[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]


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The lineup for this week's issue of the Village Voice:

Letters: Afghan War 
La Dolce Musto: Jim Carrey Pounds a Muscle Bear on All Fours!
Tom Robbins: Vanguard of the Senate Revolution

Feature: The AIDS-babies-as-guinea-pigs story is finally over. Right? By Elizabeth Dwoskin

Feingold: Anorexia Dramatica
Soloski: Seeking Revenge in Rambo Solo and Hamlet
More Theater this week

Books: Dada's Home

Dance: Action Vs. Stasis

Sietsema: Tweaking Convention at 10 Downing
DiGregorio: Butcher Bay Shacks Up

Hoberman: Sergei Dvortsevoy has his way with camels and shepherds alike in Tulpan
Foundas: The summer of our '80s youth in Adventureland
More films opening this week

Harvilla: The disarming dissonance of Micachu & the Shapes
More music: Teens grapple with Rihanna vs. Chris Brown, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Bowery Ballroom Blitz


Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

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Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
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Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]


We've moved your daily New York headlines, GO HERE FOR TODAY'S ESSENTIAL STORIES.







The lineup for this week's issue of the Village Voice:

Letters: Tsk-tsk
La Dolce Musto: Shocking Secret about Gay Porn Star
Tom Robbins: Bloomberg's Homeless Pledges Fell Far Short

Feature: The Raw Intensity of New York's Elite Youth Basketball, by Graham Rayman

Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar
More Theater this week

Art: In VB64, Vanessa Beecroft Sings the Body Eclectic...

Books: Mary Gaitskill's Trapdoors and Mirror Balls

Sietsema:Foamy and Dappled at Buttermilk Channel

Hoberman: The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in Hunger
More films opening this week

Harvilla: The Hesitant Triumph of Britney Spears
More music: The Brilliant Disguises of Will Oldham, and much more...


Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Wednesday New York headlines...

Natasha Richardson flown to New York, public still waiting for word of how serious her head injuries are from skiing accident...

...on life support, 'brain dead' say family members.

IRS plans deduction to help Madoff victims, but can't do anything about their stupidity.

Tracking down an anonymous hero: actor jumps onto subway tracks to rescue man, leaps out of the way, then catches the train himself.

Bad economy means performers on subway will get more numerous, even more annoying.

Calling bullshit on the concept of "retention pay," supposedly needed to keep talent at financial firms.

Mob hit man Carneglia found guilty of four murders.

Department of Justice won't stand in the way of Bloomberg's term-limits coup.

Crappy elevators in public housing cause lots of injuries.

Conflict-of-interest allegations catch up with parking-ticket judge.

David Wright provides heroics in Team USA's ninth-inning rally.

Mariano Rivera, the ageless Yankees wonder, looks good in spring training debut.

Rangers down Montreal in 4-3 shootout.







The lineup for this week's issue of the Village Voice:

Letters: Tsk-tsk
La Dolce Musto: Shocking Secret about Gay Porn Star
Tom Robbins: Bloomberg's Homeless Pledges Fell Far Short

Feature: The Raw Intensity of New York's Elite Youth Basketball, by Graham Rayman

Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar
More Theater this week

Art: In VB64, Vanessa Beecroft Sings the Body Eclectic...

Books: Mary Gaitskill's Trapdoors and Mirror Balls

Sietsema:Foamy and Dappled at Buttermilk Channel

Hoberman: The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in Hunger
More films opening this week

Harvilla: The Hesitant Triumph of Britney Spears
More music: The Brilliant Disguises of Will Oldham, and much more...


Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Tuesday New York headlines...

Obama urges Geithner to block AIG bonuses any way he can.

Sagging economy means fewer boob jobs!

East River bridge tolls die in the state senate. MTA rescue compromise still being worked out.

"I looked down and there was an arrow protruding from my belly." Police still looking for person who shot woman with a bow in the Bronx.

Queens Museum of Art selling "properties" on its famous scale-model of New York.

Third defendant in cop Timoshenko's murder, Lee Woods, is found guilty of attempted aggravated murder.

Effort to rename Jamaica street for Sean Bell hits a snag.

Irish eyes are smiling: local fiddlers are world-class performers of traditional Irish music.

St. Pat's Day parade starts at 11 am on 44th Street and 5th Avenue. Go green!

Nonprofits ignore law and regularly give donations to NY state lawmakers.

$530 million South Ferry station opens.

Brooklyn hospital lays off 240.

Yankees brass doesn't care what talk radio thinks: Joba stays a starter.



Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Monday New York headlines...

