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Busting your blocks, whether you want it or not
A while back, a friend expressed concern that her son, a ten-year-old, was watching too much My Little Pony. "It's a sweet show," she said, "but it's not what I'd choose for every day."
I asked what...
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What You Have to Read: Mary Doria Russell's Epitaph
The Gist: This sprawling, generous western is subtitled "A novel of the O.K. Corral," which might trick people into buying it at the airport but sells short the book's ambition and humanity. Russel...
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Cover: Christophe Gowans
A parallel complexity of feeling has developed, over the past century, about poetry itself, which some people argue is dead and others argue is not dead. Whatever your opinion (more nuanced, I hope, than these), you might ...
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Natasha Vaynblat
For a performer, any kind of exposure is a good thing. But as comedian Natasha Vaynblat recently learned, sometimes being discovered can be mortifying.
Vaynblat, 27, worked for four years as a public school teacher in New York C...
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Reports of synthetic-marijuana hospitalizations were not totally accurate.
Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday issued a "health alert" about synthetic cannabinoids, saying in a statement that the drugs had "sent more than 160 patients to the hospital"...
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Morris vs. 1980: The 9-Lives Calendar
Publisher: 9-Lives Cat Food
Discovered at: Green House Antique Shop, Ruckersville, VA
The Cover Promises: Morris the Cat is a big fan of 1980 Best Picture nominee Raging Bull
Back in the Reagan years, American...
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The Pulitzer judges singled out Zacharek's work for combining "the pleasure of intellectual exuberance, the perspective of experience, and the transporting power of good writing."
We concur.Zacharek joined the Voice in 2013. Week after week, she tr...
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Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, the creators of High Maintenance
The timing couldn't be better: Today HBO announced it would air forthcoming episodes of the acclaimed Web series High Maintenance.
In a press release, HBO president Michael Lomba...
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With the most recent budget fight behind them, legislators in Albany are getting ready to turn their attention to the state's expiring rent regulation laws. It's a fight that Brian Kavanagh knows well.
The Democratic state assemblyman from Manhattan...
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"Does anybody know how to work a projector?" shouts Viviana Olen over a PBR-saturated room of about 100, mostly millennials with a sprinkling of Gen X-ers. Matt Harkins fiddles with the open MacBook. This is Williamsburg, rooftop film capital of the ...
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HBO has sent a letter to Williamsburg bar Videology telling them not to show Game of Thrones episodes on Sunday nights.
"They said that it's not allowed to be shown in a public setting," says the bar's co-owner, James Leet. It's the first time the ...
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A sheriff's deputy uses a special light to check counterfeit stamps on a pack of cigarettes.
The Wall Street Journal on Sunday published an op-ed on a subject that the Voice has been following for a little while: smuggled, untaxed cigarettes.
Tit...
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"This whole block is suffering."
Standing behind the counter at his small Greenwich Village shop, House of Cards and Curiosities, James Waits surveys the changes that have affected many businesses in the area. "It's a combination of things. Rent is...
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Unless you are a fetus, and therefore incapable of reading this, you probably remember The Sims. Not Sim City, not Sims 10: Acid Trip Edition (which we don't think is real). We're talking the O.G., oddly dressed, strangely sexual Sims. Besides being ...
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A movement that began in 2012 with 200 fast-food workers protesting in midtown reached an apex on Wednesday, as cities across the globe held rallies to push for higher wages and more benefits for low-income workers.
Since its smallish beginnings, th...
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What You Have to Read: Act of God by Jill Ciment
The Gist: An unsettling novel that opens with an outbreak of phosphorescent mushrooms in a Brooklyn closet and then blooms to follow the lives of four contaminated women.
A Taste:
"That was disturb...
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Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, the couple behind the critically acclaimed Web series High Maintenance
"It's OK, I'm the guy who can do this!"
Katja Blichfeld is trying to pick a morsel of beet salad from her teeth, and her husband, Ben Sincla...
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When Nick Menditto was arrested for pot possession at a Connecticut rest stop, the timing could not have been worse. It was March 2011, and he was a few weeks shy of completing his probation for two other marijuana possession charges, which meant any...
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Elizabeth Warren reads from her memoir at the Strand.
"Can everyone please move forward a bit? We're expecting a lot of people, so just tighten up as much as possible."
An employee of the Strand bookstore in Manhattan strolled up Broadway between...
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"For me, it's either this or the shelter," says showtime dancer Antonio.
It didn't take long for Eli and Antonio to count up their earnings: Each of the subway dancers took home about $11 for two hours of work on a recent Friday on the F Train, fr...
