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In Depth With Japandroids' Brian King: "Nothing Is Off the Record"

Few guitar bands cleaned up this year like Japandroids, whose triumphant second album Celebration Rock brought them massive universal acclaim and a bounty of new fans in the spirit of Titus Andronicus' The Monitor and the Hold Steady's Separation Sunday. Just yesterday their Celebration Rock was nam ... More >>

Q&A: King Khan On His Favorite Superhero, Taking A Trip To Bethlehem, And His "Volatile Volcano Of Love"

King Khan—he of the Shrines, the King Khan & BBQ Show, the Black Jaspers, the... oh, you get the idea—is back, but then he never really leaves. This native Canadian, now living in Berlin between endless globe-hopping and side projects, is a busy man. He's in the Big Apple this week with ... More >>

12 Ideas The Olympics Committee Rejected Before Deciding To Have Liam Gallagher Sing "Wonderwall" At The Closing Ceremony

The latest rumor about how the Olympics will close themselves out next month comes from The Sun: "[Oasis's Liam Gallagher] will perform a new arrangement of... 'Wonderwall' with bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock." 12. All of the track & field competitors dress up like Benny Hill a ... More >>

Vancouver Restaurant Wins World's Most Expensive Hot Dog Contest

In a contest of overpriced hot dogs, New York City's Serendipity 3 has been unseated by Vancouver's DougieDog Hot Dogs, recently crowned the world's most expensive hot dog seller by Guinness World Records. The restaurant's foot-long Dragon Dog, a bratwurst, is infused with 100-year-old Louis XIII ... More >>

What's the Hottest Hot Dog at Japadog?

Here is what the spiciest frank at Japadog looks like -- it doesn't look that hot, right? Fans of spicy wieners usually know which ones to get at their favorite frank purveyors: at Crif Dogs it's the "Spicy Redneck." At Bark Hot Dogs, you'd go for the "Chili Cheese," but then you'd have to smother ... More >>

Japadog on St. Marks: A First Glimpse

​Why does my East Village hot dog look like an abstract painting? Twenty-four hours ago, Japadog - a Vancouver hot doggery with one store and four carts - opened its first American outlet on St. Marks between Third and Second avenues. It specializes in sausages (not just hot dogs!) dressed ... More >>

Q&A: Sex Church's Levon On Autumn, Depression, And Creepshow

If any single phrase summarizes the Sex Church approach to reverb-drenched bombs, it's unquestionably "virulent erosion." The Vancouver-based outfit showcases a series of intense, furiously clanged and flanged slow/whoa! dissolves on its full-length debut Growing Over (Load). From the swirling acti ... More >>

You Know How This Ends: Sad Tale of an Orphaned Orca in The Whale

Sightings+Shearing Pinx

Couple Will Be Your Dinosaur For a Year If You Give Them an Apartment

​This ad recently appeared in Craigslist's "Real Estate Wanted" listings for Vancouver, where real estate seems nearly as difficult to come by as it is here in New York City. Unconventional Offer for Adventurous Home Owner (Vancouver) Date: 2011-06-26, 8:16PM PDT This offer is not for everyo ... More >>

Cab From 'Cash Cab' Hits and Kills Man in Canada

​A driver for 'Cash Cab,' the excellent mobile TV quiz show that is also kind of fake, ran over a 61-year-old man in Vancouver yesterday. The man, who was from Surrey, British Columbia, died of his injuries. The show had finished the night's filming and a producer (not the bald-pated host of the A ... More >>

Veggie Mag Uses Meaty Models; Daniel Boulud Plans Montreal Resto

​A food blog has introduced a food-cart walking tour, charging $40 to take participants to some of the city's most talked-about mobile vendors. [NY Post] Underground food markets are cropping up around the country, allowing vendors to avoid hefty fees for health permits and insurance. [NY Tim ... More >>

Maybe This Is Why Married People Want to Live Vicariously Through Their Single Friends

​A groundbreaking new study has determined that the happiness of the person you are married to is linked to your own happiness, reports the Wall Street Journal. That means that if the person you're married to is always complaining and nagging and annoyed and depressed, you probably will be, to ... More >>

tUnE-yArDs Announces New Album, Plays MHOW In May

​Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, And Nicki Minaj Are Invading Long Island In March

​If ever you wanted an excuse to truck out to Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, home to perennial NHL doormats the New York Islanders, this'd be it: Lil Wayne's I Am Music II tour, costarring Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Mixmaster Mike, and indomitable rapper accessory Travis Barker, is coming to town ... More >>

Wheelchair-Bound Man Totally Schools Store Robber (Video!)

