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Tuli Kupferberg

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    March 16, 2012

    SOTC March Madness: Philip Glass (4) And The Fugs (13) Have It Out Downtown

    ​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

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    November 23, 2011
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    March 8, 2011

    Where Have All the Hipsters Gone?

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 10, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 32 Where have all the hipsters gone? By Bill Amidon What's going on around here? Where the hell is everybody? I've been living in the West and East Villages for the past 13 years and I'v known a gang of ... More >>

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    December 29, 2010

    R.I.P. 2010's Jazz Notables

    Honoring this year's fallen, with a few we failed to note last year

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    December 23, 2010

    People Who Died, Circa 2010

    Jay Reatard, gone but not forgotten.​It is depressing but accurate to note how inexorably the internet bends toward death, and how much of the work of professional critics these days is announcing it, verifying it, and making sense of it (often in that order, unfortunately). Michael Jackson, a ... More >>

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    November 10, 2010

    Tuli Kupferberg Is God, and a Shoulda-Been Cult Hit Finally Gets Its NY Premiere

    Jay Reatard, gone but not forgotten.​It is depressing but accurate to note how inexorably the internet bends toward death, and how much of the work of professional critics these days is announcing it, verifying it, and making sense of it (often in that order, unfortunately). Michael Jackson, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Week in Review: What Your Kids Will Learn

    Not again! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we mostly spent anticipating tomorrow's Siren Festival, we talked at length with headliner Ted Leo, celebrated at a pre-party with Monotonix, and looked back at nine years worth of past triumphs. See you there, hopefully?

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Tuli Kupferberg: Model Village Citizen, 1923-2010

    ​Most afternoons in the 1970s, you could find Tuli Kupferberg, the poet and folksinger who died yesterday at 86, peddling his penny poems along Sixth Avenue. He would hang out at the corner of West 8th Street outside of the old Nathan's. The poems were always little gems of anarchist menace, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Update: George Steinbrenner Dies of Heart Attack

    ​Update: We've just heard via ABC that George Steinbrenner has died: New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has died in Tampa after suffering a heart attack, three sources tell ABC Action News. The Steinbrenner family has now released a statement, per MLB.com:

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Tuli Kupferberg, 1923-2010: The Fine Art Of Whittling It All Away To Nothing

    By all rights Tuli Kupferberg, who died Monday at age 86 after suffering two strokes last year, probably should have died decades ago. A poet, anarchist, pacifist, author, and co-founder of the Beat generation's first rock stars, the Fugs, Naftali "Tuli" Kupferberg was memorialized in Allen Ginsbe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Live: Hal Willner, Sonic Youth, Jeffrey Lewis, Lou Reed, and More Pay Tribute to Fugs Emeritus Tuli Kupferberg at St Ann's Warehouse

    A Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg St. Ann's Warehouse Friday, January 22 Nothing crystallizes the identity politics lurking somewhere near the core of pop music quite like benefit and tribute concerts, where donor acts reconstruct the beneficiary in their own image, often to revelatory - or, nearly a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2010

    All-star benefit for proto-Fug Tuli Kupferberg in Brooklyn

    ​On January 22, St. Ann's Warehouse will be hosting a benefit concert to help pay medical expenses for Tuli Kupferberg, the anti-war poet and all around wiseass who co-founded local heroes the Fugs. Whether because of their political activism (Kupferberg was arrested trying to levitate the P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    Clip Job: Tompkins Square Park Gets Love-Bombed

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 13, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 52 Adorned with fingerbells, flowers, turbans, and robes, blowing flutes and whistles, horns, and drums, a clown, a parade, and hundreds of hippies revolved around a tree last week in Tompkins Square Park ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Fug You -- Hanging with Ed Sanders

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 27, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 15 Rolling Stoned with Joyous 'Pornographer' By Stephanie Harrington Ed Sanders: "Fuck You" editor - publisher - printer - conceiver. Fugs founder. Pharoah fancier fantastic. Classicist, cigar store cle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Clip Job: The 'Espresso Underground' Fights The System

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 27, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 15 Rolling Stoned with Joyous 'Pornographer' By Stephanie Harrington Ed Sanders: "Fuck You" editor - publisher - printer - conceiver. Fugs founder. Pharoah fancier fantastic. Classicist, cigar store cle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

    Daily Flog: In NYC, the end of the houses that Ruth and ruthlessness built

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 27, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 15 Rolling Stoned with Joyous 'Pornographer' By Stephanie Harrington Ed Sanders: "Fuck You" editor - publisher - printer - conceiver. Fugs founder. Pharoah fancier fantastic. Classicist, cigar store cle ... More >>

  • Art

    June 26, 2007

    The Dope-Thrill Fugs

    Recommendations by R.C. Baker

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    September 5, 2006

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    September 7, 2004

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    August 24, 2004

    America the Beautiful

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    December 30, 2003

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    March 4, 2003

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    February 25, 2003

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    September 24, 2002

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    February 19, 2002

    Teach Yourself Fugging

    The Lower East Side’s First Underground Band Refuses to Burn Out

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    March 2, 1999

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