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The Fightin' Side of Merle: At Last, a Critical Study of Country's Prickly Great

Reviewed herein: Merle Haggard:The Running Kind by David Cantwell Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville by Michael Streissguth Surprisingly, since it stands as the finest and most thorough work of Hag-gazing any critic has yet mustered, David Cantwell's Merle Haggard:The R ... More >>

The Birthday Boys on IFC: How a Cult UCB Sketch Group Became a TV Show

Goodbye, Affirmative Action?

A Supreme Court case has colleges considering how to stay diverse if race-based admissions is axed

SUNY Ready For Non-Existent Bomb Threat

There were bomb threats made today at university campuses in Texas and North Dakota. There were no bomb threats made in New York -- but Governor Andrew Cuomo isn't gonna miss a prime opportunity to freak people out.In response to the threats on the other side of the country, Cuomo issued a statement ... More >>

Nine Fast-Food Franchises Missing From NYC and How Far You Have to Go to Find Them

​To reenact this scene, you'd have to travel 1,360.1 miles from the Empire State Building. With his developer-friendly real estate policies, Bloomberg has opened the floodgates to fast-food franchises. Ten years ago we had a fraction of what we have now, and ma-and-pa eateries prevailed at ... More >>

Friday Night Lifts: Small Town Texas Sports Uplift in All She Can

Do Diet Sodas Make You Fat? A University of Texas Study Seems to Say So

​Do Not Drink? It was too good to be true - the idea that you could drink massive amounts of diet soda and suffer no ill consequences. The NY Post reports today on a University of Texas medical school study that shows that people who drink diet sodas are 70% more likely to suffer an increase ... More >>

Eleanor Friedberger Warps The Circle Of Life In The "My Mistakes" Clip

​ The video for Eleanor Friedberger's charming "My Mistakes," the first single from her forthcoming solo debut Last Summer, seems initially like a cautionary tale about how not much has changed for women since the era of VHS fuzz-outs. (The older footage is for-real archival, and culled from a ... More >>

Tommy Tune: So Tall, People at the Port Authority Run Away

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 26, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 17 One from the 'Seesaw' by Joanna Mermey "Tap dancing is so honest. It makes people smile. A few weeks ago I was in Port Authority handing out ads for 'Seesaw.' Everyone kept running away from me becaus ... More >>

Shopping with Kelly Framel, the Blogger Behind The Glamourai

She shops Brooklyn, rejects suitor

Obscure Foods in Unexpected Places: Chili con Queso at Mable's Smokehouse

​Chili con Queso, a Texas staple served with corn chips. When I was a student at the University of Texas, everyone knew how to make chili con queso, and did. This Tex-Mex staple is arrived at by opening a can of Ro*tel chilies, ripping open the silver foil surrounding a brick of Velveeta, me ... More >>

Sietsema's 10 Favorite SXSW Austin Area Restaurant Recommendations for New Yorkers Heading to the Festival

​Migas at Cisco's is a "don't miss" Austin dish if ever there were one, served with your choice of tortillas or piping hot homemade biscuits. (Ask for both.) Last year I made some Austin restaurant recommendations for friends traveling to SXSW, the yearly music and interactive extravaganza i ... More >>

America's 5 Greatest Foodie Presidents

​President Obama doesn't make the list--the word is still out--though he seems to be showing promising enthusiasm for this peach. (credit: Democratic National Committee) It's too early to predict whether Barack Obama is going to be one of our greatest foodie presidents, though the signs are g ... More >>

The "Vaginal" McCarren Park Tree Has Been Pierced

If the phrase "only in Williamsburg" gives you cause for concern, do not click ahead. Traumatizing (but safe-for-work!) dendrophilia fantasy after the jump.

President Obama in Search of a Justice "Who Respects Women's Rights"

​President Obama said today that he "has no abortion litmus test" in selecting a replacement for Justice John Paul Stevens and that he "wants to make sure any nominee he picks respects individual rights, including women's rights," reports the New York Times.

Hey Purina: Push My Buttons, Then Push My Cat's Buttons

​ Mmmm! Yellowfin Tuna Florentine! We've seen how the food industry takes terms like "Tuscan," stomps all over them, and then presents them back to us as their own newfangled flavor.

Medical Headlines of the Day: Gorilla Blood Pressure, Klansman Avatars, Etc.

​Yes, that boldly counterintuitive headline from St. Joseph's University is hard to top (though their microbiology expert actually makes a good case for using alcohol-based rather than antimicrobial hand sanitizers). But also pretty intriguing is "World's First Voluntary Gorilla Blood Pressure ... More >>

Daily Flog: White House on its knees, the rest of us on our backs, Wall Street zipping up

Free Will Astrology: Week of April 24

Whistlin' Dixie's Texas Tavern on Eleventh Avenue

How to be a Lone Star lush in NYC

Gleaming Beneath the Cube

Michelle Shocked's booming voice humbles sirens and enraptures passersby

TV on the Radio Guy Calls Our Cover Racist

'Voice' Cover Racist?

TV on the Radio guy thinks so

'The Quiet'

Peanuts, Popcorn

Carnie Life: Peanuts and Popcorn at Lincoln Center

Morning Report 10/4/05
Miers on Bush: 'Smartest Man I Ever Met'

Rita and Weep

Texas, home to the country's largest refineries, has yet to be declared a disaster area by Bush

Pulling Up Lame

Loser versus loser: Handicapping the coming Supreme Court vacancies

Letter From Lockhart

Our intrepid reporter returns to Texas to sample the real thing

Rock the Cash Box

The Sunshine Patriots

The GOP's champions of this war had a hard time finding their own way to the battlefield

Blank Check for Hudson Yards

Hidden costs to the public of Bloomberg's West Side dreams

Spalding Gray 1941-2004

Remembering an artist who relied mostly on his own story

Peanuts, Popcorn

The Tip-Off: Bikes!

Homeland Security Follies

Redefining the Center

Liberal Decisions From a Conservative Court

How Much Diversity Is Enough?

Does a White Mother on Welfare Count?

Dallas Dildo Defiance

Rich Man, Poor People

The Billionaire Mayor and the Income Gap

Redeeming the Democratic Party

Separate and Unequal—the Nations Within

That Championship Season

A Bronx Baller Leads the Way to a Harlem Title

The Really World Wide Web

A Guide to Finding News From Far-Flung Places

Hoop it Up

Another Slammin' Summer Kicks Off at that Playground Paradise, Rucker Park

Take This Down

Unauthorized Lecture-Note Sites Draw Profs’ Fire

Letters

Airport '99

Get Ready For Takeoff as the Rucker Tourney Heads For Its Final

Nation

Iron Age

A gathering of old-time strongmen is not for the weak of heart

Higher-Educated Consumers

Cheryl Hopwood vs. State of Texas

Sixteen of the Admitted Blacks Had Lower Scores Than the Rejected Whites