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VOICE CHOICE

Capturing New York’s Mysterious – and Humorous – Plastic Street Strife

Alison Colby’s photo exhibition of the city’s ever-changing landscape of traffic cones is worth a trip upstate.

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MUSIC

Spanish Kitchen opens its doors for a Gang of Four

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POLITICS

The GOP Crowned Trump Just in Time for Biden to Anoint Harris

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What's Up
Playing the blues in Ukraine

War In Ukraine

Robert Lighthouse Brings the Blues to a Ravaged Ukraine

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July 19, 2024

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FILM

Review: ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ May Just Be the Antidote to MCU Exhaustion

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July 23, 2024

Screenshot

FILM

Review: ‘Oddity’ Offers Goosey Pleasures

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July 18, 2024

Fantastic Cat in concert.

MUSIC

Is Fantastic Cat the ‘Wu-Tang Clan of Folk Rock’? 

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July 15, 2024

Review of "Candy Darling" in the Village Voice

PRIDE

Messages From the Torture Trans Department 

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June 28, 2024

Screens
Still from the 2024 film, Crossing.

FILM

Review: ‘Crossing’ Traverses Borders and Boundaries

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July 17, 2024

Oddity-fr_MS in LA

FILM

Director Damian McCarthy on His ‘Oddity’

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July 16, 2024

A hard time focusing on the family.

FILM

Review: The Family in ‘Family Portrait’ Gets Lost in the Mysteries of Movie-Time

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July 9, 2024

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FILM

Review: ‘Despicable Me 4’ is More Annoying than Fun

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July 5, 2024

Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1

FILM

Review: ‘Horizon’ Is as Big as the Great Outdoors, But Could Use Some Focus

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June 27, 2024

Riffing
Lola Brooke

MUSIC

Lola Brooke Thinks 50 Cent is Rich Stuff

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July 23, 2024

Thomas Dolby: Still blinding 'em with the hits.

VOICE CHOICE

Sharing ’80s Memories with the Icons Playing the Totally Tubular Fest

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July 16, 2024

Aeon Station.

MUSIC

Getting to Yes with ‘Yessongs’

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July 11, 2024

Lightning Bug on the water.

MUSIC

Lightning Bug Gets All Argy-Bargy

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July 10, 2024

Bad Brains article by Greg Tate

MUSIC ARCHIVES

Bad Brains: Hardcore of Darkness

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May 7, 2024

SUMMER GALLERY-GOING
Image from Enrique Martínez Celaya' show at the Hispanic Society in New York City.

ART

Painter Enrique Martínez Celaya and the Hero’s Journey

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July 1, 2024

The 17 thin slices of "Augment" (1968) are oriented on the floor like cold cuts packed for grocery shoppers, in a graded pile.

ART

‘Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures’: Humanity and Otherworldliness in the Artist’s Late Work

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June 17, 2024

PRIDE
Pride march in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2024.

PRIDE

More Than Two Years of War Have Improved Attitudes Among Ukrainians Toward Their LGBTQ+ Comrades-in-Arms 

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June 25, 2024

Village Voice article about getting out the vote in the LGBTQ+ community.

PRIDE

Agenda PAC Looks to Send Anti-Queer Elected Officials Packing in November

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June 21, 2024

Will Rogers running for Congress in California

PRIDE

In California, Will Rollins Might Just Beat Republican Election Denier Ken Calvert

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June 12, 2024

NEWS & POLITICS
Has the drive for congestion pricing legislation been stalled by national politics?

POLITICS

Kathy Hochul’s Lack of Killer Instincts Has Killed – For Now – Congestion Pricing 

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June 12, 2024

Poor people's campaign

POLITICS

Low-Wealth and Low-Wage Voters Could Make All the Difference in 2024

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June 10, 2024

Democracy in Danger
Photo taken of the crowd outside the New York courts building after Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records.

NEW YORK

Donald Trump: 34 Times a Felon

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May 30, 2024

Don't worry – she’s originally from France, but she's long represented the best of American citizenry.

POLITICS

Can New York Turn the House Blue?

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April 18, 2024

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NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

The Romans Tried to Save the Republic From Men Like Trump. They Failed.

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February 2, 2024

Hitler's baby picture.