Times catching up on the Rikers Fight Club story that the Voice's Graham Rayman has been reporting for nearly two years.

More AIG drama: Bailout money went to foreign firms and other big banks that AIG owed in derivative gambles. (This isn't news to you if you'd read Jim Lieber's "What Cooked the World's Economy" in the Voice.)

City's finance commissioner resigns over revelations that she was quietly working for real-estate firm on the side.

Nonprofits dealing with swell of volunteers as the laid-off lend a hand during their job searches.

Actor Ron Silver dies of cancer at 62.

Tough neighborhood! Woman struck in the abdomen by an arrow outside a Bronx nursing home.

Vox Pop, a coffeshop/bookstore credited with improving a Brooklyn neighborhood now on the brink.

At Met, where 'suggested' admission is $20, fewer people taking the suggestion seriously, paying less in a bad economy.

'Berserk beauties' want Tyra Banks to give them another shot after melee in line for 'America's Next Top Model' tryouts ruined their chances.

Fire shuts noted Totonno's pizzeria in Coney Island, owned by same family since 1924.

Outfit Elvis wore in Madison Square Garden gig to be auctioned at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame annex in Soho.

March Madness: With UConn, Pitt, and Louisville, Big East gets three of the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.

LeBron James puts an end to the Knicks 3-game winning streak, 98-93.

Team USA stomps the Dutch, 9-3, to stave off, gulp, elimination.

Sean Avery scores twice as Rangers down the Flyers 4-1.



Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Sunday New York headlines...

Greed 101: After $170 billion bailout, AIG planning to hand out $165 million in bonuses to its senior employees!

Greed 201: NYC landlords prepare to fight the city's contention that they've been double-dipping, claiming a tax break for regulated apartments after they've been deregulated.

Greed extra credit: Bank robberies up, commish Kelly considers deterrence efforts.

City's finance commissioner, overseeing real-estate assessment, secretly got permission to work on the side for a real-estate firm.

Three arrested when fights break out in line to audition for America's Next Top Model.

Three stabbed in Times Square when teens from Brooklyn and Newark battle.

The future of elections? Parents will choose school councils in first public on-line voting.

Justice Department has until Tuesday to decide if Bloomie's term limits coup is a voting rights violation.

Someone killing trees again in Inwood Hilll Park.

A.J. Burnett looks strong in spring outing for the Yanks.

A-Rod goes from crutches to rehab.

Team USA whipped by Puerto Rico, 11-1, now have to beat Dutch to stave off elimination.








The lineup for this week's issue of the Village Voice:

Letters: Seeing May Be Believing
La Dolce Musto: Bernie Madoff Mocked at Party!
Tom Robbins: Bloomberg's Double Deal

Feature: Bloomberg's Dark Knight, by Wayne Barrett

Feingold: Guys and Dolls, and more...
More Theater this week

Art: Pol Bury at Chelsea Art Museum, and more...

Sietsema: Mustang Thakali scales the heights of Nepalese cuisine
DiGregorio: The new incarnation of La Fonda del Sol

Hoberman: In Private Century and A Lust for Ecstasy, home video as cinema
Pinkerton: The Last House on the Left's exploitation is quaintly nostalgic
Foundas: From chaos, hope in Japanese films Tôkyô Sonata and Megane
More films opening this week

Harvilla: No U2 shadenfreude, baby
More music: The-Dream's logic, The Pogues roll triumphantly on, SXSW tip sheet 2009

 

Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Saturday New York headlines...

After one night in the slammer, Madoff's attorneys ask that he be released from jail while awaiting sentencing.

Don't feel too sorry for Bernie's victims: many were financial dumbasses.

The Jellyfish Solution: Some out-of-work guy sells an aquarium, and the Times calls it a trend.

Hurrying up that nose job before the health insurance goes away. (More Times white panic in tough times: 1. New Yorkers facing disastrous life on less than $500,000/year; 2. How's a guy supposed to feed himself on only $160,000? 3. Couple making $55,000 is literally starving to death. 4. Annie Leibovitz pawns her photos, others pawn high-priced art to keep wolf from the door. 5. Oh the Humanities! Profs squirm at making the case for practical uses of liberal arts degree. 6. Developers face terrifying prospect of only getting $1.1 million for a 2-bedroom condo. 7. Laid-off 55-year-old human resources coordinator with wealthy day-trader husband takes unspeakably menial position, working for a week as a nanny. 8. Someone get the smelling salts! -- women at Barney's now buying $300 face creams only three at a time instead of six. 9. Ultimate white nightmare: from $70K manager to $12/hour janitor. 10. Dumping the Rolls Royce only because it's unfashionable. 11. My horrible McMansion is suddenly worth only $1 million, where's my bailout? 12. The riches are panicking, stuffing $1 million cash in $4,000 safes, now selling like hotcakes. 13. Socialite at charity ball forced to wear a 10-year-old dress for the second time.)

