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Another Magnetic Boy Found in Brazil

by Rosie Gray

July 9, 2011

Remember the Serbian Magnetic Boy? He has a Brazilian comrade who possesses the same surprising and useless talent. Forks, knives, pots and pans — they all stick to the 11-year-old from Rio Grande do Norte. Is this a thing now?

[AP]

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News 2021

A Review and a Poem: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Terror and pity: Ferlinghetti stirs up a pity for his sincere nervousness, or nervous sincerity, in quite confessional work."

by The Village Voice Archives

February 24, 2021
News 2021

Singer Naomi Shelton Made New Yorkers — and Everyone Else — Feel the Love

By day that gig was housekeeping; by night she’d take the 41 bus to sing at neighborhood spots like the Night Cap on Flatbush Avenue

by Matt Rogers

February 24, 2021
News 2021

What Larry Flynt’s Freedom Fighter Legacy Meant For LGBTQ Culture

I had access to a little fund to invite speakers to the school. When I thought of who would make an engaging guest speaker, my number one choice was Larry Flynt.

by Rachel Mason

February 25, 2021
VOICE OF THE AGES

James Ridgeway’s Reporting Warned Us That Trump Was Coming — Half a Century Ago

“When you strip down the revolutionary rhetoric coming from Congress, it isn’t hard to see what a dangerous game the GOP is playing.”

by R.C. Baker

February 16, 2021
ART 2021

Ken Quattro’s ‘Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books’

"In almost every case, these artists worked all but unsung, separate from their white colleagues and editors."

by Shana Nys Dambrot

February 22, 2021
FILM 2021

The Best Black Music Biopics Ever

Dramatic, tragic, mythological, and purely American —it’s no wonder these stories have gotten the Hollywood treatment for nearly forty years now

by Chad Byrnes

February 23, 2021