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Jason Segel Struggles with Weather, Relationship in The Five-Year Engagement

Obama to Grad Students: Pay Up

To save student-loan programs, the White House has saddled master's and Ph.D. candidates with added debt.

Roving Armadillos Are Heading for the East Coast

This just in to add to your terrifying end-times-esque tales of animal takeover (see also: Crabs in Antarctica! Mountain lions in Connecticut! Ladybugs on Long Island!). Thanks to climate change, so say the scientists, the ole armadillo, 'dillo for short, is moving on from his Texas home, where he a ... More >>

SAT Cheating Ring Brings Organized Nerd Crime Back to the American Consciousness

Sam Eshaghoff​Sam Eshaghoff, a 19-year-old student at Emory University, has been busted as the alleged kingpin in an SAT cheating ring after apparently taking the text for at least six students from Great Neck North High School in Mineola, Long Island, making between $1,500 and $2,500 a pop. W ... More >>

Robert Sklar, 1936-2011

​The New York film community was shocked and saddened this past weekend upon receiving news that Robert Sklar, longtime pillar of NYU's Department of Cinema Studies, had died of injuries suffered in a cycling accident while vacationing in Spain. Distinguished as he was, Bob Sklar was less ivo ... More >>

Class Struggles at a Bronx Charter School

Bronx Success Academy 1 may not quiet its critics, but it's doing a good job making its kids shut up and pay attention

Millennials Should Be Proud to Love an Ego Boost

​Do "the twenty-somethings" care more about sex, food or getting a pat on the head? A "compliment or a good grade on a paper" is what they really want, according to a report last week in the New York Times entitled "Sex, Pizza, or Self Esteem?." Students were polled about about their various " ... More >>

FAIR-y Tales

​Do "the twenty-somethings" care more about sex, food or getting a pat on the head? A "compliment or a good grade on a paper" is what they really want, according to a report last week in the New York Times entitled "Sex, Pizza, or Self Esteem?." Students were polled about about their various " ... More >>

NOMO AGREEMENT

Heating up Michigan, beat by beat

Injustice! Employers Discriminate Against Boozing Job Applicants

​There are certain times in our worklife that we imagine boozing might be almost a requirement of our job -- writers are by and large some of the drinkingest people out there, after all; a little whiskey hones our already razor-sharp wits, while only ever-so-slightly decreasing our type speed, ... More >>

Why the Russian Spies May Have Won, Emotionally

​Wondering who really got the best of whom in the aftermath of the U.S./Russia spy swap? A University of Michigan researcher named Igor Grossmann (full disclosure: he's Ukrainian) has delved into the mysteries of Russian vs. American psychology to see who's more "brooding." As you might expect ... More >>

Study: College Kids Are Getting Meaner. How About You?

​A new University of Michigan study says that such old-fashioned traditions as "being nice" and "kindness to others," may be things of the past, scoffed at and probably mocked mercilessly by today's apparently vicious college grads. According to Sara Konrath, a researcher at the University of ... More >>

Grey Dog Takes Another Bite Out of New York

Lily Hodges​The Grey Dog has fetched its way into Chelsea with a new opening on West 16th Street, near Eighth Avenue. The creation of brothers Dave Ethan and Pete Adrian, the Grey Dog's Coffee is a cozy restaurant-coffeeshop, kind of like your mother's kitchen if your mother was young, artsy, ... More >>

Medical News of the Day: Kids with Chronic Headaches, "Freshman 15," Job-Fear-Related Illnesses

​Nationwide Children's Hospital tells us that "Kids' Headaches, Migraines Increase as New School Year Begins." We are much more surprised to learn that "more than a third of children suffer from recurrent headaches." They counsel that kids "get plenty of sleep and minimize caffeine intake." Ma ... More >>

