William S. Burroughs

What You Need to Know From Sundance

The fest's best are the films to watch in the year ahead.

Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

Brooklyn Museum Looks Back at Keith Haring's Early Career

Return of the crawling baby

Genesis P-Orridge On Pandrogyny and Surgery

Genesis tells me about losing Lady Jaye, as a new film about them appears

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

The Someday Funnies: Comics Interruptus

Michel Choquette's treasure trove of '60s cartooning finally hits print

The Men, Pop. 1280, White Suns, and Pygmy Shrews Regrease Pigfuck

Unchillwave.

Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

Live: Kool Keith Keeps It Weird At 285 Kent

​ Kool Keith w/Spanish Broads, New Optimism, Nine 11 Thesaurus 285 Kent Saturday, August 13 Better than: Getting eaten by a halfshark alligator. Hip-hop might seem increasingly shiny and sugar-coated, but the genre's bizarre and shadowy recesses haven't been completely abandoned yet. Eminem ... More >>

Marshal Fields: The Comedic Misanthrope, for Your Pleasure

Live: The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Michael Stipe, And Patti Smith Dominate Carnegie Hall's Tibet House Benefit

Patti Smith, leading the charge as always. Pic by Tracy Ketcher.​21st-Annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert Starring The Flaming Lips, the Roots, Taj Mahal, Michael Stipe, etc. Carnegie Hall Thursday, March 3 Better Than: "Auld Lang Syne" "Beauty is power -- violence is weak," we are told ... More >>

Stonewall: Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 3, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 38 Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square by Lucian Truscott IV Sheridan Square this weekend looked like something from a William Burroughs novel as the sudden specter of "gay power" erected its brazen head and ... More >>

A Guide to Jeff Koons's "Skin Fruit" New Museum Sausage Party

Kathy Griffin Addresses Anderson Cooper's Sexuality!

Gaga for Gaga! And that Steve Buscemi—what a character!

Clip Job: Vietnam! Koch! Party Raid! Vietnam! Vietnam! Flag Burning! Horrorshow, Droogies!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 14, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 26 America in Vietnam: From Here to Nowhere By Michael Harrington As I write, the news is filled with reports on Buddhist demonstrations in Vietnam. Indeed, events are moving so fast that, by the time thi ... More >>

Fug You -- Hanging with Ed Sanders

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 27, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 15 Rolling Stoned with Joyous 'Pornographer' By Stephanie Harrington Ed Sanders: "Fuck You" editor - publisher - printer - conceiver. Fugs founder. Pharoah fancier fantastic. Classicist, cigar store cle ... More >>

Clip Job: The Defend Bob Dylan Rally!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 7, 1965, Vol. X, No. 51 Dylan in October By Jack Newfield They booed Bob Dylan at Newport in July, they insulted him at Forest Hills in August, but last Friday at Carnegie Hall they screamed for more of his "rock folk" poetry ... More >>

Clip Job: Newfield Interviews LeRoi Jones

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 17, 1964, Vol. X, No. 9LeRoi Jones at Arms: Blues for Mr. WhiteyBy Jack Newfield"Do not understand me too quickly" has been the insistent injunction of Andre Gide and Norman Mailer. It might also be the motto LeRoi Jones inscribes on ... More >>

"Facts of Life" Sweetie Costars with Gay Porn Studs

Meeting Mindy Cohn in Fort Greene. Side trip to Nashville.

Clip Job: Seventh Year for Voice, Jail for LeRoi Jones

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 26, 1961, Vol. VII, No. 1Voice Begins Seventh YearWith this issue, The Village Voice enters its 7th year of publication. Volume I, Number 1 was dated October 26, 1955. The anniversary comes at perhaps an unpropitious moment. Owing to labo ... More >>

Why Mailer Matters

Appreciating the rascal writer who started it all

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Down at the Chelsea

Not everyone at the storied hotel is a legend: stories from some of the Chelsea's lesser-known residents

Lou Reed Gets Syracuse Arts Medal; Induction Ceremony Definitively Not On Wild Side

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Artist

If there's no iconic image, does an artist's work risk becoming fuzzy in the mind?

Clusterfuck Aesthetics

A manic-depressive panic attack in the face of profound information overload

West of Eden

Daring to be different, Ang Lee's epic gay romance goes looking for love in the heartland

Teutonic Techno Terror Dives Drunk, Yells at Schmucks, Flashes Bird and Butt

Battlefield Earth

A gonzo, gear-shifting first feature from Korea confronts an ominous Andromeda strain

The Cunningham Aesthetic

Rock the Cash Box

Window Shopping

Spend the Extra Money Now on XP Pro or Face the Headaches Later

Pleased to Meat Me

Matthew Derby's Memories of Love

Escape Claus

Top Shelf

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

Waiting for the Invitation

PEN Forgets Legendary Publisher Barney Rosset

Mirror, Mirror

Po Show

Bringing Poetry Alive on the Bowery

Tigers in a Spotlight

The Laws of Depravity

Gary Indiana Talks About Crime, Career, and the Culture of Indifference

Outer Children

The Moldy Peaches Slip You a Roofie

Body and Soul

Never Can Say Good Buy

Reverend Billy’s Consumer Rejection Act

Kitsch or Kill

A Perennial Underground Misfit Strikes Again

The New Jesus on the Same Ol' LI

Casting no doubts

The Sordid Details

Licensed to Sell

Why Jingles Died and Licensed Pop Rules