Thomas Edison

Michigan vs. Louisville: A Highly Scientific Breakdown of Who Will Win

Tonight in Atlanta, the Michigan Wolverines and the Louisville Cardinals will play to find out who is the greatest college basketball team in all the land. Will it be the Wolverines, who, behind the play of standouts Trey Burke and Mitch McGary, have ensured that your Facebook feed has been awash in ... More >>

If Only Oz the Great and Powerful Had A Wizard

Sorry James Franco, this Oz is neither great nor powerful

Bright Lights, Big City

Who wants some bathtub gin?

Bucks Burnett's Very Cool Eight Track Museum Opens This Weekend

Tiny Tim's 1996 album Girl concludes with "Fourteen," a song that declares, "I'm just an ordinary man." The author of "Fourteen," though, is anything but average. A lifelong resident of Dallas, Texas, James "Bucks" Burnett has written ad copy for Warner Bros., worked as a butler for Small Faces bass ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: June 13-19, 2012

Live: Kraftwerk Dazzle The Crowd At MoMA

Kraftwerk Museum of Modern Art Saturday, April 14 Better than: The ShowClix waiting room. There was a roar that went up during the full stops between songs early in Kraftwerk's Saturday-night MoMA set, the fifth of eight total (the seventh begins tonight). It started like applause but kept rising, ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: February 22-28, 2012

Free Will Astrology: January 11 through 17, 2012

Make Stephanie Izard's Green Bean Casserole

One day in 1955, Dorcas Reilly -- a well-respected home economist whose parents actually named her that -- tinkered in an industrial food lab. Little did Dorcas know that her experimental blend of two tinny staples -- Campbell's cream of mushroom soup and canned green beans -- would become an Amer ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's Bright Idea

From the toxic right, a surprisingly healthy notion?

10 Runners Are Jogging One City Block for 3,100 Miles in 5,649 Laps

​The Observer today reports on a bizarre, painful ritual that is taking place right before our eyes. No, not power media couples, nor reading about power media couples. This ritual has been undertaken by a group of the disciples of deceased Indian spritual leader Sri Chinmoy. 10 of them are no ... More >>

Robert Burnham Jr.'s 1983 Testament: An Astronomer-Recluse Inscribes His Universe (Part I)

Burnham, circa 1960, at the telescope Clyde Tombaugh used to find Pluto 30 years earlier​ Today, June 16, 2011, would have been Robert Burnham Jr.'s 80th birthday. Burnham was an Arizona astronomer who produced one of the most unusual, and most beloved, set of books of science, his Burnham's ... More >>

SECRET SOCIETY

Discover the city's untold mystical history

Happy Birthday, Paris Hilton!

Paris Shares a Birthday With Nobel Laureate Otto Stern​Dear Paris, We reported that you turned 30 this morning, but gosh darn it -- you're so special we're going to say it again: Happy Birthday! Thirty is a milestone age, and it's natural for someone as introspective and thoughtful as yoursel ... More >>

The Problem With 3-D

On this latest wave of mediocre movies (and the classics that put them to shame)

Free Will Astrology: January 13 through 19, 2010

¡Ask a Mexican! Why a Special Month for Hispanics Is So Tiring

A Heritage of Lameness

Fall Guide: George Packer Chronicles a Turbulent 21st Century

¡Ask a Mexican! Was Walt Brown?

Disney's heritage, and a really bad film

It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

Going Waterboarding at Coney Island

Whee! Cotton Candy and Torture!

Ghost World

You'll need a memory like an elephant to remember Coney Island

Collective Memory

Nostalgia fever continues as the experimental-film community looks back at its 'lost generation.' But what's next?

New Fish

If Joe Socks were here now, I'd be a protected guy. Now I'm just . . .

Michael Keaton Back From the Dead in Paranormal Thriller

In Praise of the Mad Scientist

No more plans to contact E.T.'s—but here's another remedy for erectile dysfunction!

Classical Music

Close-Up on Fort Lee, New Jersey

Citizen Ray

A Hare-Raising Experience

A Toy Story

Lesbian Mothers Making Men

The Lesbian Baby Boom Is Also a Baby Boy Boom. How Are These Lads Being Raised?

Horoscope

Missions Impossible

Professional Sidekick

Director of the Pinstriped Pilgrimage

Tony Morante breaks down the big ballyard in the Bronx

Bikini Kill

Technology Begins at the Roots

Endgame

On The Ups And Downs Of Hollywood's Parting Shots