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Our 10 Best Upper East Side Restaurants

The Upper East Side has had some work done. A culinary facelift? It sure seems that way, judging by the neighborhood's growing tally of inventive new food spots that have emerged over the last few years. At the same time, old favorites have continued to increase their followings. Sure, those with pl ... More >>

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES

A new Village Voice policy on "adult" advertising

Brooklyn Community Rallies to Protect Beloved Arts School From Co-location

If it's not broken, and it actually works pretty well, let's throw a charter school in there and hope it doesn't break. That seems to be the philosophy the Department of Education is going with in its proposal to co-locate the newly proposed K-5 Success Academy Charter School Brooklyn 5 at K265 in ... More >>

Village Voice Under New Ownership; Cuts Ties With Backpage.com

There's news to report on the who's-paying-our-salary front: The Village Voice is now under new ownership.Our parent company, Village Voice Media, has been sold to a group of the company's editors and publishers in a deal that includes the Voice and our 12 sister publications across the country. The ... More >>

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The Village Voice Seeks Fall Intern for Fork in the Road

The Village Voice is looking for an adventurous, organized, food-savvy intern to join our team this fall and assist with the development of Web stories. Our ideal intern would have a love for food and drink along with photography and writing skills. Duties will include sourcing materials for upcomin ... More >>

Village Voice Official Statement On 4Knots Music Festival After-Party

"The Village Voice is aware of the complaints about the aggressive nature of the security guards/bouncers at the 4Knots Music Festival After-Party and is taking them very seriously. These security guards/bouncers were not 4Knots employees, nor were they contracted through The Village Voice or 4Knot ... More >>

4Knots Music Festival: Set Times, Afterparty Details Announced

The Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival takes place this Saturday at Piers 16 and 17 of the South Street Seaport, and if you want to plan your day out we have the set times for the day, which will include performances by Archers Of Loaf, The Drums, Crocodiles, Hospitality, Bleached, Nick Waterhous ... More >>

Village Voice Media Releases First E-Book -- Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology

Every week writers for the Village Voice and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing--a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Cr ... More >>

The 2012 Obie Award Winners

Village Voice Vino: The Best Wine in New York City

​Do you enjoy savoring your Village Voice every Wednesday morning with a steaming cup of coffee? Well, here's a much tastier, boozier way to start the day: Village Voice Vino. Yep, we got ourselves a wine.

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

Village Voice HQ Is Being Protested for 'Facilitation of Sex Trafficking'

Robert Sietsema​A group protesting against what they call the " Backpage.com's Facilitation of Sex Trafficking" has gathered in numbers of about 50 outside our office. The group is made of a handful of organizations including The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Prostitution Research an ... More >>

Our 10 Best Barbecue Restaurants in NYC

Robert SietsemaMemorial Day weekend = meat-eating weekend​ The long weekend is soon approaching, and frolicking in the cool Hamptons waters and firing up the grill are surely top of mind. Stuck in the city this weekend? Don't despair -- you can still enjoy the pleasures of backyard barbecue ... More >>

Choice Eats Now Has a Foursquare Badge

Better than a Girl Scout badge.​Exciting news from the Department of Choice Eats: The Village Voice is partnering with Foursquare and introducing a special Choice Eats badge for this year's culinary tasting event.

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got off their duffs?

What's the Street Price of Cocaine at Columbia University? (UPDATED)

​Holy Scarface! Five Columbia University students/fratboys were busted this week for selling all kinds of crazy drugs at school. Ivy League? More like High-vy League. Luckily, via Columbia's BWOG, understanding the numbers of the busts also gives us a chance to understand how much drugs cost a ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: White America Has Lost Its Mind

​From Glenn Beck to Breitbart, Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh, from sea to shining sea, from their mere followers to their Kool-Aid drinkers, the rage, motives, and manners all lend themselves to a certain composite picture developing quite neatly in this country, that's really, more than anythi ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

​Phoenix, Arizona! The fifth most populated city in the country. It's the capital of Arizona, the Grand Canyon State! It's also -- as the center of the United States' immigration crisis with two sides viciously battling over the future of millions of people -- the place where the most people i ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The Tilda Swinton Moment

​How time flies, right? Eighteen years ago, Sally Potter had her breakout as the writer-director of Orlando, which also starred then-breakout Tilda Swinton. Now, for this week's Village Voice cover story, Melissa Anderson talks with Potter and Swinton about Orlando about their continuing caree ... More >>

Breaking: Village Voice Offices Currently Being Protested Over Union-Busting Paper Manufactures

