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February 24, 2012
Andy Warhol's Wigs: Guy Trebay's Thoroughly Entertaining Takedown of the Icon's Late-Period Hairpieces
This past Wednesday, February 22, 2012, marked the 25th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death, which we remembered with this week's cover. As an institution, the Village Voice has a history of Warhol interactions, from the pop artist's many cameos in Jonas Mekas's seminal "Movie Journal" column to Warh ... More >>
Theater
February 22, 2012
Shatner's World: We Just Live in It Boldly Goes to Broadway
Willie Geist reviews the TV icon's one-man show
Voice Choices
February 15, 2012
'Pierrot Lunair'
Willie Geist reviews the TV icon's one-man show
Blogs
February 9, 2012
How's This For A Happy Face?
Whenever I see a TV camera approaching, my face lights up like a Halloween pumpkin and all the hanging skin inflates like a Thanksgiving Day float based on a long-running animated character. I basically become a holiday parade float of a giant, gay, papier-mâché suckerfish.
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November 3, 2011
Luncheon at OWS in Zuccotti Park Is No Sunday in the Park
Sunday in the Park by Georges Seurat Despite reports dripping with sarcasm (or maybe it was saliva) in the New York Post and other blue-blood rags about demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street encampment feasting on gourmet vittles, my visit there this afternoon proved otherwise.
Voice Choices
October 5, 2011
The Intruder
Sunday in the Park by Georges Seurat Despite reports dripping with sarcasm (or maybe it was saliva) in the New York Post and other blue-blood rags about demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street encampment feasting on gourmet vittles, my visit there this afternoon proved otherwise.
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August 16, 2011
I'm On Current TV's Series About Docs
Tonight at 9 p.m., Current TV continues its series 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die, a look at the best documentaries made in the last quarter-century, hosted by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Maybe because I'm in so many docs myself, I was asked to give my opinions in the show about slig ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2011
TREKKIES UNITE!
Raise a glass of Klingon blood to William Shatner
Blogs
March 22, 2011
430 Times Normal Radiation Near Fukushima Nuclear Plant; Indian Point Operators Consider Changes; William Shatner Is 80
• Soil tested 25 miles from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday had radiation at "430 times normal levels" as reported by Japan's Science Ministry. Tokyo Electric's executive VP has visited evacuees in the area to apologize for the situation. In addition, it seems that multipl ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
"The First Annual Convention of 'Star Trek' Freaks"
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 27, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 4 Scenes By Howard Smith & Sally Helgesen PLASTER CASTS of Leonard Nimoy's head crowded one display table. Life-sized posters of William Shatner striking various heroic poses covered the walls. The air ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2011
Cee Lo Green and the Year of "Fuck You"
Summing up 2010 in two little words
Blogs
September 22, 2010
Shitshows: CBS Issues Helpful Memo on How to DVR "$#*! My Dad Says"
You know that show, $#*! My Dad Says, based on the book, Sh*t My Dad Says, based on the Twitter, Shit My Dad Says? If only they'd just gone ahead and had the balls to call it "Shit," maybe you would have had a flying fuck's chance of recording the show. Instead, CBS has had to issue an instru ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2010
Is the Fuck-You Finger Over?
NPR asks an intriguing question today. With so many -- of such varied backgrounds, ages, and degrees of fame -- using their middle fingers to express discontent, are we simply growing numb to the shock value of the bird? Does it need a replacement, stat? In the last few months, the gesture ha ... More >>
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June 19, 2010
Shit My Dad Says Poo Poos All Over Laura Bush, Anthony Bourdain, Chelsea Handler
Justin Halpern is a New York Times number one best-selling author. He's the 29-year-old formerly underemployed comedy writer who moved back in with his parents, struggling, and started the Shit My Dad Says Twitter. People thought it was funny, the things his old man said. (The father curses a ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
"Shit My Dad Says: The Sitcom" to Star Captain Kirk!?!
