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Clip Job: The Alarmingly Casual Nature of Casual Sex

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. This is the age of pop sex. Of two dimensional relationships played out by comic strip people with comic strip emotions. Of sex that is larger than life and less than human. In our cool world, ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  17 Nov 2009

Clip Job: The Teen Menace on MacDougal Street

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. A teenage girl who looked like a boy stopped short in front of the entrance to the IND on Sixth Avenue and 8th Street last Friday night as a teenage boy who looked like a girl emerged from the ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  17 Nov 2009

Proof Positive that Malcolm Gladwell Isn't As Smart As You Think He Is

Whenever we see a piece by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker, we know exactly what's going to happen. We'll be entertained and titillated as the frizzy-haloed essayist takes us once again into the trippy world of statistics and ideas, only to ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Malcolm Gladwell

Clip Job: The Second Annual Village Voice Film Poll (Bonus: The First Poll, Too!)

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. The Second Annual Village Voice Readers' 10-best poll, held this year in conjunction with my Films in Focus program on WBAI, received entries from all across the United States and Canada, more ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Buster Keaton,  Ray Brooks,  The Knack (musician),  The Killers (musician),  Josef von Sternberg

Programming Note: Edroso Getting Some Rest

Try not to panic, fans of right wing blogosphere cosmonaut Roy Edroso. Our blogging champ is taking today and Monday off for some well deserved rest and relaxation. For today, please enjoy the musings of our weekend specialist, Julia, a skillful ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  13 Nov 2009

Clip Job: How the Dailies Covered the 'Hip' Scene in 1966

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. Competition among reporters in this city is keen, and sometimes a man will do anything to get that all-important scoop. Consider this case of that avant-garde reporter hired by one of the ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  12 Nov 2009

Clip Job: Mekas Talks to the Maysles Brothers

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. David and Al Maysles, together with Ricky Leacock, are working in that style of film-making which has become known as the Direct Cinema (in France it's called Cinema-Verite). Until now, whenever ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Truman Capote,  The Beatles,  Marlon Brando

Clip Job: Joining the Napalm 'Phraternity'

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. "Our Phantom stood on the bomb deck, being loaded with two fat cylinders painted red and each marked 1000-lb firebomb -- otherwise napalm, the most popular bomb in Vietnam; a mixture of ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alan Williams,  Forward Air,  Glamour

Best Reason to Drop by the Bodega This Morning

Best front page on today's New York dailies goes to the clear winner, our compadres at El Diaro, who so accurately captured the sentiment of the day. Hasta, Lou! Comments may not show up immediately after submission. Please wait a minute after ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  12 Nov 2009

Lou Dobbs Quits CNN One Week After Voice Columnist Says "Enough Dobbs"

Well, look who was listening! Tonight, Dobbs shocked everyone -- including his own staffers -- when he decided to walk out on CNN with more than a year left on his contract. "This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I've worked for most of the ...

From TONY ORTEGA, Village Voice,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lou Dobbs

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