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A Monument to a Corrupt POTUS – 1977 Version
Three years after Richard M. Nixon resigned, the Voice ran a contest to determine an appropriate memorial for the disgraced Commander in Chief.
by Howard Smith & Brian Van der Horst
‘Louder Than Guns’ Follows a Musician and a Journalist as They Seek Common Ground to End Gun Violence
A Government Show Trial in 1971 Echoes Trumped-Up Charges Now
What's Up
‘The Society of the Screen’ Spotlights a Prophet of Tech Anxiety
IBOGAINE! It’s Back! Just in Time for Doomsday!
250 Years = 250 Feet: Trump’s Desire for a Bigly Arch Echoes Megalomaniacs of the Past
Review: In ‘Lorne’ the Most Elusive Man in Showbiz Stays that Way
When the Pentagon Screened ‘The Battle of Algiers’
‘Cinematic Immunity’ Covers the Artistry – and Insane Derring-Do – of Location Shooting in NYC
RAP HISTORY
Afrika Bambaataa Gave Voice to Music ‘Never Heard Before’
Why Hip-Hop Has Many Fathers
women's History
Nell Blaine: A Painter Who Worked Against the Grain
The Lady Doth Protest Too Much for Traditionalists
At 90 Years Old, Rosalyn Drexler Begins Again
The Women Behind the Screens During the Golden Age of Television
The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice
IRAN files
In 1976, Nat Hentoff Interviewed Survivors of the Shah of Iran’s Savagery
A Freedom of Choice Revolution Is Roiling Iran
A New York Senator’s Wife Was Flacking for the Shah of Iran in 1976
The Beautiful Butchers of 1977
by Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway and Jan Albert
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THE VOICE @ 70
A Sex and Scandal During the Age of Reagan
In 1973, the Forever War in Vietnam Came to an Inconclusive Close
Celebrating 70 Years of the Village Voice
In 1972, Disgust with an Orwellian President was Growing
The ‘Bad Boy Curse’
In the Reagan ’80s, Tobacco Peddlers and Anti-Smoking Lawyers Were Both Going Great Guns
NYC TALES
Take a Spring Break With a Timberdoodle or Two
‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Hits Too Close to Home in Our Dystopian Times
Hackers Before There Were ‘Hackers’: Phone Phreaks in Midtown
Groundhog Day, 1976: ‘Star Trek’ was Alive and Well in Syndication and on the Convention Floor
Unspeakable Acts: The Alleged Horrors Behind NYC’s Once Ubiquitous Blarney Stone Empire
9/11: A Childhood Fractured By History
HISTORY BITES
From Hell – Trump’s Modified Limited Hangout on Epstein Is Leaving America Hanging
Russia’s Destruction of Ukraine’s Environment has National and International – and Personal – Consequences
Memories of ‘Phantom Utopias’ Are Paving the Way for Fascism Around the Globe
One Reichstag Fire After Another
Before the ‘Goldwater Rule’ and Trump: Diagnosing Hitler in 1943
The Romans Tried to Save the Republic From Men Like Trump. They Failed.
Screens
‘Two Prosecutors’ Finds Flesh Crushed and Lives Smothered Under Stalin’s Terminal Bureaucracy
Review: ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ is Not Really a Mummy Movie, But Blumhouse Couldn’t Care Less
Zazie Beetz and Patricia Arquette on Final Girls, Immortality, and the ‘Splatstick’ Carnage of ‘They Will Kill You’
Samara Weaving Braves Bloodbaths and Battles Buffy in ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’
Rewatching ‘Jaws’ in Trump’s America, 50 Years After It Terrified and Delighted Us
Riffing
The 60 Best Songs Ever Written About New York City
Whose Head is That? The Movie That Almost Ended the Monkees
Julia Kent’s Looping Cello Soundscapes Will Envelop the Met’s ‘Ecologies of Painting’
“I F*%^ing Hate This Generation”: Memorable Comments on Our 50 Most NYC Albums Story
You Should Know Who Tom Wilson Was – Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed Certainly Did
exhibitionism
Top of the POPS: The Whitney Biennial Does Its Best to Catch the Zeitgeist in a Bottle
A Painter of Modern Life: Ben Shahn’s Rough-Hewn Canvases Pulled No Punches
MAGA Representing! Send Painter Jon McNaughton to the Venice Biennale!