THE FRONT

Before the ‘Goldwater Rule’ and Trump: Diagnosing Hitler in 1943

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March 20, 2024

Village Voice illustration of Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Vladimir Putin

POLITICS

Trump Says Out Loud What Many Republicans Have Long Wanted to Hear

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February 6, 2024

Culture Highlights
Bringing it all to the table.

Theater

Flying Off the Page, ‘Ulysses’ Lands on Its Feet

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July 3, 2024

Guaranteed overheard speech.

VOICE CHOICE

Crosshatching the City: ‘Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies’ Overheard the Voices of New York

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June 7, 2024

The Fluxus Newspaper

BOOKS

The Fluxus Newspaper Enlivened an Exuberant Era With Absurd Reporting and Ebullient Layouts

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June 3, 2024

Rauschenberg's paintings were too big for just one boat.

CULTURE

Review: The New Documentary ‘Taking Venice’ Combines ‘Combines’ and Cold War Conspiracies

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May 17, 2024

Chapter and verse.

THE FRONT ARCHIVES

The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing, Parts 1 & 2

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May 10, 2024

2024 Pulitzer for Greg Tate
Joseph Pulitzer, 1847-1911, superimposed on the covers of two of his newspapers, The New York World and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The prize that bears his name was inaugurated six years after his death; 107 years later Greg Tate received a special Pulitzer citation, three years after his own demise.

OP-ED

Illin’ in the Buttermilk

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May 10, 2024

Greg Tate article about Jean-Michel Basquiat

ART ARCHIVES

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk

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May 7, 2024

Greg Tate’s colorful array, 2017.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Flying High: Remembering Greg Tate

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May 7, 2024

EARTH DAYS
In 1970, Fred McDarrah captured pedestrians thronging NYC's streets on the first Earth Day. Along with American flags, the Voice's staff photographer was careful to include a fallout shelter sign in his frame.

Environment

Kurt Vonnegut Revisits Earth for Earth Day

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April 4, 2022

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OP-ED

Plenty More Fish In The Sea – Thinking Beyond Salmon

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June 4, 2024

Village voice story and photos by Ali Smith about canners helping the environment

News

A Revolution Is Taking Place, One Can at a Time

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March 1, 2022

Village Voice article by Professor Oleg Rubel about the destruction of Ukraine's natural environment by Russian attacks

War In Ukraine

Nature On Fire in Ukraine

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April 22, 2022

Snow-blowing manager Kevin Davie checks the water pressure in the pump house at the base of Plattekill Mountain. Plattekill has installed more than 28 miles of piping to pump water up the mountain for snowmaking.

Environment

Snow Job: Climate Change is Making Skiing an Uphill Climb

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April 1, 2022

Book Picks
Village Voice article about the new collection of essays, "Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today"

BOOKS

‘Composing While Black’ Rethinks Music in Time and Space

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March 12, 2024

Martha Graham dancers in 1926.

BOOKS

Martha Graham was ‘Where the Action Was’

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March 19, 2024

Village Voice article on Joan Didion

BOOKS

‘The World According to Joan Didion’ Surveys the Life of the ‘New Journalism’ Writer

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February 5, 2024

Image of Robert Smithson from a review in the Village Voice of the book 'Inside the Spiral: The Passion of Robert Smithson'

BOOKS

‘Inside the Spiral’ Unearths Robert Smithson’s Childhood, Catholicism, Art, and Death

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December 20, 2023

Village Voice article about world leaders such as Hitler and Nixon writing books and Donald Trump having a book written for him.

POLITICS

Party Like It’s 1923: Will Donald Trump Write His Own ‘Mein Kampf’ in Jail? 

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November 5, 2023

Two Years of War in Ukraine
Photo in the Village Voice for article about the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine.

War In Ukraine

After Two Years of War, A Weary Ukraine Remains Defiant

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February 23, 2024

Village Voice article about the DIY spirit of the Kyiv Biennial in late 2023.

CULTURE

We Are Ukrainians: Learning From the 2023 Kyiv Biennial

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January 9, 2024

Village Voice article on Eugune Hutz of Gogol Bordello

War In Ukraine

A Man, a Band, a War: Eugene Hütz Speaks His Mind

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May 25, 2022

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Voice Comix

The GOP Was For Putin Before They Were Against Him

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April 19, 2022

Water = Life: Bottled water collected by volunteers for citizens of Mykolaiv; algae blooming in ponds.

