This 2001 article from the Village Voice archive reports on the salt of the earth New Yorkers who were lost when the Twin ...

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Guitar hero: Paul McMahon takes calls on The Live Show. Take heed, connoisseurs of the amateur—in both the “done for love” sense and the less-flattering one. Public-access television speaks in the ...

The Village Voice previews a live appearance at 92nd Street Y of Sarah Longwell, publisher of the anti-Trump online site, The Bulwark.

Given the lack of debate and discussion among educated blacks today, Harold Cruse’s remedies for the black intelligentsia’s failings seem more quixotic now than 20 years ago — particularly because ...

Brandon Teena (right) with Lana Tisdel in 1993. On December 31, 1993, a 21-year-old trans man named Brandon Teena was shot and stabbed to death near Falls City, Nebraska, by two other young men ...

We are now winding down the anniversary of hiphop’s 30th year of existence as a populist art form. Testimonials and televised tributes have been airing almost daily, thanks to Viacom and the like. As ...

The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship. By the touch of Circe’s wand, the divine troublemakers are translated into porcine embroidery. Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and its ...

John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” My favorite example of a change of mind was Norman Mailer at The ...

I read the news today, oh boy! Abe Weissman is getting a new job. Well, it turns out that, like Joe Biden, we just needed a few years off—and at 66 years old, we’re still a decade younger than the ...

What Black American culture—musical and otherwise—lacks for now isn’t talent or ambition, but the unmistakable presence of some kind of spiritual genius: the sense that something other than or even ...