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Defend Your Ballot: Drew Millard, Pazz and Jop 2012 Contributor

You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>

Q&A: Tim Berne On Big Satan, Playing with Nels Cline, How The Internet Fucked Up The Music Business, And Not Being Part of The "Downtown Jazz Scene"

Saxophone giant Tim Berne is one forward-thinking renegade who started altering the landscape of jazz in the mid-1970s by wielding his horn and, in a show of then-unheard of DIY vision, launched his own record label. A late bloomer, Berne didn't pick up a sax until his very late teens but upon his ... More >>

Radar Gets It Wrong: How Scientology Is Likely To Be an Issue in the Divorce of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise

Yesterday, RadarOnline, one of several online tabs trying to churn out incremental stories about the celebrity story of the year, grabbed for attention by quoting two lawyers who said it was unlikely that Tom Cruise's Scientology would be allowed as an issue in his divorce with Katie Holmes. Aside ... More >>

Scientology Plays Denver's Police Chief Like a Violin

We recently brought you footage of Sacramento's mayor, former NBA player Kevin Johnson, gushing about Scientology at the opening of an "Ideal Org" in that city. Since that fancy new building opened in California's capital, additional celebrations have occurred in places like Orange County and Denve ... More >>

Sunday Funnies: Librarians Under Assault!

Scientologists don't really have a Sunday service. They like to say that they do, because they crave mainstream acceptance. But unless Xenu rested after six days and L. Ron Hubbard just forgot to mention it, there's no reason for Scientologists to treat Sunday any differently than every other day of ... More >>

How Debbie Cook Exposed Scientology and Got Away Scot-Free

Our legal expert, Manhattan attorney Scott Pilutik, has been busy fielding questions since news broke earlier this week that the Church of Scientology had settled its lawsuit with former executive Debbie Cook and her husband Wayne Baumgarten. After the jump, he takes a detailed look at the court's ... More >>

SCIENTOLOGY SETTLES WITH DEBBIE COOK

It's turning into quite a day of revelations for Scientology Watchers. Earlier this morning we reported that charges had been dropped against Scientology executive Jan Eastgate in Australia. And now, another stunning development: Marty Rathbun just reported at his blog that the Church of Scientolo ... More >>

Scientology: Told to Chill in Texas, and Another Embarrassing Admission in Israel

After a flurry of court filings in the Church of Scientology's lawsuit against former church executive Debbie Cook, there was a showdown of sorts this morning at the Bexar County, Texas courthouse. Leading up to the hearing, Scientology's attorneys had been pushing for a fast resolution to the case ... More >>

100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album

Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>

Scientology Counterattack: Commenters of the Week!

There's been so much enturbulation in the underground bunker lately, it's been hell on the cats, who just want to catch up on their sleep. So we installed one of those kitty hi-rises this week and it was an instant hit. The little carnivores are remaining more calm in their tiny carpeted condos whil ... More >>

Going Back To Wellsville: Six Great Musical Moments From The Adventures Of Pete & Pete

Like a defiant cannonball splash disturbing the tranquility of an adult swim, the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Pete & Pete lives on. Over three seasons between 1993 and 1996, the show followed the adventures of two brothers each named Pete Wrigley, their parents, their friends, and the entir ... More >>

Scientology Dramaturgy: Commenters of the Week!

Things back at the underground bunker are peaceful and calm -- the cats dig the new scratching post, we hear, and they're finally getting some quiet time while we're on the road frantically trying to keep up with Scientology's ongoing implosion. Things started out quietly enough as we began another ... More >>

Scientology vs Debbie Cook, Day 2: More Live-Blogging by the Voice

We're heading down to the courthouse now to begin talking to folks before the action heats up again. Yesterday afternoon, Bexar County district judge Martha Tanner said that she'd begin day 2 of the temporary injunction hearing at 9:30 am, CST. If you're just joining us, the Church of Scientology ... More >>

Scientology Waves the White Flag in Texas: The Debbie Cook Interview

​I'm sitting in a remarkable conference happening right now with Debbie Cook, her husband Wayne Baumgarten (pictured above), their attorney, Ray Jeffrey, and several other journalists. It's just a few hours after the Church of Scientology surprisingly waved the white flag and dropped its atte ... More >>

Scientology, Deep in the Heart of Texas: The Voice at the Debbie Cook Hearing

Update: For a wrap-up of today's hearing and some analysis of the day's performances, we now have this new piece. Today, former Scientology executive Debbie Cook will try to convince a Bexar County, Texas district judge to lift the strict terms of a temporary injunction as she defends herself again ... More >>

Scientology Jurisprudence: Commenters of the Week!