War In Ukraine

War and Water: Russia is Destroying Ukraine’s Water Supply

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August 24, 2022

LABOR FRONT
Photo of leader of nurse's strike in a Village Voice article about how direct voting for more progressive union leadership might lead to increased voting in national elections.

Labor Front

Can a Union Revival Save America’s Soul?

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December 28, 2023

Image of Alamo Drafthouse workers at the Brooklyn cinema that recently authorized union representation.

Labor Front

Workers at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Bring a Union to Brooklyn

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October 7, 2023

Village voice story and photos by Ali Smith about canners helping the environment

News

A Revolution Is Taking Place, One Can at a Time

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March 1, 2022

Get out and vote.

Labor Front

Are Unions Getting Off Their Knees?

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November 10, 2022

Ernesta Galvez-Teofilo takes it to the streets.

Labor Front

Los Deliveristas Unidos Takes On the App-Delivery Industry

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May 26, 2022

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Village Voice review of "The Freaks Came Out to Write."

BOOKS

Talking About the Village Voice, the Paper That Couldn’t Be Bought

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February 21, 2024

Article about Micro Wrestling in Staten Island in the Village Voice.

JOCKBEAT

Micro Wrestling Is Much More Than a Little Show

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June 26, 2024

Muhammad Ali takes it on the chin in 1977.

VOICE CHOICE

‘Uncropped’ Reveals New York Stars and Street Denizens as Seen Through the Lens of James Hamilton

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April 23, 2024

Village Voice article on the multiple threats that climate change present to New York City.

Environment

Can NYC’s New Climate Agenda Keep Our Heads Above Water?

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June 28, 2023

Village Voice opinion piece by Peter Noel on the killing of Jordan Neely by Daniel Penny.

OP-ED

Daniel Penny For Your Thoughts – and Prayers? 

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June 21, 2023

Culture Kaleidoscope
Image from the Village Voice review of an updated "Cats."

Theater

Review: Great Purrformances Abound in ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ 

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July 8, 2024

Review of the book BITTER WATER OPERA

BOOKS

In Nicolette Polek’s ‘Bitter Water Opera,’ Finding Yourself Is a Spectral Affair

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June 14, 2024

Painting by Maureen Gallace.

VOICE CHOICE

Maureen Gallace’s Elemental Realm

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February 27, 2024

Images from Village Voice interview with Bill Morrison about his new film "Incident," about a fatal police shooting in Chicago.

FILM

Incident in the Old Ale House: Director Bill Morrison Discusses His Latest Documentary

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November 10, 2023

Image from the Village Voice review of the new book, MILTON GLASER: POP

CULTURE

Milton Glaser Helped Define the Look of the 20th Century

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July 24, 2023

The Boards
Dancer at New York City Center performing in Sting's "Message in a Bottle"

Theater

Review: ‘Message in a Bottle’ Finds Powerful Dance Moves — and Muddled Messages — within Sting’s Songs

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May 3, 2024

"Water for Elephants" reviewed in the Village Voice.

Theater

Review: ‘Water for Elephants’ elevates the Elephant in the Room

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April 2, 2024

Village Voice review of "adaku, part 1: the road opens" at BAM

Theater

Review: ‘adaku, part 1: the road opens’ Brings Africa to the Stage at BAM’s Next Wave Festival

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November 30, 2023

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Theater

Review: ‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ Makes It to Broadway

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October 18, 2023

Village Voice review of "Here Lies Love"

Theater

Dancing With Dictators

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July 28, 2023

Printed Matter
Musician/writer/photographer Ali Smith in a Village Voice review of her memoir.

BOOKS

A Female Rocker Talks Life on the Road in ‘The Ballad of Speedball Baby’

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January 29, 2024

Village Voice "Voice Choice" preview of author Ed Park's book tour for his new novel, "Same Bed Different Dreams."

VOICE CHOICE

Ed Park Brings an Alternative History of the Korean War (and Much More) to a Reading Near You

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November 1, 2023

Nabokov can’t help but devote airtime to certain low-level obsessions—butterflies, chess, Proust—that the rest of us might find crustily nose-up unrelatable.

BOOKS

Vladimir Nabokov: Heat Seeker

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May 29, 2022

Village Voice review of Joyce Carol Oates' new book, "Zero-Sum."

BOOKS

Infinite Joyce: Prolific Oates Takes On Dead Wallace

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August 9, 2023

Photo of Trinity Site in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was tested, featured in a review in the Village Voice of the book, "Thin Skin."

