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MUSIC

Tripping the Night Fantastic

Local photographers framed the scene, from top to bottom, during Harry Styles’ 30-night residency at MSG.

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History Bites

250 Years = 250 Feet: Trump’s Desire for a Bigly Arch Echoes Megalomaniacs of the Past

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VOICE CHOICE

Democracy Watchdogs are Girding for Post-Midterm Attacks on Your Vote

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HARRY STYLES SPECIAL ISSUE
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MUSIC

Letter from a Fan of NYC

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November 1, 2026

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MUSIC

In 1996, the Voice Was Digging Deep Into Culture

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November 5, 2026

WHAT'S UP
Town and country: A new day for NYC carriage horses.

News

The End Is Coming for the NYC Carriage Horse Industry

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October 29, 2026

Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (center) and creative collaborators turned it out to promote their imminent revival of August Wilson’s ‘Seven Guitars.’

LA DOLCE MUSTO

Musto on Theater, Film, and Not Landing a Joke

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October 28, 2026

It’s time to put out the MAGA dumpster fire.

OP-ED

Best Political Bangs for Your Bucks: A Smorgasbord of Overperforming Dems and Sinking MAGAs

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October 16, 2026

Cancel the king.

VOICE CHOICE

Up Next in the Fight to Save Democracy – No Kings: Votefest NYC

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October 13, 2026

Thinking Jon Ossoff might be the Dems’ savior come 2028? If so, you should consider sending some cash to Georgia gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms, because it’s all about long-term strategy.

OP-ED

Where to Send the Long Green for the Long Run

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October 6, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

Richard Nixon’s Tyrannical Ambitions Set a Template for Trump

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October 1, 2026

Alex Lewis in "Slam Frank."

Theater

Comedy Q&A: Alex Lewis Sings Nicely, But Some Folks Still Walk Out Of ‘Slam Frank’

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October 19, 2026

A taste of the bad ol' days: This ad ran in the Village Voice during the period covered in the "Live Sex Acts" exhibition — the late 1960s through the mid-’80s. Note that you could get a dollar off with this ad anytime you were in the mood for some “SeXsational Live Love Acts.”

VOICE CHOICE

Remember Times Square In Its Dirty Old Days, Before Those Perverse Elmos Followed You Around?

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September 24, 2026

Trinkets with the power to conjure history and heartbreak.

NEW YORK

For Whom the Bell Tolled in 2001

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September 10, 2026

Those lying eyes: Nathan Fielder gets real with Elizabeth Holmes.

FILM

Review: Mendaciously Tantalizing, ‘You Can See Everything’ Devolves Into Metafictional Sludge

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October 16, 2026

“… floating in a most peculiar way …”

NYC SITES

Ground Control: The Serendipitous Art of the Streets

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August 6, 2026

Half a century and counting: Adrien Brody, once more in the Village Voice, photographed by his mother, Sylvia Plachy — this time during rehearsals for the Broadway play “The Fear of 13.”

Theater

Being Adrien Brody: Hollywood, Broadway, and the Decisive Moments of His Youth

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May 18, 2026

A tome for the moment.

VOICE CHOICE

Ex-Republicans Bring Their Trump Derangement Syndrome to the 92nd Street Y

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August 28, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

Forty Years Ago – and Four Decades After Its Creator’s Death – ‘Krazy Kat’ Was Still the Comic Strip of the Moment

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July 7, 2026

An activist protesting outside a carriage horse stable in 2025, during a rally supporting the passage of Ryder’s Law.

News

Since the Death of Ryder in 2022, the Toll Continues to Rise

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June 19, 2026

In 2006, long before the 7 train extension, there was an exciting new reason to trek all those blocks from the subway to the Javits Center.

NEW YORK

Back to the Future: 20 Years of New York Comic Con 

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October 6, 2026

Delisle’s "Pyongyang": Elevate you later.

SEVEN DECADES

Shadowland – Surveying the Human Desolation of North Korea in 2005

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August 18, 2026

The blurb that launched a hunt through the Village Voice archives.

SEVEN DECADES

It Was 1984 – and ‘Neuromancer’ Caught Lightning in a Klein Bottle

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August 5, 2026

Coltrane @ 100
John Coltrane performing in Amsterdam in December 1962, moving through “sheets of sound” to a supreme achievement two years later.

CULTURE

Sixty Years Ago, John Coltrane Sent ‘A Love Supreme’ Out Into the World – And Beyond

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February 3, 2025

One giant step after another: John Coltrane

SEVEN DECADES

The John Coltrane Guide

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September 18, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

In 2003, Reading Up On John Coltrane’s Contemplation and Invention

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September 21, 2026

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Corporate Shill In Chief – Ronald Reagan gets the Warhol treatment in 1985.

