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“I think a lot of artists feel this pressure to carry themselves with a certain swagger or gravitas. And we laugh at that.” Katherine Turman talks with the cats of Fantastic Cat Band.
In the Village Voice, Katherine Turman talks to members of Fantastic Cat and finds that, with egos, sometimes it's best to pull in the claws.
“We went on at three in the morning. Everybody went on after two o’clock in New York City at that time, and this was in the middle of the week. The people were just wild.”
The Village Voice previews the Totally Tubular fest of '80s music which lands in New York City this Thursday, July 18.
The rowdy preview crowd, primed for a party and onboard since the beginning, probably included superfans of either ballroom or the original Cats, or both.
In the Village Voice dance/theater critic Elizabeth Zimmer checks out the new, updated for drag races "Cats."
Candy’s swaggering insouciance may have ushered in the modern version of the radical trans feminista sashaying down international catwalks.
The Village Voice review of the new book "Candy Darling" notes how the trans icon is still upsetting homophobes 50 years after her death.
“People go, ‘What did you go to prison for?’ I say, ‘Well, I had so much fun from ’96 to ’99, I had to do some time.”
In a Voice Choice, the Village Voice reports on the Micro Wrestling matches coming to Staten Island on July 1, 2024.
While Ukraine continues to make progress around LGBTQ+ rights, in Russia, the Kremlin has continuously taken measures to suppress q***r people’s freedom.
The Village Voice reports that the LGBTQ+ community in Ukraine is being more accepted at home as a result of Russia's attack on the country.
Agenda PAC is looking to replicate its successful strategies in 2022, which focused on school boards and were designed to push back against Moms for Liberty, an anti-q***r parental-rights group.
In a year when 522 (and counting) anti-LGBTQ+ bills are moving through various legislatures, Agenda PAC and MoveOn are looking to get q***r-rights supporters to the polls.
Director Nichols simply drops us into the characters' entanglements without an ounce of exposition. He wants us to experience paranoia, not have it explained to us.
The boys fight with “fists or knives,” but British actress Jodie Comer steals their thunder.
Republicans demonize a lot of groups — immigrants, LGBTQs, women. They’re increasingly embracing a country based on a religious government and imposing the view of Christian nationalists on the rest of us.
The gay Dem wants to flip the House and save democracy.
“Mack was adept at distilling the city’s swirling hubbub into urban poetry, documenting words and phrases that dropped the reader right into whatever happening he was reporting on. In ‘Hardy Blooming Annuals,’ from 1982, Mack kept his ears open around some Central Park sunbathers, and found phrases worthy of being immortalized on coffee cups and beyond: ‘It’s kinda stupid to be a health nut in a sick society.’ ‘My shrink’s substitute this month is called Dr. Strange! I’m not going to him.’ ‘Y’know what really f***s up society today? Two things! Television and air conditioning!’ ‘And I say, bu****it, people go into art because it’s an accepted way to fail.’”
Mack will be participating in various events around New York including a panel discussion at the Society of Illustrators on 6/13.
A new Fantagraphics collection gathers three decades of the Village Voice cartoonist’s microdramas.
“For far too long, extremists have blamed poor people and low-wage people for their plight, while moderates too often have ignored poor people, appealing instead to the so-called middle class while the poor and low-wage people have become nearly half of this country.”
On June 29, a major rally in Washington, D.C., will jumpstart the campaign to get key voters to the polls in November.
George Maciunas encouraged artists, designers, musicians, and free thinkers of all stripes to “PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART … to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.”
The house organ for a quintessential Sixties art form, the tabloid published 11 issues between 1964 and 1979.
News trucks, reporters, cops, and citizens of all stripes were outside the courthouse in downtown Manhattan as the verdicts were read.
In a historic verdict, a jury of 12 New Yorkers found the Queens native guilty.
“The world seemed as dangerous as it does today. But it also seemed to be filled with possibility, with the actions of people who dreamed big and took big chances.”
In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg did Venice “American Style” — 60 years later, Jeffery Gibson finds new ground to stand on.
