University of Wisconsin

Mobile Game Lets You Experience 1909 Garment Worker Uprising in Washington Square

Before it housed NYU students with smoothies and laptops during the workday, the Asch Building on Washington Place was known as the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. Two years before the fire that scorched Triangle Shirtwaist's name into history, the women toiling away inside--mostly Jewish and Italian i ... More >>

Free Will Astrology

Paul Ryan's Workout Routine Is More Important Than Syria

Since Mitt Romney tapped Paul Ryan's Workout Routine as his running mate Aug. 11, details have emerged that the vice presidential candidate has a grueling workout routine. "Fresh from a workout at a hotel gym in Iowa" and wearing "exercise shorts and a University of Wisconsin baseball cap pulled d ... More >>

Q&A: Danielle Henderson, Author of Feminist Ryan Gosling : Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude

Despite launching a website featuring Ryan Gosling that became an overnight hit, and recently publishing a book filled with Gosling's broodingly sexy photos, Danielle Henderson is not a Ryan Gosling fan-girl. The New York native is actually a graduate student in women and gender studies at the Unive ... More >>

HEY, RYAN GOSLING

From a joke, to a meme, to a book

Live: Zola Jesus Conquers The Guggenheim

Zola Jesus Guggenheim Museum Thursday, May 10 Better than: Dancing about architecture. One had to assume that Nika Roza Danilova would make it into a museum sooner or later. A classically trained opera singer, she released her first album under the moniker Zola Jesus while studying French philosop ... More >>

Report Says Excessive Fines for Street Vendors are Hurting the City (And Are Bad for Vendors, Too)

A report released today argues that the city is excessively fining street vendors and in doing so is actually losing out on revenue it would get with a fine system that's more fair. The report, called "Fining the Hand that Feeds You," from the University of Wisconsin, argues that high fines are les ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: June 29-July 5, 2011

The Bronx Is the Most Unhealthy Place in New York

​Major League Baseball has its opening day today, and the Yankees might want to station some ambulances outside the stadium for their fans. It seems that the Bronx has maintained its title of least healthy borough, out of the 62 counties of New York state, for the second year in a row, via a s ... More >>

Nerds Are Healthier

Pictures of health.​Perhaps it seems intuitive, but that's probably because you, too, were the captain of your high school's debate team, or the leading AV squad member, or that guy with the tape on his glasses who was super-awesome at trigonometry. Science has said it, though, and it must be ... More >>

Best of NYC: Thank Gay Party Promoter Josh Wood

Partytown, USA

MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY

Julian Lynch promises 'special guests'

Free Will Astrology: June 23-29, 2010

Nashville Flood Proves to Rightbloggers: Obama Hates America, White People

Even if you don't know much about rightbloggers, you probably know that since time immemorial conservatives have blamed the nation's problems and Democratic Administrations on something called the Liberal Media. This nefarious press syndicate (of which the Village Voice is considered a charter membe ... More >>

Academic Press Releases of the Day: Michael Jackson, Friends, Male Vibrator Use

From the University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Experts: Big Tobacco Dead by 2047, Possibly Sooner." But if you're a smoker, they'll certainly outlive you. The University of Rochester: "Rock, Pop Historian Assesses Michael Jackson's Greatness." Sample: "The single glove, his patented moonwalk step, that ... More >>

The Next Frontier of the Stem Cell Debate

"Snowflake" babies, embryo "adoption," and being pre-born again

'Reformed Muslim Terrorists' Preach Christ to College Kids

Columbia students among those proselytized at a screwy Colorado confab

Queer in the Crib

Gay adults like to say they were born that way. So where are the gay children? Everywhere? Fabulous, baby.

Due Unto Dunham

Extending the legacy of dance ancestor Katherine Dunham, 1909–2006

But Is It Art?

Cranky satirists too cool for School

Monster Mash

Uncovering a secret history of stuttering research

Hair Traffic

Your extensions look hot—except maybe for the roots

Don't Panic

Fear of frying

Picture This

Talking with James Sturm, co-founder of the nation's first school for cartoon studies

Hot for Teacher

Students rate profs online—and vice versa

Body Politics

The wheel world: Is disability studies academia's next frontier?

The New Apprenticeship

Learning the real-world lessons of the jazz musician's life in a university setting

Game On!

Will more professors develop video games for their classes?

Cozy Jersey Fluffstress Offers Affordable Solutions for Better Living

Musicology

Prof's soul story subsumes civil rights and black power in gospel vision

Lost in America

From Nicholas Berg to Abu Ghraib, the search for something to trust

Wanna Bag a Handsome Prince? Be Yourself! Play Hard to Get!

Misfire

Why Brain Structure Makes Unintended Shootings Inevitable

Outing Abe

Also Adolf, Jesus, Eleanor, Robin Hood, and Other Historic Greats

Nation

Once a Car Dealer . . .

Selig Makes Big Haul From Pal's Firm

Why Doves Must Fly

Now That We've Lost the Anti-War, We Need the Peace Movement More Than Ever

Queer as Folk Dance

Performing Gender in Phnom Penh and on Gay Barricades

Maps and Chaps

••• The New Geography Reaches Critical Mass

Nation

Chilling Free Speech on Campuses

Sensitivity Above All?

No Payback

Campus Speech and the David Horowitz Ad

Speech Lessons

The GOP and Campus Rights

Down By Law

When Movie Moguls Wage War to Protect Copyright, the First Amendment Ends Up on the Cutting Room Floor

Making Racism History

St. Louis Blues

Big as Life

Sorel's Way

She died in her apartment just five doors down from the 9th precinct— murdered. A loner and, perhaps, one of the last Bohemians

Letters

Machine Age

Speech Therapy

Ten Years After Ushering In the Era of P.C. Policing, The University of Wisconsin Sets Its Faculty Free