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April 19, 2013Not that I'm endorsing this or anything.
But with National Weed Day coming tomorrow, it's a good time to toke--I mean take--notice of which songs would be the best to inhale to. If that were allowed.
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January 25, 2013Here are the ten best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.
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January 19, 2013Voice Choices
January 16, 2013Blogs
January 14, 2013Quinn's gargantuan beef rib is like something an Inuit might have once wrested from the flank of a whale.
Fork in the Road has reported admiriingly on the city's latest barbecue, an East Village joint called Mighty Quinn's. The place does brisket, Texas-style, and has a secondary specialty in Caro ... More >>
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September 10, 2012You could hear the sigh of relief among pop fans a couple of weeks ago, when Carly Rae Jepsen's single with Owl City, "Good Time," broke into the Top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100.
In his weekly chart roundup, veteran columnist Paul Grein remarked, "'Good Time' is an appropriately positive title for a ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 18, 2012Blogs
June 27, 2012Through a series of maybe not-so-unfortunate events, I was a teenage jam band scenester, which, when properly italicized and luridly capitalized, sounds like a sordid music-crit version of a '50s exploitation paperback. But the truth is, I wasn't seduced by drugs, sex, or anything else until college ... More >>
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April 18, 2012Furthur
Beacon Theater
Tuesday, April 17
Better than: String Cheese Incident.
In the ongoing tussle between Deadheads and straights, the straights seem to have won—definitely this battle, and possibly the War. A handful of vendors, selling pot paraphernalia and Steal Your Face blankets, ling ... More >>
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October 14, 2011And now, a look back at what was on the menu here at Fork in the Road this week.
Bottoms up... it's Friday!
We weighed in on that ever-important question: how much should you tip?
We rounded up Our 10 Best Beer Bars in the city.
The Extraordinary Cookbook author Stefan Gates explained how ... More >>
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October 10, 2011If you happened to miss the Village Voice-sponsored wine tasting/Grateful Dead cover band event Wine Unplugged at this year's Atlantic City Food & Wine Festival, you can console yourself with the next best thing: a bottle of the just-released Grateful Dead "Steal Your Face Red Blend" wine.
Film
July 13, 2011Voice Choices
June 29, 2011Voice Choices
June 22, 2011Blogs
May 18, 2011Joey Ramone would have been 60 years old on May 19. This week, in celebration of the birthday of the Queens-born gone-too-soon punk legend, Sound of the City will run a series of features on his life and his legacy.
Bruce Frankel/courtesy Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush has executive produced a bu ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 11, 2011Blogs
November 21, 2010ViaLast year, in celebration of a Grateful Dead exhibit at the NY Historical Society, the Empire State Building was lit up in tie-dye colors, exciting hippies everywhere. This weekend, the colors went wild again (pictured above) but no one can seem to agree on why. Either it's a "private ligh ... More >>
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October 12, 2010Hearing the crowd's complex mixture of excitement, bewilderment, and trepidation when Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch announces "This is a Grateful Dead song" is a wonderful thing, but longtime fans of the spectacularly bearded, voluminously noodle-y indie-guitar giants will hardly be su ... More >>
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August 24, 2010Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
December 18, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 62
Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday
by Grover Lewis
SAN FRANCISCO -- On the morning of December 10, a scattering of friends and kin gathered in a foggy cemetery in the bedroom commuter community o ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 18, 2010Blogs
April 28, 2010Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
May 9, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 30
East is West -- A Ritual of Energy
by Don McNeill
Sunday the San Francisco sound came out in New York. Not that the past performances of the Grateful Dead or the Jefferson Airplane have been in any way a ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 20, 2010What's so funny 'bout bluegrass? Don't answer that.
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March 13, 2010The National Weather Service says it's pretty much definitely going to rain all weekend, so indoors is good. Go see the Wizard of Oz today and tomorrow at the Film Forum (double feature, with Captains Courageous)
Voice Choices
March 2, 2010Blogs
February 19, 2010Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
June 8, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 34
The Youthquake and The Shook-Up Park
By Don McNeill
The Ukrainians had had enough.
Hare Krishna may be a song of love for the Lord Krishna, but it's a little esoteric for a Ukrainian grandmother who want ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 16, 2010Blogs
February 9, 2010Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
April 13, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 26
Albumin
By Richard Goldstein
A good album, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts that astound at first fade as subtle ballads ... More >>
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October 16, 2009Well, after they lit it up for Red China, this was bound to follow: To celebrate the charity opening of The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society and the Grateful Dead Archive, the lights of the Empire State Building will go "psychedelic tie-dye" on Monday. We wonder i ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2009Blogs
August 12, 2009Neato Coolville/flickrThis evening, Virgil's will be holding Ribstock in conjunction with the Heroes of Woodstock concert taking place at the Nokia Theater. The barbecue restaurant is planning to give away about 200 racks to the general public, as well as the chance to see some of the show's ... More >>
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July 31, 2009We're in Totally Random mode around here today, preparing to embark tonight for the All Points West festivities, and I thus feel emboldened to revisit, apropos of absolutely nothing, the mighty Achewood's unforgettable Grateful Dead cartoon, i.e. the best piece of music criticism in the last ... More >>
Music
April 29, 2009Blogs
April 29, 2009David AtlasPerhaps all the angry Grateful Dead crazies who complained so bitterly about SOTC's past Grateful Dead coverage ("I hope you get a vial poured on your head asswipe village scenester dickwad, suck a d bitch!") might instead enjoy Slate's typography of Dead fandom, subhedded "What your favo ... More >>
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April 3, 2009
In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces.
This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>
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October 19, 2007Music
May 9, 2006Crass contemplated revolution, broke up instead
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November 29, 2005Buffalo-from jam bland soundtrack teens' night out
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April 26, 2005Annual collaborative fest puts the 'O' back in countronica
Music
April 19, 2005EZT shuts down, courts lag behind, WMG gets desperate
Books
April 12, 2005News
August 17, 2004Firing up Tompkins Square's radical roots
News
September 24, 2002The Improvisational Rock Scene Isn't Just for Hippies Anymore
Film
April 24, 2001Music
October 17, 2000Bluegrass Pizza: Like Those Hippies Out in Colorado Do
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April 4, 2000Long Island Voice
November 30, 1999Long Island Voice
November 16, 1999Dining
July 13, 1999Books
December 1, 1998Music
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