The underground bunker might need some new paneling after the way we were bouncing off the walls this week. I mean seriously, how are we going to keep up with all of this Scientology news? It's like this is turning into a real job or something. We started off the week with our regular feature, Sund ... More >>

Debbie Cook's Motion Denied: Scientology's Restraining Order Remains in Place Until Thursday Hearing

As we reported yesterday, Debbie Cook, who is being sued by the Church of Scientology for speaking out to her fellow church members in a New Year's Eve e-mail, filed a motion to dissolve a temporary restraining order so broad, it prevented her from hiring an attorney (she hired one anyway) or talkin ... More >>

Drake and The Weeknd Wallow in their Misery

Riding the Bummer

Live: Luke Bryan Shakes His Rump, Covers Lady Gaga At Terminal 5

Luke Bryan w/ Josh Thompson, Lee Brice, and Matt Mason Terminal 5 Friday, September 16 Better than: Having to go out to PNC Bank Arts Center, where these all-star country shows usually take place. In a town where the "but country" that finishes the trusty declaration of openmindedness "I listen t ... More >>

Women Building Bridge Over Media Gender Gap; NY Times Quotes Anonymous Commenter

​At the beginning of 2011, the writer and reader Anne Hays published a much-discussed open letter to The New Yorker, decrying the lack of female voices in recent issues and demanding a refund should the gender imbalance not at least move toward righting itself. In the weeks since, the women's ... More >>

The Ecstasy, the Agony: Live Blogging the MTV VMAs

In honor of 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, we've invited SOTC buddies and pop savants Sean Fennessey and Ryan Dombal to lend a certain wisdom and perspective to these sure-to-be completely dignified proceedings. Gentleman? John Shearer​ 9:00pm Sean: We're coming to you live from one or two or ... More >>

Live: Kevin Smith Talks Dirty at Carnegie Hall

"The first time I fucked my wife I had an open sore on my cock." via [ello]'s photostreamYikes--Kevin Smith, doing work "Silent Bob Speaks" Carnegie Hall June 17 The expression "like an open book" should be updated to reflect the startlingly full disclosures Kevin Smith has been offering his fan ... More >>

Wayne Barrett: How Shelly Silver Made His Pal Chief Judge

This week's Village Voice doesn't hit streets until tomorrow morning, but for our Runnin' Scared readers, we're offering tomorrow's cover story a day early. This one should rock Albany: our Wayne Barrett details state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver's step-by-step scheme to boost his old LES pal Jon ... More >>

2008 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

New releases, reissues, debuts, and more—each critic's picks

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Killer Mike

The Truth Behind Troopergate

A capital melodrama starring Eliot Spitzer, Joe Bruno and Andrew Cuomo

Name That Criminal

In a notorious murder case, Rohan Bolt is doing the time. Did someone else do the crime?

Notes on Super Bowl XLI: Apparently, God Hates The Bears

'Voice' Jazz Poll Critics' Ballots

NY Mirror

Alicia Keys Ruins Everything

All This Useless Beauty

Absence of presence: Arty Last Days misses out on Cobain's populist passion

Old School

Two approaches to the dawning problem of expanding jazz repertoire, one of them novel

Band in My Head

How Mojo, Bitches Brew, and Butch Morris inspired a funktional African American family unit

A Dirty Trickster's Bush Bonanza

The man who stopped Miami recount makes gaming millions

Sports

Little White Slave Girls!

Manifest Destiny

The Return of the Dictators

Ugly America

The Castration of Wayne DuMond

A Pardon That Clinton Didn’t Grant

Letters

Back To Which Garden?

The Squabbling Spawn of Woodstock

Major League Death Match

Video Jocks Duke It Out for $100K Prize

The Gretzky Question

In Which The Rangers Contemplate Whether They Are Better With Or Without The Graying Great One

The Jets Take Offense

Gang green breaks a playoff rule of thumb

Hands-On Prez

The Devil Made Them Do It