yorker, the mountain lion that was recently sighted wandering about Greenwich, Connecticut -- the lion that was later, sadly, killed by an SUV on the Wilbur Cross Parkway -- had headed east from far, far away. On Tuesday state officials reported that the animal had c ... More >>

EMA, Drug Buddy

Grasping for closeness on Past Life Martyred Saints

It's 1973, and Press Clips Begins!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 2, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 31 Press Clips by John Leo [Somehow I overlooked this: in May, 1973, the Voice began its "Press Clips" column, and its first writer was John Leo. So this isn't the first of that venerable column, but it' ... More >>

Senator Schumer Coaches Colleagues on Press Call; The Guardian To Expand Stateside

Chuck Schumer, media adviser​On Tuesday morning, a telling little bit of the relationship between high-ranking politicians and the press was exposed when New York Senator Chuck Schumer was caught chatting prematurely on a conference call about the budget process with his fellow lawmakers. Schu ... More >>

Would a South Dakota Bill Legalize the Murder of Abortion Doctors?

​There's a law being put forth in South Dakota by Rep. Phil Jensen that's getting a lot of attention as it seems as if it would effectively allow for -- perhaps even promote -- the murder of abortion doctors. The law seeks to make killings intended to prevent harm to a fetus part of the defini ... More >>

The Future Is Bleak for Foodies; Forget Jared. Meet Christine, Taco Bell's Diet Poster Girl

​The latest food recall comes from National Steak and Poultry in Oklahoma, which is recalling some 248,000 pounds of beef that might be contaminated with a strain of E. coli. The meat could be linked to illnesses in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, South Dakota, and Washington. [ABC News] Wh ... More >>

Sonny Landreth+Indigenous

World Food Situation Dire; School Bake Sales Now a No-no

​An Australian scientist says that the world's food situation is so bad that we will have to produce more food in the next 50 years than we ever have in history. A growing population and climate change will make the task more difficult. [ABC News] Small farms are all the rage, according to a ... More >>

The EU Rejects Health Claims by Food Corps; PepsiCo Gears Up for 'Massive Gatorade Transformation'

​Seven people were arrested in a food stamp sting in Nassau County. Employees at five stores were involved in accepting food stamps as payment for prohibited items like cigarettes and alcohol, as well as giving cash kickbacks. [Newsday] The Vegemite saga continues. Kraft has now released the ... More >>

Bloomberg Wants to Make Gun-Toting While Intoxicated a Crime

​Oh, now come on! If you're walking around New York minding your own business, and drunk, while carrying a gun, Mayor Bloomberg wants you to get a one-year jail term and a $10,000 fine. And 1010 WINS informs us that even free states like South Dakota and Missouri already have anti-armed-drunk ... More >>

News Roundup: Steven Tyler Crashes to Earth, Chris Brown Sentencing Delayed, Regina Spektor On Sale

--Steven Tyler fell off the stage last night during Aerosmith's gig at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota and had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital ten songs into their set. The 61-year-old frontman was dancing to entertain the crowd after the sound system failed during "Love in an El ... More >>

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

CDC: New Yorkers' Sadness Only Mediocre

The Centers for Disease Control did a phone survey which they say reveals the state-by-state sadness levels of citizens, and surprise, New York did not win, place, or show. Kentucky -- yes, the home of bourbon and jes' settin' on the porch -- is the winner, with a frequent mental distress (FMD) occ ... More >>

Clip Job: Holy Moses! An Expressway in Little Italy?

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesAugust 30, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 45The Fight for Little ItalyBy Stephanie GervisNot since home and motherhood has there been a cause like the fight against the Lower Manhattan (Broome Street) Expressway.It's everybody's fight. Politicians like Stat ... More >>

Clip Job: 'Read the Village Voice at Wall Drug'

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 21, 1961, Vol. VII, No. 9In Wall, S.D., It's Wall DrugBy John WilcockFrom time to time in this newspaper you may have seen a small ad announcing: "In Wall, South Dakota - it's Wall Drug." More than once the ad has even appeared in a "Nig ... More >>

Downticket: Mixed Results, But Loony Refs Are Fading

Fringe Festival 2008 Reviews!

Missing Man, Ariel View, Keep Your Eyes Open, and more

Paris Hilton Politics = Hilarious

Yves Saint Laurent's Legacy and Hillary Clinton

Free Will Astrology

"Plucky" Molly Muzzled From the Grave

The Case for Plan B

Letters

Letters

South Dakota's Genius Scheme to Outlaw Abortion

The trick? Privately fund a public initiative overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision

'One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern'

Senator = Fat Cat

Frist, other esteemed leaders present their wallets for your perusal.

Freedom To Read!

A new movement to send a caravan of uncensored books to the people of Cuba

A U.S. Library vs. Fidel

A library defies Castro and the American Library Association on Freedom to Read

Time for Plan B

New tactics for the same pressing issues

The Best Votes Money Can Buy

Facts and figures of the most expensive election campaign in U.S. history

NY Mirror

Crime Victims

A New Anti-Abortion Law in South Dakota

Freak Show

Horoscope

Indian Soul to Melt Your Mind

No Cool Remove: Reissue Unveils a Bollywood of Tangible Passion for American Ears

Paper Thin

Are Computer Warranties Rip-Offs?

Nation

The Growing Opposition to Bush's War Plans

Theater

Pass the Remote: Fifty Percent of Voters Stayed Home

Even Close Races Fail to Draw Big

The Jazz Singer

All in the Family

When blood and marriage bind lobbyists and politicians