Vladimir Lenin

The Material World: Masses Entertainment

Dan Fishback works a musical-communism mashup at Dixon Place

Special Conquistador Edition

Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha

Noisy-ass beer garden blasts into Midtown from Munich

Rightbloggers on Atlas Shrugged: It's the Feel-Good, Piece-of-Crap Movie of the Year!

When best-selling books like The DaVinci Code or the Twilight series become movies, their fans take to the internet to share their excitement. They argue over the film's fidelity to their favorite characters and scenes, and revel in their love-object's moment in the cinematic sun. So too it has bee ... More >>

Barack Obama & Godwin's Law: Glenn Beck, Tea Party Won't Leave Nazis Out of It

​Dana Milbank's Sunday column in the Washington Post tackles a prickly pear cactus of a political issue: not just the Tea Party, but the connection between the amorphous political group and Nazism, specifically Hitler allusions and imagery. "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naïve," reads ... More >>

Mark Rudd, the Lenin of the Columbia Uprising

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 19, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 49 Columbia Gets Ready For Who Knows What? by Steve Lerner On the eve of registration, Columbia is a nervous place. Hints that the university has been subtly preparing itself for possible disorders at ... More >>

Last Night: The SFNY Party Gives Us A Chance To Spy On People From The Hotel On Rivington's Rooftop Bar

The beautiful people. Pic by Puja.​There's nothing quite like a rooftop soiree to remind you that it's spring, and yesterday's SFNY day party did just that. The annual bi-coastal get-down features three DJs from both San Francisco and New York: King Most, Wax Poetics' Freddy Anzures, and Massi ... More >>

'Art After the Chicano Movement'

A new exhibition tracks an identity through art

Playing Politics In Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers and Lenin's Embalmers

Vietnam gets some airtime, Lenin gets some stuffing

At New York City Ballet and Györ National Ballet, Choreographers Re-tell Old Tales

Aleksandr Sokurov's The Sun Meditates on Hirohito

FBI raid on G20 Twitter anarchist seizes mercury, ammunition, and pictures of communists

U.S. District Court Judge Dora Irizarry has halted FBI examination of materials seized in a Thursday raid on the Queens home of Elliot M. Madison, who was arrested outside Pittsburgh during the G20 Summit for allegedly using social media to help protesters avoid police. The FBI is said to have conf ... More >>

The Films of Sergei Loznitsa at Anthology

Communism, Death of Man, "Kumbaya for your Karma": The True Meaning of Earth Day

Today is Earth Day, and you know what that means -- the launch of a Disney film, and re-education as to how Earth Day is a communist plot. "I wonder how many of the millions worldwide participating in Earth Day festivities actually know who Lenin was?" writes Bill Croke at the American Spectator. ... More >>

State Grabs $115 Million from Unredeemed Water Bottles

Governor Paterson celebrated Lenin's Earthday by signing into law a new Bottle Bill -- aka the Bigger Better Bottle Bill -- which includes bottled water among among the receptacles on which a deposit is expected, so unless you haul your empty Evians to the supermarket, your unredeemed nickels will a ... More >>

A Pleasing Secret History: Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide

Tzara ain't so bizarra, says NPR essayist

Susan Orlean, David Remnick, Ethan Hawke, and Others Pick Their Favorite Obscure Books

On to Chapter Two! We ask another round of authors for recommendations.

Soup and Homicidal Nuts: Recalling a Cheaper, Scarier Village

SXSW: Behold the Accursed Table of Discarded Promotional Materials

Clip Job: November 7, 1956

Happiness Is Existential Ennui

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Camp Followers

Beauties and Beastliness

Artists' Paradise

Naked Lunch

Talking Beats, alternate history, and a biker "Isaak" Babel with Sesshu Foster

Film

A Prolific Cuban Filmmaker's Inventive Newsreel Agitprop

The New Republic

Two families—and filmmaking trends—converge in a multicultural comedy of manners

In a Year of 13 Lakes

Gay Nazis, minimalist experiments, and maybe a Sokurov masterpiece at the Berlin festival

Film

Film

A Whiter Shade of Harlem

They're building again in America's black mecca—but not necessarily with black labor

Death of a Salesman

Ronald Reagan, 1911–2004

A Devoted Son Keeps Berlin All Quiet on the Western Front

Whim Wenders

How to Turn a Lesbian Straight, and Vice Versa, Without Assistance From Ben Affleck

Notes From Underground

Terrorists in Retirement

Hero Worship

Berlin's Personae Non Gratae

On Being Called a Commie

Red-Baiting in a World Without Reds

Between Heaven and Earth

Marriage and War

Forces of Nature

Berlin's Body Politic

Perpetual Motion

Photography, Already Zooming, Gathers Speed

A Conspiracy So Vast

Screen Test

World’s Hardest Movie Quiz 2000

Wright’s Waxy Buildup

Marshall Berman’s Love Affair With Marx

Better Dead Than Red

Music For Theremin

Nation