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  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Kutsher's Tribeca's Zach Kutsher on Billy Crystal Fart Jokes, the Borscht Belt Part 2

    Yesterday, we talked smelly cow's feet and kosher food with Kutsher's Tribeca's Zach Kutsher. Today, we continue by delving into the health advantage, or lack thereof, of using the rendered chicken fat known as schmaltz, his Dirty Dancing childhood, and what the Borscht Belt would be like if gamblin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    House Dems Ream Bloomberg Over NYPD's Muslim Spy Scheme

    Ten House Dems have come down on Mayor Mike's response to the NYPD's Muslim spy scheme, decrying his reaction as "underhanded and unprofessional." As detailed by The Associated Press (via Washington Post), the pols have demanded that Bloomberg end out-of-state spying. The electeds' outcry stems f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2012

    NYPD Spied On Muslim College Students All Across the Northeast

    Last year, the Village Voice reported on the NYPD's "spectacularly offensive smear of American Muslims" in the form of a full-length Islamophobic training video. Now the AP comes forward with their investigative report that details how the NYPD watched Muslim students at colleges all across the Nort ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Angela Davis Visits Occupy Washington Square Park and Occupy Wall Street

    ​Sunday evening, noted activist, author, and former Black Panther Angela Davis joined a growing list of notable figures to speak to Occupy Wall Street participants. But first, Davis stopped to speak to the General Assembly of Occupy Washington Square Park, a smaller group autonomous of, but lo ... More >>

  • News

    June 29, 2011

    Real Men Get Their Facts Straight

    Ashton and Demi and Sex Trafficking

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Robot to Throw Out Ceremonial First Pitch at Phillies Game

    ​A robot built by two UPenn students will throw out the first pitch at today's game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers. Named "PhillieBot," the machine is constructed from a Segway, an extra wheel, and a robotic arm with a pneumatic cylinder. No one had the heart to tell i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Battle of the West Eighth Street Chocolate Chip Cookies: Sarivole v. Insomnia

    Rebecca MarxInsomnia's chocolate chunk on the left, Sarivole's on the right.​ Insomnia Cookies has sat on West Eighth Street since 2008, and during that time has cultivated the loyalties of numerous NYU students thanks to its namesake product: cookies delivered throughout the wee hours, usual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Dogfish Head Brewery's Sam Calagione Talks About His New Beer TV Show: Do Not Expect Fistfights and Crying

    Sam Calagione's nine-year-old daughter owns part of the brewery. Will be popular in high school.​ Sam Calagione, the head brewer at Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware, might look like a frat boy and sound like a total dude, but he's one of the biggest geeks around when it comes to beer. His new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Clip Job: The Abortionist, Before Roe v. Wade

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 18, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 44 The Abortionist on The Circuit of Fear By Marlene Nadle The abortionist is the man hunted by the police and a million desperate women a year. No city can be without him. Few are. In almost ever town ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2009

    City moves in to preserve World's Fair pavilion

    ​The city has started renovation work on the Philip Johnson-designed New York State Pavilion from the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. Volunteers have begun clearing weeds and debris from the inside of the space so that workmen can put down a layer of sand and gravel to protect the t ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2009

    The City's Bid to Save Cash Leaves New Teachers Out in the Cold

    ​The city has started renovation work on the Philip Johnson-designed New York State Pavilion from the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. Volunteers have begun clearing weeds and debris from the inside of the space so that workmen can put down a layer of sand and gravel to protect the t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Clip Job: Warhol Causes a Near-Riot in Philly!

    ​ October 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 52 Help! By David Bourdon The latest Arthurian exploit of the legendary Andy Warhol occurred last Friday at the public opening of his first comprehensive exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art on the University of Pennsylvania campus. (The show clos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2009

    Gotham Book Collection Donated to Penn

    If you miss the old Gotham Book Mart -- the historic literary mecca which nourished (both literally and figuratively) writers of varying fame from 1920 to 2007, as detailed in John K's lovely testimonial here -- you will soon be able to go to the University of Pennsylvania and survey its contents. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    Luke Wilson Romantic Development

    If you miss the old Gotham Book Mart -- the historic literary mecca which nourished (both literally and figuratively) writers of varying fame from 1920 to 2007, as detailed in John K's lovely testimonial here -- you will soon be able to go to the University of Pennsylvania and survey its contents. ... More >>

  • Art

    September 4, 2007

    Nina, Meet Jesus

    Three new artists and the black diaspora

  • Art

    July 24, 2007

    The City Is Their Laboratory

    Pratt students invent the next New York—for real.

