Rob Staeger

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.

Dec 10, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Laura Bell |Rob Staeger |R.C. Baker |Peter Noel

Playgirl: The Official History of a Cult Magazine (2024) It’s Playgirl’s 50th anniversary, and the milestone has been marked with a glossy coffee-table book. Stealing the male gaze and handing it to women, the mag gave us sexy shots (even full-frontal!), plus writers like Anaïs Nin and Truman Capote. But one difference between us girls and the guys reading Playboy? We didn’t feel the need to pretend we perused Playgirl for the articles.

Dec 5, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Laura Bell |Rob Staeger |R.C. Baker |Peter Noel

What to get for your hard-to-buy-for friends and/or loved ones during this gift-giving season? It helps if said gift doesn’t break the bank and can also fit into a stocking hung over the fire escape window with care — though you’re gonna need a really big stocking for those beautiful coffee-table art books. Below we look at books about art and artists we reviewed this year and in late 2023 that are definitely worth a second look.

Dec 4, 2024 | villagevoice.com | Ward Sutton |Michael Atkinson |James Ridgeway |Rob Staeger

It was meant to be a warning. The anthology comic Stop Project 2025 was intended to be a call to arms, a way to rally the troops about the dire consequences of Donald Trump being re-elected president of the United States. Project 2025 (or its official title, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise) is a publication of the Heritage Foundation that outlines plans to advance conservative causes when Republicans win back the White House.