SEVEN DECADES

Stars & Hype Forever: In 1985, Ronald Reagan’s Reelection Represented the “Triumph of the Irrational”

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August 14, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1987, the Voice Discovered That Donald Trump Couldn’t Be Bothered to Vote

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September 23, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

It’s 1985, and Ronald Reagan Is Paying His Respects to Nazis

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August 21, 2026

The Reagan Administration tried to keep war under wraps.

SEVEN DECADES

Four Decades Ago, Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Policy Disasters Hid in Plain Sight

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September 3, 2026

Archive article about the roots of Republican anti-democracy tendencies.

SEVEN DECADES

Stop the G.O.P.! Exposing the Rise of the Counter-Constitution in 1987

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September 9, 2026

At 250, who are we?
Into each life a little rain must fall: President Donald Trump speaks in D.C. in 2019, before departing to London to meet with NATO leaders for the 70th anniversary of the alliance.

History Bites

The Republicans are Raining on America’s Most Patriotic Celebration – Again

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June 30, 2026

L: In 1933, the German Reichstag building burned and Adolf Hitler’s party used the conflagration as an excuse to exert dictatorial rule. R: On January 14, 2026, Minnesota residents protested ICE attacks on American citizens. One sign includes a 1943 excerpt from the diary of Anne Frank, who died in a Nazi concentration camp two years later: “Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

History Bites

One Reichstag Fire After Another

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January 26, 2026

1976 Village Voice article by Greil Marcus about the American bicentennial

SEVEN DECADES

Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism

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June 26, 2026

Follow the bouncing shiny object: An image labeled “Near Japan - 2024,” released in the first batch of declassified UAP files from the Trump administration, on May 8, 2026.

THE FRONT

Plan 250 from Outer Space: Trump’s ‘Look at the Shiny Object’ Strategy

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June 9, 2026

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NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

The Romans Tried to Save the Republic From Men Like Trump. They Failed.

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February 2, 2024

Village Voice article by R.C. Baker about the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence

POLITICS

At 250, Who Will America Be?

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June 28, 2022

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SEVEN DECADES

Beaten or Stoned? Was 1968 the Beginning of the End of the Sixties?

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March 2, 2026

Undated, and by an unknown artist, this pinback button brings together a dynamic duo of American history: Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, and Frederick Douglass, one righteous agitator.

History Bites

Back to the Future: Frederick Douglass’s 4th of July Barn Burner

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July 3, 2025

Hitler's baby picture.

THE FRONT

Before the ‘Goldwater Rule’ and Trump: Diagnosing Hitler in 1943

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March 20, 2024

John F. Kennedy giving his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech, at Rice University in 1962; James H. Fetzer’s 2003 book.

BOOKS

The Truth Is Out There: Rereading the Warren Commission Report and Re-Viewing Zapruder

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August 13, 2024

Earlier this month, citizens turned out at state capitals across the U.S.A. to protest Donald Trump's escalating attacks on democracy.

THE FRONT

Fighting the Rerun President’s Dark Vision of Autocracy

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February 14, 2025

Fascist friends before the fall: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, photographed by Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun, in Munich, June 1940.

THE FRONT

Memories of ‘Phantom Utopias’ Are Paving the Way for Fascism Around the Globe 

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April 14, 2025

Screens
Summer H. Howell struts her stuff in a redo of Stephen King’s “Carrie.”

STREAMING

The Power of ‘Carrie’: Creator Mike Flanagan & Stars Summer H. Howell & Samantha Sloyan on Updating Stephen King’s Sacred Text

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October 12, 2026

Robert Pattinson glowers as he preys on predators in “Primetime.”

FILM

Review: The Drama in Lance Oppenheim’s ‘Primetime’ Docudrama Barely Rises to Documentary Level

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September 25, 2026

An existential character asks the most existential question.

FILM

A Sisyphean Tale: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Screenwriter Samy Burch on the Power of Persistence

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September 21, 2026

Little deaths spinning ’round and ’round…

FILM

Review: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ Slashes a Genre With Wit and Mint Details

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August 7, 2026

The wages of colonialism: A still from “The Battle of Algiers” (1966).

SEVEN DECADES

When the Pentagon Screened ‘The Battle of Algiers’

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April 16, 2026

Going down fighting: Roy Scheider with costar in “Jaws.”

CULTURE

Rewatching ‘Jaws’ in Trump’s America, 50 Years After It Terrified and Delighted Us

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June 9, 2025

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MUSIC

Isaiah Rashad Is Just a (Very Talented) Dude

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October 2, 2026

The males gaze: The duo who gave us back the Blues can always be counted on for stylish lasciviousness.

MUSIC

The Rolling Stones Descend Into the Uncanny Valley – and Live to Sing the Tale

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May 28, 2026

A quartet for New York City: Ol’ Blue Eyes, Patti Smith, Lady Gaga, and Ol’ Dirty Bastard.

