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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Shana Nys Dambrot |R.C. Baker |T.J. English |Gideon Leek
Just weeks before its scheduled opening at the United Nations Headquarters Visitors’ Lobby, Rules, Responsibilities, Restraints: Women’s Pursuit of Equity — artists Sawyer Rose and Fleur Spolidor’s Women’s History Month exhibition — was unceremoniously canceled.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Kalyn Corrigan |R.C. Baker |T.J. English |Gideon Leek
André Holland knew he had to land the role of Paul Cole, the mysterious, debonair, multifaceted man without a past at the heart of The Actor, the film based on Donald E. Westlake’s hard-boiled pulp fiction novel “Memory.” Paul, stricken with amnesia, wakes up in a small 1950s town with a serious head injury and no recollection of who he is or how he got there.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson |R.C. Baker |T.J. English |Gideon Leek
Some high-end, auteur-driven, 21st-century movies are streamlined theme rockets, carefully built for power, meaning, and minimal drag coefficient, while others are as teeming and shambolic as a wild mushroom patch: fecund, organically erratic, and subject to what-the-hell quirk.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Brett Callwood |R.C. Baker |Gideon Leek
Emma Jenney: Heather and I went to a Smashing Pumpkins concert last year, and it was both an incredible surprise and a last-minute adventure. A friend who had originally bought the tickets couldn’t make it and gave them to us that same day — it felt like receiving the best gift in the world. We had admired the Smashing Pumpkins for years, drawn to their songwriting and iconic guitar riffs, and finally getting to see them live was everything we had hoped for.
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1 month ago | 
villagevoice.com | Mike Laws |Robert Shuster |Laura Bell |Gideon Leek
“The literati should read more books by Americans in 2025.” This recent tweet from Alex Perez, an editor at RealClearBooks, has stuck with me. Perez continued, “You don’t have to hype up every translated book by some rando from Norway. More focus on small press American writers from Ohio, New Mexico, etc. Let’s discover America again.” It’s not that I feel any special fury about hyped-up books from Norway, but there is a lack of geographic breadth in American letters.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson |R.C. Baker |Gideon Leek
So, when is a movie not really a movie, and a documentary hardly a documentary, and a pandemic splooge of recorded online gameplay not gameplay at all but something even more indulgent and pointless? You’d be right in thinking, just from that squib, that the real juice flowing through the machinima farce Grand Theft Hamlet is conceptual — as fun as the “film” is, the real absurdities happen when you remind yourself what you’re actually watching and what you’re actually not.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | Erin Maxwell |R.C. Baker |Gideon Leek
Director, writer, and artist David Lynch, who transformed the film landscape with his surrealistic vision and ethereal aesthetic, has passed away at the age of 78. The filmmaker is best known for his films Blue Velvet (1986), Mulholland Drive (2001), Eraserhead (1977), and The Elephant Man (1980), for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. He will also be remembered for his work with Mark Frost on the landmark television series Twin Peaks.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | Jon Stojan |R.C. Baker |Gideon Leek
“You’re called to reach a city. You need to love your city.”These words from Pastor John Siebeling, during his conversation with Dino Rizzo on the Unscripted podcast, reflect the heart of the Association of Related Churches (ARC). Recorded in Memphis, this episode showcases how ARC churches actively live out their mission by creatively meeting the needs of their local communities.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
villagevoice.com | Robert Shuster |Jonathan Goldman |Gideon Leek |R.C. Baker
“What made you write about the firestorm in Dresden?” a confused woman asked E. L. Doctorow during a 1986 Q&A with George Plimpton at the 92nd Street Y. She had Slaughterhouse-Five in mind.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
villagevoice.com | Gideon Leek |Mike Laws |Elizabeth Zimmer |R.C. Baker
Donna Minkowitz began contributing to the Village Voice in the late 1980s; a piece she wrote about the Brandon Teena story was credited by director Kimberly Peirce with inspiring the 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry. Minkowitz has won awards for her nonfiction, written a restaurant column for Gay City News, and published a couple of other books that drew on memoir and fantasy before her latest volume, Donnaville, came out this fall.
