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Ethics of Eating Animals: NY Times Announces a Contest and FiTR Provides a Crib

Tomorrow's New York Times Magazine jumps the shark and provides its readers with a moral challenge: Justify your consumption of meat with a 600 word essay. Of course, the dice are loaded, and anyone who favors meat - either actively or passively - has a long row to hoe. Arguments like "everyone does ... More >>

The Mother of All Lies in I Don't Know How She Does It

Phone Hacking: A Guide to Journalistic Jackassery

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we dive into the seedy world of phone hacking. Beware, it is a process so treacherous, so disgusting and so complex that you may ... More >>

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Capturing inner beauty one hair strand at a time

Missing New York Times Journalists Return; Famous Women, Blow Jobs Save Newspapers

​Though reporters are still missing, being killed and deported across Syria, Libya.html and the upheaved Middle East, there was some cause for celebration among the media today as the four missing New York Times journalists came home to a hero's welcome. The group has already detailed the brut ... More >>

Message Board Post Makes New York Times Magazine in Full, Minus "Fuck" and "Shit"

​On Sunday, new editor Hugo Lindgren's anticipated redesign of the New York Times Magazine made its debut, with a different Ethicist, a column about the internet and the title shifted to the left, grown 20 percent. But just like the old version of the magazine, the very last thing in the book ... More >>

Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer Break Up; The Daily Free Until March 21

​The joke possibilities are endless, but we'll leave it to Jay Leno: fact is, Kathleen Parker has departed the show half named after her, CNN's Parker Spitzer, after only four, under-performing months. Starting on Monday, the show will be called In The Arena, "an ensemble program," which still ... More >>

Newsweek Hit With Buyouts in the Wake of Tina Brown and The Daily Beast Takeover

​Newsweek, the long-suffering magazine, was purchased by audio equipment billionaire Sidney Harmon way back in mid-2010 and hobbled on, losing employees along the way, but impressively still managing to put out a product every seven days. Then, after months of rumor, Tina Brown came along, joi ... More >>

Alex Alvarez Escapes MediaBistro for Abrams Gulag of Mediaite

​Who among New York City's media set has never read a single MediaBistro mailer or blog? Nobody. Which is strange, because it's not like they break crazy news or anything! But it is a clearing house for two things: (1) Everything That Happens in Media, Especially in New York City and (2) Good Tale ... More >>

Shaq Has Not Panicked Since Age 9, When He Lit a Teddy Bear on Fire

​Allow the absurdity of that statement to set in. He really said that! It comes from this weekend's Deborah Solomon Q&A with the aging basketball star in the New York Times Magazine. It's full of the classic quotes and good humor that made the The Real Shaq the original Kanye West. Plus, a s ... More >>

Watch M.I.A.'s New Video For "XXXO" (Plus: "Illy Girl")

Unless we're mistaken, the visuals here--roses, galloping unicorns, swans, hearts, leopards, swords, gold jewelry--are pulled from (or at least are referencing) the photoshoot that so appalled the New York Times Magazine's Lynn Hirschberg back in May, which she described like so:

Contraband: A Photo Essay Including Illicit Edibles Seized at JFK

Roast guinea pig inside​If you've ever tried desperately to look innocent in the arrivals area at JFK, willing the customs officials not to find that raw milk Epoisses or baggie of fresh curry leaves that you've secreted away in your suitcase, than you might be interested in a new project by G ... More >>

This is Divorce Blogging: On Male Oversharing, Emasculation and Appropriateness

​Much of the conversation online surrounding diary-like, confessional writing, more derisively called "oversharing," is informed by specific expectations based generally on either age or gender. Depending on the media narrative of any given week -- even day or hour, online -- there will be cov ... More >>

Red Bull Magazine Is All Up In Your New York Times

​Did you buy the paper this morning, or perhaps have it delivered to your stoop or front door, depending on the sort of place you live? Maybe it was heavier than usual, even for a Sunday, and you paused on the third landing of your fourth floor walk-up to wonder, winded. Perhaps you should hav ... More >>

Generation Y or Generation Whine? Old People Hate Us Either Way, No Matter What They Say

​Psychology Today's resident psychology expert (and editor at large) really flexes her studied, academic brain muscles when she proclaims that, in short, those born between 1982 and 2002 are turning the country into a "nation of wimps." That's the official term. And that's also the jist of thi ... More >>

