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Seven Decades

SEVEN DECADES

Fire Island A to Z

Everything you need to know to be cool in a hot arena.

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SEVEN DECADES

First Draft of History Reporting at the Stonewall in 1969

“We haven’t done anything wrong and have never been convicted in no court. We have rights, and the courts should decide and not let the police do things like what happened here. ”

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SEVEN DECADES

Blood Bath: In 2017, Shakespeare in the Park Went After the ‘Cheeto Caesar’

Almost a decade ago, a Trumped-up “Julius Caesar” had corporate sponsors gnashing their teeth over “good taste.”

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Theater

Being Adrien Brody: Hollywood, Broadway, and the Decisive Moments of His Youth

Now starring onstage, the two-time Oscar winner grew up observing his mother, world-class photographer Sylvia Plachy, at work.

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SEVEN DECADES

A Government Show Trial in 1971 Echoes Trumped-Up Charges Now

The Black Panthers were accused of planning heinous crimes, but the prosecution’s case was way too imaginative for a jury of street-level New Yorkers.

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SEVEN DECADES

Afrika Bambaataa Gave Voice to Music ‘Never Heard Before’

More than four decades ago, the Bronx DJ was already a hip hop legend, known as the “Master of Records.”

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VOICE CHOICE

Nell Blaine: A Painter Who Worked Against the Grain

A fresh exhibition features the first art director of the Village Voice, who overcame debilitating disease to create vibrant, New York School-ed realism. 

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SEVEN DECADES

A Sex and $$ Scandal During the Age of Reagan

In 1982, Brooklyn congressman Fred Richmond attempted to use money and powerful connections to maneuver his way out of a sex scandal.

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In 1973, the Forever War in Vietnam Came to an Inconclusive Close

A little over half a century ago, a president mired in an unpopular war finally declared the beginning of the end, and the Voice covered the damage left behind.

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1957, Four Voice Staffers Recalled Their Shock at Hearing FDR Had Died

This Presidents’ Day, we look back on how the news about the four-term POTUS — who'd been in office as a generation of Americans came of age and then went off to war — still hit hard a dozen years later.

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