With Weiner holding back, Bloomberg has little opposition so far in his re-election attempt.

Dwyer: Theater designer, tired of massive waste, finds a way to recycle show detritus.

Knicks win third straight, beating Timberwolves 102-94.

Nets determined to move to Brooklyn for 2011-2012 season.

Former Yankees player Bernie Williams accused of hitting a woman in a Puerto Rico bar.






The lineup for this week's issue of the Village Voice:

Letters: Seeing May Be Believing
La Dolce Musto: Bernie Madoff Mocked at Party!
Tom Robbins: Bloomberg's Double Deal

Feature: Bloomberg's Dark Knight, by Wayne Barrett

Feingold: Guys and Dolls, and more...
More Theater this week

Art: Pol Bury at Chelsea Art Museum, and more...

Sietsema: Mustang Thakali scales the heights of Nepalese cuisine
DiGregorio: The new incarnation of La Fonda del Sol

Hoberman: In Private Century and A Lust for Ecstasy, home video as cinema
Pinkerton: The Last House on the Left's exploitation is quaintly nostalgic
Foundas: From chaos, hope in Japanese films Tôkyô Sonata and Megane
More films opening this week

Harvilla: No U2 shadenfreude, baby
More music: The-Dream's logic, The Pogues roll triumphantly on, SXSW tip sheet 2009

 

Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Friday New York headlines...

Madoff expresses regret as he pleads guilty and goes to jail; his aim is to shield rest of family.

...but his wife Ruth may have to pack her bags as the feds go after Madoff properties.

"Don't be evil," is Google's motto; Daily News makes the case the search company has become exactly that.

Cramer makes nice on Daily Show, but Stewart jabs him repeatedly.

Tough times at the Met: the art museum lays off 74.

Governors Island so broke it may close; Bloomberg suggests the city take it over from the state.

9/11 families that sued rather than take quicker Congress fund money have ended up with settlements about twice as large, but was that really worth it?

Middle school gives out condoms as part of health fair; parents offended, so now school apologizing, because everyone knows 7th and 8th graders never have sex.

Bizarre: 87-year-old riding his bike on Long Island bursts into flames and dies; cigarette likely ignited his nylon jacket.

14-year-old Queens boy collapses, dies of heart attack, playing basketball after school.

Former Met Ambiorix Burgos found guilty of smacking his girlfriend around, faces up to a year in jail.

Rangers roll over Predators in Nashville, 4-2.







The lineup for this week's issue of the Village Voice:

Letters: Seeing May Be Believing
La Dolce Musto: Bernie Madoff Mocked at Party!
Tom Robbins: Bloomberg's Double Deal

Feature: Bloomberg's Dark Knight, by Wayne Barrett

Feingold: Guys and Dolls, and more...
More Theater this week

Art: Pol Bury at Chelsea Art Museum, and more...

Sietsema: Mustang Thakali scales the heights of Nepalese cuisine
DiGregorio: The new incarnation of La Fonda del Sol

Hoberman: In Private Century and A Lust for Ecstasy, home video as cinema
Pinkerton: The Last House on the Left's exploitation is quaintly nostalgic
Foundas: From chaos, hope in Japanese films Tôkyô Sonata and Megane
More films opening this week

Harvilla: No U2 shadenfreude, baby
More music: The-Dream's logic, The Pogues roll triumphantly on, SXSW tip sheet 2009

 

Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Thursday New York headlines...

Legislature wants to life statute of limitations on child sex abuse lawsuits: Catholic Church objects, saying bill intended to bankrupt it.

Daily News shows odd bit of sympathy for monster Madoff: may have spent "his last night with wife Ruthie."

Rabbi Weingarten found guilty of molesting his daughter after bizarre trial.

Model suing anonymous blogger who called her a "skank."

Washington Heights Dominicans taking loss to Dutch in WBC very hard.

New Mets stadium may have shaky Citi's name on it, but subway stop won't!

Weiner backing off from mayor's race, at least for the moment.

Circumstances of Carrión's home improvement will be checked by Bronx prosecutors.

Paterson's weakness showing: he drops plans to tax soda, concert tickets, etc. to make nice with Legislature.

Engine comes apart on American Airlines jet leaving La Guardia for Chicago, lands safely at JFK after parts fall on roofs in Queens.

