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All New Yorkers have that moment when they look at other New Yorkers and wish they would just...leave. And when Nicolas Briseo learned of separate $20 million lawsuits filed by two women who lived near the site of the March 26 building explosion on ...
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Each week new movies open in New York (and online) by the dozen. The Voice reviews all of 'em. Here are some you might not have heard about that got our critics excited, for better or worse. Browse our entire film section over at villagevoice.com/mov...
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Heather Hardy, center, with her ten-year-old daughter, Annie, on the left and her corner-man, on the right, just before her bout in October
Boxer Heather Hardy's reputation in the ring is that she's tenacious and unrelenting. It's not undeserved: ...
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Ex Machina
Reviews and discussion of Ex Machina, Dior and I, Clouds of Sils Maria, The Longest Ride, and About Elly are all on this week's Voice Film Club podcast, which includes Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, and Amy...
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Laura Rosenshine
Three fifth-graders bound down the back steps of Friends Seminary, a private school on the southern border of Gramercy Park, each hauling a white plastic bucket. Claire Brennan, the school's service coordinator, follows behind ...
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It's called "Too Much Tuna." It's funny and weird, and so are the habits of too-lazy-to-cook New Yorkers. We've re-created some of the choicest requests for your clicking pleasure.
The Tuna Pranksters:
Awww!
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Hizzoner wants to read your poems.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Office of Cultural Affairs are asking us to take to Twitter in honor of National Poetry Month.Using the hashtag #PoetweetNYC, anyone can submit a poem between now and April 13 (the co...
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Smuggled cigarettes found during an inspection at a corner store in Long Island City
As six armed officers pour out of two unmarked Ford Explorers on a Long Island City street corner, you can see the confusion on the faces of gawkers and passersby...
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Climbers will soon have to choose their favorite Long Island City wall.
When Brooklyn Boulders co-founder Lance Pinn began scouting locations in 2012 for a massive indoor climbing gym in Long Island City, it was unrelated, he says, to plans his bi...
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Aubrey Plaza in Ned Rifle
Each week new movies open in New York (and online) by the dozen. The Voice reviews all of 'em. Here are some you might not have heard about that got our critics excited, for better or worse. Browse our entire film section...
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Take a load off.
Manhattan can be exhausting, but did you know you can take a nap on a plush, king-sized bed in a swanky Noho loft apartment practically any time you want?
No, it's not an art installation. And if it's not an art installation, it ...
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Flyer placed by the NYPD on illegally parked vehicles near the Midtown South precinct
Update, 4:31 p.m. -- Score one for the little guy! After complaining to the Voice about the NYPD's sometimes illegal and otherwise dubious parking practices on h...
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Amy also recommends White God, a movie that stars about 150 dogs who start a revolution on the streets of Budapest, while Alan suggests Lambert & Stamp, a documentary about the early managers of English rock band the Who.
Send all Vin Diesel impres...
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Early in the morning of August 4, 2013, Steven Sotloff walked across the border from southern Turkey into Syria. He passed through three security checkpoints, then a no man's land between the two countries, on a road surrounded by olive groves, yello...
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Ahlam Ahmed
Ahlam Ahmed is determined to become a New York City firefighter. The petite eighteen-year-old of Yemeni descent stands five feet tall, weighs just 105 pounds, and is well aware of the physical challenges inherent to the job. But she ...
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Reverend Winnie Varghese leans over a bamboo cross in the yard of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, adjusting a T-shirt that hangs off the cross along with roughly 40 others, the clothes flapping in the cold wind. "Most people walk in and figure it ou...
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Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival
By Stephen Petrus and Ronald D. Cohen (Oxford, June)
If you loved the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, this'll be right up your alley. Folk City explores the New York City folk scene of the...
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The rubble at East 7th Street and Second Avenue in the East Village
Authorities found two bodies on Sunday in the rubble of a building in the East Village, after an explosion caused by an apparent gas leak destroyed it and its neighboring building...
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Sometimes life imitates art. Other times art intimidates life. That seemed to be the case with the HBO documentary series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, which, over the course of a decade, tracked the shady past of the New York City r...
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The March Hotness Bracket
OK, so Columbia didn't qualify for the men's NCAA basketball tournament. They didn't join their fellow Ivy Leaguers at Harvard -- nor their fellow New Yorkers at Manhattan College and St. John's University -- in the Big D...
