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Spring Arts Guide Picks: Dance

Muslim Hunting: David Horowitz's Antagonistic Career

Smear Machine

The Old, Weird Modernity

George Bellows gets a big retrospective at the Met

Fracking: Boom or Doom

America's hydraulic fracturing gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

Vandals Advocating Free Subway Rides Spawn Investigation; OWS To March Across Brooklyn Bridge; Pena Witness 'Disturbed'

Police are now looking for a group of vandals that worked Wednesday morning to let subway riders at thee stations across Manhattan and Brooklyn ride free. The group -- wearing masks, hoods and gloves -- chained open emergency gates, taped over the MetroCard readers and posted signs that read, "custo ... More >>

Russia Still Going About Things All Wrong, and More in our Scientology Stats Roundup

Back in October, we reported that Russian law enforcement agents had raided a Church of Scientology in Moscow, breaking down doors to get into store rooms (see the photo at right). A court there had found L. Ron Hubbard's literature to be "extremist," and called for a ban on his books in Russia. Y ... More >>

Former Hearst Intern Sues Company, Hopes to Start Class-Action Lawsuit

A former Hearst intern has filed a lawsuit against the company in Manhattan's Federal District Court, with the intention of making it a class-action motion representing the "hundreds" of other unpaid interns still working for publications like Seventeen and Cosmo. The intern in question, Xuedan Wa ... More >>

Texting While Walking: The Proper Technique

​Casey Neistat, the guy who brought you that video on bike lanes in which he willingly crashed into whatever happened to be parked in said bike lanes for PSA purposes, has brought us another informative guide to living in the city. This latest Op-Ed, with video that merges the old-timey PSA-st ... More >>

Scientology Story of the Year: Cast Your Vote Now!

​This has been some year of Scientology reporting and commenting here at the Village Voice, and with the calendar about to flip, we wanted to hand out some awards. But first, we need your help. We're asking our many loyal readers to help us choose three major year-end awards for Best Sciento ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Arrests in Foley Square; Greek PM to Resign; NYC Marathon

​"At least 20" marchers were arrested yesterday as Occupy Wall Street protesters took to Foley Square. The New York Times City Room blog says the marchers "split into two groups, with about 200 on the sidewalk outside the court buildings and a larger group across the street on a large pedestri ... More >>

Life, Not College, Is What Makes You Fat

​Today in news you can use to remind yourself that you're not in college anymore (unless you are, in which case, hooray!), MSNBC reports that the cursed, vile freshman 15 is actually not true, at least, so says a new study, which found that most college students don't actually gain 15 pounds i ... More >>

Scientology Oz-fest: Commenters of the Week!

This kangaroo is volunteering its time and no contract is implied​Every Saturday, we say "what a week." But this time -- What a week! Right? With Scientology news breaking Down Under, and the countdown getting to single digits, and wacky stuff leaking in the UK -- the underground bunker was ri ... More >>

Hugh Urban: An Interview With the Professor Who Took on Scientology

Urban, with Nancy Jesser, their daughter Maya Urban-Jesser, and Shiva the dog ​In June, we reviewed a remarkable new book about Scientology. A review copy of Hugh Urban's The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, put out by the Princeton University Press, had arrived at our desk ... More >>

Ed Bryan, OT VIII, Demonstrates the Power of Scientology's Highest Levels

Ed Bryan, celebrating his ultimate beingness​While we wait for tomorrow's update in our big countdown, we have a tale today that takes us to the upper end of Scientology's vaunted "Bridge." It involves a man who, according to L. Ron Hubbard's original precepts, should be nearly superhuman, a ... More >>

Credit Card Debt Is 'Empowering' to Young Folks

​Crazy kids! Instead of being appropriately bewildered and concerned by credit card and education debts, young adults are feeling "empowered" by what they owe, according to a new study from Ohio State University. In fact, the more credit card and college loan debt they have, the better these i ... More >>

Scientology: Christmas Comes Early with TWO New Books on Hubbard's Wacky Cabal

​This Scientology watcher is beside himself with joy. In the past couple of days, we've received not one but TWO new advance copies of new books on Scientology. One, an academic approach put out by the Princeton University Press, the other, a likely blockbuster by Rolling Stone contributing ... More >>

Oral Sex Is Causing Cancer. But, Wait, There's a Bright Side.

