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May 23, 2012
Anonymous Online Speech: Soon To Be Banned by Albany?
The Voice's Steven Thrasher just brought this to our attention. Legislation is pending in Albany that would make illegal anonymous online commenting, City & State tweeted this morning. Looks like Wired was among the first to report on the measure. The bill's backers, according to the mag, want ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Children's Book Artist Maurice Sendak, Dies at 83
In very sad news today, the wonderful Maurice Sendak has died due to complications from a recent stroke. Sendak was considered one of the most important children's book artists of the 20th century. There will likely be many tributes and stories about Sendak today; you can read some here: The New ... More >>
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May 2, 2012
May Day Recap: Highlights from Voice Reports (UPDATE)
Good (late) morning! A lot of the Voice staff is still recovering from a long day of May 1 coverage, but we wanted to bring you a brief recap of what went down from when we stopped liveblogging until now. Enjoy!
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May 1, 2012
OWS Free University Rocks Madison Square Park, Draws Bigger Crowd Than Shake Shack
Somewhat ironically, it's the Occupy Wall Street May Day event that is the least controversial that is most reminiscent of the best of Zuccotti Park's heyday. The Free University of New York -- largely sponsored by CUNY students and faculty who chose to take their classes into Madison Square Park to ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
Jesus and Friends Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street May Day actions are winding down this evening, with a march from Union Square to Battery Park. [Update, 9:00 PM: Nick Pinto tells me things are not winding down at all. Rather, a very large crowd "has filtered into the amphitheater at the Veteran's Memorial, where they're havi ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
It's 420: Know Your Rights on The Holidaze
Put down the Hot Pocket and FOCUS. Yes, we know that scene in Die Hard is about to come up, but this really can't wait. No, we don't want a hit. It's from Humboldt County? Then maybe later. Fine. And we'll look at that really cool cartoon in a bit, we promise! But for right now, please try to listen ... More >>
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April 12, 2012
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Esplanade Lawn Finally Grows Back -- Just In Time To Get Trampled Again By Big Ass Tent (PHOTOS)
One of the Great Mysteries of Brooklyn which has long perplexed us is what happens every year to the Cherry Esplanade at the Brooklyn. The Cherry Esplanade is a treasure, especially in April. The grove comprises one of the most beautiful collection of blossoming cherry trees in the state, if not al ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
This Week In The Voice: Action Bronson, First Aid Kit, Music Therapy, And A Giant Doritos Vending Machine
This week in the Voice Phillip Mlynar talks to Action Bronson and Party Supplies about their Blue Chips collab; Jessica Hopper finds out how the Swedish sisters in First Aid Kit came to love country; Steven Thrasher looks at "the nonprofit 1%" and talks to a music therapist who got lost in her forme ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Hey, Steven Thrasher, James King Here -- Nice To "Meet" You!
Yesterday, veteran Voice scribe Steven Thrasher apparently spent a good chunk of his day kvetching about me in the form of a lengthy blog post, in which he called me a racist. He then challenged me (without ever actually speaking to me -- or replying to multiple emails -- of course) to some sort ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
This Week in the Voice: The 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers
This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher's listing of the 100 most powerless New Yorkers. Among them: weed-delivery guys and the transgendered sex workers of Hunts Point. Maura Johnston notes the many aesthetic links between David Lee Roth and Kanye West.