SEVEN DECADES

The 60 Best Songs Ever Written About New York City

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August 1, 2025

Some were angry, some derisive, some just sad...

SEVEN DECADES

“I F*%^ing Hate This Generation”: Memorable Comments on Our 50 Most NYC Albums Story

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August 12, 2025

This article is from 2001; this photo is from 2014; it’s now 2026 and we were just thinking, Yeah, the band is named Clinic, but Adrian Blackburn still seemed to know something the rest of us would only catch up to in 2020.

SEVEN DECADES

As the Aughts Got Rolling, Clinic Covered Their Mugs and Wowed Radiohead

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July 14, 2026

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MUSIC

Kenyon Dixon Puts Ego in its Place on ‘EGO RUINS EVERYTHING’

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July 30, 2026

9/11
Article for the Village Voice by Ross Barkan about being a kid when the 9/11 attacks occurred

FALL PRINT EDITION 2021

9/11: A Childhood Fractured By History

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September 9, 2021

R.C. Baker writes about 9/11 then and how the "Grand Theft Party" wants to steal your vote now

SEVEN DECADES

9/11: The Horror Then, the Danger Now

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September 7, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

Lawyer Stanley Cohen’s Defense of The Usual Suspects in 2001

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September 10, 2026

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FALL PRINT EDITION 2021

9/11: Trials And Triumphs Of The ‘Tribute In Light’

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September 5, 2021

After the attacks in 2001, Mayor Giuliani wanted to postpone the election that would choose his successor. Nobody else did. Pictured here with the city’s 108th and 109th mayors, Mike Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio, to his left, at the 9/11 memorial service in 2015.

FALL PRINT EDITION 2021

9/11: The Fall of ‘America’s Mayor’

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September 10, 2021

Cartoonist Ward Sutton visits MAGA-land for the Village Voice

Voice Comix

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!

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September 13, 2021

HISTORY BITES
Don’t look back: Attorney General Pam Bondi in front of photos of former Prince Andrew and a young woman or girl with her face redacted, projected on a screen during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, on February 11, 2026.

History Bites

From Hell – Trump’s Modified Limited Hangout on Epstein Is Leaving America Hanging

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February 20, 2026

Hottie martyr Saint Sebastian comes to life in “Hey, Mary!”

Comics

A Trio of Graphic Novels Make Relevance Artful and Entertaining

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June 20, 2025

A man evacuates a cow in the flooded Korabel (Island) microdistrict of Kherson on June 6, 2023, after Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Dam.

War In Ukraine

Russia’s Destruction of Ukraine’s Environment has National and International – and Personal – Consequences

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April 17, 2025

NYC TALES
Gibbering transmissions crashing on the far shores of the cosmos.

NYC SITES

Pay Phones Ring in a Row: A Warning from a Cyberpunk Pioneer

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July 23, 2026

Taking to the streets in 1969.

SEVEN DECADES

1969: Three Weeks After Stonewall, Gay Power Began Finding Its Voice

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June 24, 2026

Straphangers: Director Joseph Sargent (center, with glasses) and cinematographer Owen Roizman prepare a close-up of a commuter having a very bad day in “The Taking of Pelham 123.”

VOICE CHOICE

‘Cinematic Immunity’ Covers the Artistry – and Insane Derring-Do – of Location Shooting in NYC

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April 8, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

Groundhog Day, 1976: ‘Star Trek’ was Alive and Well in Syndication and on the Convention Floor

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January 30, 2026

Who you gonna call? In this early-'70s file photo, a man approaches a bank of Ma Bell’s pay phones, near Bryant Park. If he'd had a Blue Box — or a Black or Red one — he could have checked the racing results down at Hialeah, the weather in Moscow, or whatever information tidbits he might want to track down, all free of long-distance charges.

SEVEN DECADES

Hackers Before There Were ‘Hackers’: Phone Phreaks in Midtown

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September 16, 2025

Father and son: Patrick Dignan was a successful businessman raising a large family when he died in 1970; Brian Dignan looking happy in his communion portrait, 1967.

News

Unspeakable Acts: The Alleged Horrors Behind NYC’s Once Ubiquitous Blarney Stone Empire

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July 17, 2025

THE VOICE @ 70
In 2017, Gregg Henry led a version of "Julius Caesar" that ignited extreme reactions.

SEVEN DECADES

Blood Bath: In 2017, Shakespeare in the Park Went After the ‘Cheeto Caesar’

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May 21, 2026

A mockup for mockery.

SEVEN DECADES

A Monument to a Corrupt POTUS – 1977 Version

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May 6, 2026

The layout dummy for the original Voice, and the first issue, both designed by Nell Blaine.

