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Betty Buckley Reveals Battle With Arthur Laurents--And So Do I!

In 1998, Betty Buckley played the immortal stage-mother role of Mama Rose in the Papermill Playhouse of Gypsy, with Debbie Gibson as the title character. It was good (I saw it, naturally), with Buckley bringing her customary wells of emotion to the material. And it was going to transfer to Toronto ... More >>

Devendra Banhart: "I'm Not An Entertainer"

Devendra Banhart really, really wants you to dance. With "Golden Girls," the lead-off track on Mala, which dropped on Nonesuch Records this week, he implores the listener to do just that: Banhart hypnotically chants "Get on the dance floor" as the flames from a steady burn of strings and crashing c ... More >>

Why We Love Hamburgers: New York's Earliest Burgers

Local chain Joy Burger turns out a modern-day burger, possibly one of 7,000 places in the city that currently do. As the name suggests, the hamburger originated in Hamburg, Germany, perhaps late in the Middle Ages, when mincing techniques usually used to make pork sausage were applied to beef, whi ... More >>

Down into the Black Hole with Turin Horse and Miners' Hymns

In Honor of MLK: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins of the 1960s

Martin Luther King and associates at the Durham, North Carolina, Woolworth's lunch counter after it had been closed by the company, February 16, 1960 Sometimes restaurants are good for more than just eating. In honor of Martin Luther King's birthday, Fork in the Road presents this collection of hi ... More >>

NYC's 10 Weirdest Restaurants

​Hmmmm, will flying to Mars for dinner make me seasick? There has always been an element of zaniness in the New York dining scene, ever since pretty girls started selling hot ears of buttered corn down on Delancey Street in the 19th Century - or maybe even before that, because a restaurant b ... More >>

Jewish Firearms Group Compares Bloomberg Gun Control to Genocide, Nazis

​A new inflammatory open letter from the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership advocacy group addressed to Mayor Michael Bloomberg argues that "'[g]un control' actually (and historically) means letting government, whether benign or ruthlessly evil, disarm certain sectors of society a ... More >>

Top 10 Prodigy Prison Rants, Starring Obama, Jay-Z, Napoleon, Corny Backpack Rappers, And Demonic Owls

Pic by Chad Griffith​Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy was released from prison yesterday after serving three and a half years on a gun-possession charge. During that time, the voluble emcee used his Internet access and old-school pen-and-paper interview privileges to hip the world to his theories on s ... More >>

Download: Julia Kent's Lower East Side-Style Ambient Epic "Ailanthus"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Julia Kent wrenches swirling, atmospheric symphonies from a cello, her hard-working loop pedal, and an always-mesmerizing arsenal of intimate field recordings. Her last album, Delay, placed her swee ... More >>

Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants of the Last Two Centuries

Delmonico's as it looks today. The columns on either side of the door are said to come from Pompeii.​The modern restaurant as we know it was invented in 1831 south of Wall Street at Delmonico's, based on Swiss and French models. The previous sort of establishment was usually a hotel dining roo ... More >>

Sarah Sze's Return of the Real

The sculptor conjures a low-budget cosmos. Plus, Alejandro Almanza Pereda's concrete cascade.

America's 5 Greatest Foodie Presidents

​President Obama doesn't make the list--the word is still out--though he seems to be showing promising enthusiasm for this peach. (credit: Democratic National Committee) It's too early to predict whether Barack Obama is going to be one of our greatest foodie presidents, though the signs are g ... More >>

Your LOC Twitter Archiving Questions Answered

Last week, we learned that the Library of Congress was archiving every single public Tweet since the dawn of Twitter in their National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The Twitterverse, while largely pleased that its words were going to be immortalized by the U.S. Govern ... More >>

Library of Congress to Learn about #JustinBieber, #iPad, #Library, #Congress

The Library of Congress announced this morning that it has acquired the complete archives of Twitter and all the brilliant insights therein. That's every single Tweet, regardless of relevance or potential usefulness. Yup, even yours. Now future generations can learn how #youknowitsarecession and po ... More >>

Alan Lomax's Haitian Time Capsule

A 10-disc box from the '30s captures a troubled nation in transition

Utility Outfield: Con Ed To Raze Part of Brooklyn Ballpark Wall After All?

Photo courtesy of Brian Merlis, Brooklynpix.com​The saga of the last surviving Brooklyn ballpark wall just keeps getting murkier and murkier. The latest news: Con Ed, which since the 1920s has owned the Gowanus property that once was a series of ballparks named Washington Park, tells the Voice ... More >>

Frederick Wiseman at MOMA

The curious (meticulous, ravenous) work of the 80-year-old filmmaker

¡Ask a Mexican! Was Walt Brown?

Disney's heritage, and a really bad film

Gun-Ho for New York

The Georgia gun dealer who was sued by the city— and fell in love with us

Paul Simon: Diamonds on the Soles of His Shoes

Grizzly Bear, David Byrne, and host of others join the April BAM residency of New York's quintessential songwriter

The 2007 Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll: There Will Be Consensus

Social Engineering

All aboard at Grand Central with headless models and StoryCorps

Leaving is Fundamental

Quiet on the Western Front

Silent cowboy star William S. Hart gets his first N.Y. retro

Flabby White Guys Wrestling With Racism

Oh Didn't He Ramble

Finally complete and unexpurgated, jazz's first composer and blowhard tells how it was done

Morning Report 3/29/05: Antisocial Security

Weapons of Mass Sedition

Can a sacred music festival lure us away from violence and toward reason?

Did America Abandon Vietnam War P.O.W.'s? Part 2

A closer look at an ugly issue

Time on Her Side

Louise Glück, the Newly Appointed Poet Laureate, Steps Into the Shadows of the Moment

Circumnavigating Both Hemispheres, Frampton Comes Alive

Where All the Lights Are Bright

Gangster Lore, Geriatric Shagging, Global Strife, and Garage Bands

Back to Nature

The Art of Destruction

Voices Carry

Olympia Vernon Bites the Fruit

What Becomes a Legend Most?

Selling King's Papers; Reclaiming Malcolm X's

The Future of Dance’s Past

Graham Center Wins a Round in Court and Wakes Up Choreographers

G.I. Jane

A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

Collage Credit

Payback Time

Dollars From Diva to Diva

Court Dances

Factions prepare for Battle Over Rights to Martha Graham’s Works

The Vulgar Classes

Where Kids Never Stop Learning

The Mayor Should Come to P.S. 110

Mommie Dearest

The Hidden History of Mother's Day

Passing the Bucks

Fund-Loving President's Fond 'Give Backs'

Global Warning

Go-ahead on Pinochet extradition sends shot across multinational bow as key U.S. files remain hidden

Bess Intentions

Freud vs. Prozac

The architect of the unconscious faces his greatest challenge

Taking in the Trash

Big Burritos