Chad Byrnes

4 weeks ago | villagevoice.com | Chad Byrnes |R.C. Baker

With a title like Death of a Unicorn, your expectations might be unrealistically high or very low (depending on how you feel about the mythological horned creatures). Either way, writer/director Alex Scharfman’s debut, which features literal unicorns impaling billionaires, is undeniably ambitious and occasionally amusing, even after it runs out of steam from a draggy second act.

2 months ago | villagevoice.com | Chad Byrnes |Brett Callwood |R.C. Baker |C.S. Muncy

Ginger: My Latest Obsession. For some, the enveloping grip of a new musical love equals that of a new partner. Only with as many flings as your desires can consume. A new one every six months even. I say obsession, but obsession becomes addiction when fear is replaced by pleasure. And few things bring me as much pleasure as falling into a new musical relationship with something I’d previously somehow managed to live without. My newest is The Cowsills.

2 months ago | villagevoice.com | Chad Byrnes |Robert Shuster |C.S. Muncy |Frank Pizzoli

Defying the cold, thousands of New Yorkers gathered at Union Square on Presidents’ Day in a demonstration sponsored by Rise and Resist and 50501 to protest Queens native Donald Trump’s disregard for the Constitution and Elon Musk’s status as an unelected government overlord.

2 months ago | villagevoice.com | Chad Byrnes |Rob Staeger |Peter Noel |Christian Viveros-Fauné

∼ ∼ ∼ This article is part of a series—At 250, Who Will America Be?—reporting on threats to American democracy as we approach the nation’s Semiquincentennial, on July 4, 2026. ∼ ∼ ∼On Inauguration Day, at the precise moment he was becoming the 45th president of these Un-United States, Donald Trump uttered the first lie of his second term.

Nov 1, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Chad Byrnes |R.C. Baker

We’ve all met someone like Benji (Kieran Culkin). While charismatic and freewheeling, entering every room as if he’s performing at the Comedy Store, he’s also thin-skinned, obnoxious, and prone to angry tirades. He smokes weed to maintain some stability, drinks too much at restaurants, and spreads his joy and pain like a disturbed uncle at a family reunion. Now, imagine if you went on a Holocaust tour with him.