You may've heard, but Justin Halpern's hilarious Twitter feed "Shit My Dad Says" is being made into a sitcom. Fine, but try this one on: It's going to star illustrious shit-talker William Shatner as "Dad." In the tradition of Al Bundy, Frank Barone, and Archie Bunker, Captain Kirk will no doubt ... More >>
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December 15, 2009
Holiday Music Roundup '09
Weird Christmas records: They're not just for Dylan anymore
Voice Choices
November 3, 2009
The Intruder
Weird Christmas records: They're not just for Dylan anymore
Film
October 27, 2009
'Roger Corman: Poe and Beyond' at Anthology
A schlock genius, king of the Bs and so much more
Blogs
October 20, 2009
10 Profoundly Depressing "Celebrity" Sightings at This Year's Big Apple Comic Con
The special guest line-up for this past weekend's Big Apple Comic Con read a lot like a wish list for VH1's The Surreal Life: classic TV-show refugees (Different Strokes' Todd Bridges, Silver Spoons' Erin Gray, Dukes of Hazzard's Tom Wopat); cartoony wrestlers (Ric Flair, The Iron Sheik, Bushwacke ... More >>
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August 5, 2009
Another Nurse Doesn't Like Nurse Jackie
We're back to real nurses talking about TV nurses. Last month a bunch of local nurses complained about Edie Falco's new show Nurse Jackie, mainly because the character takes a lot of drugs and they thought it bad for their image. Today a real R.N. talks about the show at the Times and, while Theresa ... More >>
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July 31, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Twitpic by iamawizard. The week started with an underwear run and went downhill from there. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, rocked the Judiciary Committee. He felt so good about that he released unexpected stimulus money for New York cops, and announced Medal of ... More >>
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July 28, 2009
William Shatner Interprets Sarah Palin Resignation Speech
The latest Hollywood attack on the Divine Sarah comes from the Conan O'Brien Show, where the treasonous Irishman unleashed liberal media's secret weapon, William Shatner, to read a section of her resignation speech as jazz poetry, which their apparatchiks have disseminated on YouTube. Palin's den ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
On Taylor Swift and T-Pain's "Thug Story"
The above video, which depicts T-Pain and Taylor Swift rapping together, frankly falls into We Probably Need to Mention This, But Damned If We Have the Slightest Idea What to Say About It category. As an experiment in whether Swift's critic-wooing adorability can survive something this atrocious, ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Dear Guy Who Is Even Now Getting Our Star Trek Cover Tattooed on His Own Leg
Right now, you're live Twittering the gradual yet agonizing process of having a man named Ron permanently etch three different generations of cartoon Captain Kirk on your left calf. You're listening to William Shatner's "Live Life Like You're Gonna Die." This is apparently your tenth tattoo, and t ... More >>
Film
May 6, 2009
J.J. Abrams's Star Trek
Proof that a franchise can live long and prosper
Film
February 4, 2009
The Force Is Weak With Long-Delayed Fanboys
Proof that a franchise can live long and prosper
Blogs
January 21, 2009
Pulp Fictions: Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Black Jack Volumes 1-3 Osamu Tezuka Vertical The dour doctor known as Black Jack, whose medical exploits manga godfather Osamu Tezuka serialized from 1973 to 1983, is arguably the closest Japanese comics ever got to a typica ... More >>
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March 18, 2008
Hugs and Kisses #35: North Sea Radio Orchestra
Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Black Jack Volumes 1-3 Osamu Tezuka Vertical The dour doctor known as Black Jack, whose medical exploits manga godfather Osamu Tezuka serialized from 1973 to 1983, is arguably the closest Japanese comics ever got to a typica ... More >>
Music
June 19, 2007
Beauty in the Beast
The mellow and wonderful travails of Nick Lowe, the eternally heartbroken heartbreaker
Blogs
July 17, 2006
Celebrity War Over Ratner in Brooklyn
The mellow and wonderful travails of Nick Lowe, the eternally heartbroken heartbreaker
Film
May 9, 2006
Zoo Story
Talking animals make sales pitches—for everything
Columns
April 25, 2006
Horoscope
Talking animals make sales pitches—for everything
Film
April 11, 2006
'The Wild'
Talking animals make sales pitches—for everything
Columns
January 18, 2005
NY Mirror
Talking animals make sales pitches—for everything
Music
January 4, 2005
Heads, Future and Past
Finally a chance to catch up on all those new bands. Well, maybe not bands exactly . . .
Music
December 21, 2004
Bobo's In Paradise
Canadian synth-punks weird out in the cardboard forest
Music
November 9, 2004
Every Hung's a Superhero, Every Hung's a Captain Kirk
Canadian synth-punks weird out in the cardboard forest
Music
October 26, 2004
Our Oldest New Waver
The eternal hustler works his gloomy-gus shtick and leaves the hipsters wanting more
Art
October 5, 2004
This Is Your Fall Season on Crack
ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers
Film
March 19, 2002
Arrested Developments
ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers
Film
August 7, 2001
Secrete Agents
ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers
Art
October 31, 2000
Dream On
ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers
Film
August 1, 2000
The Outer Limits
ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers
News
July 18, 2000
One Man’s Machines
Lone Guy Wrangles Worldwide Weirdness in Winner Show
Music
February 22, 2000
Net-Surfing Cheetahs With Hearts Full of Outtakes
Lone Guy Wrangles Worldwide Weirdness in Winner Show
News
July 6, 1999
Isle of White
Lone Guy Wrangles Worldwide Weirdness in Winner Show
Music
May 4, 1999
Every Bit Counts
Lone Guy Wrangles Worldwide Weirdness in Winner Show
Screens
December 15, 1998
Dead Dogs Roll Over
Burt Reynolds and Bobby Simone Pass in the Night
Columns
December 15, 1998
NY Mirror
When I asked Jane Horrocks if she's a gay man trapped in a woman's body, she said, 'No! If so, I haven't discovered it!'
News
August 4, 1998
Shape Shifting
When I asked Jane Horrocks if she's a gay man trapped in a woman's body, she said, 'No! If so, I haven't discovered it!'
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