The Village Voice remembers the art and provocations of the underground comix genius, Vaughn Bode, on the 50th anniversary of his death.

Abraham’s Boys, Natasha Kermani’s clever retelling of the classic Dracula tale, burns itself into the brain by way of bold narrative choices and Southern Gothic aesthetics. Based on a short story in ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

The review of the new Superman movie in the Village Voice notes that the legendary hero is a man of steel with a heart of gold.

On December 31, 1993, a 21-year-old trans man named Brandon Teena was shot and stabbed to death near Falls City, Nebraska, by two other young men because he was trans. A week earlier, they had ...

Over the years, we’ve talked to a lot of former Scientologists, many of whom worked at the church’s secretive desert headquarters in Southern California, “Int Base.” They were cut off from ...

Sheridan Square this weekend looked like something from a William Burroughs novel as the sudden specter of “gay power” erected its brazen head and spat out a fairy tale the likes of which the ...

Every now and again, we get a look, usually no more than a glimpse, at how the justice system really works. What we see—before the sanitizing curtain is drawn abruptly down—is a process full ...

I wrote a play about politics (November, Barrymore Theater, Broadway, some seats still available). And as part of the “writing process,” as I believe it’s called, I started thinking about ...

The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship. By the touch of Circe’s wand, the divine troublemakers are translated into porcine embroidery. — Edward Dahlberg, “Can These Bones ...

The collective that created the Silence = Death poster is back after thirty years to recall its origins and launch new art This is a to-do list from 1986, written in the journal of Avram ...

The initial idea was to create an overview of jazz (and jazz-related) records from 1900 to 2001. After several weeks of revelatory listening to music from the dark ages—rags, marches, cakewalks ...