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Vancouver

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    September 21, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 10, 2011

    Sightings+Shearing Pinx

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    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.

  • Voice Choices

    June 15, 2010

    Frog Eyes+Beach Fossils+Pearly Gate Music

    ​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.

  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2010

    Hot Hot Heat

    ​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.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    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.

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2009

    Mathew Jonson & DJ Three

    ​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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 1, 2009

    Japandroids+Little Girls+Dinowalrus

    ​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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 13, 2009

    'Oscillations'

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • Theater

    August 5, 2008

    The New York International Fringe Festival Returns

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

  • Music

    January 22, 2008

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

    Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

  • Film

    June 5, 2007

    Fido

    Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

  • Film

    April 3, 2007

    'Everything's Gone Green'

    Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

  • Music

    July 18, 2006

    Rockafeller Skanks and Immanentizing Canucks

    Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

  • Books

    May 16, 2006

    The New Poetry

    Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

  • Film

    October 25, 2005

    Frame Canada

    Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2005

    Drunk Canadians Destroy Stoner Rock

    Vancouver's hefty haul still has an intimate feel

  • Music

    August 30, 2005

    Wishahouse

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

  • People

    June 14, 2005

    She Is 'The L Word'

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

  • NYC Life

    May 24, 2005

    NY Mirror

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

  • Music

    November 23, 2004

    Content Canadian Explores Hotels on That Side of Paradise

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

  • Film

    November 23, 2004

    Film

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

  • Books

    November 16, 2004

    Children of the Porn

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

  • NYC Life

    October 5, 2004

    Listings

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

  • Film

    November 18, 2003

    Pacific Heights

    Chasing the dragons in Vancouver's East Asian showcase

  • News

    July 8, 2003

    Sports

    Chasing the dragons in Vancouver's East Asian showcase

  • Film

    November 26, 2002

    Bust and Boom

    Vancouver's Calm Before the Storm

  • Film

    October 17, 2000

    Thai One On

    Vancouver Smackdown

  • Film

    January 11, 2000

    Watch Your Steps

    Vancouver Smackdown

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