SEVEN DECADES

Celebrating 70 Years of the Village Voice

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October 24, 2025

Just another week in the life of New York City: President Nixon pushing us into a "Post-Constitutional America;" photographer Fred McDarrah capturing locals enjoying Central Park; and a firsthand account of a show trial that had little to show for itself.

SEVEN DECADES

A Government Show Trial in 1971 Echoes Trumped-Up Charges Now

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May 1, 2026

THE WAR IS OVER? — but the memories linger on. Top, from left: Dr. Benjamin Spock, at the Whitehall Street Induction Center; Dorothy Day and A. J. Muste at a rally; the 1967 march on the Pentagon. Below: A draft card burning; the hippies go to the capital; a candlelight vigil in Washington Square; the Vietnam Veterans Against the War return their medals. Bottom: Chicago in 1968; the Washington Moratorium in 1969.

SEVEN DECADES

In 1973, the Forever War in Vietnam Came to an Inconclusive Close

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March 13, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1972, Disgust with an Orwellian President was Growing

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October 23, 2025

PRIDE ARCHIVES
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SEVEN DECADES

First Draft of History Reporting at the Stonewall in 1969

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June 3, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

Fire Island A to Z

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June 3, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

New Yorkers Hold Orlando Vigil at Stonewall Inn in 2016: ‘It’s Time to Fight the Hate With Love’

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June 24, 2026

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Fighting through the pall of 2026: “Sun Twins,” by Raven Halfmoon.

CULTURE

Top of the POPS: The Whitney Biennial Does Its Best to Catch the Zeitgeist in a Bottle

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March 7, 2026

Then, as now, voting matters: Ben Shahn’s 1944 lithograph was looking forward to a strong post-World War II labor movement.

ART

A Painter of Modern Life: Ben Shahn’s Rough-Hewn Canvases Pulled No Punches

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September 8, 2025

Jon McNaughton with his portrait of the MAGA O.G., Ronald Reagan.

SEVEN DECADES

MAGA Representing! Send Painter Jon McNaughton to the Venice Biennale!

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August 10, 2021

Gateway drug? Copy of “Junkwaffel” #1, purchased under false pretenses half a century ago. R: Paperback remnant of a stage career cut short.

CULTURE

50 Years Gone of Vaughn Bode’s Sex, Violence, Graffiti, and Luminous Grace

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July 12, 2025

Heaven, earth, and hell, seen from behind bars: Detail of Jesse Krimes's “Apokaluptein:16389067” (2010–13).

CULTURE

Organize or Die: How Images of the Labor Movement and Diverse Communities Help Define Our Moment

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August 14, 2025

L: Alex Jovanovich’s “It Didn't Have to Come Down to This (LESBIENNE BETRAYAL)” (2024); R: David Carrino’s “Naivete” (2025).

VOICE CHOICE

Two Artists Ask: How Abject Do You Wanna Get?

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December 18, 2025

La Dolce Musto
L: The cover blurb that launched a thousand (and then some) Musto reports. R: Photographer Sylvia Plachy accompanied Musto on his inaugural plunge into the NYC demimonde.

SEVEN DECADES

‘La Dolce Musto’ Came Hot Off the Presses in 1984

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June 17, 2026

In the Village Voice, Michael Musto predicts this year's Oscar winners.

CULTURE

The Oscars Will Celebrate Everything MAGA Hates

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February 24, 2025

Village Voice article by Michael Musto about five queers who deserve the thanks of all New Yorkers.

PRIDE

Five Queers to Be Thankful For This Pride

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June 16, 2023

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SEVEN DECADES

Fire Island A to Z

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June 3, 2026

Don’t say what? Minnie Mouse is all about inclusion; Florida governor Ron DeSantis, not so much.

LA DOLCE MUSTO

Lying Liars Lying About Queers

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June 17, 2022

La Dolce Musto article on bike riding in new york city

LA DOLCE MUSTO

Bike Riding In NYC: Tips From One Who Knows

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April 29, 2022

RAP HISTORY
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SEVEN DECADES

Afrika Bambaataa Gave Voice to Music ‘Never Heard Before’

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April 10, 2026

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SEVEN DECADES

The ‘Bad Boy Curse’

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December 8, 2025

Village Voice article on the disputed history of hip-hop.

CULTURE

Why Hip-Hop Has Many Fathers

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August 11, 2023

women's History
Nell Blaine saw New York City as her “Mecca”: “Rooftops, 94th Street” (1967).

VOICE CHOICE

Nell Blaine: A Painter Who Worked Against the Grain

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March 27, 2026

Village Voice review of the book, "Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature."

BOOKS

The Lady Doth Protest Too Much for Traditionalists

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June 13, 2023

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VOICE OF THE AGES

At 90 Years Old, Rosalyn Drexler Begins Again

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September 4, 2025

Village Voice article by Annie Berke about women who helped creatively define early television programming.

