A couple of weeks after investigative reporter Jack Newhouse published a story about powerful New York senator Jacob Javits’s wife shilling for Iran, a Voice colleague laid out the facts about the regime’s terror.
In America’s Bicentennial year, dogged reporter Jack Newfield revealed that Marion Javits was running PR cover for one of the world's most bloodthirsty despots.
The ever-astute culture critic James Wolcott covered the fans, the stars, the ephemera, the merch, and the meaning of it all, live from the Statler Hilton in Midtown.
Forty years ago, legal battles concerning nicotine addiction — and seductive cigarette advertising — presented a quandary for those who felt “people have a right to choose their poison.”
As the Reagan era began to grind on, photographer Sylvia Plachy prowled the subways, and music critic Tom Smucker admitted, “I like Christmas music. I like the schlock and I like the religion. I like sentimental innocence and I like trancing out on the same standards sung and resung.”