BOOKS

Jenn Shapland’s ‘Thin Skin’: Do Women Writers Apologize Too Much? 

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September 22, 2023

From the archives
1976 Village Voice article by Greil Marcus about the American bicentennial

From The Archives

Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism

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June 29, 2023

Nixon and the King in the Oval Office in 1970: They both heard trains in the night.

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Our Nixon: Whose Life Was It Anyway?

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April 19, 2024

Headlines for some of Marlene Nadle's stories in the 1960s superimposed on an announcement for civil rights rallies in New York and Washington.

VOICE LORE

First Draft of History: Covering Civil Rights in the Sixties

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March 28, 2023

A 1978 Village Voice archive article about Muhammad Ali, by Ishmael Reed.

JOCKBEAT ARCHIVES

Ishmael Reed on Muhammad Ali

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February 14, 2023

From the Village Voice Archive: In 1966 Marlene Nadle interviews Nathan Rappaport who provided abortions when it was mostly illegal in 1966.

From The Archives

The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear

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March 17, 2023

Revolution In Iran
"You erase it, but I will write it, Death to Khamenei." Tehran, November 2022.

Letter From Iran

A Freedom of Choice Revolution Is Roiling Iran

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November 15, 2022

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THE FRONT ARCHIVES

Beautiful Butchers: The Shah Serves Up Caviar and Torture

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November 15, 2022

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VOICE LORE

2022: The Voice Relaunch Continues in Print and these E-Editions

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September 1, 2022

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VOICE LORE

2021: After Four Long Years, the Village Voice Returned to Print

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August 30, 2022

La Dolce Musto
Oppenheimer's Robert Downey Jr, Christopher Nolan, and Cillian Murphy at the 2024 Oscars.

FILM

‘Oppenheimer’ Will Bomb at the Oscars – in a Good Way

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February 29, 2024

Village Voice article by Michael Musto about five queers who deserve the thanks of all New Yorkers.

PRIDE

Five Queers to Be Thankful For This Pride

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June 16, 2023

WEB_1_FIRE ISLAND

LA DOLCE MUSTO

Fire Island A to Z

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July 1, 2022

Don’t say what? Minnie Mouse is all about inclusion; Florida governor Ron DeSantis, not so much.

LA DOLCE MUSTO

Lying Liars Lying About Queers

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June 17, 2022

La Dolce Musto article on bike riding in new york city

LA DOLCE MUSTO

Bike Riding In NYC: Tips From One Who Knows

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April 29, 2022

SUTTON'S FUNHOUSE
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Voice Comix

Are You Truly Deplorable – Or Just Posing?

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October 27, 2022

Ward Sutton K-tel records parody comic MAGA SING PRIDE ANTHEMS in the Village Voice

Voice Comix

Ward Sutton Puts MAGA Pride Anthems on the Turntable

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June 21, 2022

Ward Sutton cartoon about the indictment of George Santos.

Voice Comix

Sutton on Santos, a Real Stand-Up Guy

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May 10, 2023

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Voice Comix

The GOP Was For Putin Before They Were Against Him

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April 19, 2022

Ward Sutton SCORNHUB satire cartoon for the Village Voice

Voice Comix

Whatever Your Persuasion, Scornhub Pushes Just the Right Buttons

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February 25, 2022

NEW YORK MIRROR
Pic for Village Voice article about 1970s rocker Elliott Murphy's continued relevance.

MUSIC

Half a Century Ago, Elliott Murphy Was Going to Be a ‘Monster’ Rock Star – But Then Life Happened 

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February 16, 2024

Village Voice article on the disputed history of hip-hop.

CULTURE

Why Hip-Hop Has Many Fathers

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August 11, 2023

Village Voice article about Kim's Video

FILM ARCHIVES

The Strange Fate of Kim’s Video

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September 12, 2012

Village Voice profile of Sonja Wagner, artist, porn mag art director, party maven, and all-around New York City denizen.

NEW YORK

The Life of Sonja

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February 7, 2023

Village Voice article by Sarah Ferguson about court decisions that may signal a return of P.S. 64 to the East Village community.

News

Developer Takes a Nosedive as Court Orders Foreclosure and Sale of Old P.S. 64 in the East Village

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December 30, 2022

JOCKBEAT
Doc and Straw rookie cards: Promises fulfilled and broken.

