The Great Gatsby

Arguendo Is Full of Supremely Naughty Charm

ERS's John Collins Explores a Sexy Supreme Court Case

Cocktail Architect Yusef Austin on the Mixing Room, Which Opened Sunday

The bar at the Lexington New York City in Midtown East hasn't exactly been known for its cocktails. "It had this almost sports bar vibe," says Yusef Austin, who calls himself a cocktail architect and consults on mixology programs around the world. "It needed a lot of help." Help came in the form of ... More >>

No One Cares About Jay-Z's New Music

Ever since the announcement of his game-changing arrangement with Samsung Electronics, most of the conversation about Jay-Z's forthcoming studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail has revolved around the nature of the deal, not the coming music. Even as the project (out officially tomorrow) is being roll ... More >>

Glafira Rosales, Master Art Scammer, Busted for Duping IRS and Selling Phony Masters

Here's a little bit of Upper East Side intrigue: a fancy dealer took it upon herself to double down and sharply increase her profit margin by selling phony paintings and duping the Internal Revenue Service out of millions, federal prosecutors tell us. The wily Glafira Rosales allegedly hid $12.5 mi ... More >>

James Franco Used To Get Mad At Girls For Getting Fingered By Other Boys

James Franco the film star also turns out to be a pretty good film critic, suggesting that the old adage should be amended to "Those who can, teach." For Vice, Franco took a look at The Great Gatsby and decided it was an engaging adaptation and he didn't even mind the 3D. That's good because a majo ... More >>

Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in Their Dresses Hoping For?

Check Out The Gatsby Clothes On Display At The Prada Store

I don't usually swirl around fashion boutiques any more than I go baseball games, but when there's a movie tie-in, I'm there. And I must say the clothes that Miuccia Prada designed for The Great Gatsby--on display at the 575 Broadway store--are fully worth crawling down that store's scary staircase ... More >>

Brooks Brothers' Version Of The Gatsby Clothes: Swell Stuff

I normally don't care much for fashion and/or movie tie-ins, but these Brooks Brothers clothes--inspired by the Catherine Martin-designed duds for the upcoming Great Gatsby film--are so swanky they could bring on a whole new jazz age. No roaring 20s revival would look quite dapper enough without the ... More >>

How Do We Remember Things That Happen In The Past Without 'Best Of...' Lists?

The minute December 1st was upon us, the Internet and print media alike began to fill its shelves and papers with content-heavy, link-heavy and rank-heavy lists, all of which give the reader some sort of guidance as to what actually happened over the past 365 days. Of course, we here at the Voice we ... More >>

The Whale: Bulk Delivery

Shuler Hensley displays a fat man's tragic sorrows

Five Questions To Ask About An MLS Soccer Stadium In Flushing Meadows Park

The week before last, rumors began cropping up that Major League Soccer's long-running search for a place to put a new New York City team -- a search that had circumnavigated the boroughs from Pier 40 in the West Village to Randall's Island and Willets Point -- had settled on a site: the northeast c ... More >>

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

New Hollywood's apex

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; I Love a Millionaire

Lorelei Lee's diamonds now adorn new-style material girl Megan Hilty

Free Will Astrology: March 28-April 3, 2012

GREAT SCOTT!

ERS brings back Gatz

New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Model Turned Away at Monika Chiang, Susan Sarandon at Costello Tagliapietra, High Drama at Tadashi Shoji

Fashion Week has quickly gone from exhilarating momentum to a slow-motion punch in the gut--and it's just started. Each season we look forward to this one week of pure fashion craziness, in which we always manage to RSVP to too many fashion shows (usually overlapping), continuously loading up our M ... More >>

Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers

Tom PalumboJack Kerouac, on the road somewhere ...​ For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that ... More >>

The Select (The Sun Also Rises) Guzzles Hemingway

Elevator Repair Service brings its adaptation to New York Theatre Workshop

R.I.P., Possible Great Gatsby Mansion

​We were warned this would happen, but it's still a sad day for nostalgists and fans of F. Scott. The Wall Street Journal, which has a pretty dramatic picture of the razing, reports that the Sands Point, New York, mansion believed by some to have inspired The Great Gatsby has been demolished. ... More >>

Possible 'Great Gatsby' Mansion to Be Razed to Build Houses for Rich People

​Sigh. A mansion on Sands Point, above Long Island Sound, that "some F. Scott Fitzgerald scholars believe served as inspiration for portions of The Great Gatsby" is going to be torn down to allow for the building of a five-lot subdivision full of $10 million homes. While it's not known for cer ... More >>

Theoni V. Aldredge (1923-2011)

From Hamlet to La Cage aux Folles, one of New York's greatest costume designers

The Great Gatsby Is Getting a 3-D Makeover?

​In 1974, the inaugural issue of People magazine was released, featuring Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan from Gatsby, "The year's next big movie." That film, what we would argue is the quintessential, and most beautiful/tragic Gatsby, also featured Robert Redford, with the screenplay written by F ... More >>

Gatz Tries a Novel Approach to Fitzgerald

Tendered is the text in ERS's latest show

This Week's Voice: Ahmad Jamal, Linkin Park, Frankie Rose, and More

Linkin Park, favorably compared to Radiohead by Christopher R. Weingarten.​In this week's Village Voice, Francis Davis weighs in on the new eight-CD box set honoring jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal, Christopher R. Weingarten compares Linkin Park's new A Thousand Suns to Radiohead's OK Computer, and C ... More >>

ERS Mounts the U.S. Premiere of The Sun Also Rises (The Select). Plus, the Latest From Pig Iron

Philly Live Arts hosts two alt-theater faves

Fall Guide: The Tricycle Theatre Invades With Its Epic History of Afghanistan

The Public Theater presents director Nicholas Kent's production of The Great Game

The Education of Charlie Banks: Fred Durst's Second Film?!?

Under the Radar Tries its Hand at Site-Specific Work

One of the city's best theater festivals enters its fourth season

The Big Clean-Up

Has performance art lost its edge? Is that a bad thing? A visit to Performa 07.

Avant-Garde, PA

From an epic Gatsby to naked Shakespeare at Philly's Live Arts Festival

Shrimp Mountain

Kinky new Flushing Thai offers oddball cuisine collection

Hungover

Where everyone from Parker Posey to Miss Guy played during the holidays

'Separate Lies'

The Mint Masquerade

The not-so-girly julep makes Derby Day one smooooth ride

Pass the Percodan: Bruce Wagner Dissects Hollywood Cynicism

Vintage for Dummies: The Idiot's Guide to Old Clothes

Horoscope

Against The Current

Find out how many used Great Gatsbys it takes to build a boat

The Academy's Pulitzer

Why Jazz and Pop Don't Make the Cut

Great Gatsby Dumplings

Northern Chinese in the Valley of Ashes

Close Up On: Flushing

The Real Curriculum

Purim, Party

Jock Lit

Need Relief? Summon the Pen.

Slim-Fast Fiction

Tracking the Novella Trend

Swing the Body Electric

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

Letters

Nation