This Thursday, Nadya Tolokonnikova—the gutsy co-founder of Pussy Riot—will talk with David Byrne and curator Carmen Hermo about Vladimir Putin’s oppressive regime and doing time in Siberia. #FolkArtMuseum #DavidByrne #PussyRiot #Russia

villagevoice.com/pussy-riots-na…

To read the tribe astutely you some­times have to leave the tribe ambitiously, and should you come home again, it’s not always to sing hosannas or a song the tribe necessarily has any desire to hear. #MuseumModernArt #PulitzerPrize

villagevoice.com/jean-michel-ba…

“Ironically, the Brains’ genuine feeling for this music isn’t unlike what British rock’s first generation felt for the blues.” #punkrockhistory #RollingStones

villagevoice.com/bad-brains-har…

Better Late Than Never Department: The 2024 Pulitzers were announced yesterday and the Voice’s own Greg Tate (1957-2021) received a special citation. #PulitzerPrize
villagevoice.com/flying-high-re…

Hawke and his star, daughter Maya Hawke (complete with horn rims and Flannery’s chipped incisor), have a tight grip on O’Connor’s defiance and helplessness, even if the film they’ve built often stretches and rambles in other directions. #FlanneryOConnor

villagevoice.com/review-maya-ha…

Americans in Paris locates us so close to the beginning of this new reality that history is still in full view … we watch a metaphorical graduating class pour out of the late School of Paris and toss their mortarboards into the dark of art’s future.

villagevoice.com/americans-in-p…

As the Rolling Stones once again tour the U.S. we went into the archives to find what Lester Bangs had to say about “World’s Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band” way back in 1980. #RollingStones #MusicMonday

villagevoice.com/lester-bangs-t…

Ono and Lennon decamped to her adopted city of New York in 1971, revealing the extent to which their union brought him into her world. But the Beatles star was not always a poster boy for egalitarianism. #TateModern
villagevoice.com/in-london-yoko…

“While Hamilton captured era-defining images of celebs and movers and shakers and kids cavorting on the streets — the veritable flesh of New York City in those decades — he was also always on a journalistic mission.”
IFC Center

villagevoice.com/uncropped-reve…

“There is hope as long as you poison the minds of the young with humanity and encourage them to make a better world. Apologize to future generations for mortally wounding this sweet life-supporting planet.” #EarthDay #EarthDay 2024

villagevoice.com/kurt-vonnegut-…

Until this country learns how to say “great” and “awful” in the same breath, it won’t ever understand its history worth a damn.

villagevoice.com/our-nixon-whos…

The effortless diversity on hand gives the movie a blithe, even careless New York feel.

villagevoice.com/review-stress-…

MoveOn is looking at districts in New York held by the GOP but — in their current configuration after redistricting — had cast more votes for Biden than Trump in 2020. “Right now we’re targeting Districts 4, 17, 22, 19.”

villagevoice.com/can-new-york-t…

Onstage, Christeene marveled at the depth of the songs O’Connor wrote and recorded while she was still a teen, pregnant with her first child and fighting mental issues and the patriarchy. Katherine Turman on Christeene City Winery

villagevoice.com/christeene-fab…

This is not the glossy French crew of Cirque du Soleil. It’s down in the dust of Depression middle America, and people put up with the boss’s brutality because they desperately need their jobs.

#WaterforElephants #Broadway

villagevoice.com/review-water-f…

Sports betting was so taboo back in the day that Major League Baseball banned one of the most famous faces in the sport — and arguably the greatest pure hitter ever — Pete Rose, after it was found that he was placing bets on his own team.
#ShoheiOhtani

villagevoice.com/appealing-to-y…

“His passion for constructing huge buildings, stadia, bridges, roads, etc., can only be interpreted as attempts to compensate for his lack of confidence.” #BulwarkOnline

villagevoice.com/before-the-gol…

Unless you are Ludwig Wittgenstein, who tried to convince Bertrand Russell that he couldn’t prove that a rhinoceros wasn’t in the room, you can’t say that the hall becomes a ship’s hold when the performance starts. #newmusic

villagevoice.com/composing-whil…

Just want to note that our own Michael Musto batted .800 last night, correctly picking four out of five big Oscar categories. And on the fifth one, even Emma Stone looked like she couldn’t quite believe it.
#Oscars2024 #RobertDowneyJr #Oppenheimer
villagevoice.com/oppenheimer-wi…

Susan Tedeschi growled, preached, pointed, screamed, and perhaps threw the earth off its axis a little bit. #SusanTedeschi #bluesrock #TedeschiTrucksBand #GratefulDead #allmanbrothersband

villagevoice.com/the-tedeschi-t…