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December 24, 2011
White People On Reddit Wonder Why They Have Never Been Stopped And Frisked
This morning a white "normal" New Yorker woke up, walked over to his computer, and asked his fellow members of the online community Reddit, "Any white "normal" looking nyers that have ever been stopped and frisked by cops?" Although terribly phrased and pretty racist, the question is kind of ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
21 Voice Stories from 2011 That Melted Even This Grizzled Journalist's Heart to Report
James WorrellLooking back, 2011 has been quite a year, especially on the gay rights front, one of our major beats. Like the cardiac organ caught in a bear trap accompanying Jen Doll's "Plight of the Single Lady," there were times when, objective reporter or not, the stories we were reporting ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
This Week in the Voice: Heathens, Cloves, and Christmas
This week in the Voice, out today: Steven Thrasher looks at the career of Dan Halloran, the first heathen elected to office in America -- specifically, to the 19th City Council District in Queens in 2009 -- and "no garden-variety pagan." Robert Sietsema reviews the Indian Clove, a restaurant near ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Has Already Set Up (Temporary?) Camp on Sixth Avenue and Canal
Steven ThrasherWell, that was quick. When we started covering the Occupy Wall Street march at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge this morning, about 150 marchers were cruising by City Hall, around the same time Mayor Bloomberg was giving his press conference to rationalize the clearing of Zuccot ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
We're Really Freaking Happy With the Subway, Apparently
Despite our own Steven Thrasher's harrowing experience on a smoke-filled 4 train last night, the MTA believes that we are mostly happier with New York City transit than we used to be (and apparently we do, too). According to the results of their just-released 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
On Being Trapped Under the East River On the 4 Train, as Our Car Filled With Smoke [VIDEO]
Steven ThrasherThis brother with the gas mask scared the shit out of everyoneI was on the Brooklyn-bound 4 train tonight which experienced an as of yet un-explained explosion. The following is what I wrote on my laptop, largely unedited, as it happend. 9:30 (ish)-- This was written somewher ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Occupy...The Village Voice?
Steven ThrasherThe Voice box, the Strand bag, and this lady making the best of thingsWhen we first saw this woman using one of our boxes as a bed/couch on Bowery this afternoon, we assumed it was an absurd, but one-time, incident. But it turns out, our paper really does comfort the afflicted ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Lawyers and Activists Arrested in Brooklyn Courtroom While Stopping Foreclosures with Song (VIDEO)
Updated below: the singers have been released. Organizing for Occupation co-sponsored the first Occupy Wall Street action in Brooklyn today, and it didn't disappoint in terms of adding some Brooklyn flair to the once Manhattan bound scene. About a hundred people rallied outside Brooklyn Supreme Co ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Rapture Come Home; Bloomberg's Young Men's Initiative
This week in the Voice, Michaelangelo Matos writes of the Rapture's return to DFA Records with their new album, their "soul record," In the Grace of Your Love. The band will be playing Webster Hall this Friday. Steven Thrasher explores Mayor Bloomberg's Young Men's Initiative, a program tha ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Michael Sailstorfer's Tornado Coming to Central Park Through February
Steven ThrasherSailstorfer's 30 foot sculpture being installed Joining that newly installed elephant in Union Square in the city's gallery of public art, there's a similarly scaled sculpture we noticed being erected in the south part of Central Park over the weekend, just across the street fr ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Crowds Gather Outside Home of Mary Ward, 82-Year-Old Bed-Stuy Resident Fighting Eviction
Steven ThrasherOur Steven Thrasher is currently on the scene outside the home of 82-year-old Bed-Stuy resident Mary Ward. Ward was scheduled to be evicted today and her home foreclosed on, but Thrasher reports that Assembly woman Annette Robinson "seems to have brokered an agreement to at lea ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Choice to Marry
This week in the Voice: Steven Thrasher tells the beautiful love stories of two same-sex couples. But while Kawane and Jeanette Harris got married on July 24, the first day they could in New York, Kevin Beauchamp and Howard Orlick -- both legally blind -- are staunch gay marriage advocates wh ... More >>
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July 24, 2011
First Same-Sex Couples Wed in New York City
Steven ThrasherMichael Furey and Bienvenido Amagna, the first same-sex couple to wed in Brooklyn.Today's the day! Same-sex marriage is officially legal in New York State, and the weddings are rolling along. The first couple married in New York City was Phyllis Siegal and Connie Kopelov, who e ... More >>
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July 24, 2011
Twins Are Volunteer Flower Girls For Brooklyn Same-Sex Marriages
Steven Thrasher More stuff from Steven Thrasher: that's Steve Landis and Julie Irwin, who brought their 4-year-old twins Emily and Sophie to Brooklyn Borough Hall this morning to be flower girls for whoever might need them. They don't even know anyone getting married today! Aw. [@_rosiegr ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
This Week in the Voice: Catch the Summer Arts Guide
What is there to do in sizzling hot New York City? Everything, of course! This week's issue of the Voice is jam-packed with everything you need to know to have the best summer ever. Also, Steven Thrasher gives us the story of the Hebrew Language Academy, a public charter school in Brooklyn wh ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
Woman Uses $100 Bill as Her Bookmark. On the Subway.
