Vancouver

Drunk Canadians Destroy Stoner Rock

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!

'Everything's Gone Green'

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

Hello, Blue Roses' The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty . . .

Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

Watch Your Steps

Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

Thai One On

Vancouver Smackdown

Bust and Boom

Vancouver's Calm Before the Storm

Sports

Vancouver's Calm Before the Storm

Pacific Heights

Chasing the dragons in Vancouver's East Asian showcase

Listings

Chasing the dragons in Vancouver's East Asian showcase

Children of the Porn

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

Content Canadian Explores Hotels on That Side of Paradise

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

NY Mirror

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

She Is 'The L Word'

Talking with Ilene Chaiken, producer of the world's only lesbian soap opera

Wishahouse

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

Frame Canada

Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

Fido

Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

Horoscope

Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

Rockafeller Skanks and Immanentizing Canucks

Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

The New Poetry

Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

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 >>

Japandroids+Little Girls+Dinowalrus

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 >>

Mathew Jonson & DJ Three

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

R.I.P. You Say Party! We Say Die! Drummer Devon Clifford

Wretched news from Vancouver, where You Say Party! We Say Die! drummer Devon Clifford collapsed onstage during a show Friday night. He died early Sunday morning. The cause of death was a "massive brain hemorrhage," reports The Canadian Press. The 30-year-old drummer "loved his family, loved his ba ... More >>

Hot Hot Heat

Wretched news from Vancouver, where You Say Party! We Say Die! drummer Devon Clifford collapsed onstage during a show Friday night. He died early Sunday morning. The cause of death was a "massive brain hemorrhage," reports The Canadian Press. The 30-year-old drummer "loved his family, loved his ba ... More >>

Frog Eyes+Beach Fossils+Pearly Gate Music

Wretched news from Vancouver, where You Say Party! We Say Die! drummer Devon Clifford collapsed onstage during a show Friday night. He died early Sunday morning. The cause of death was a "massive brain hemorrhage," reports The Canadian Press. The 30-year-old drummer "loved his family, loved his ba ... 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.

Film

​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.

'Oscillations'

​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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Sightings+Shearing Pinx

​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 >>

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

​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 >>

CMJ Day Two: Cubic Zirconia, Mux Mool, And Teen Daze Plug In At Cake Shop

Cubic Zirconia. ​CMJ Day Two: Gospel Music, Cloud Nothings, Widowspeak, Cubic Zirconia, Mux Mool, Teen Daze Better than: Walking around in the drizzle-cum-actual rain without an umbrella. Gospel Music had the best T-shirt of the day at Cake Shop yesterday afternoon—maybe of CMJ, perio ... 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 >>

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 >>