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  • Theater

    April 11, 2012

    The Best Man: Political Party Animals

    It's presidential-campaign showbiz in a Gore Vidal revival

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    April 11, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: Sandhogs Under Second Avenue

    This week in the Voice, out today: Sean Manning follows the Second Avenue sandhogs: "Here for 470 million years there had been rock, there are now two 20-foot diameter, butter-smooth concrete tubes--a giant, mile-long double-barrel shotgun buried 100 feet below the Upper East Side... Scant attention ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Our Art Director John Dixon Is a Rugged Maniac

    Rugged Maniacs mud race: Brooklyn, NY 2011 from Village Voice Media on Vimeo. The Village Voice's art director John Dixon, who regularly kills it with his covers, is a man of many talents. The video above is of a 5K "adventure race and music festival" called Rugged Maniac that took place in Floyd Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Live: Fool's Gold Day Off Party Turns into a Relay Rave

    Fools Gold Day Off City Winery Monday, September 5 Better than: Catching bullets at a parade. New York City empties out on Labor Day weekend, but for the past two years those who've stuck around have been able to see behind the curtain on what's next, on what's nexter-than-next, and the emerging ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Raffi Stepanian, NYC Treasure Hunter, Lives Off of Tweezers and a Butter Knife

    Queens man Raffi Stepanian tells the New York Post exclusively today that, "The streets of 47th Street are literally paved with gold." With typical NYC street character (or nut job) enthusiasm, Stepanian spends his days crawling around on the pavement in the Diamond District, where he uses tweezers, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2011

    Will the Real Macarons...er, Macaroons or Maakarons, Please Stand Up!

    ​One of these pastries is also called "macaron," but which one? We've spilled lots of ink lately on the difference between macaroons and macarons -- the former being sticky, coconut-based cookies popular for Passover, the latter cheerless-but-colorful sandwich cookies that taste something l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    MTA Considers Banning Food, Spaghetti Fights on Subway

    runx/Flickr​Although that video of two woman fighting over spaghetti on a crowded subway car was certainly a fun (if slightly unsettling) way to waste four minutes, the MTA is not amused.

  • Dining

    February 23, 2011

    Bensonhurst's Dai Wah Yummy City Ain't So Itty-Bitty

    Big and boxy—but pretty good Chinese

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Yuengling

    ​ Some interesting facts we gleaned from The Wall Street Journal's profile of D.G. Yuengling & Son, the Pennsylvania-based brewer that last week announced its plans to buy a former Coors brewing facility in Memphis:

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Essex Street Market Soybean Sprouts Recalled Due to Listeria Contamination

    Beware.​Government food recalls often seem to involve big, faceless industrial food monoliths, but here's one that feels a bit more personal: the New York State Agriculture Department has issued a recall for packaged soybean sprouts sold at Essex Farm, one of the produce vendors in the Essex S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2010

    Food at Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows Mildly Disappointing

    ​Dragon Boat afloat in Flushing Meadows Pond. I went expecting to find a food scene something like the Red Hook soccer fields or the Labor Day parade in Brooklyn, and indeed there were tents, pavilions, and penants galore at the north end of the lake, like some medieval jousting match. Most o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Jeremy's Ale House: Fried Seafood, Beer in Styrofoam Cups, Off-Duty Firemen

    ​It's not that the fried seafood at Jeremy's Ale House near the South Street Seaport is the best you've ever had. It's more like an ideal version of boardwalk food--greasy, but also fresh-tasting and generous. Beer comes in giant Styrofoam cups in either 16- or 32-ounce servings ($4.75-$6.50), ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Papa John's 99-Cent Slice

    ​The 99-cent slice at Papa John's on West 28th Street In our coverage of the slice at 99 Cent Fresh Pizza and the superior, one-cent-more slice at 2 Bros., I neglected to mention that a national chain has jumped into the cheap-slice act.