Sighted on the G train today by the Voice's Steven Thrasher: A woman using what appears to be a $100 bill as a bookmark. Out in the open. Holding her place in a book from -- not a joke -- the Rich Dad franchise. Appropriately or not, the woman was reading up on how to buy a house. Thrasher re ... More >>
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April 23, 2011
Open Letter to Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr.: We Hope You Live a Long, Happy Life
Dear Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr.: I have read your open letter addressed to "The Editors of the Village Voice." As you noticed, in a recent update to this blog by Steven Thrasher on how irrelevant you are becoming in New York's inexorable move to making marriage equality a reality in this ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
This Week in the Voice: Kicking Back With the Black Hebrew Israelites
This week in the Voice, Steven Thrasher enters the wild world of Black Hebrew Israelites, or as they are more commonly referred, "those guys who yell at everybody on the street." They tell him they "are the Ambassadors of Christ," but others have differing views. One of their ex-girlfriends, ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Success of Bronx Success Academy 1
This week in the Voice, Steven Thrasher examines the methods of the Success Charter Network and its polarizing CEO Eva Moskowitz. The Bronx Success Academy features "a half-time psychologist, a speech therapist, a music instructor, and even a chess teacher." Would you believe that it's workin ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
The 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2010
This really felt like a breakout year at the Voice, with our big NYPD investigative series, the Runnin' Scared, Sound of the City, and Fork in the Road blogs blowing up, and, um, you know, we're still in print and stuff. Can you guess which Voice story made the biggest splash this year? Befo ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
This Week in the Voice
In this week's issue of the Voice, Steven Thrasher takes on the supposed racial discrimination of the New York City "6019" firefighter's exam. Black candidates have passed the test with flying colors and yet have been prevented from joining the FDNY after the test was deemed racist by federal ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
For Eid al-Adha, You May Not Want to Buy Your Halal Lamb at the Fertile Crescent
Last night kicked off the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice. It's a busy time of year for halal butchers, including the Fertile Crescent on Atlantic Avenue. Our illustrious colleague Steven Thrasher stopped by the bustling shop last night for some chicken, but what he w ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
President Obama Finally Immortalized as a Chia Pet
What's the ultimate form of terrible, tawdry, pop culture tribute? If you're President Obama, until today, you probably thought it was a vibrator made in your physical likeness. But oh, how wrong you were.
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November 3, 2010
Santa Extra-Pushy This Year (or, the Christmas Creep Begins)
It's November 3. It was just Halloween, and we're still clinging to the last vestiges of Daylight Savings Time (get ready to falllll baaaaack this Sunday!). But...have you done your Christmas shopping yet? 'Cause you have to get on that shit. As EV Grieve has noted, "Duane Reade Puts Out Its ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
The Voice's Steven Thrasher Discusses DADT and 'Being Gay in 2010' with WNYC's Brian Lehrer
Voice staff writer Steven Thrasher appeared on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show yesterday to discuss Don't Ask, Don't Tell and being gay in 2010. Listen to him discuss and answer callers' questions below: (function(){var s=function(){__flash__removeCallback=function(i,n){if(i)i[n]=null;};window.setTimeout( ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
White America Has Lost Its Mind, The TV Show: Starring Toure and Dylan Ratigan (Video)
We're still reading and hearing about Village Voice staff writer Steven Thrasher's cover story from two weeks ago, an essay entitled "White America Has Lost Its Mind." We've heard from Angry White People writing in, we've heard from Thrasher on the radio, and now? It's starring in an MSNBC se ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
New York Anti-Violence Project Honors the Voice's Steven Thrasher
Congrats to Voice staff writer Steven Thrasher, who has been awarded the 2010 Courage Award by the New York Anti-Violence Project -- the oldest organization in the nation that combats violence toward and within the LGBT community. We are proud to have this amazing writer (and human) in our mi ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
The Voice's Steven Thrasher Talks "White America Has Lost Its Mind" on 98.7 KISS FM
The Voice's own staff writer Steven Thrasher, author of "White America Has Lost Its Mind," appeared on 98.7 KISS FM's show Open Line this Sunday. If you missed it, don't fret: You can listen to him discuss and answer call-in questions about his (Roger Ebert-approved) piece -- which has been s ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