"Listen, I'm a cop. I'm parking here," retired cop tells security guard at Elaine's restaurant; now he's in hot water.

Knicks get big overtime win over Pistons in Detroit, 116-111.

Nets fall to Warriors in Oakland, 116-112.

St. John's manages only 10 points in first half against Marquette at the Garden in 74-45 whipping.







The lineup for this week's issue of the Village Voice:

Letters: Seeing May Be Believing
La Dolce Musto: Bernie Madoff Mocked at Party!
Tom Robbins: Bloomberg's Double Deal

Feature: Bloomberg's Dark Knight, by Wayne Barrett

Feingold: Guys and Dolls, and more...
More Theater this week

Art: Pol Bury at Chelsea Art Museum, and more...

Sietsema: Mustang Thakali scales the heights of Nepalese cuisine
DiGregorio: The new incarnation of La Fonda del Sol

Hoberman: In Private Century and A Lust for Ecstasy, home video as cinema
Pinkerton: The Last House on the Left's exploitation is quaintly nostalgic
Foundas: From chaos, hope in Japanese films Tôkyô Sonata and Megane
More films opening this week

Harvilla: No U2 shadenfreude, baby
More music: The-Dream's logic, The Pogues roll triumphantly on, SXSW tip sheet 2009

 

Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]

Your Wednesday New York headlines...

Madoff theft total up to $65 billion; faces up to 150 years in prison when he pleads guilty tomorrow.

...and his wife is now target of probe for her role.

Paterson may compromise on Rockefeller drug law revision; throwing a bone to Republicans opposed to Democratic rollback.

Cops bust up Trinitarios drug gang in Washington Heights, arresting 34 members of mostly Dominican cabal, including three leaders.

Borukhova found guilty in murder of her ex-husband; the trial has been miserable for NY's small Bukharian Jewish community.

Gillibrand getting the help of many of Clinton's old crew.

7-year-old girl charms reporters as doctor describes the surgery to remove tumor that involved taking out six of her organs.

Firefighter delivers baby in the back of a livery cab.

Jury still thinking over a verdict in rabbi child-molest trial.

Mob defendant's lawyer tells jury his client was too drunk all the time to be the trusted killer he's accused of being.

Your cellphone tells advertisers all they want to know about you.

In the Bronx, separating the boys and girls at fifth grade seems to be working.

"Racino" at Aqueduct is nixed by Albany.

Joba Chamberlain looking like his previous self in successful spring outing.

Knicks avoid further disaster, beat Bucks in Milwaukee, 120-112.


 

Find it at villagevoice.com:

Michael Musto's blog (La Daily Musto) and column (La Dolce Musto)
Wayne Barrett: news features and latest blogging
Tom Robbins: the column and latest blogging

News blog Runnin' Scared, featuring Roy Edroso, and including Jockbeat by Allen Barra
Music & arts blog, Sound of the City
Food blog Fork in the Road
Ward Harkavy blogs the financial world at The Smart Asset

J. Hoberman's film reviews
Michael Feingold's theater reviews
Robert Sietsema's food column, Counter Culture
Sarah DiGregorio's food column, Fork in the Road
Rob Harvilla's music column, Down in Front
Graham Rayman's news features and latest blogging
Elizabeth Dwoskin's news features and latest blogging

How to reach us:

Editor: Tony Ortega (tortega at villagevoice.com)
Senior editor: Ward Harkavy (wharkavy at villagevoice.com)
Arts & culture editor: Brian Parks (bparks at villagevoice.com)
Film editor: Allison Benedikt (abenedikt at villagevoice.com)
Music editor: Rob Harvilla (rharvilla at villagevoice.com)
Web editor: Camille Dodero (cdodero at villagevoice.com)

Calendar, theater/comedy listings: Angela Ashman (aashman at villagevoice.com)
Food listings: Araceli Cruz (acruz at villagevoice.com)
Music listings: Stacey Anderson (sanderson at villagevoice.com)
Film/dance listings: Eudie Pak (epak at villagevoice.com)

Writers/critics/columnists:
Wayne Barrett (wbarrett at villagevoice.com)
Sarah DiGregorio (sdigregorio at villagevoice.com)
Elizabeth Dwoskin (edwoskin at villagevoice.com)
Roy Edroso (redroso at villagevoice.com)
Michael Feingold (mfeingold at villagevoice.com)
J. Hoberman (jhoberman at villagevoice.com)
Michael Musto (musto at villagevoice.com)
Graham Rayman (grayman at villagevoice.com)
Tom Robbins (trobbins at villagevoice.com)
Robert Sietsema (rsietsema at villagevoice.com)