“Call for Action was started in February. In May we were evicted." She pointed out that an ordinary complainant has to wait about 90 days for an inspector to show up. She added, with a smile, "I hope everyone in the city gets as quick action as we did."
Out for a Thanksgiving week jaunt of the clubs and concert halls, the Voice's Riffs reporter experienced not just Jimi Hendrix, but the Jefferson Airplane, Slim Harpo, and some “profoundly witty, imaginative Scottish folk music for the year 2001.”
A Voice reporter dove into the paper's archives — only two decades' worth, then — and used an old Latin aphorism to describe a once promising political career on its last legs: “Speak no ill of the dead.”
In 1973, as taxi workers picketed, their boss, Robert Scull, made a killing offering his Pop Art collection at auction, and Robert Rauschenberg was not happy. The Voice’s Alexander Cockburn covered the financial and personal fracas that went down that day.
With a PBS special on the Wall Street battle coming up, we revisit a “first draft of history” piece about cultural fractures that still divide us today.
