One weekday afternoon this month, a man walked into the Ace Hotel’s Breslin Bar & Dining Room and ordered a Guinness with a Patrón Silver, chilled. They didn’t have that. Would a Partida Blanco do? It would.
Jeffrey Rabhan, 40, the new chair of New York University’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, was there Read More
PERSONAL DAYS
By Ed Park
Random House, 241 pages, $13
I VOLUNTEERED TO REVIEW THIS novel by my former Village Voice co-worker Ed Park because I assumed the conflicts of interest would be so blatant they’d implode—a roman à clef, in which I myself might play a minor role, about the alt-weekly where I got Read More
When 64-year-old feminist writer Ellen Willis died of lung cancer on Thursday, Nov. 9, she was remembered as a journalist, professor, activist and superhuman.
“Among our circle of friends, she was known as the ‘higher life form,’” said Richard Goldstein, the former editor of The Village Voice.
But to many, she will chiefly be Read More
When 64-year-old feminist writer Ellen Willis died of lung cancer on Thursday, Nov. 9, she was remembered as a journalist, professor, activist and superhuman.
“Among our circle of friends, she was known as the ‘higher life form,’” said Richard Goldstein, the former editor of The Village Voice.
But to many, she will chiefly be Read More
While Village Voice music editor Chuck Eddy was terminated yesterday—the 17th staffer to leave or be fired since the New Times merger in November, 2005—Voice rock critic and senior editor Robert Christgau is still employed at the paper, despite rumors of his termination.
“It would appear my optimism about the arts coverage Read More
For a newspaper built on a tabloid history of enduring unkind cuts, the week of March 15 brought some of the unkindest cuts of all. First came the news that an independent arbitrator had ruled that the Daily News ‘ drivers union is entitled to a 17.9 percent wage increase (retroactive to Jan. 1, 1997). Read More