A New Mobile Abbatoir Takes Slaughter on the Road

Makezine.com​Last summer, Dan Barber told Gourmet.com about the difficulty he had in finding slaughterhouses that would kill his animals humanely, and expressed some hope that "roving slaughterhouses" would go some way toward solving the problem. As Christine Mulkhe reports in The New York Tim ... More >>

D. A. Pennebaker Is Directing A Webcast For the National

​Right, so, the man who made Don't Look Back and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars will apparently be directing a YouTube stream of a National concert, scheduled for May 15th at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The show's a benefit for the Red Hot Organization, according to Brooklyn Vegan ... More >>

Study: Ideal Happiness Now Restricted to Pedestrian Philistines Who Can't Suffer Small Talk

​This all begs the question: Do you really, really want to be happy if it requires a George Jetson-esque ignorance of the world sans flying cars, talking dogs, and hot wife?

Jonathan Safran Foer's Against Meat

It isn't everyday that we find ourselves nodding over a vegetarian screed, but Jonathan Safran Foer's Against Meat in this weekend's New York Times Magazine is an uncommonly honest piece of writing. Most importantly, Safran Foer acknowledges the cultural loss that results from giving up meat--and th ... More >>

Michael Pollan's New Food Rules

The New York Times Magazine's food issue is coming out this weekend, but some of the content is online now, like the cover story on Jamie Oliver's project to make fat Americans slim down. Then Michael Pollan weighs in, as he is wont to do, with some new rules on how to eat. But these aren't actuall ... More >>

Cookbook Tester: Hudson Valley Mediterranean by Laura Pensiero

Watermelon fennel salad with bluefish dijonnaise​ Hudson Valley Mediterranean is written by Laura Pensiero, the chef/owner of Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, NY, and Gigi Market in Red Hook (not Brooklyn), NY. Pensiero presents the Hudson Valley as the "Napa of the East," and the book's recipes, ... More >>

Michael Pollan on Julia Child and Our Culinary End of Days

The imminent release of Julie & Julia has so far launched about five thousand articles, and this weekend, Michael Pollan will bring us one more. The film has inspired Pollan to pen over 8,000 words in the New York Times Magazine about, among other thing, the rise of cooking as a spectator sport, ... More >>

Pulp Fictions: David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, Brian Fies's Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, and More Comics Galore

Breaking: Bruni Steps Down as NYT Critic

Over at the Times' Diner's Journal, word comes in that Frank Bruni will step down as the paper of record's critic in August, the better to spend time on his book tour. He'll be writing for the NYT Magazine in the future. No word on a successor yet, but presumably the search is on. Predictions, anyon ... More >>

On the Long, Numbingly Repetitive Ancestry of New York's "Let There Be Doom" Sunn0))) Review

New York magazine is good for one absolutely maddening piece about music every month or so, whether it be the much reviled "Jukebox" feature, once described in this space as "a shame, and a perpetually bad omen," or the mag's Mountain Goats feature in March, about which the name-- "God & Worshipper: ... More >>

Please Do Not Taunt Neko Case

A country-noir maneater rises above her lovestruck/dumbstruck audience

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New York Photo Festival

Mr. Untouchable

Trade

Don't Look Now

The war on terror percolates through Jonathan Raban's topical novel

Hip-Hop's New No Wave

Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

Special Three-Pregunta Edition

New 'Village Voice' Editor: David Blum

The Fog Lifts

"Intelli-metal" stars make up in volume what they lose in mystique

Table for Twelve

From bar mitzvah memories to video game worlds, this year's coffee-table books offers sentimental journeys

Goodfoot In The Grave

His stormtrooper helmet outgrown, a golden fluxchild goes back to the bricolage basics

Do Not Recycle

The most stylish magazine photography of 2004

Panel Discussion

Lucid Dreaming!

Apotheosis Now

Experiencing Dia:Beacon's Ashram of the Abstract

Playa Hating

The Review of Video Games

Mulholland Sex Drive!

Strokes Are Stoked!

Start Making Sense

Eyewitness Photographers at Ground Zero

Who Made Bob Kerrey Do It?

Gerhard Klann: ‘We Just Slaughtered Them’

Sports

Big Brother at 'The Village Voice'

An ‘Unlimited Right’ to Surveil

Hey Kids, the Musical Ain't Quite Dead Yet

Not the Same Ol’ Song and Dance