CULTURE

The Women Behind the Screens During the Golden Age of Television

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March 24, 2023

Women's History Month article about early female staffers at the Village Voice.

VOICE LORE

The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice

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March 4, 2022

IRAN files
In 1975, Henry Kissinger — secretary of state under presidents Nixon and Ford — had a big smile for one of America’s most preferred despots, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.

SEVEN DECADES

In 1976, Nat Hentoff Interviewed Survivors of the Shah of Iran’s Savagery

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January 30, 2026

"You erase it, but I will write it, Death to Khamenei." Tehran, November 2022.

Letter From Iran

A Freedom of Choice Revolution Is Roiling Iran

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November 15, 2022

From the January 19, 1976, issue of the Village Voice; Javits photo by Fred McDarrah.

SEVEN DECADES

A New York Senator’s Wife Was Flacking for the Shah of Iran in 1976

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January 30, 2026

SEVEN DECADES

The Beautiful Butchers of 1977

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November 15, 2022

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1973, We Asked, ‘What Is a Man’s Life Worth If He Isn’t an Enemy of the White House?’

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November 6, 2025

”Yes” to queens, “No” to kings.

NEW YORK

New Yorkers vs. the Wannabe King – Round Three

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March 30, 2026

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History Bites

IBOGAINE! It’s Back! Just in Time for Doomsday! 

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April 21, 2026

Facing off in all directions against the Trump administration.

History Bites

Fighting Fires: A 1989 Billy Joel Hit Would Include Cory Booker’s Stemwinder and Democracy Marchers Today

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April 7, 2025

June 9, 2025: Against the wishes of California governor Gavin Newsom, President Trump has federalized the state’s national guard troops and also deployed Marines during public protests against ICE actions in Los Angeles. The state has sued to end what it terms the “unlawful” deployment of military personnel against civilian protestors, demanding that control of the crowds be left to local police, whose often heavy-handed tactics notwithstanding, released the following statement: “The Los Angeles Police Department, alongside our mutual aid partners, have decades of experience managing large-scale public demonstrations, and we remain confident in our ability to do so professionally and effectively.”

THE FRONT

The Disappeared: MAGA’s Performative Cruelty Is a Warning to Us All

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June 11, 2025

Rauschenberg: 100 years

ART ARCHIVES

As Robert Rauschenberg Hits the Century Mark, We Look Back on the Voice’s 2008 Obit of an American Original

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October 21, 2025

Along with this chapter of art history, we also find some intriguing ads on these Voice archive pages.

SEVEN DECADES

Robert Rauschenberg Centenary: Throwdown at the 1973 Scull Auction

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September 23, 2025

Trompe l’oeil IRL: Robert Rauschenberg's “Cardbird III (collaged print, edition of 75, 1971).

ART

Robert Rauschenberg’s Graphic Alchemy

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October 31, 2025

Printed Matter
Spreading the news: Henry Heath’s “The Pleasures of the Rail-Road – Showing the Inconvenience of a Blow Up,” 1831.

THE FRONT

‘The Second Printing Revolution’ Shows Us That Information Has Never Been Free

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March 10, 2026

Working the phones: Tom Wilson with Frank Zappa, recording engineer Gary Kellgren, and bass player Roy Estradain in the control booth at the Mayfair Recording Studio, 701 7th Avenue, NYC, in August 1967.

BOOKS

You Should Know Who Tom Wilson Was – Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed Certainly Did

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June 26, 2025

A picture of Trinitite used to illustrate an article on the 75th anniversary of "1984."

BOOKS

Heat Death – Or, That Time You Were Meant to Discuss ‘1984’ on Its Glorious Anniversary but Had Some Kind of Psychotic Break Instead

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August 15, 2024

Guaranteed overheard speech.

VOICE CHOICE

Crosshatching the City: ‘Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies’ Overheard the Voices of New York

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June 7, 2024

Image of Robert Smithson from a review in the Village Voice of the book 'Inside the Spiral: The Passion of Robert Smithson'

BOOKS

‘Inside the Spiral’ Unearths Robert Smithson’s Childhood, Catholicism, Art, and Death

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December 20, 2023

All it takes is some murder, blackmail, treason, and other sundries to make the summer doldrums feel less dull.

SEVEN DECADES

Checking Out the Latest Beachworthy Crime Novels – in 1984

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August 18, 2026

NEW YORK MIRROR
Waiting on a sylvan lane.

NEW YORK

A Wonderland of Solitude in the Bronx

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February 6, 2026

Jim Merillat sings the lights fantastic.

PRIDE

Gay History – and Current Threats to LGBTQ+ Rights – As Seen From the Piano Bench

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June 27, 2025

Village Voice review of "The Freaks Came Out to Write."

BOOKS

Talking About the Village Voice, the Paper That Couldn’t Be Bought

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February 21, 2024

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.”

