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Stars & Hype Forever: In 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Reelection Represented the...
Editor’s note, August 14, 2026: The 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s reelection landed a day after Donald Trump won his second go-round in the White House. The parallels between the two GOP...
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33 Reasons We Can’t Help Loving Summer in the City
Suddenly there’s a sense of — what the hell is that? — optimism in the air, along with the pollen of a million blooming plants and trees, people walking around in various stages of undress, their...
View ArticleStill Looking for Answers on the 30th Anniversary of the TWA Flight 800...
Editor’s note, July 13, 2026: In 1998, investigative reporter Robert Davey delved into the mysterious events surrounding the mid-air explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the southern coast of Long Island,...
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Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism
This article is part of a series—At 250, Who Will America Be?—reporting on threats to American democracy as we approach the nation’s Semiquincentennial, on July 4, 2026. ∼ ∼ ∼ Editor’s note, June...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Hold Orlando Vigil at Stonewall Inn in 2016: ‘It’s Time to Fight...
→ This article from the archives is part of an ongoing series celebrating the Voice’s Platinum Anniversary — 70 years! The first issue appeared on the streets of NYC on October 26, 1955. ←...
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A Monument to a Corrupt POTUS – 1977 Version
Editor’s note, May 6, 2026: Roughly two and a half years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency because of the Watergate scandals — which encompassed not only the conviction of Nixon’s vice...
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The ‘Bad Boy Curse’
It is absolutely ridiculous for anyone to blame me for anyone else’s actions. —From a statement by Sean “Puffy” Combs Both admirers and opponents of Sean “Puffy” Combs have pointed out that people...
View ArticleNew York’s 1970 ‘Hard Hat Riot’ Was a Precursor of Today’s MAGA Demagoguery
→ This article from the archives is part of a series celebrating 70 years of the Voice. Watch this space between now and October 26, 2025, when we will kick off our Platinum Anniversary year. ←...
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Hackers Before There Were ‘Hackers’: Phone Phreaks in Midtown
[Editor’s note, September 16, 2025: Back in 1971, the ever intrepid investigative reporter Ron Rosenbaum wrote a feature in Esquire magazine under the headline “Secrets of the Little Blue Box,” which...
View ArticleNorthern Exposures
→ This article from the archives is part of a series celebrating 70 years of the Voice. Watch this space between now and October 26, 2025, as we count down to our Platinum Anniversary. ← [August...
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American Gods
→ This article from the archives is part of a series celebrating 70 years of the Voice. Watch this space between now and October 26, 2025, as we count down to our Platinum Anniversary. ← Alex Ross,...
View ArticleKinsley–for a Day
Has Michael Kinsley gone nuts? That was the prevailing sentiment in New York media circles late Monday morning. The Slate editor was evidently a top choice to edit The New Yorker. He then committed the...
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Sumptuous free press junkets aren’t always as great as they sound— I’ve dodged empty beer bottles in Iceland, vaginal Ping-Pong balls in Thailand, and severe boredom in Russia— but the one two weeks...
View ArticleNude Awakening
The streets of New York City are all but deserted at 6:15 a.m. on a Sunday morning, yet there is an isolated chaos. Shoes are kicked off. Elbows bump elbows as hands rip shirts over heads. Pants fall...
View ArticleIsle of White
In the summer of 1948, during a heat wave, E.B. White came down from Maine and holed up at the Algonquin Hotel to write a piece for Holiday, an elegant travel magazine of the day. The assignment was to...
View ArticleDoes City Owe Squat?
The squat at 537-539 East 5th Street is long gone, demolished by the city after a fire broke out there on February 9, 1997. But next week marks not only the third anniversary of the razing of the...
View ArticleThe Age of ‘Reason’
Wired founder Louis Rossetto has been fascinated with Reason for over 30 years. Recently, he played a role in the magazine’s redesign. The following interview was conducted via e-mail, with Rossetto...
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Losing Joshua
Phoenix, New York—Debra Graham sat at her dining room table on a recent Wednesday morning and riffled through a stack of loose-leaf notebook paper, each page covered with the tortured scrawl of her...
View ArticleProm Balloons
Nineteen-year-old Manhattanite Peter Cincotti just doubled Diana Krall’s record sales, becoming Billboard‘s top trad-jazz seller of the moment. He burst into national consciousness recently with...
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No Future
Originally published in the April 19, 1994, issue of The Village Voice. People couldn’t believe the photograph. The day after Kurt Cobain shot himself faceless in his million-dollar home, his friends...
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