The Rolling Stones remain a well-oiled machine that can still get their ya-ya’s out as blithely as they did in 1965, at New York City’s Academy of Music.
The self-proclaimed “greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world” rolls into MetLife Stadium 59 years after their first appearance in New York City.
Tomorrow, Nadya Tolokonnikova—the gutsy co-founder of P***y Riot—will talk with David Byrne and curator Carmen Hermo about Vladimir Putin’s oppressive regime and doing time in Siberia. ***yRiot
This Thursday, David Byrne will honor the feminist art collective’s co-founder at a benefit for the American Folk Art Museum.
Susan Tedeschi growled, preached, pointed, screamed, and perhaps threw the earth off its axis a little bit.
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks are a musical match – and then some.
Barbie got an extra boost when theaters realized they could double-bill it with Oppenheimer, resulting in a lot of straight guys pretending they were going to see the nuclear bomb movie.
The plastic panache of “Barbie” won’t be enough to defuse Christopher Nolan’s epic.
In “Sunset Sound” (2024), a light charcoal aureole wavering like evanescent petals conveys the sun’s warmth after its 93,000,000-mile journey from the center of the solar system to its landing on our skin.
At Gladstone Gallery, the artist’s small paintings find essential truths.
The Russians were the first to put a man and a woman into space together stimulating world-wide speculation about weightless erotica.
“Maybe the whole thing is simulated,” a space age speed freak with an overdose of paranoia said. “Maybe they’re not up there at all.”
The prejudice of all stripes currently roiling a divided America echoes the rampant homophobia that swept the country during the AIDS crisis.
BAM’s screening of Rosa von Praunheim’s “offbeat Bechtian” film will be followed by a discussion of homophobia back then and “q***r-hating, money-only healthcare” now.
“Nobody even knew the Voice had a sports section. Nobody knew why the Voice had a sports section…. We were such a weird animal. We weren’t apples or oranges. We were like a kumquat.”
In Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write,” an editor sums it up: “We were such a weird animal. We weren’t apples or oranges. We were like a kumquat.”
“My first album was compared to Blonde on Blonde, so what am I supposed to do now? What are people expecting from me? Who am I?”
Fans in France and the rest of Europe have known for decades what Bruce Springsteen told America back in the day: Murphy wrote and performed hit songs, “They just didn’t end up on the Hit Parade.”
60 Years a Champ: On February 25, 1964, Muhammad Ali beat Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight crown. For Black History Month we look at a 1978 longform piece on Ali by Ishmael Reed.
“I cannot go out a loser, Jack Johnson went out a loser. Sugar Ray went out a loser. Joe Louis went out a loser… I got to be that black man who gets out on top.”
This is a very different thing than a drama with some really good jokes in it, like Emma or Lo**ta or The Corrections, which use a dramatic plot as a backbone along which hilarity interrupts like vertebrae.
Poorly written death threats give meaning to an empty life in this comically absurd novel.
As memories of Reagan fade, Trump will only loom larger as the president who said, out loud, what the most enraged Republicans were always thinking. Genteel patricians such as Mitt Romney can never win their approval again. Trump, the WWE-style brawler and eternal showman, is their man.
The former POTUS has taken over the GOP like a WWE brawler flattening all challengers.
A wife, mother, and writer, like her subject, McDonnell finds many reasons to make common cause with Didion, and the book toggles happily between the life experiences of the late legend and those of McDonnell, a generation younger.
Observations coalesce around images in Evelyn McDonnell’s illustrated new book.
While the show was a failure, it reminded the band that they didn’t belong among those pearly whites, fake tans, and popped collars. That night led to the end of their major-label days.
Ali Smith recalls touring as the lone woman in the band, their disastrous L.A. gig, and worrying about the fate of “working girls.”
https://www.villagevoice.com/ecology-minded-artist-brandon-ballengee-pictures-what-weve-lost/
Both subtle and dramatic, these haunting works give form to the void of extinction.
From Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Cornel West to Green perennial Jill Stein, third party candidates are looking to upend the 2024 race.
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