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2010

    Farm and Blog Launched Sunday on Rooftop of Sixpoint Craft Ales, Red Hook, Brooklyn

    ​A bantam hen seems proud of her newly laid egg. Cathy Erway, author of The Art of Eating In, is launching a new blog Monday that will be the successor to her long-running noteatingoutinny.com. The url is lunchatsixpoint.com, and the subject matter will be her activities as one of Brooklyn's ... More >>

  • News

    April 27, 2010

    New York Happy Hours, All Around the Clock

    20 Happy Hours for every legal drinking hour in town!

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Titus Andronicus and the Vivian Girls Prove Once and For All That Weezer Is How Every Human Under 25 Learned to Play Guitar

    To review: Weezer's "Sweater Song" is your holy text; this howling, elemental singalong conducted by Titus Andronicus and the Vivian Girls's Cassie Ramone last night in Philadelphia will serve as your rites. That Titus's Patrick Stickles nails the solo note for note, and that he and Cassie are abl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Street Food: Steamed Rice Cakes in Chinatown

    ​Yesterday, a petite woman sporting a smart blue cardigan and close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair sat on the south side of Grand Street between the Bowery and Elizabeth. A box propped up in front of her held bamboo-wrapped zongzi and Styrofoam dishes of these jiggly snacks.

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    Alkaline Trio

    ​Yesterday, a petite woman sporting a smart blue cardigan and close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair sat on the south side of Grand Street between the Bowery and Elizabeth. A box propped up in front of her held bamboo-wrapped zongzi and Styrofoam dishes of these jiggly snacks.

  • Dining

    February 2, 2010
  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    Indian Mangoes Back in Stores

    Every year about this time Indian mangoes appear in Queens South Asian grocery stores, including Patel Bros., and cause quite a stir. They're smaller, greener, sweeter, darker-fleshed, and creamier than the Mexican and Central American mangoes--which often have a red coloration--that you might ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    Fork in the Road Loves Bussaco in Spite of Herself

    Every year about this time Indian mangoes appear in Queens South Asian grocery stores, including Patel Bros., and cause quite a stir. They're smaller, greener, sweeter, darker-fleshed, and creamier than the Mexican and Central American mangoes--which often have a red coloration--that you might ... More >>

  • Music

    September 23, 2008

    ATP Rocks the Catskills

    Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

  • Film

    May 27, 2008

    Sex and the City: Plotless and Pointless

    Despite the labels and levity, the big-screen SATC is a poor-man's knockoff

  • NYC Life

    April 29, 2008

    Trapped in Wedding Hell

    A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day

  • Art

    January 29, 2008

    New York: In Every Kind of Light, the Rapture, and More

    A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007

    Things We Forgot to Tell You in 2007 #1: McCarren Back Tattoos

    A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day

  • Theater

    October 23, 2007

    Fuerzabruta

    The new extravaganza of Buenos Aires–based company De La Guarda

  • Art

    August 7, 2007

    Don't Chew On It

    Recommendations by R.C. Baker

  • Art

    July 3, 2007

    The Foil Baron

    Ballroom or bathroom? Rudolf Stingel's Whitney retrospective reveals an art of bulimic extremes

  • Art

    April 24, 2007

    A Design of the Times

    You're the game-show champion at the Cooper-Hewitt's clowning triennial

  • Theater

    April 3, 2007

    Sink and Swim

    Hart & Berlin outlive a numbing Irish stew

  • NYC Life

    January 30, 2007

    Old Bars Meet Luxe Condos

    Hart & Berlin outlive a numbing Irish stew

  • Art

    June 20, 2006

    States of Change

    Life into death and death into whatever

  • Dining

    December 6, 2005

    Shibam!

    Perfect winter food near the corner of Court and Atlantic

  • NYC Life

    September 13, 2005

    Grease Is Good!

    Are lard, eggs, and fish tacos the new health foods?

  • NYC Life

    April 26, 2005

    Dumpling Ground

    There's a new snack in town

  • Books

    January 18, 2005

    Books

    There's a new snack in town

  • Dining

    December 7, 2004

    Day of the Dosa

    A toasted-cheese surrogate comes to life in Jersey City

  • News

    July 6, 2004

    Hangover Helpers

    New pills promise to rid you of morning-after misery

  • Theater

    February 3, 2004

    Theater

    New pills promise to rid you of morning-after misery

  • Art

    August 26, 2003

    Market Share

    Statements and Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene

  • NYC Life

    August 13, 2002

    Listings

    Statements and Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene

  • Columns

    March 19, 2002

    Horoscope

    Statements and Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene

  • Art

    February 12, 2002

    Blow Up

    Statements and Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene

  • News

    March 27, 2001

    Shutter Bugged

    New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

  • Dining

    November 28, 2000

    Brrrrrrrr!

    New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

  • Art

    April 4, 2000

    Anything Goes

    New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

  • Long Island Voice

    August 31, 1999

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    New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

  • Long Island Voice

    August 17, 1999

    Byte Me, Retail Boy

    New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

  • News

    January 12, 1999

    Road Rules

    Teaching the carny set is no sideshow act

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