​Sometimes, news happens right before your very eyes! Or even outside your building! To you! We have received word that there are "four guys" outside handing fliers out in front of the Village Voice offices. Even more, they are protesting the (for the record: unionized) Village Voice for union ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The Queer Issue, Featuring Jersey Shore's Guidos

​We at the Village Voice fly all variations of flags -- patriotic, pirate, freak, or otherwise -- day in, day out as routine business around here. But this week, we're loud and proud of a very specific color (or colors), as that special time of year is here again: The Queer Issue has arrived. ... More >>

Mediagazer Leaderboard: A Ranking System That Isn't Insulting, That Actually Works

​When Dan Abrams' media news site Mediaite debuted, they also unveiled a proprietary ranking system of media personalities they called the Power Grid. It was met with a mixture of jeers and boos, as was the new one they launched for Abrams Media's sports site: in a time where media jobs were f ... More >>

Treme Character Works for The Village Voice, Is Accurate, Awesome

​The Wire creator David Simon's new show Treme has been called both "TV that viewers ask for but rarely get" and by another: "Boring." Most of us here, however, think it's pretty wonderful. Especially since the show now features a character who works at the Village Voice on it!

Today Will Be Fun: Good Morning, New York Times Readers!

​If you came here from this thing, and you're visiting for the first time, I'd like to welcome you to the Village Voice on behalf of Village Voice Media, this Shady Mexican Dude Named Slim, and the rest of the Runnin' Scared staff!

Attention You New Yorkers of the Burning Loins

​Calling all you New York City ladies who love firemen and all of you firemen who love ladies. (Okay, just calling everybody in general.) Tonight's your night! Dating service SingleAndTheCity.com is hosting a "Rescue Me"* singles party featuring men who save lives and wear uniforms. Yep, that ... More >>

Invoice: Commentary on Jimmy Dolan's Penis, Blogger, $400 Per Week, Payable with Village Voice Advertising Pull

​Well, looks like I'm gonna have to tell the wife and our nine adopted children with various disabilities that less impair them than they do make them unbearably cute in a Finding Nemo-esque fashion that my first raise won't be coming in quite on schedule this time. Your forthcoming hypo-aller ... More >>

Village Voice Happy Hours App Debuts

​When we noticed the Cocktail Compass app, showing local happy hours, that L magazine was bringing to New York, we wondered why Village Voice Media didn't have something like that. But, keeping to our usual journalistic method, we didn't ask any questions. Now, surprise! VVM is releasing Happ ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Spoon's Transference, Bull Riding at MSG, Weasel Walter, the 2009 New Yorker Cartoonist Final Standings, and More

Spoon, doing less with less. Photo by Autumn De Wilde​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on Spoon's defiantly skeletal Transference, Phil Freeman goes bull riding at MSG's arena rock rodeo, and Brad Cohan meets the new kid in town (and old head extremist drummer) Weasel Walter. In Boo ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The 10th Annual Voice Film Critics' Poll, the Decade's Best Theater, Art, Dance, and Books, Harvilla's 'Worst Lyrics of the Decade,' and More

If you want to actually read this thing, by all means, click here.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla stages a brutal, single-elimination, March Madness-style tournament to determine the worst lyrics of the decade. Spoiler: the Black Eyed Peas are very much involved! Elsewhere, Christo ... More >>

OutHistory Chronicles the Voice's "Contemptuous Attitude Toward the Gay Community" (in 1969)

Pride Week, already? We have to thank the Times for pointing out the OutHistory site and its latest historical findings on the Stonewall Riot -- including the first confirmed name of a female arrested in the fracas (Marilyn Fowler), and a record of a Stonewall biting ("Biting has not earlier been do ... More >>

Voice Has Nine Finalists in AltWeekly Awards

We would like to take this lull in celebrity nudes and press release repurposing to announce that our mothership, the Village Voice, has scored no less than nine finalist slots in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' AltWeekly Awards. Our contenders, all in the Circulation-50,000-and-over un ... More >>

Village Voice's Free SXSW Day Party Announced: M. Ward, Cursive, Gomez

He's impatiently waiting for SXSW too Every year, the event-planning honchos at Village Voice Media throw a Friday afternoon shindig during South by Southwest. Once again this year, it'll be completely, unequivocally free and held at La Zona Rosa, a spacious 4th-Street venue that knuckleheads thin ... More >>

Clip Job: The Voice Shrinks in Size - in 1961

CONEY ISLAND, BABY

We only do this once a year

The Charges Are Dropped!

BBQ Chicken: Keep Your Pants On, People

Voice-New Times Wedding Is On

Justice Department gives the green light to alt-weekly merger

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