How a Francis Bacon painting echoes an unelected president and a felon, respectively, presiding over America's biggest ...

LA Weekly and the Village Voice sit down with John Waters to delve into the trashy glamour and witty humanity of his off-kilter masterpieces.

A 1969 article from the Village Voice Archive covered the burgeoning Gay Pride movement, which was coalescing after the Stonewall protests.

The title will be unfamiliar to most Americans; not so in Japan. The source is a sci-fi novel that’s been adapted every decade since its 1967 debut: as a film, a TV series, and now, retooled into a ...

Trementina's ventilation house: Vault entrance? What vault entrance? Over the years, we’ve talked to a lot of former Scientologists, many of whom worked at the church’s secretive desert headquarters ...

Given the lack of debate and discussion among educated blacks today, Harold Cruse’s remedies for the black intelligentsia’s failings seem more quixotic now than 20 years ago — particularly because ...

Brandon Teena (right) with Lana Tisdel in 1993. 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 ...

The other day I was talking on the phone with a friend who hangs out on the CBGB scene a lot. She was regaling me with examples of the delights available to females in the New York subway system. “So ...

The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship. By the touch of Circe’s wand, the divine troublemakers are translated into porcine embroidery. Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and its ...

John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, “When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?” My favorite example of a change of mind was Norman Mailer at The ...

Brigette Blood on the streets in Bushwick: One “white lady drinking tea” can unwittingly change a housing market. If anyone needed a perfect Rorschach test for 21st-century gentrification angst, it ...

What Black American culture—musical and otherwise—lacks for now isn’t talent or ambition, but the unmistakable presence of some kind of spiritual genius: the sense that something other than or even ...