VOICE CHOICE

‘Blacklisted: An American Story’ Reveals Past As Prologue

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August 5, 2025

In the ’60s and ’70s, the Scenes column kept Voice readers up date on cultural happenings.

SEVEN DECADES

In 1969 Jonas Mekas Sat Down to Talk ‘Putney Swope’ with the Film’s Director Robert Downey Sr.

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December 15, 2025

Pic for Village Voice article about 1970s rocker Elliott Murphy's continued relevance.

MUSIC

Half a Century Ago, Elliott Murphy Was Going to Be a ‘Monster’ Rock Star – But Then Life Happened 

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February 16, 2024

Protesting for justice.

THE FRONT

Dispatches From the Trial of Daniel Penny

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December 23, 2024

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SEVEN DECADES

In December 1972, Robert Downey – Sr. – Got 12 Pages of Holiday Cheer

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December 22, 2025

The good fight: An archival photograph shows Orwell, the tallest figure at center, on the front during the Spanish Civil War.

VOICE CHOICE

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Hits Too Close to Home in Our Dystopian Times 

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February 24, 2026

Democracy in Danger
“Rosie the Riveter” (1943), detail.

ART ARCHIVES

Norman Rockwell’s Conflicted America

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July 5, 2021

Grim omens of Trump 2.0: Members of the Proud Boys rally in front of the Ohio State Capitol Building in Columbus, Ohio, January 6, 2024.

THE FRONT

Dr. Strangelove’s America: Donald Trump and the Age of Insurrection

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January 9, 2025

Big tech peddles clickbait that is destroying democracy.

BOOKS

Steven Brill’s new book, ‘The Death of Truth,’ Warns That Internet Goliaths Are Anything But ‘Good Samaritans’

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October 23, 2024

Culture Palooza
John Coltrane performing in Amsterdam in December 1962, moving through “sheets of sound” to a supreme achievement two years later.

CULTURE

Sixty Years Ago, John Coltrane Sent ‘A Love Supreme’ Out Into the World – And Beyond

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February 3, 2025

Last Monkee standing: Micky Dolenz — seen here on the far right during the filming of “Head.” in 1968, with bandmates, from left to right, Michael Nesmith, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork — is still touring at age 80.

VOICE CHOICE

Whose Head is That? The Movie That Almost Ended the Monkees

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March 2, 2026

“We may be coming to the end of an era in which artist is synonymous with urban.”

BOOKS

The Way We Live Now: New York Artists at the Edge of Survival

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September 16, 2024

Dinah Washington in 1963: 39 years old and married to her seventh husband.

CULTURE

The Seven Marriages of Dinah Washington 

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August 20, 2024

John F. Kennedy giving his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech, at Rice University in 1962; James H. Fetzer’s 2003 book.

BOOKS

The Truth Is Out There: Rereading the Warren Commission Report and Re-Viewing Zapruder

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August 13, 2024

In October 1972, Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, campaigned in Atlanta, GA, here greeting a young fan on the roof of their car. Nixon was heading for a landslide win, but the seeds of his destruction can already be seen in the orange sign in the background reading “TELL US ABOUT WATERGATE.”

memoir

The Way We Were – A Child’s Garden of Watergate

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August 2, 2024

Revelations from a Rolodex: Reading “The Great Gatsby” — every word of it.

Theater

‘The Great Gatsby’ at – almost – 100: Staging a Troubled Legacy

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December 17, 2024

Review of Terry Allen's Truckload of Art bio.

BOOKS

Artist/Musician Terry Allen’s Life Story, Adapted for the Page

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August 6, 2024

Image from the Village Voice review of the new book, MILTON GLASER: POP

CULTURE

Milton Glaser Helped Define the Look of the 20th Century

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July 24, 2023

EARTH DAYS
Davila the tiger prowls her domain during a break in the bombing.

War In Ukraine

As the Ukraine War Enters Year Four, the Kyiv Zoo Has Found Ways to Shelter Animals – and People – During Wartime

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February 21, 2025

In 1970, Fred McDarrah captured pedestrians thronging NYC's streets on the first Earth Day. Along with American flags, the Voice's staff photographer was careful to include a fallout shelter sign in his frame.

Environment

Kurt Vonnegut Revisits Earth for Earth Day

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April 4, 2022

Village voice story and photos by Ali Smith about canners helping the environment

News

A Revolution Is Taking Place, One Can at a Time

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March 1, 2022

Snow-blowing manager Kevin Davie checks the water pressure in the pump house at the base of Plattekill Mountain. Plattekill has installed more than 28 miles of piping to pump water up the mountain for snowmaking.

Environment

Snow Job: Climate Change is Making Skiing an Uphill Climb

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April 1, 2022

Water = Life: Bottled water collected by volunteers for citizens of Mykolaiv; algae blooming in ponds.