50 Years Gone of Vaughn Bode’s Sex, Violence, Graffiti, and Luminous Grace
Organize or Die: How Images of the Labor Movement and Diverse Communities Help Define Our Moment
Two Artists Ask: How Abject Do You Wanna Get?
9/11 to 1/6
9/11: The Horror Then, The Danger Now
9/11: Witness to the Fall – Reporting on the Coming Dangers
We Are Not Your Terrorists
the Rerun president
In 1973, We Asked, ‘What Is a Man’s Life Worth If He Isn’t an Enemy of the White House?’
New Yorkers vs. the Wannabe King – Round Three
Fighting Fires: A 1989 Billy Joel Hit Would Include Cory Booker’s Stemwinder and Democracy Marchers Today
The Disappeared: MAGA’s Performative Cruelty Is a Warning to Us All
Rauschenberg: 100 years
As Robert Rauschenberg Hits the Century Mark, We Look Back on the Voice’s 2008 Obit of an American Original
Robert Rauschenberg Centenary: Throwdown at the 1973 Scull Auction
Robert Rauschenberg’s Graphic Alchemy
Printed Matter
‘The Second Printing Revolution’ Shows Us That Information Has Never Been Free
Heat Death – Or, That Time You Were Meant to Discuss ‘1984’ on Its Glorious Anniversary but Had Some Kind of Psychotic Break Instead
Talking About the Village Voice, the Paper That Couldn’t Be Bought
Crosshatching the City: ‘Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies’ Overheard the Voices of New York
‘Inside the Spiral’ Unearths Robert Smithson’s Childhood, Catholicism, Art, and Death
Who’s Afraid of Dave Hickey? Rereading ‘The Invisible Dragon,’ Three Decades Later
NEW YORK MIRROR
A Wonderland of Solitude in the Bronx
![John Garfield in “Force of Evil” (1948). Well-known for his liberal politics, Garfield was vilified by demagoguing right-wing politicians. The New York Historical exhibition notes that his daughter, Julie Garfield, stated: “It killed him, it really killed him. He was under unbelievable stress. Phones were being tapped. He was being followed by the FBI. He hadn’t worked in 18 months. He was finally supposed to do [an adaptation of the Broadway play] 'Golden Boy' on CBS with Kim Stanley. They did one scene. And then CBS cancelled it. He died a day or two later.”](https://www.villagevoice.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/1_garfield-r9rwtqf3za3r16dwisgvxm59ob3v3ddqhuci7g6urg.jpg?x94344)
](‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ Reveals Past As Prologue
Gay History – and Current Threats to LGBTQ+ Rights – As Seen From the Piano Bench
Dispatches From the Trial of Daniel Penny
Hold Your [Bobble] Head High as NYC Starts Fresh with Zohran Mamdani
In December 1972, Robert Downey – Sr. – Got 12 Pages of Holiday Cheer
Half a Century Ago, Elliott Murphy Was Going to Be a ‘Monster’ Rock Star – But Then Life Happened
Pop Culture and Its Discontents at the 2025 NY Comic Con
In 1969 Jonas Mekas Sat Down to Talk ‘Putney Swope’ with the Film’s Director Robert Downey Sr.
Democracy in Danger
Dr. Strangelove’s America: Donald Trump and the Age of Insurrection
Norman Rockwell’s Conflicted America
Steven Brill’s new book, ‘The Death of Truth,’ Warns That Internet Goliaths Are Anything But ‘Good Samaritans’
Culture Palooza
Party Like It’s a ’60s Happening: ‘Everything Is Now’
Sixty Years Ago, John Coltrane Sent ‘A Love Supreme’ Out Into the World – And Beyond
The Way We Live Now: New York Artists at the Edge of Survival
The Seven Marriages of Dinah Washington
The Truth Is Out There: Rereading the Warren Commission Report and Re-Viewing Zapruder
The Way We Were – A Child’s Garden of Watergate
‘The Great Gatsby’ at – almost – 100: Staging a Troubled Legacy
Artist/Musician Terry Allen’s Life Story, Adapted for the Page
Milton Glaser Helped Define the Look of the 20th Century
EARTH DAYS
As the Ukraine War Enters Year Four, the Kyiv Zoo Has Found Ways to Shelter Animals – and People – During Wartime
Kurt Vonnegut Revisits Earth for Earth Day
A Revolution Is Taking Place, One Can at a Time
Snow Job: Climate Change is Making Skiing an Uphill Climb
War and Water: Russia is Destroying Ukraine’s Water Supply
Voice memories
Newshound Extraordinaire Tom Robbins Was One of the Tallest of Stand-up Guys
When Karen Durbin Got Up Close and Personal With the Rolling Stones
In 1958, an Art Thief Posed as a Village Voice Photographer
Who Needs Halloween When You’ve Got Feiffer and the Bomb?
