Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Gem Spa closes: Bye Bye, Miss American Egg CreamVillage Voice - by Clark Whelton Gem Spa is closed. The candy store which became a clearing house for the hip-yip-street freak festival in the East Village is now padlocked, its …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Rei Kawakubo: Like the BoysVillage Voice - by Carol Troy This is the story of a new boutique on Wooster Street that looks like a cement bunker, is called Comme des Garçons, and is making a fortune. It …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Daniel Johnston at the CrossroadsVillage Voice - by Mike McGonigal Drove those demons, out of my head With an organ and a pencil full of lead And when I’m dead, like to have it said, “He drove those demons out of his …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Robert Frank and the Stones Movie You’ll Never SeeVillage Voice - by Greil Marcus A film title: “Cocksucker Blues.” It is 1972; we are with the Rolling Stones, in a big house somewhere in the hills around Los Angeles. Mick is lying …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Black Music: Bringing Atlantis Up to the TopVillage Voice - by Stanley Crouch …the rhythm is so hip that it can complement all that intellectual shit that’s been going on, which is cool to a point. —George Clinton to Chip Stern …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Black Music: The Duke of Earl Gets Into Studio 54Village Voice - by Aaron Fuchs “I remember when the Duke was popular,” says Gene Chandler to the writer from Jet. “There were so many women trying to get to me backstage, we …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Black Music: James Cleveland Sings the Horns off the DevilVillage Voice - by David Jackson Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., once said that it was conceivable that good could triumph as often as evil if the angels were as well organized as the Mafia. …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Black Music, American Music: From the Slave Ship to the WorldVillage Voice - by Pablo Guzman The music of the true American majority is rhythm n’ blues. Whether it’s called rock, soul, funk, blues, salsa, gospel, jazz, or reggae, it’s all …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home by NowVillage Voice - by Jan Hoffman If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home by Now November 11, 1981 (“Show her the city,” my parents pleaded. “Emphasize the good parts. Try and convince her to …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Annals of the Age of Reagan: Missile Mess in EuropeVillage Voice - by Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway & Andrew Cockburn True Story of the SS-20 and Pershing II November 11, 1981 In the last few weeks, some of the largest demonstrations in the postwar history of Western …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice New Cloaks for the CIAVillage Voice - by Walter Karp On September 23 the House of Representatives voted 354 to 56 to enact a piece of legislation that perilously abridges freedom of speech and of the …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Beyond the Tiananmen MassacreVillage Voice - by The Voice Archives By yesterday, the battle between the army and the students had died down, but the battle for control of the Peoples’ Liberation Army was just …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Tiananmen Square: The Mourning AfterVillage Voice - by The Voice Archives “Deng’s Purge Seeks To Split Workers From Students” By James Ridgeway AS THE SHADOW of fear spreads across China, the outlines of a purge that could …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Robert Johnson: The Sound and the FuryVillage Voice - by Greil Marcus An early member of the 27 Club, blues master Robert Johnson has been an object of veneration among such rock luminaries as Eric Clapton and Keith …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Woodstock: The 10th Largest City in the United StatesVillage Voice - by Steve Lerner The 10th Largest City in the United States August 21, 1969 The Aquarian Exposition at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was fairly outrageous by …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Letters to the Editor: Woodstock NationVillage Voice - by The Voice Archives It was the Genesis of the Aquarian Age. And our minds were without form and void, and paranoia was upon the East. Somewhere in the far reaches of the …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Woodshlock Nation: The Myth! The Mud! The Marketing!Village Voice - by Stacey D’Erasmo Who Owns the City That Never Was? July 19, 1994 THE RIGHT-HAND TANK IS LEAKING. Twenty-five feet high, twin to the tank on the left, now half-filled …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Ken Kesey: One Who Wigged OutVillage Voice - by Norman Melnick “Ken ‘Cuckoo Nest’ Kesey: One Who Wigged Out” May 12, 1966 SAN FRANCISCO — Where is novelist Ken Kesey? It has been months and still no word on him. …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Rock Death in the ’70s: A SweepstakesVillage Voice - by Greil Marcus Rock Death in the ’70s: A Sweepstakes December 17, 1979 I think it was about five years ago that I noticed the term “survivor” had become the cant word …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Toni Morrison Looks Back in SorrowVillage Voice - by Ann Snitow Death Duties: Toni Morrison Looks Back in Sorrow September 8, 1987 The subject of Toni Morrison’s new novel, Beloved, is slavery, and the book staggers …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Toni Morrison’s Language of LoveVillage Voice - by Jane Mendelsohn Imagine a world in which love never dies, only fades in and out like a musical phrase, varying and deepening with each return. This is the place Toni …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Crossfire: The NRA Under SiegeVillage Voice - by Frank Smyth MINNEAPOLIS — For three days of its annual convention last month, the National Rifle Association (NRA) paraded its cheerful public face, showing off …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Up Close and Personal with the Rolling StonesVillage Voice - by Karen Durbin Two a.m. in a motel room in Wisconsin. The room is thick with dope and cigarette smoke. Peaple of various sexes crowd the room, among them the …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice The Magnificent Rolling StonesVillage Voice - by The Voice Archives The Stones were magnificent. Everybody thought so. Thank Christ. Report on the Stones ploughing through their own multi-multi-million dollar Suez …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Herman Melville’s Great EscapeVillage Voice - by Geoffrey O'Brien Born to Run: Herman Melville’s Great Escape September 19, 1985 From within his commemorative stamp — dyed an appropriate nautical blue — the unlikely …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the ButtermilkVillage Voice - by Greg Tate I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice The White Issue: Blond LustVillage Voice - by Teresa Podlesney I could be making too much out of it, but when I saw RuPaul (on MTV) sashay through her dance hit “Supermodel,” then shop at some mall in New Jersey …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice The White Issue: White SexVillage Voice - by Susie Bright “White sex,” I repeated, for the third time. Not “right” sex or “wide” sex or a new drug to do it to, which is what everyone imagined when I …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice The White Issue: Whiteness – A GlossaryVillage Voice - by Eric Lott The White Issue: Whiteness — A Glossary May 18, 1993 As a cultural category, whiteness has an uncanny ability to be all places but specifically …
Village Voiceflipped into Village Voice The White Issue: White FrightVillage Voice - by Micaela DiLeonardo For a hot minute in the 1970s, white Americans in general felt bad about racism at home and racist imperialism abroad. For the first time in American …
