Pick Up a Flute — It's New York's Third Annual Champagne Week
Drinking Champagne helps prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. You probably saw this headline reposted the last few days on Facebook by your friends rejoicing. Not to be the bearer of bad news, but...
View ArticleEncuentro NYC's Colombian Rhythm Is 'A Festival in the Direct Sense of the Word'
At a recent edition of the annual Encuentro NYC festival, audience members lined up facing each other, holding up their hands to make a tunnel for one another to pass through as they danced to a...
View ArticleEDC NY 2016 Moves to Citi Field for a 'New Vibe'
EDM fans, get your kandi ready for the 7 train: Electric Daisy Carnival's New York edition of its traveling, wubbing circus is leaving Jersey and setting up shop at Citi Field May 15-16, 2016. This is...
View ArticleHow Russian DJ Julia Govor Found 'Open Possibility' in New York
When Julia Govor moved to New York three years ago, her reasoning was simple. "Love," she answers on a recent video call. She repeats the word: "Love." Govor, who is from Russia, met her husband,...
View ArticleGreat Northeast Cheesefest Brings Upstate’s Best Dairy to Queens
Turophiles (that’s cheese-lovers) should head to Flushing Town Hall this Saturday: in the spotlight at the performing arts center will be reps from artisanal creameries throughout the Northeast, along...
View ArticleKanye West, the Strokes, Robyn and More to Play Governors Ball 2016
Yeezus just rose again, as did a chorus of "YEAAAAAAAAH!!!"-es from the followers of the Cult of Casablancas: the Governors Ball 2016 lineup is out, and it's the most heavy-hitting display of musical...
View ArticleGrab Tickets for Donut Fest, the Perfect Antidote to a Joy-Free January
If there’s one thing we love more than a Palooza, it’s a Fest, so imagine our excitement to hear that not only is a Fest occurring on Saturday, January 23 at Verboten in Brooklyn, but that this will be...
View ArticleCocktail Magic: Boozy Festival Stirs Up Fun With Magicians and Mixology
What happens when you pair multi-award-winning mixologist, Julie Reiner, with the creators of Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival and Outside Lands? Cocktail magic. Literally. Immersive live entertainment...
View ArticleThe Ultimate 2016 Choice Eats Guide: Restaurants, Menus, and More
The final countdown for Choice Eats 2016 is on. There are only seven more days until the 9th annual Village Voice tasting extravaganza fills up Metropolitan Pavilion, and we're already daydreaming...
View ArticleAhoy! 4Knots Music Festival to Dock (and Rock) at South Street Seaport
Finally, the sun is setting later, the weather is warming up, and spring is on the horizon... But the Village Voice is already looking forward to summer, because with sweltering subways and sunny skies...
View ArticleThe New York Persian Community's Fire Festival Sets Blazes to Summon Spring
Aresh Javadi had not yet begun to start the first of three fires at sundown when the NYFD truck showed up. “People think we’re setting the whole town on fire, but we’re celebrating,” says Javadi, 52....
View ArticleKeeping It Weird: The Best of Times at Ende Tymes Festival
In early 2011, a friend of experimental composer Bob Bellerue told him that, considering how long he’d been around New York’s noise scene, he should start a festival of his own. And then, later that...
View ArticleRock On: This Summer's Must-See Music Festivals in NYC
Northside June 6–12 For eight years now, the folks behind Brooklyn Magazine have staged a North Brooklyn–centric SXSW-style festival, with hundreds of bands playing various venues scattered throughout...
View ArticleCheck Out the Final 4Knots Lineup, Now With Even More Music
Happy Tuesday! Since we love the second day of the week so much, we thought we'd give you a present: even more great news about the Village Voice's 6th annual 4Knots Festival coming up on July 9. We're...
View ArticleRice-Off! It Was Only a Matter of Time Before the Jollof Wars Came to New York
Jollof is the celebration dish of much of West Africa: a big pot of rice cooked in a spicy red stew full of tomatoes and onions, and possibly augmented by meat, shrimp, vegetables, and any number of...
View ArticleIn It for the Bronx: A New Music Festival, Homegrown in the Borough
As a young immigrant from the Dominican Republic growing up in the Bronx, Dairanys Grullon-Virgil learned English by listening to the early-Aughts hard-rock band Evanescence, but the romantic ballads...
View ArticleWe Built a Zoo: Designing an EDM Dreamland
Whizzing through Randalls Island Park on the back of a golf cart, I see skeletons of scaffolding rising from grassy fields like stalagmites from a cave floor. Right now these half-built metal towers...
View ArticleA French Music Festival Is Coming to Central Park
Twenty-five years ago, Brittany native Jérôme Tréhorel got tired of watching his friends move to New York or Paris in search of excitement. Hoping to convince them that their history-rich homeland in...
View ArticleStill Beating: A Bronx Festival Celebrates Centuries-Old Puerto Rican Rhythms
Every two years since launching in 2000, the BomPlenazo festival has come to the South Bronx to celebrate Puerto Rico's traditions of bomba and plena music. Through concerts, dance, film, and master...
View ArticleCMJ Would Have Happened This Week. Where'd It Go?
Something feels off about this month in New York, and it isn’t just the election anxiety. For the first time since 9/11 forced the CMJ Music Marathon to move from September to October, we aren’t...
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