JOCKBEAT

Return of the Prodigal Mets: Doc Gets His Due, as Darryl Waits in the Wings

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April 19, 2024

'Casablanca' premiered in New York City on November 26, 1942, in the good old days when gambling went on only in back rooms.

JOCKBEAT ARCHIVES

Appealing to Your Bettor Nature

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September 17, 2021

Image from a Village Voice article about the 1973 "Ya Gotta Believe" Mets team.

JOCKBEAT

‘Ya Gotta Believe,’ Revisited

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June 11, 2023

Article by Thomas Gerbasi on declaring the corner of Lexington Avenue and 115th Street “Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho Way.”

JOCKBEAT

‘Macho Camacho’ Always Went His Own Way – Now You Can Too

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May 26, 2023

Teresa and Johnny: A love for the ages.

JOCKBEAT

Teresa Tapia: The Queen of Albuquerque–and the Boxing Ring

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September 19, 2022

THE VOICE FIRMAMENT
Village Voice article about the death of Edwin Fancher, one of the paper's founders.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Ed Fancher, a Village Voice Founder

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September 29, 2023

Cover blurb and theater section spread from the April 23, 1991, issue of the Village Voice.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Michael Feingold and the Heat-Seeking Missiles of His Theater Criticism

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November 22, 2022

It’s 1982: Peter Schjeldahl was writing scintillating criticism for the Village Voice and artists were still climbing the stairs to pick up supplies at Pearl Paint and Eastern Artists.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Clemente to Marden to Kiefer: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl

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October 22, 2022

Village Voice story about the new york city reporter J.A. Lobbia

VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Julie Lobbia – a Tiny But Relentless Fighter

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November 25, 2021

VOICE LORE
Women's History Month article about early female staffers at the Village Voice.

VOICE LORE

The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice

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March 4, 2022

Village Voice ads fro Led Zeppelin from 1969 and 1973.

MUSIC

Robert Plant Can’t Kiss the Past Goodbye

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January 18, 2024

Image of the Guggenheim spiral in an article about an exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center by Sylvia Plachy, longtime Village Voice photographer.

VOICE CHOICE

Sylvia Plachy’s Photos Guided Us for Decades — Now They’re at the Bronx Documentary Center

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October 21, 2023

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VOICE LORE

Detour on the Road to the American Dream

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June 28, 2022

Carman Moore at Lincoln Center, and back on the pages of the Voice.

CULTURE

How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Carman Moore Has Got It Covered

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February 3, 2022

Cannabis Scene
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Cannabis

Housing Works Cannabis Co., NY’s First Dispensary, Did $12 Million in 6 Months

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August 8, 2023

A new day in New York? Waiting to see if cannabis will pay social equity dividends.

Cannabis

Cannabis Industry Waits for New York Sales Numbers

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March 16, 2023

Sister cities: Amsterdam and Nieuw Amsterdam.

Cannabis

An Open Letter To The Mayor of Amsterdam

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June 27, 2022

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Sponsored Post

Are High-Dose CBD Gummies More Effective Than Low-Dose CBD Gummies?

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September 1, 2022

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Sponsored Post

What Does High Potency Mean in CBD Oil?

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October 1, 2022

Trivial Pursuits
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Trivial Pursuits

Subway Shirts: NYC Women Resort to Coverups to Avoid Unwanted Attention

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May 25, 2023

personality traits of leaders

Trivial Pursuits

Do Psychopaths Run the World? The Sometimes Dark Personality Traits of Leaders

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May 23, 2023

scenic drives in new york

Trivial Pursuits

The 5 Most Spectacular Scenic Drives in New York This Spring

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May 22, 2023

places to have sex in nyc

Trivial Pursuits

5 Places to Have Sex in NYC and Not Get in Trouble (Probably)

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May 17, 2023

best pizza places in NYC

Trivial Pursuits

A Slice of Pie? Yes, Please! The 10 Best Pizza Places in NYC 2023

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May 15, 2023

What's Up
What's Up

PRIDE

Agenda PAC Looks to Send Anti-Queer Elected Officials Packing in November

In a year when 522 (and counting) anti-LGBTQ+ bills are moving through various legislatures, Agenda PAC and MoveOn are looking to get queer-rights supporters to the polls.  

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FILM

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Does Not Live Up To Its Title – and That’s a Good Thing

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FILM

Review: ‘The Bikeriders’ Is a Swaggering, Subversive Indictment of the American Dream

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