Stuff Crazy White People Like: 3 Ways Rightbloggers Deal (or Don't) With Race
You may have noticed the controversy over last week's Voice cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind" by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many of them devoted to proving Thrasher's proposition by example. Among the more choice reader contribu ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
The Village Voice Institute of Crazy White American Folk, Pt. 2 (Letters to the Editor)
Hear now, "boy": last Wednesday's Village Voice's cover story by staff writer Steven Thrasher, an essay entitled White America Has Lost Its Mind, sure has attracted some interesting attention! Whether or not readers agree with what we have to say, we often get letters from them regarding our s ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
The Village Voice Institute of Crazy White American Folk (Letters to the Editor)
Hear now, boy: This week's Village Voice's cover story by staff writer Steven Thrasher, an essay entitled White America Has Lost Its Mind, sure has attracted some interesting attention! Whether or not readers agree with what we have to say, we often get letters from them regarding our stories, ma ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Crazy White America, The Comments: Day 1 Word Cloud
Yesterday, we unleashed Steven Thrasher's cover story, White America Has Lost Its Mind, on an unsuspecting -- and partially mental-health-care-needing -- public. Since then, besides producing some pretty amusing, enlightening, and point-proving hate mail, Thrasher's story has also generated r ... More >>
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September 26, 2010
New York City Declares Official "Marriage Equality Day" at Wedding March
Today marks the 7th annual New York City Wedding March, presented by Marriage Equality New York. Village Voice man Steven Thrasher is on the scene and sending dispatches, including this picture of the cast of Real Housewives in New York dressed in gowns. More importantly, Thrasher reports tha ... More >>
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September 21, 2010
'Kike Barber Shop' Not Exactly a 'High Holidays' Kind of Place
Via Steven Thrasher. When our very own Steven Thrasher was out in the field recently, he happened across this place, a barber shop in Jackson Heights, Queens on 91-19 37th Avenue. Somehow, it didn't seem appropriate to note over the Jewish High Holidays, for some reason, which isn't at all ev ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Audio: The Village Voice's Steven Thrasher Talking 'Ronnie's Kids' and Immigrant Amnesty on WNYC
This week in the Voice, staff writer Steven Thrasher caught up with a few of the three million illegal immigrants who were famously granted amnesty by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, the last time an amnesty was signed into law. Now, not only can you read his piece -- Ronnie's Kids: The Brig ... More >>
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July 12, 2010
Jackson Heights Restaurant Offers Barbecue, Gutter Humor
Our Man Sietsema chronicled the 13 worst restaurant names in New York a little over a month ago, but here's a late entry from Jackson Heights. Needless to say, we don't want to know what they're putting in the barbecue sauce. [Thanks to the intrepid Steven Thrasher for the photo] Have a tip ... More >>
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May 22, 2010
March Through Lower Manhattan Commemorates Harvey Milk's 80th Birthday
Eighty years ago today, on May 22, 1930, Harvey Milk was born in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island. As the first openly gay elected official in California, Milk became an icon of San Francisco's 1970s Castro District and more generally, gay activism as a rising phenomenon. As Sean Penn showe ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
This Week in the Voice
Sailors used to roll around the city like Gene Kelly, but security concerns and technology have changed things, and now they mostly stay on the ships or, if they're lucky, at rare havens like the Seafarers & International House. The men whose boats brought you almost everything you have are m ... More >>
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November 10, 2009
This Week in the Voice
When their pets die, most New Yorkers can't bury them in the backyard. They can put the earthly remains in the trash (properly marked). If that's too weird, there are people who will handle the deceased animals. They are, as you might imagine, an interesting bunch. Steven Thrasher walks among ... More >>
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November 7, 2009
Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free
Leaf peeper map of NYS What little there is left, we have here, and we're at peak leaf (according to the News, we owe that information to the city's official foliage monitor, Cori Carl). Local foliage tours are here.
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