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February 2019

NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

The Dirty Deal That Helped Make Donald Trump

How city and state officials, real estate operators, lawyers, and bankers came together in a multimillion-dollar deal to rebuild the Commodore Hotel, largely at public expense

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February 28, 2019

TV ARCHIVES

Wolcott Went to War on Oscar War Movies

‘I was ready to attach a bayonet to a broomhandle and patrol the war-torn streets of Greenwich Village’

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February 23, 2019

TV ARCHIVES

Tinseltown’s Self-Love — and Loathing: Wolcott Covers the Oscars

Marshall McLuhan said TV was a ‘cool’ medium. Wolcott’s criticism was always hot.

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February 23, 2019

From The Archives

Black History Month: Malcolm X vs. the “Radical Middle”

‘It did my heart a world of good to sit back and listen to Mr. X list the sins of the white man’

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February 22, 2019

FILM ARCHIVES

On the Set, the Street, and at Dinner with ‘Malcolm X’ director Spike Lee

“The black Woody Allen, a camera-wielding Sharpton, a gifted charlatan, an inspiration, a generous sort, a media hound (or barker)”

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February 22, 2019

FILM ARCHIVES

The Voice, O.J. Simpson, and Robert Blake Go to the Oscars

Oscar doesn’t make whoopee even when it goes cuckoo

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February 22, 2019

MUSIC ARCHIVES

When Worlds Collided — Peter Tork at CBGB, Lester Bangs at the Typewriter

In 1977 the multi-instrumentalist came to conquer — not to pander to Monkees nostalgia

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February 21, 2019

COMICS ARCHIVES

Black History Month: Surveying the Superhero Landscape

Black Panther, Luke Cage, Brotherman, and more — in 1994 Gary Dauphin made the rounds of ‘the new school of black comic makers’

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February 21, 2019

From The Archives

The Great Black Hope

On Election Day 2008, the Voice went to Ohio to report on Barack Obama’s message of hope

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February 19, 2019

CULTURE

Black History Month: Post-Soul Culture Circa 1992

In 1992, the Voice gave readers a powerful, insightful essay and seventeen pages of kick-ass graphics

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February 15, 2019