Not so cute in reality.​Scientists, who clearly do not want us to be happy, are again reminding us of a link between oral sex and BAD THINGS. This time, cancer. There's "strong evidence" linking oral sex to cancer, scientists have said, yet again. In fact, in the U.S., oral sex has surpassed t ... More >>

College Kids Prefer Praise to Sex, Booze, or Money

​Young folks! They're so irrepressible! So full of joie de vivre! So damn young! So young, in fact, that a recent study seems to indicate that they actually prefer praise to the more cynical adult pleasures of sex, booze, or money. Yes, we could hardly believe it ourselves, but according to re ... More >>

The Rise of Clickers Is Starting to Change How College Professors Run their Classrooms

Enter Season of the Witch's 14th Century for Dummies

Stephen Colbert Gets Truthy with Congress; Rightbloggers Scream Like Stuck Eagles (And So Do MSM Reporters)

Long, bitter experience -- and long, bitter comments at this blog -- have taught us that if there's anything conservatives hate more than Big Gummint and homosexuals, it's someone making fun of them. The outrage that Boss Tweed expressed over "them damned pictures" of himself drawn by Thomas Nast is ... More >>

Bitter Old People Get their Kicks Reading Bad Things About Whippersnappers

​People over 50 prefer reading negative news about young people, though they are indifferent when the news is about people their own age, according to a new study. So, go call your twisted parents and grandparents, and tell them the plight of the youngs is no laughing matter!

Coyotes at Columbia Latest Grim Portent of Nature's Wrath

​Coyotes were spotted on the Columbia University campus Sunday. An Ohio State expert says of the urban coyote incusions, "It's not uncommon at all, and it's going to increase in frequency." Texas A&M students used to get attacked by wolves, but that was in the 19th Century and they were in th ... More >>

The Decade's Best Theater

From undervalued plays and underfunded companies, 10 years of freewheeling joy

Medical Headlines of the Day

"Few Friends Combined With Loneliness Hurts Health For Elderly," researchers at the University of Chicago find. "Heightened liking for sweetness has a biological basis and is related to children's high growth rate," says a University of Washington/Monell Center geneticist. "TV Show ER Goes Off the ... More >>

FOILED AGAIN

Classic thrills at the NYU Fencing Invitational

Veteran Choreographers Bebe Miller and Risa Jaroslow Write Mysteries in Motion

Daily Flog: Equal rites

Interview: Beth Murphy of Times New Viking

Cougarrific! Assembly Candidate Pursues Unusual Web Strategy

Columbia's Knotty Noose Problem

There's still no culprit for a notorious noose at Teachers College—but plenty of evidence behind the firing of Madonna Constantine

Hello, New Amsterdam! The Obies Honor Off-Broadway's Best

The 53rd time is yet another charm

The 2008 Obie Award Winners

And, Here Come the Awards . . .

Remembering Those Who Passed

Adrienne Kennedy Talks About Her Life

Lorca, London, and the Beatles: the doyenne playwright's new work

Anxiety 101

Adrienne Kennedy conjures an ominous college campus

Saxed Jam Band Tries Ska, Elevates Schlock, Still no moe.

Mondo Wikipedia

Community and controversy as the online reference giant turns five

Uncle Sam vs. James Lockhart

Supreme Court hears appeal of elderly, sick man dunned for student loans

Going On

The boldly searching impermanence of being

Fighting Terror in Ohio

Reading Voters

Tagging along on Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote

Politics as Unusual

How I learned to win from the League of Pissed-Off Voters

It's the Tune, Stupid

Lou Harrison, 1917–2003

Sports

One Step Beyond

White Supremacists and the Means of Biowar

Aryan Nations Follower Had Anthrax, Bubonic Bacteria

Crime Out of Mind

The New Thought Police Don't Care What You Do—Only What You Imagine

Premature Evacuation

Why Did Gordon Gee Abandon Brown?