Bones' Beat: Destroy All Monsters at Printed Matter

Any even slightly exhibitionistic art student knows the ground rules to starting a band: do some serious hanging out, pick a name, make a noise, and bring that noise with supreme gusto to a group of people in a basement or a cafeteria. It's simple and satisfying. Perhaps one in five art school ban ... More >>

Quick Hits

"WMITF?" twitpic via dvdquotes. Whenever NYPD comes up in the news, we like to include comments from Thee Rant, formerly NYPD Rant. Apparently they've noticed. "They are not on our side," says one poster, "and will look for stuff that fits their image of cops, which ain't good." "The Village Voic ... More >>

Clip Job: Obies 1962

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMay 31, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 32Obies 1962By Jerry TallmerJames Earl Jones, 31, born Tate County, Mississippi, raised by his grandparents on a wilderness farm near Jackson, Michigan, the second of his family and first of his high-school graduating ... More >>

Valentine's Day Suggestions: Heart-Healthy Snacks, Medical Intervention

It's never too early to worry about Valentine's Day. An alarming number of releases we've received take a recessionary angle. For example, from February 10 through February 15, participants in T.G.I. Friday's "Give Me More Stripes" promotion will receive free Spiced Up Cupcakes with the purchase of ... More >>

Ray-Gun Kelly

Stopping-and-frisking (and now tasering) his way to becoming New York's next mayor?

Signs of the Times: The Latest Times Building Climber

Stopping-and-frisking (and now tasering) his way to becoming New York's next mayor?

In Memoriam: Amanda Smith (1944-2008)

An elegy for a fellow dance critic

The Big Clean-Up

Has performance art lost its edge? Is that a bad thing? A visit to Performa 07.

Love, Actually, Isn't Like This

Feast of Love knows nothing of what it blabs on and on about

Life Lesson

He took a gig with Teach for America in New Orleans and ended up working for FEMA

No Matter Who Wins, Iraq Falls Apart

Parliamentary elections will usher in an era of dissolution

Getting To Abs

Skilled chef moonlights in the gym

Bin Laden's Bid

From terrorist mastermind to savvy statesman, in one easy video

A Talk With the Translator of the Memoir You Have to Read Next

From terrorist mastermind to savvy statesman, in one easy video

One Sick Fall

With health insurance out of reach, a generation braces itself for the worst

Combo Platter

Going from videotapes to discs is a snap with two-in-one vhs/dvd machines

Once Upon a Time

New World's five-disc set brings back memories of a music simmering with rebellion

Sandra Day O'Connor's Elitist Decision

Another Three-Card Monte Game

What the Supreme Court Left Out

The Smoking Gun in Grutter v. Bollinger

Race Counts ... Just Don't Say How Much

Affirmative Action: A Court of Two Minds

Digital Bodies in Real Time

Choreographers Inspire Other Artists to Electronic Experiments

Orienting the East

U. Michigan Psychologist Richard Nisbett Asks: Do Asians and Westerners Think Differently?

Who Decides Who's Black or Hispanic?

Should Individuals of More Than One Race Be Preferred?

Letters

Should Individuals of More Than One Race Be Preferred?

How Much Diversity Is Enough?

Does a White Mother on Welfare Count?

Left Out of Affirmative Action

Unequal Protection of the Laws

Sports

Unequal Protection of the Laws

Pilots’-Eye View

The Crash of Flight 587 Raises Questions About Training and Air Traffic Control

Sports

The Crash of Flight 587 Raises Questions About Training and Air Traffic Control

Honest Admissions

Race Is Not a College Qualification

Misguided Multiculturalism

Our Historical Illiteracy

Take This Down

Unauthorized Lecture-Note Sites Draw Profs’ Fire

Brain Drain

Morphing student techies into a modern-day breakfast club 

Long-Ball Basics

The Anatomy of a Home-Run Swing

The Movies Made Me Do It

How much are 'Natural Born' Killers affected by film violence?

Colon Watch

How much are 'Natural Born' Killers affected by film violence?