‘What passes for “soul” in Roxy Music is premeditated “fun,” which shores up our most basic needs.’

Before singing “Paradise City,” Axl announced, “This is my last gig with Guns N’ Roses”

What if you love art AND baseball? In the Eighties, Voice critic Peter Schjeldahl had the answer.

Said the federal judge to Giuliani: ‘There is in your office a kind of overkill, a kind of overzealousness.’

A new section of the Voice Archives will look at advertising and its discontents

“Run-D.M.C.’s myth was like Rocky to everyone else’s Apollo Creed. It had to be a myth; no one could possibly be that square.”

“Forty-eight hours in the feeding cycle of New York City. There were Uzis, Public Enemy re­grouping, and a clique of blond babes orbiting Axl Rose at the Cat Club. All of this connects. How was your week?”

No revelation to come out of the Watergate hearings so far has had such damaging results as the publication of the White House "enemies" list. But what is a man's life worth if he isn't even on it?

"Always dug Run-D.M.C. because they dressed like they weren't ashamed to be identified with the stone B-boys"