Walt Whitman

SPECIAL DELIVERY

The Peculiar Works Project takes over a post office

WHERE BROOKLYN AT?

Follow the ferry to find out

Free Will Astrology: April 3-9, 2013

Film Forum's NYC Celebration Contains Multitudes

New York's star moment

Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi

MOONRISE BROOKLYN

Bill Murray leads the Poets House walk

SONG OF BROOKLYN

An indie-rock ode to Whitman’s borough

The Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival, Starring The Walkmen, St. Vincent, Beirut, And A Bunch Of Other Bands, Is Happening In May

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced the inaugural running of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, a three-day music, film, and art extravaganza put together by the National's Bryce and Aaron Dessner, and set to take over BAM from May 3 to 5. Named after a poem by Walt Whitman, the festival has a lineup ... More >>

What the Great Gay Authors Ate

In many cases, gay authors are also aesthetes, and who'd be surprised to learn that they often take an enthusiastic interest in food? (Read about this week's Big Gay Food Blog here.) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ​Even by modern standards, Wilde was flamboyantly "out." He toured America in velvet ... More >>

Clubbed Thumb Opens the Lid on Our Lot

A premiere by Kristin Newbom and W. David Hancock at Summerworks

Baby Survives After Being Thrown Down Trash Chute

​A newborn baby boy was thrown down a Brooklyn housing project trash chute today and survived. The building's super heard the baby crying from inside a plastic garbage bag attached to the trash compactor this morning around 9 a.m. in Walt Whitman House and called the police. The baby was rushed to ... More >>

A Grilled Cheese and A Beer at The Emerson in Clinton Hill

The Emerson, on a recent night.​Clinton Hill's bar scene has been heating up lately with Fulton Grand, which opened at its namesake intersection this past summer, and the forthcoming Hanson Dry, a cocktail bar that was supposed to open this past weekend, but was still dark and papered over on ... More >>

Xtranormal Animation for Cocktailians: "I Do Not Spend $90 on a Barspoon Just So I Can Make Vodka Sodas"

Yes, even cocktail geeks and mixologists have time to mess around with Xtranormal, the genius text-to-movie animation software. This brilliant one by the user "felttip" illustrates what can happen when patrons order vodka soda -- and when bartenders are too full of themselves to shut up and make ... More >>

The Fleeting Satisfaction of Marnie Stern

A ferocious guitar-shredder contemplates the neuroses that both drive and burden her

Martha Graham Dance Company Teams Up With Charles L. Mee and Anne Bogart

The veteran troupe tries a contempo spin on some classic works

This Week's Voice: Drake, the Gaslight Anthem, Styles P, a Summer Live-Jazz Cheat Sheet, Revive Da Live, Jason Moran, and More

Gaslight Anthem: New Jersey nostalgia. Photo by Ashley Maile​In this week's Village Voice, Sean Fennessey weights in on the all-encompassing Drake phenomenon, Michael Robbins compares the Gaslight Anthem to Walt Whitman, Ben Westhoff talks to Styles P about the rapper's debut novel, Stacey And ... More >>

The Gaslight Anthem's Fading Glory Days

New Jersey's finest Boss acolytes are too young to be so nostalgic, and so safe

Ample Hills Creamery's Chocolate Stout Pretzel Ice Cream at Lucas Fine Foods

​Lucas Fine Foods opened in Park Slope this weekend. Prepared foods like barbecued pork ribs and Cajun-spiced shrimp beckoned from the display cases, but since the shop didn't have its full menu up and running yet, we went for the ice cream, homemade by Brian Smith of Ample Hills Creamery.

Leaves of Grass Goes Up in Smoke

Poets' Corner: Bryant Croquet, Walt Whitman Nudity

​The Times directs our attention to a performance piece called Bryant in the Park which takes the poetry of William Cullen Bryant (Thanatopsis) and puts it in Bryant Park, where actors recite poems and play croquet white dressed in "spotless white clothing." It's not just for toffs, the Times ... More >>

BROOKLYN ROCKS

A new series all about everyone's favorite borough—sort of

Paul Taylor Dance Company: Made for Our Delight

A veteran mashes up Whitman and Poulenc

ODE TO THE CITY

Poets House celebrates its new home in Battery Park

4th Annual Tour de Brooklyn

Saturday

Clip Job: Young Socialists on Jack Kerouac

Water Works

Mabou Mines floats notes on the East River

Drink It Up

After decades out of print, Walt Whitman's only novel comes back from its strange obscurity

Bringing Down the House

A Brooklyn housing project, once home to 1,200, now houses just two.

Past Food Nation

Molly O'Neill wrangles 250 years of appealing mealing

Horoscope

Hope Springs

Force that through the green fuse drives the flower

Their Back Pages

Also by this Author: Remember when Martin Amis was writing about Space Invaders?

Shuttered

Who will remember all the crappy pizza joints fading into NYC history?

Three's Company

In his triple-tiered follow-up to The Hours, Cunningham moves from Woolf to Whitman

Walt Whitman, Which Way Does Your Beard Point Tonight?

Open City

Guy With Ponytail Celebrates America's Bard—Selflessly

My Big Fat Funky Queer Marriage

Forget the rice. (We're on Atkins.) No his-and-his towels. (Nothing matches in our house.) Just give us Viagra—and wish us well

Horoscope

World's Hardest Movie Quiz 2004

Location, Location, Location

CUNY Prof Angus Fletcher Discovers American Poetry's Scenic Overlook

Bards Not Bombs in NYC

Inkblot Integer-Hop

Horoscope

The Towers Tomorrow

A City of Spires Searches for Its Next Skyline

Summer Pleasures

Love and Death in Town and Country

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Backdoor Man

Solar Power