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Chris Christie Explains His Extreme Actions

Just recently, New Jersey governor Chris Christie went vocally ballistic on fellow Republican John Boehner for delaying a vote on the multi-billion-dollar package to help victims of Hurricane Sandy. Christie and New York Governor Cuomo released a statement saying, "When American citizens are in nee ... More >>

Q&A: Nitty Scott MC On Moving To New York, The Boombox Diaries Vol. 1, And Blurring The Line Between Mainstream And Underground

Nitty Scott MC is fresh out of her teens and she's already had three career changes, though she's remained a writer throughout. Within the last few years she's made a name for herself among New York's tough crowds as a legit MC who only includes organic hip-hop ingredients in her dishes. Nitty
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R.L. Stine: The Lost Interview

Sometimes in the nonstop world of blogging you do something that takes a little more time, and which you're very excited about. But because of the nonstop world of blogging, and because you want to do it right, and because it takes more time to do that, the idea or scoop or interview you were so exc ... More >>

Fried Turkey Legs! WTF?

Why did no one tell me about this before? Apparently, people unself-consciously run around Disney World -- and in fact, the entire state of Florida -- chomping on gigantic fried turkey legs!!!

Disney World Sucks, Actually

Some years ago, I got to finally live my lifelong dream of going to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I was horrified. I knew the place was going to be blandly generic, but it didn't know it was going to be that blandly generic.

Which Brand of Flosser Will Save Your Life? We'll Tell You!

​Each week, Death by Science kicks down science and technology's door and demands to see where they're hiding the primo goods. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up on canned goods and doomsday porn. This week, we examine the c ... More >>

Il Matto's Replacement to Look a Lot Like Every Other Restaurant in New York

Sarah DiGregorioFarewell, vermouth-soaked rocks and prosciutto-rimmed vodka cocktails.​During its ten months of life, Il Matto offered its customers gin martinis with vermouth-soaked rocks, grenade-shaped salt and pepper shakers, and seats seemingly modeled on Disney World's Mad Teacup ride. E ... More >>

Google Launches Magazine, Sort Of; Florida Newspaper Wants Cursing, Crazy Reporter

​"Is Google a Media Company?" the New York Times asked in the summer of 2008. "Critics say each new Google initiative in [content hosting] casts more doubt on the company's claims that it is not a media company." On Monday, David Carr updated us on the company's progress in three action-packed ... More >>

Disney World Replaces McDonald's With Vegan BabyCakes Cupcakes; the First Lady's New Healthy-Eating Target Is Restaurants

​The New York blizzards have helped extend Restaurant Week until Sunday, February 27. [Examiner] The Savoy hosted a Gogolian dinner Friday night, featuring pig's tongue slivers, blinis with caviar, headcheese, and smoked sardines. [City Room/NY Times] Disney World has kicked out McDonald's ... More >>

Celebration, Florida, a Town Created by Disney, Gets Its First-Ever Murder

Ooh -- awkward.​Creepily, Disney built a town in central Florida, just five miles south of Walt Disney World, 14 years ago. It is called Celebration, Florida, and, you might expect, it has a certain Stepford quality, with "manicured lawns and classic movie theaters." It is also a town where, a ... More >>

Gap's Mistaken Redesign, Plus 9 Other Logos No One Needed to Mess With

​In the wake of the Gap logo brouhaha, a/k/a, the making of an already ugly logo into an uglier one "circa 2010," allow us to present you with nine more of the most unfortunate logo redesigns we've lived through. There should be a T-shirt attesting to this, except there's no way in hell we'd w ... More >>

Florida's Modern-Day Slavery Museum Spotlights Plight of Florida Farm Laborers

yomi955/FlickrDuring the winter, the product of modern-day slavery.​Though it's unlikely to compete for crowds with Disneyworld, the Modern-Day Slavery Museum may be Florida's most important new attraction. Barry Estabrook, who wrote a haunting and horrifying story about slavery in Florida's ... More >>

Cruelty-Free Pre-Thanksgiving with Lou Reed, Others at Tavern on the Green

​Planning to tuck into a nice, fat turkey this Thanksgiving? What are you, sick? Turkeys are your animal companions. Repent of your carnivorism in the traditional way -- with celebrities! On November 22, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Russell Simmons will host "Celebration FOR The Turkeys" ... More >>

Russell Simmons Celebrates Our Feathered Friends

​The Def Jam co-founder will host a Celebration FOR the Turkeys (i.e., not AGAINST) on Sunday, November 22, accompanied by like-minded blowhards Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Jonathan Safran Foer, a/k/a the guy who ruined Thanksgiving for thousands of families this year with his new Eating Ani ... More >>

Is Auschwitz The New Disney World?

​Madonna has announced that when her "Sticky & Sweet" tour hits Poland, she just might take her four kids on a day trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp to remind them how very lucky they are.

Free Will Astrology: May 20 through 26

Lit Seen: James Hannaham's God Says No; Mark Z. Danielewski Exposed at PEN Fest

A longtime critic offers up his first novel; a rare author sighting at the World Voices Festival

Web Extra: Elite youth basketball's throwback mentor

In the course of reporting our youth basketball story in this week's Voice, we met many interesting people. Unfortunately, we couldn't get everyone into the paper. So here's our piece on Hammer Stevens... In a world where 9-year-olds compete in "national championships," where rich guys form their ow ... More >>

We Pedal Uphill

Village Pourhouse Among Crain's Best Places to Work

New Magnolia Bakery Opens; Northward Tourist Migration Expected (Updated)

Things I Learned Watching Hannah Montana 3D

Good Grief!

A Marine mom dies in Iraq, but don't let Grace Is Gone get to you

From Mongolia or Outer Space?

Idiosyncratic sci-fi films Sans Soleil and La Jetée hit DVD. Plus, good directors gone bad and bad directors gone worse.

Another Brave New World

Glenn Mercer's solo debut could be a Feelies reunion. He's just too nice to make it one.

Shopping with The Secret

Buy what you want! The universe will pay your bills

Saturday 8/12

Live: Mates of State Make Grocery Shopping Fun

CGI Joe

How the military and private tech contractors are training a new generation of soldiers

Man With No Name Tells a Story of Heroics, Color Coordination

Eviction Notice

Stolen election, bogus war: Moore finds footage and lets it burn in anti-Bush agitprop

Feeding Frenzy

Stunts, moguls, buffed-up people, and sharks—fitting for a film festival at a ski resort

Ugly Americans

Accidental Tourists Stumble Abroad

NY Mirror

Taking Wing

Heights of Achievement

For Adults Only

Radical Revisions of the Spiritual Life

Plane Truths

Ursine Minor

When Animatronics Attack

It's in Her Kiss

All as It Had Been

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

The Choke Was on Them

And Then the Mariners Hurled

Inside Edge

The Councilman and the Crooked Building Consultant

Heart-Shaped Box

Features

Immigrant Minors

Despite public and political outcry for one child, thousands of others face detention

Summer of Smith

How Ben Blew Into (and Out Of) Bloomington

Suburban Scrawl

Die, Yuppie Scam

Cagey