  • Art

    July 25, 2006

    Doctors With Borders

    Bioethics matures into a formal academic field—and faces an identity crisis

  • Columns

    May 23, 2006

    Private Dick

    A sexual exhibitionist walks out of the spotlight

  • Art

    April 4, 2006

    Scattered Class

    Software gives peek at admissions odds

  • People

    December 6, 2005

    A Hypochondriac's Dream

    Coming soon—a home cancer-screening device

  • Columns

    December 6, 2005

    Private Dick

    A sexual exhibitionist walks out of the spotlight

  • Music

    November 22, 2005

    Not Bourgie

    Albert Ayler met Paul Gonsalves and Sonny Rollins's saxophone lineage was re-established

  • Art

    July 26, 2005

    Reading Ahead

    Colleges get freshmen on the same page with a summer book

  • News

    November 2, 2004

    On the Move

    Young progressives are dusting themselves off. Anyone for Congress in 2006?

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    O, You Cosh-Boned Posers!

    Awful poems sought and found: From spam to Google, flarf redefines random

  • NYC Life

    July 6, 2004

    Weird Science: The Implications of Playing With Nature

    Awful poems sought and found: From spam to Google, flarf redefines random

  • News

    August 5, 2003

    The Whistle-Blower at the Art Party

    A Curator Takes on His Museum

  • News

    July 8, 2003

    Manthia Diawara Won't Budge

    NYU's Renaissance Man Contemplates the Fate of the African Expat

  • News

    March 11, 2003

    Get Your Hood On

    War Reporting Is Risky Business

  • News

    January 7, 2003

    Foucault's Turntable

    Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    From the Cradle to the Street

    Girls as Young As 11 Are Selling Themselves in New York. Stopping Them May Be Difficult, But Helping Them is Almost Impossible.

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    Working Vacations

    Where Does the Art World Go in the Summer?

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    Nation

    Where Does the Art World Go in the Summer?

  • News

    May 14, 2002

    Tipping Toward Hate

    Protests Turn Ugly as Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli Forces Face Off On Campus

  • Art

    July 31, 2001

    Camera Obscura

    ••• Tracking Down Film Studies’ Fall Guy

  • News

    July 25, 2000

    Hell-Raising in Philly

    An Activist’s Guide to Protests Outside the Republican Convention

  • NYC Life

    July 18, 2000

    Dogma Days

    Catholic Colleges and Academic Freedom

  • News

    November 30, 1999

    As Hundreds Cheer

    The Glum Triumph of The Magnetic Fields

  • News

    November 23, 1999

    China’s Brutal Police State


    Fifty Years of State Terrorism

  • News

    October 26, 1999

    Longer Harder Faster

    From Sex Parties to Raves, for Both Men and Women, It's Not Bob Dole's Viagra Anymore

  • Books

    August 24, 1999

    New York’s Mean Streets

    From Sex Parties to Raves, for Both Men and Women, It's Not Bob Dole's Viagra Anymore

  • NYC Life

    August 10, 1999

    The Boogie Doctor

    What gives Dr. David Seitz the greatest pleasure is having the music he loves "get more respect."

  • News

    April 13, 1999

    Out Takes

    What gives Dr. David Seitz the greatest pleasure is having the music he loves "get more respect."

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    Stalk Options

    If you get sued in Ruthless.Com, does it hurt in real life?

  • News

    September 1, 1998

    Escape from the Nation of Islam

    Farrakhan Heir Bolts from Black Muslim Following to Lead a Hip Hop Movement

  • News

    August 11, 1998

    Media Re-Dress

    Farrakhan Heir Bolts from Black Muslim Following to Lead a Hip Hop Movement

  • News

    July 7, 1998

    Lab Rats

    A new book revisits shocking experiments on Pennsylvania prisoners

  • News

    May 12, 1998

    New York's Drug-Law Debacle

    Governor Rockefeller started the war on drugs in 1973. His laws have packed prisons, cost billions, and failed to stop the drug trade. On the 25th anniversary, there's new momentum for change.

  • News

    September 30, 1997

    Setting Fire to Offensive Ideas

    No Exceptions in the First Amendment for Bigotry and Racism

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