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Four-Color Revolution

Protest that got your hands dirty

FAILURE TO LAUNCH

Bob Odenkirk and David 
Cross discuss rejection

Read Up!: Our 5 Favorite Book Events This Week

Edward Albee and Paul Auster The Strand Thursday, 7 p.m., $15-$30 Every time somebody even mentions a play by Samuel Beckett, we become immediately suspicious that they're about to pull some kind of clever existential farce. Such is the whole "gotcha!" nature of postmodernism. But unlike Godot, we t ... More >>

Good Enough to Read: Our Five Can't Miss Book Events

'Dragons in Space Redux' Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Mar. 6, 7pm, Free And here we are, rounding off Housing Works' Geek Week, or as any respectable frat guy might know it--every other week of the year. At tonight's panel discussion, science fiction and fantasy--sorry, we mean SF/F--writers Peter B ... More >>

THAT SH*T CRAY-OLA

Coloring Isn’t Just for Kids

15 Sexual Insights And Lovemaking Technique Tips From Mötley Crüe

Former Jarvis Cocker backup dancer and current Seattle Weekly Dategirl Judy McGuire's new book, The Official Book Of Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll Lists, is rife with lists counting down debauched and out-there moments of —Ozzy Osbourne's health tips, pot-smoking hints from Willie Nelson, marri ... More >>

CHILL OUT

They had us at 'boozy popsicles'

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

Beth Griffenhagen, Author of Haiku for the Single Girl, Shares Her Tales of Plight

"Sadly, the only Guy I'm going steady with Is my bartender."* Have you heard of Haiku for the Single Girl? It's a new book written by 29-year-old Beth Griffenhagen, who, when not penning haiku, spends her days in the marketing department at Murray's Cheese. We talked to Beth, who happens to be havi ... More >>

Arlene Gottfried, Photographer, on Her New Book Bacalaitos & Fireworks

Arlene Gottfried, a photographer who has shot for the Voice over many decades (most recently shooting our cover story "Class Struggle" earlier this year) has a new book out called Bacalaitos & Fireworks. With a forward by Benecio Del Toro, the book is a beautiful look at the Loisaida/Nuyorican cult ... More >>

Prodigy Speaks Freely

The Mobb Deep MC is out of jail and ready to look back on his life

Live: Cheetah Chrome, Bob Pfeifer, Mike Hudson, And Eric Davidson Look Back At Cleveland's Fiery Punk Scene

Stephen SlaybaughBob Pfeifer. ​ Cleveland Confidential Book Tour, moderated by Luc Sante and featuring Cheetah Chrome, Mike Hudson, and Bob Pfeifer plus Eric Davidson powerHouse Arena Saturday, April 9 Better Than: Watching the East River burn while sitting in a swank DUMBO loft. There must ... More >>

Gabrielle Hamilton Sets the Record Straight About the Greatest Food Memoir of All Time

​"It's not an obsessive food story. I don't care about food that much." - Gabrielle Hamilton, tongue halfway in cheek, in conversation with Peter Meehan at Powerhouse Arena last night about her new and endlessly lauded memoir, Blood, Bones, and Butter is and isn't. Have a tip or restaurant-re ... More >>

Q&A: Author Rob Sheffield on His New Book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

"Wow, Kenny Rogers was always right!" Photo by Deborah Suchman Zeolia​"Oh my God, you're a Nick Rhodes girl," says Rob Sheffield, referring to Duran Duran's keyboardist. Earlier in the evening, we'd wrapped an interview about Sheffield's new book, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young ... More >>

J’AIME GRAFFITI

Marie Antoinette would be all over this

INTERNET CONNECTION

Meet the faces behind your favorite blogs

PICTURE-PERFECT

Professionals pick the best and review your work, too

CAT AND MOUSE

Cops and artists face off

Hot Pix of Madonna in New Book

SUMMER OF ’88

Tompkins Square remains free

AND YOU DON’T STOP

Kick it old-school at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

Wednesday 5.14

New York Photo Festival

Get Down and Boogie at the Latest Club Library?

NY Mirror

Razed

'The Destruction of Lower Manhattan': A conversation with photographer Danny Lyon

Start Making Sense

Eyewitness Photographers at Ground Zero