From the archives
Soundtrack to the Watergate Break-In: Ziggy, the Stones, Tina & Ike, Cheech & Chong, ZZ, ‘Brandy,’ the Fillmore, and More
Our Nixon: Whose Life Was It Anyway?
Anarchy in the U.S.A. – The GOP Plays a Dangerous Game With Its Far-Right Fringe
Northern Exposures
Sanctifying the Evangelical Vote
Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism
First Draft of History: Covering Civil Rights in the Sixties
Ishmael Reed on Muhammad Ali in 1978 – “The Stars were for Ali, But the Busboys were for Spinks”
The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear
War in Ukraine
After Two Years of War, A Weary Ukraine Remains Defiant
We Are Ukrainians: Learning From the 2023 Kyiv Biennial
The GOP Was For Putin Before They Were Against Him
A Man, a Band, a War: Eugene Hütz Speaks His Mind
Robert Lighthouse Brings the Blues to a Ravaged Ukraine
LABOR FRONT
Can a Union Revival Save America’s Soul?
Workers at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Bring a Union to Brooklyn
A Revolution Is Taking Place, One Can at a Time
Are Unions Getting Off Their Knees?
Los Deliveristas Unidos Takes On the App-Delivery Industry
JOCKBEAT
Alberto Tomba Ruled Ski Slopes – and Hearts – At the 1992 Olympics
‘Macho Camacho’ Always Went His Own Way – Now You Can Too
Appealing to Your Bettor Nature
Pulitzer for Greg Tate
Flying High: Eight Voice Writers Remember Greg Tate
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk
Illin’ in the Buttermilk
Voice Relaunch e-Editions
2022: The Voice Relaunch Continues in Print and these E-Editions
2021: After Four Long Years, the Village Voice Returned to Print
La Dolce Musto
The Oscars Will Celebrate Everything MAGA Hates
Five Queers to Be Thankful For This Pride
Fire Island A to Z
Lying Liars Lying About Queers
Bike Riding In NYC: Tips From One Who Knows
SUTTON'S FUNHOUSE
Satire Hits the Canvas: Ward Sutton’s ‘Stan Kelly’ Doesn’t Know How Funny He Really Is
Are You Truly Deplorable – Or Just Posing?
Ward Sutton Puts MAGA Pride Anthems on the Turntable
The GOP Was For Putin Before They Were Against Him
Whatever Your Persuasion, Scornhub Pushes Just the Right Buttons
THE VOICE FIRMAMENT
Remembering Jim Ledbetter and His Exposé, ‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing’
Lifestyles of the Rich and Swinish: Remembering Gary Indiana and His Prescient Take on The Donald
Remembering Ed Fancher, a Village Voice Founder
Remembering Michael Feingold and the Heat-Seeking Missiles of His Theater Criticism
Clemente to Marden to Kiefer: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl
Remembering Julie Lobbia – a Tiny But Relentless Fighter
VOICE LORE
‘Don’t Have a Cow, Man!’ When Sylvia Plachy Did Thanksgiving – and More
Robert Plant Can’t Kiss the Past Goodbye
The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice
Sylvia Plachy’s Photos Guided Us for Decades — Now They’re at the Bronx Documentary Center
Detour on the Road to the American Dream
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Carman Moore Has Got It Covered
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Agenda PAC Looks to Send Anti-Queer Elected Officials Packing in November
In a year when 522 (and counting) anti-LGBTQ+ bills are moving through various legislatures, Agenda PAC and MoveOn are looking to get queer-rights supporters to the polls.