Vietnam

'Cinema of Resistance': Reels of Rage

At Lincoln Center, it's film as urgent jeremiad.

What to Eat for Lunch at Nightingale 9

We get antsy in the summer, and it takes very little convincing to get us to commit to a long midday meal away from our desks. And so a few days ago, we headed out to Carroll Gardens to check in on lunch at Nightingale 9.

How to Make a Hanoi Ginger from Betel Bar and Kitchen

The vendors on Broadway are selling oversized 2013 sunglasses. Bring on the sequins and make some questionable decisions, it's time for New Year's Eve. If celebrating in sparkles is not your idea of a good time, consider washing your cares away with something bubbly instead (it's tradition!). Today ... More >>

New Musical Dogfight Trades WW2 Sailors for Vietnam Marines

On the other town

Dog Meat: What Does It Taste Like?

Grand Central Publishing​In case you Fork in the Road readers don't Google-stalk me, you might not know that I wrote a book called Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris, which recounts the year I spent learning to cook in restaurants around the world. ... More >>

Jane Fonda Bumped From QVC Over Vietnam

​That's what she says. Of course they're simply saying schedule changes happen all the time. Oh, please. Can you believe that a channel known for selling aggressively tacky items (which I love, mind you) can be so wussy about what else they'll sell?

Nat Hentoff: Hey, New York Times, Quit Calling the North Vietnamese "The Enemy"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 29, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 26 Know your enemy By Nat Hentoff "ENEMY REPORTED TO DESTROY 23 ARMORED PERSONNEL CARRIERS IN COLUMN" --New York Times, May 28 "KONTUM CLEARED OF FOE" --New York Times, June 6 Like many of you, I hav ... More >>

These Fat Monkeys Not Quite As Depressing

In keeping with today's...theme?, more fat monkeys. These ones are happy and get to run around and munch on healthy things like oranges, though. Also, the first comment on this video is the most disturbing YouTube comment I've ever seen. It starts, "In Vietnam we used the damm things as targets" ... More >>

The Orwellian Madness of the Nixon Administration

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 4, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 18 The Orwellian President: Vietnam is the struggle By David McReynolds I have, for some time, been bothered by the degree to which my father and Nixon seem alike. I love my father and, while I do not hate ... More >>

Eating Bun Cha Ha Noi at Pho Bang

Lauren Shockey​Bun, otherwise known as rice noodles, are ubiquitous at Vietnamese restaurants throughout the city. New York is rife with bun thit nuong--a large bowl filled with rice noodles, grilled pork or beef, pickled vegetables, lettuce, and herbs. So we were very happy to see on Pho Ba ... More >>

New 'Voice' Owners; and Ed Koch Writes In

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 5, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 6 New Stockholder Straus Broadcasting, Inc., has sold its stock interest in The Village Voice. All other Voice shareholders -- Edwin Fancher, Evelyn L. Lutz, Herbert B. Lutz, Norman Mailer, and Daniel Wol ... More >>

War Vets Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on One Human Leg

via Yahoo​Want to feel bad about yourself for not going to the gym yesterday, or all summer, for that matter? Oh, three war vets of, respectively, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam, made it to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro last Saturday. The trip took six days, and among them, they had but one human ... More >>

What's Up With the Vietnam War Allusions When Talking About Vietnamese Sandwiches?

Sarah DiGregorioHanco's and Henry's banh mi.​ What is it about banh mi or banh mi-like sandwiches that moves people to make tasteless allusions to the Vietnam War? Today, Midtown Lunch takes a look at Cer Te's "The Fall of Saigon," a vaguely banh mi-ish cocoction with buffalo chicken julienned ... More >>

A Different Kind of 1960's War Demonstration

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 31 The Hawks in May: A Day to Remember By Joe Flaherty On Saturday afternoon past, with the war gods supplying sunshine to heat their passions, the Legions of Decency and Death paraded down Fifth Avenue. Lik ... More >>

Clip Job: Dick Gregory Heads for North Vietnam

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 8, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 8 Dick Gregory on His Way To Entertain the Jailed By Joe Flaherty Dick Gregory sat under the pale spot at Art D'Lugoff's Village Gate, his hands fluttering around his head like black and orange butterf ... More >>

Clip Job: Vietnam War Protesters Get an Earful

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 21, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 1 Peaceful Protesters Parade Against War By Paul Cowan Between 15,000 and 20,000 people marched along Fifth Avenue in a parade protesting America's involvement in Vietnam last Saturday. Though Sunday's ... More >>

Clip Job: An Early Vietnam War Protest

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 24, 1964, Vol. X, No. 10Thomas Hits Viet War at Washington Sq. RallyMore than 1000 people, including turbaned writer Marc Schleifer, bearded, bereted hippies, mothers with baby carriages, and the Police Department's Special Services ( ... More >>

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band+Disappears

Incredibly Cheap Eats--Bun Bo Hue at Thanh Da

The irresistible bun bo hue, a soup that originated in the city of Hue, Vietnam You've probably had your fill of pho (the multi-beef rice noodle soup) and banh mi (the French-leaning Vietnamese hero), but I bet you haven't had your fill of bun bo hue. A rash of immigration from central Vietnam ... More >>

A Couple More G-Darn Thoughts About Sarah Palin

Remembering Martin Luther King 40 Years Later

Stop-Loss: Apolitical Theater

Working hard not to mention the Iraq war

The Camden 28

Pro-Life

Artists return to the Vietnam protest model with For Life Against the War . . . Again

Faux '70s Yawps for Analog Simpletons

Absalom, O Absalom

'Not for inciting hatred, but for learning lessons from history'

Super Troopers

A Vietnam war doc with powerful contemporary parallels

Who Would Eat Such Tripe?

Highs and lows of stomach-lining dining

After the Fall

Artists recall the immediacy and the aftershocks of war

In Country

Violinist makes peace with his Southeast Asian experience

The Year the Western Went New Wave

Life After Wartime: Hallucinogens, Eating, Paid-For Sex

Vietnam, the War That Won't Heal

The lessons of Saigon, still unheeded, permeate the presidential campaign

The Doctrine of Atrocity

U.S. against "them"—a tradition of institutionalized brutality

When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.

Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind

Follow the Microfiche

Did America Abandon Vietnam War P.O.W.'s? Part 1

A closer look at an ugly issue

Finning Off the Viet Cong; They're Still Here, One's All Gone

Being Robert McNamara

Documentarian Errol Morris reconstructs the ex–defense secretary's Vietnam story 'from inside his head'

Left Out in the Cold

Which Way the Wind Blows

Notes From Underground

Terrorists in Retirement

How the Rich Go to War

They Send the Poor to Fight

The Art of War

A Brief History of Protest Art

The Usual Suspects—and Beyond

100,000 Flood Washington for What May Be the Biggest American Antiwar March Since Viet Nam

Vietnam Surfacing

Media Offer Glimpse Into Military History

Nam de Plume

Return With Honor

Where Is the Peace Movement?

Where Is the Democratic Party?

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