​Yesterday we mentioned that civilians seem to have kind of had it with crime. An East Village woman beat her attempted mugger up at an ATM; a Park Slope shopkeeper warded off his store's thief with a heavy-duty wastebasket. Now, take this group of stalwart Vancouver residents, including one ... More >>

Elderly Geezer Turns Into Twentysomething Asian Man Mid-Flight

Actual photos, via CNN​This happened: A guy flew from Hong Kong to Vancouver on an Air Canada flight on October 29. At the beginning of the flight, he was dressed as an "elderly Caucasian male" with oddly young-looking hands. Yet, at some point mid-flight, the guy went to the lavatory and "eme ... More >>

The Vancouver Gays Love Me!

​And I have definitive proof! Michael Venus just did a truly lovely and entertaining interview with me in V-rag, the Vancouver gay arts and culture magazine. And it makes me sound really important.

Frog Eyes+Beach Fossils+Pearly Gate Music

Hot Hot Heat

Fast-Food Chains Replace Teens with Robots; Calorie Labeling Forces Some Restaurants to Shrink Portions

​Yet another journalist asks why, if Alice Waters has been such a revolutionary in the local, slow food movement, do so some many people hate her. [LA Times] Fast-food chains that once employed teenagers to carry out the most mindless, repetitive of tasks are now turning to robots to do these ... More >>

Vancouver HIM Makes Kissy Gay Tourism Pitch During Olympics

​The most recent Gay & Lesbian Tourism Survey rankings by Community Marketing, Inc. showed New York hanging in as the nation's #1 GLBT tourist destination. But those crafty Canadians are pulling out all the stops to eat our gay-tourism lunch. Here's a poster from the Vancouver Health Initiati ... More >>

Nodar Kumaritashvili's Death Steps Up Calls for Safer Sports

​In the wake of the gruesome death of Olympic luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in a training accident last week, Olympic officials have moved the starting points on the luge track to slow the course -- which has some lugers already missing the excitement of a world-class run. It may seem the offi ... More >>

Sietsema at Sapthagiri; DiGregorio at Torrisi Italian Specialties and Despana

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema samples an array of vegetarian southern Indian, including Jain and Swaminarayan food, at Sapthagiri in Jersey City. Sarah DiGregorio makes a couple of meals out of the Italian-American bites at Torrisi Italian Specialties and the Spanish tapas at Despana. Sa ... More >>

More 2010 Eating and Boozing Predictions

Taking a page from Restaurants & Institutions's 20 Menu Trends for 2010, Epicurious has squinted into its own crystal ball to see what food trends we'll be swallowing down during the next 12 months.

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Bar Celona; Goodbye to Bungalow 8

Bar Celona, a stylish tapas bar owned by fashion consultant Cynthia Diaz, has opened in Williamsburg. Chef Jordy Lavanderos is serving not-quite-Spanish pan-Latin small plates, such as scallop ceviche, mackerel pate, and mushroom tostones. [NY Times] Cafe Boulud has reopened and, with it, Bar Pleia ... More >>

Looking Back: The Voice on 9/11

​The September 11, 2001 issue of the Village Voice was delayed so that some relevant material could be inserted. Alisa Solomon, who had spent much of the previous month in Israel, where terror bombings were more common, gave a firsthand report on the World Trade Center attacks. She had been do ... More >>

Mathew Jonson & DJ Three

Japandroids+Little Girls+Dinowalrus

'Oscillations'

Foodzie is Etsy for Food

You probably know Etsy, the website that brings together hundreds of small, home-grown businesses--letting you buy a homemade knit cap from some crafty girl in Vancouver, or a "dog necklace" from a quirky jewelry maker in Los Angeles. Now there's a similar website for food, Foodzie, which launch ... More >>

80,000 Cops' Social Security, Payroll Info Stolen

As if they didn't have enough trouble with the alleged rapist cop and the Jesus freak cop, now the NYPD has to deal with an apparently massive identity theft. Their pension fund director of communications, Anthony Bonelli, has been charged with stealing tapes containing the social security and dire ... More >>

The New York International Fringe Festival Returns

Fringe explores the life of writers -- plus sex, nudity and poo. Here we go again!

Fido

Rockafeller Skanks and Immanentizing Canucks

The New Poetry

Frame Canada

Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

Drunk Canadians Destroy Stoner Rock

Wishahouse

Great white Northerner never-weres make a mountain out of a prole hill

NY Mirror

Content Canadian Explores Hotels on That Side of Paradise

Film

Children of the Porn

In Michael Turner's noble and elaborately filthy novel, kiddie smut is best used by kids

Listings

Pacific Heights

Chasing the dragons in Vancouver's East Asian showcase

Sports

Bust and Boom

Vancouver's Calm Before the Storm

Thai One On

Vancouver Smackdown

Watch Your Steps