The Village Voice

1 week ago | villagevoice.com | Brianna Kamienski

When regulatory changes threatened to derail his clean energy startup, Matteo Zamparini didn’t give up on innovation. Though he started with a vision of democratizing renewable energy through widespread solar adoption, Zamparini pivoted to leverage his expertise in AI automation and data analysis to tackle inefficiencies in a different sector. Today, his work focuses on developing AI systems that streamline complex processes in commercial real estate.

2 weeks ago | villagevoice.com | Chad Byrnes

Korean Canadian filmmaker Celine Song brings her pensive touch to the classic rom-com in Materialists, her follow-up to 2023’s Past Lives, attempting to subvert the genre and deconstruct it to its finest thread. Unlike in the romps from the ’90s with Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant, Song contextualizes the pitfalls of dating as a more serious enterprise than you’d expect — nobody face-plants or acts like a clown to engender laughs.

2 weeks ago | villagevoice.com | Michael Atkinson

Maybe it’s no wonder that there have been so few movies made about the experience of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge — on one hand, it lasted less than four years, in the late 1970s, and on the other, it was a world-class toxic nightmare, arguably the bloodiest, spookiest Marxist turnover in a century fairly littered with them.

2 weeks ago | villagevoice.com | Mike Isaac

When Chloe Wang, a 36-year-old former tech executive from Seattle, sold her first startup, she found herself in a new financial bracket — comfortable, but unsure where to put her money.

2 weeks ago | villagevoice.com | Brett Callwood

Tracy Bonham: One of my favorite venues to see music in New York City is Joe’s Pub, an independent, non-profit music venue dedicated to supporting performing artists of every walk and at every stage of their careers. Jill Sobule frequently played Joe’s Pub up until her untimely and tragic death on May 1, 2025. Jill was a dear friend but this is not why I am writing this piece about her concert at Joe’s Pub.