Art

Impeachment Chronicles

Watergate, the Bahamas & Howard Hughes

Nixon’s vow to “fight like hell” in his battle against impeachment has led some to believe the president has concluded: If you can’t get yourself clean, the next best thing is to dirty everyone else.

by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Impeachment Chronicles

Watergate Diary: A Few Quiet Drinks for Liberty

"Millions of people are afraid we have in office a man who might entertain the notion of kicking over the government"

by Ron Rosenbaum
The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear

Before Roe, terminating a pregnancy meant confronting a nightmare of quacks and butchers, knitting needles and wire coat hangers. The exceptions were people like Dr. X, “the stars of the underground abortion circuit.”

by Marlene Nadle
Obies

Ghosts of Obies Past

"Do the Obies actually mean anything to anybody? So much that it sometimes frightens me — and, at the same time, nothing at all."

by The Voice Archives
Art

The Slasher

Photographer David Haxton Goes on a Tear

by The Voice Archives
Film

Cannes Diary, 1994: Riviera of No Return

“One critic calls Tarantino a fascist director, but even he seemed to enjoy the movie. I call Tarantino a master of Inventive Violence.”

by Georgia Brown