War In Ukraine

War and Water: Russia is Destroying Ukraine’s Water Supply

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August 24, 2022

Voice memories
Tom Robbins, in the September 20, 2017, edition of the Village Voice. The caption reads “Staff Writer, 1985-1988, 2000-2011.” His second term at the paper ended because he quit in solidarity when the long-time investigative reporter Wayne Barrett was laid off. Portrait by Celeste Sloman.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Newshound Extraordinaire Tom Robbins Was One of the Tallest of Stand-up Guys

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May 29, 2025

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VOICE OF THE AGES

When Karen Durbin Got Up Close and Personal With the Rolling Stones

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April 22, 2025

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SEVEN DECADES

In 1958, an Art Thief Posed as a Village Voice Photographer

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December 3, 2025

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SEVEN DECADES

Who Needs Halloween When You’ve Got Feiffer and the Bomb?

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October 28, 2025

From the archives
1970s ad from the Village Voice.

CULTURAL COMMERCE ARCHIVES

Soundtrack to the Watergate Break-In: Ziggy, the Stones, Tina & Ike, Cheech & Chong, ZZ, ‘Brandy,’ the Fillmore, and More

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July 30, 2024

Nixon and the King in the Oval Office in 1970: They both heard trains in the night.

SEVEN DECADES

Our Nixon: Whose Life Was It Anyway?

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April 19, 2024

1995 Village Voice article about the early dangers of the GOP's on American democracy.

NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Anarchy in the U.S.A. – The GOP Plays a Dangerous Game With Its Far-Right Fringe

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January 5, 2024

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NEWS & POLITICS ARCHIVES

Sanctifying the Evangelical Vote

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November 2, 2022

1976 Village Voice article by Greil Marcus about the American bicentennial

SEVEN DECADES

Last Refuge of a Rock Critic: A Bicentennial Search for Patriotism

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June 26, 2026

Bill Clinton on the hustings in New Hampshire in 1992.

SEVEN DECADES

Northern Exposures

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August 12, 2025

Headlines for some of Marlene Nadle's stories in the 1960s superimposed on an announcement for civil rights rallies in New York and Washington.

VOICE LORE

First Draft of History: Covering Civil Rights in the Sixties

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March 28, 2023

Muhammad Ali stays pretty as he dodges a Leon Spinks haymaker during their September, 1978, rematch at the Superdome in New Orleans.

SEVEN DECADES

Ishmael Reed on Muhammad Ali in 1978 – “The Stars were for Ali, But the Busboys were for Spinks”

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October 3, 2025

From the Village Voice Archive: In 1966 Marlene Nadle interviews Nathan Rappaport who provided abortions when it was mostly illegal in 1966.

From The Archives

The Abortionist on the Circuit of Fear

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March 17, 2023

War in Ukraine
Photo in the Village Voice for article about the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine.

War In Ukraine

After Two Years of War, A Weary Ukraine Remains Defiant

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February 23, 2024

Village Voice article about the DIY spirit of the Kyiv Biennial in late 2023.

CULTURE

We Are Ukrainians: Learning From the 2023 Kyiv Biennial

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January 9, 2024

Playing the blues in Ukraine

War In Ukraine

Robert Lighthouse Brings the Blues to a Ravaged Ukraine

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July 19, 2024

Village Voice article on Eugune Hutz of Gogol Bordello

War In Ukraine

A Man, a Band, a War: Eugene Hütz Speaks His Mind

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May 25, 2022

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Voice Comix

The GOP Was For Putin Before They Were Against Him

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April 19, 2022

LABOR FRONT
Photo of leader of nurse's strike in a Village Voice article about how direct voting for more progressive union leadership might lead to increased voting in national elections.

Labor Front

Can a Union Revival Save America’s Soul?

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December 28, 2023

Image of Alamo Drafthouse workers at the Brooklyn cinema that recently authorized union representation.

Labor Front

Workers at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Bring a Union to Brooklyn

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October 7, 2023

Village voice story and photos by Ali Smith about canners helping the environment

News

A Revolution Is Taking Place, One Can at a Time

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March 1, 2022

Get out and vote.

Labor Front

Are Unions Getting Off Their Knees?

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November 10, 2022

Ernesta Galvez-Teofilo takes it to the streets.

Labor Front

Los Deliveristas Unidos Takes On the App-Delivery Industry

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May 26, 2022

JOCKBEAT
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SEVEN DECADES

After the Bicentennial Hoopla, New York Turned to the Yankees, and Flamboyant Manager Billy Martin

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July 6, 2026

'Casablanca' premiered in New York City on November 26, 1942, in the good old days when gambling went on only in back rooms.

JOCKBEAT ARCHIVES

Appealing to Your Bettor Nature

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September 17, 2021

Famous author and knuckleballer Jim Bouton was a maverick in more ways than one.

JOCKBEAT ARCHIVES

In the Mid-1970s, Getting Up Close and Very Personal with a Baseball Oddball

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September 28, 2026

Olympic rings featured in an article about Alberto Tomba at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

SEVEN DECADES

Alberto Tomba Ruled Ski Slopes – and Hearts – At the 1992 Olympics

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February 11, 2026

Article by Thomas Gerbasi on declaring the corner of Lexington Avenue and 115th Street “Hector ‘Macho’ Camacho Way.”

JOCKBEAT

‘Macho Camacho’ Always Went His Own Way – Now You Can Too

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May 26, 2023

Pulitzer for Greg Tate
Greg Tate’s colorful array, 2017.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Flying High: Eight Voice Writers Remember Greg Tate

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May 7, 2024

Greg Tate article about Jean-Michel Basquiat

ART ARCHIVES

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk

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May 7, 2024

Joseph Pulitzer, 1847-1911, superimposed on the covers of two of his newspapers, The New York World and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The prize that bears his name was inaugurated six years after his death; 107 years later Greg Tate received a special Pulitzer citation, three years after his own demise.

OP-ED

Illin’ in the Buttermilk

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May 10, 2024

Voice Relaunch e-Editions
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VOICE LORE

2022: The Voice Relaunch Continues in Print and these E-Editions

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September 1, 2022

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VOICE LORE

2021: After Four Long Years, the Village Voice Returned to Print

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August 30, 2022

SUTTON'S FUNHOUSE
Up against the wall: Ward Sutton’s comic panels get the gallery treatment (“Civil Whites,” 2024, acrylic on canvas, 26x30”).

ART

Satire Hits the Canvas: Ward Sutton’s ‘Stan Kelly’ Doesn’t Know How Funny He Really Is

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October 24, 2024

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Voice Comix

Are You Truly Deplorable – Or Just Posing?

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October 27, 2022

Ward Sutton K-tel records parody comic MAGA SING PRIDE ANTHEMS in the Village Voice

Voice Comix

Ward Sutton Puts MAGA Pride Anthems on the Turntable

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June 21, 2022

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Voice Comix

The GOP Was For Putin Before They Were Against Him

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April 19, 2022

Ward Sutton SCORNHUB satire cartoon for the Village Voice

Voice Comix

Whatever Your Persuasion, Scornhub Pushes Just the Right Buttons

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February 25, 2022

THE VOICE FIRMAMENT
Chapter and verse.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Jim Ledbetter and His Exposé, ‘The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing’

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November 1, 2024

Details of various pages in the March 6, 1990, issue of the Voice.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Lifestyles of the Rich and Swinish: Remembering Gary Indiana and His Prescient Take on The Donald

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October 28, 2024

Village Voice article about the death of Edwin Fancher, one of the paper's founders.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Ed Fancher, a Village Voice Founder

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September 29, 2023

Cover blurb and theater section spread from the April 23, 1991, issue of the Village Voice.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Michael Feingold and the Heat-Seeking Missiles of His Theater Criticism

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November 22, 2022

It’s 1982: Peter Schjeldahl was writing scintillating criticism for the Village Voice and artists were still climbing the stairs to pick up supplies at Pearl Paint and Eastern Artists.

VOICE OF THE AGES

Clemente to Marden to Kiefer: Remembering Peter Schjeldahl

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October 22, 2022

Village Voice story about the new york city reporter J.A. Lobbia

VOICE OF THE AGES

Remembering Julie Lobbia – a Tiny But Relentless Fighter

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November 25, 2021

VOICE LORE
Turkey shoot, 1982.

VOICE LORE

‘Don’t Have a Cow, Man!’ When Sylvia Plachy Did Thanksgiving – and More

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November 27, 2024

Village Voice ads fro Led Zeppelin from 1969 and 1973.

MUSIC

Robert Plant Can’t Kiss the Past Goodbye

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January 18, 2024

Women's History Month article about early female staffers at the Village Voice.

VOICE LORE

The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice

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March 4, 2022

Image of the Guggenheim spiral in an article about an exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center by Sylvia Plachy, longtime Village Voice photographer.

VOICE CHOICE

Sylvia Plachy’s Photos Guided Us for Decades — Now They’re at the Bronx Documentary Center

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October 21, 2023

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VOICE LORE

Detour on the Road to the American Dream

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June 28, 2022

Carman Moore at Lincoln Center, and back on the pages of the Voice.

CULTURE

How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Carman Moore Has Got It Covered

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February 3, 2022

What's Up
What's Up!

PRIDE

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.  

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FILM

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Does Not Live Up To Its Title – and That’s a Good Thing

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FILM

Review: ‘The Bikeriders’ Is a Swaggering, Subversive Indictment of the American Dream

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